This is a huge exposure of the amount of cash being made by MPs – mostly Conservatives. When they should be representing our best interests, they are lining their own pockets.
Sky News – yes, Sky News – has teamed up with Tortoise Media to peel back the veil covering MPs’ extra money: their earnings from second jobs, gifts and donations to individuals and political parties.
As the blurb for the video clip states,
The Westminster Accounts draw together information from several public sources and – for the first time – make it all available to the public in one place.
And it shows that since the last election in 2019, MPs earned £17.1m on top of their regular salaries, with around two thirds of the money going to just 20 MPs, including two former prime ministers.
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Here’s a story to show there are still people of good conscience in the world:
When Holywood actress Kate Winslet learned that Clackmannanshire mother Carolynne Hunter was facing extortionate costs to keep her daughter on life support, she stepped in with a £17,000 donation.
Ms Hunter’s daughter Freya has severe complex health problems and disabilities, is non-verbal and blind and requires full-time oxygen and at-home nursing care.
There was no way to reduce the energy required to sustain her. She was facing an annual energy bill of £10,000, but Clackmannanshire Council said it could hit £17,000 in 2023.
Then Ms Winslet donated £17,000 to the GoFundMe page Ms Hunter had set up asking for help and got in touch to wish the family well.
The astonished mother told her story to Good Morning Britain:
It’s a terrific, heartwarming story of generosity from an unexpected and welcome source.
The flipside, sadly, is that there are undoubtedly many more people in Ms Hunter’s situation who won’t get windfalls like this. And we can’t expect Ms Winslet or even other people in similar financial comfort to pay for them all.
It is an element to the energy price crisis that has not been highlighted before.
Should there not be extra help available for people whose energy need is life-threatening?
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Food bank: this image was taken a few years ago – now they’re struggling to fill the shelves, and considering turning away visitors.
That’s that, then: no doubt the Tories will be delighted that they have finally overloaded destitute Britons’ last hope.
The food bank network has stated categorically that stratospheric energy bills and rocketing inflation are putting “unsustainable” demand on them – and they are going to have to start turning people away.
Those people will starve.
Food banks have already seen a ‘dramatic’ surge in people needing them since April – when the energy price cap shot up 54%.
This has been made even more disastrous by the fact they are also seeing a decrease in donations.
One in five providers say they have already resorted to making their parcels smaller.
A fall in donations is entirely consistent with the situation: the rich who can ride out the current crisis aren’t going to donate to help the poor – and those on middle-incomes who normally do are suddenly facing poverty themselves.
The Independent Food Aid Network (Ifan UK) has appealed to the Tory government for “urgent, cash-first interventions” – which This Writer predicts will do about as much good as spitting into the wind.
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Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev: Johnson put this son of a Russian KGB officer into the UK’s House of Lords – because, it is widely believed – Lebedev’s Evening Standard helped Johnson’s rise to power.
Boris Johnson has been shamed into changing the law so it is easier to sanction Russians with assets in the UK, stung by criticism that the UK is acting too slowly.
Ministers are tabling amendments to the Economic Crime Bill in order to help the UK align with penalties imposed by allies in the EU and US.
The change will be fast-tracked through Parliament on Monday, meaning allies of Vladimir Putin with money and property in the UK will have another three days’ grace in which to stash their assets elsewhere.
Public opinion is that the Tories have been slow to act because they have taken a fortune in donations from Russians – and they want to know what these UK politicians were asked to do in return for that – as they understand it – dirty money.
In the end, Russian oligarchs bought the Conservative Party for less than the price of a flat in South Kensington. That must be the best investment they ever made.
Rather than respond to that question, the government seems to have chosen to leave it hanging in the air – trying to divert attention to what it is doing now:
"It's not a competition. It's something we do together"
Apparently a minister (was it Hinds?) said that Unexplained Wealth Orders were introduced years ago to allow the government to confiscate assets from people suspected of wrongdoing – and it is widely believed that much of the Russian cash flowing around the UK – and British politics – is ill-gotten. But this just provoked another hard question – and embarrassing answer:
He did at least say none in the last year.
— Lady Half Woman Half Mince Pie (@strandedatsea) March 3, 2022
So, Unexplained Wealth Orders have been an unqualified failure – were they mentioned merely to provide an appearance of activity when none has taken place?
Meanwhile:
Conservatives accepted £80,000 from Russia-linked donor on eve of Ukraine war https://t.co/enV5L29Pkc
It was Boris Johnson’s old friend Lubov Chernukhin. She donated £13,750 in October and £66,500 in December, just months before Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. In total she has handed £2 million to the Tories.
And what do you think of this?
More than 600 British companies set up last year are controlled from Russia. All permitted by UK law. No checks on authenticity of information filed at Companies House. Don't believe the rubbish that UK govt was checking flow of dirty money.https://t.co/pWRADLB2AG
The analysis – which includes many legitimate companies – suggests that thousands of firms listed on the UK’s business register are controlled by Russian nationals who live in the country, with some linked to Putin’s allies.
The final example of Russian influence in the UK, that I’ll include in this article, is something I heard on Radio 4’s Today programme on March 3:
The Germans have now seized oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s yacht.
— Mike Galsworthy 🇺🇦 (@mikegalsworthy) March 3, 2022
The presenter – I think it was Evan Davis – said it had been suggested that properties like Sutton Place could be seized and used to house displaced Ukrainians. He expressed deep scepticism that the Tory government would ever have the courage to make such a move.
And this is the problem – one that won’t go away when Johnson introduces a “too little, too late” law change on Monday:
We simply don’t believe prime minister can effectively sanction Russians in the UK when he was compromised and corrupted with dirty Russian money long before he got anywhere near Downing Street.
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Political influence: Christine Lee has been donating money to the Conservatives for many years, and has been seen with David Cameron (pictured), Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Remember this sideshow from last week?
Iain Duncan Smith tells the Commons that Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has written to MPs saying the Speaker "has been contacted by MI5 and is warning MPs there has been an agent of the Chinese government acting here in Parliament, working with an MP, to subvert the processes here"
The claim was that Christine Lee had been influencing Labour MP Barry Gardiner with donations, while her son was working in his office – but Mr Gardiner swiftly and efficiently killed the allegation:
NEW: Barry Gardiner says he's been liaising with British intelligence "for a number of years about Christine Lee"
He says he took steps to ensure Lee had no role in appointing or managing staff she funded
So all the donations were legitimate, MI5 knew about Lee and was kept informed about her by Mr Gardiner’s office, and there is no evidence to suggest that her son had anything to do with the matter.
MI5 appears to have confirmed this:
MI5 ‘have known for years’ about Christine Lee. Are the establishment distracting the public from Boris Johnson? The Establishment take us ALL for foolshttps://t.co/1tXxKDvIBZ
— Dorset Eye (Independent Citizen Community Media) (@dorset_eye) January 13, 2022
MI5 must have known about Christine Lee for years. Any reason why it only issued a security alert today?
Times has corker of a tale about Chinese "agent" named by MI5 and Patel, Christine Lee, gave £65,000 to Tories after being a fund raiser with Johnson. Tories did not record Chinese "gift" says Times
And it's not "antisemitic", because Zionists are using #BeijingBarry to describe Barry Gardiner.
Unlike Gardiner, Starmer hasn't just employed the son of a foreign spy in his office. He's employed an actual foreign spy. From Israel.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) January 15, 2022
So we see that a tactic intended to smear the Labour Party with allegations of corruption and possible treason, to distract from the Downing Street parties scandal, has backfired in Boris Johnson’s face – and now it is his Tories who must face the same claims.
I look forward to seeing them explain their way out of this one.
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On the day most of us learned that billionaire Conservative donors have been squirrelling away trillions of pounds in tax havens rather than paying their fair share…
$11.3 trillion in wealth is held offshore while billions of people across the world have been plunged deeper into poverty during the pandemic.
It’s obscene.
Trickle down economics = wealth streaming offshore.
12 million leaked documents known as the Pandora Papers reveal that world leaders are engaging in widespread tax avoidance and money laundering with the UK at the epicentre. This will come as a huge shock to anyone with the memory of goldfish…https://t.co/g1XDqB84NO
… until poor people like This Writer (and, no doubt, yourself) have paid off the costs racked up by his government in coping with Covid-19…
In Tory Britain, working people face an unfair tax hike of hundreds of pounds a year, but a landlord renting out dozens of properties won’t pay a penny more.
… most of which went to Conservative donors who, after avoiding the tendering process by using a fast-track system for friends of the Tories, then provided absolutely nothing in return.
So, after the billionaires have kept public tax money for themselves and taken public cash under false pretences, they now say they’re paying too much tax and want the poor to cover any costs they have incurred. And Sunak is apologising to them for not doing this.
This looks like misappropriation of funds on a global scale.
And Sunak’s offer to cut taxes after the nonexistent bill is paid makes no sense at all, for an obvious reason:
The money of the rich disappears into offshore accounts – cut their taxes and more money disappears it does not trickle down.
Tax the rich and the money received can be invested in young people, climate justice, tackling inequality, health and poverty.
Sunak and his forerunners should have closed all tax avoidance loopholes in the 11 years since they have been in office but they haven’t. Is that because they have benefited from millions of pounds in donations from the people we now see have avoided paying trillions of pounds in tax?
£3.1 million of Tory Donations linked to 36 Tory MPs have now been from people named in the Pandora Papers.
He tried to cover it up by focusing on Brexit, saying that we’ll see the mythical benefits of leaving the European Union in the long term.
Rishi Sunak – "I was proud to back brexit… because in the long term the agility, flexibility & freedom provided by brexit would be more valuable… than proximity to a market"
I don't remember brexiteers telling us that the sunny uplands would be in the "long term" pic.twitter.com/XjuU9cTTDW
I think we all know what Brexit was really about – don’t we?
We probably shouldn't forget the reason we had Brexit was to enable the level of tax avoidance we're seeing in the Pandora Papers x
— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCPropagandist) October 4, 2021
Weirdly, the same Chancellor who has immorally handed billions to Tory donors via failed Covid schemes, and trillions to them by allowing tax avoidance, thinks such actions are perfectly reasonable.
To him, it would be immoral to take cash from them – that they want to lend – in order to fund, say, an anti-poverty strategy:
Rishi Sunak says it would be immoral to borrow to pay to keep children out of poverty. The first problem is he needs some lessons in what morality. Second, he needs to realise people (the wealthy) are queuing up to lend money to the government. Why is he refusing them the chance?
No – he thinks poorly-paid workers should simply get better jobs, as though that is the easiest thing in the world. Clearly he has never had to try to do it himself. And he conveniently forgets an enormous hole in his own logic:
If as Rishi Sunak suggests , a care worker who can’t manage on her wages simply retrain and get a better paid job , who is taking her place in an already short staffed care sector ?
Oh but – he said – the UK economy is recovering faster than anywhere else in the world!
But there’s a reason for that, isn’t there?
We have faster recovery than anyone else in the world for just one reason – we went lower than anyone else. If I was Sunak I would not be shouting about that.
Sunak wasn’t discussing serious plans to deal with current economic issues – he was auditioning to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.
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Britain’s greediest man? Boris Johnson is changing electoral law so an ex-pat Tory millionaire can continue funnelling cash to the Conservatives beyond the current 15-year restriction on him being able to.
Greedy Boris Johnson is planning to scrap a law that stops ex-pats from voting and donating to political parties – purely so the Tories can continue receiving millions from one donor who lives abroad.
According to the Mirror,
John Gore, has given almost £4.2 million to the Conservative Party, making him the Tories’ number one donor despite having spent “more than a decade away” from the UK.
Currently donors can only fund parties from abroad for 15 years – but this will be abolished under the Elections Bill.
This is the same Bill that will deprive 3.5 million people – mostly the poor – from being able to vote because they won’t have the photo ID that Johnson will demand in future elections.
So we see that this corrupt Bill will not only steal your vote, but will give it to wealthy Tory donors who don’t even live here any more.
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Backhander? Or tax evasion? What was really going on with the donations to the Tory Party by companies that had long since gone out of business?
The Electoral Commission has admitted that it mistakenly recorded a donation to the Conservatives from an active company as being from a defunct firm, because they shared the same address.
It has asked for another mistake in recording a donation to the Tories to be taken into account as well.
Does that let the Tories off the hook, then?
No. No, it doesn’t.
There remains one more donation (of which we’re aware) to be explained.
It was apparently made by a firm called Unionist Buildings Limited, in June 2017. Records show the firm was dissolved six months early, in January that year.
The Conservatives have admitted incorrectly reporting donations from that firm but have given no further details.
Why not? Guilty conscience?
These discrepancies only came to light after the Labour Party discovered them and raised them with the Electoral Commission.
How can we be sure they are the only examples of false reporting of donations? We can’t, can we?
HM Revenue and Customs will be interested in donations from dissolved companies, particular if there are monies owing to HMRC or other creditors, because if you can pay donations, then you can pay your creditors.
Also, if this money came from the company, then was it profit generated by the company? If it was, then Corporation Tax and VAT is very likely to be due upon it.
In other words, has Labour uncovered tax evasion by Tory donors?
If so, we need to find out if this is an isolated incident or if it is more widespread. And we need to know now.
I wonder how the Tories will try to squirm out of this.
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Backhander: is this how the Tories take their donations nowadays? In secret, so the donors can hide their identities in increasingly bizarre ways?
I can’t wait to hear the explanation for this, from whichever Tory anti-corruption tsar, ministerial standards watchdog or donations supremo will be ordered to whitewash it.
Will it bear any resemblance to the finding of the Electoral Commission, which is investigating?
Here’s the issue:
Two donations allegedly made to the Conservative Party from companies which had ceased to exist.
That’s right; they didn’t cease trading after giving the donations. They had already ceased to exist when the donations – worth £16,000 – were made.
It’s impossible. Logically, these were donations by people who wanted to hide the fact that they were donating to the Tories.
Now, why would anybody want to do that?
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, parties may only accept donations from a UK-registered company if it “carries on business in the United Kingdom”.
So a logical possibility is that these were donations from foreign concerns who had an interest – possibly financial – in the Conservatives.
For clarity, these are the donations concerned:
One was for a sum of £10,000 made in November 2019 by a company called Stridewell Estates. Government records indicate that the firm had been dissolved three years previously.
The second donation was made in June 2017 by a company called Unionist Buildings Limited which had apparently been dissolved in January of that year.
I wonder also if this is something to do with Brexit. I’ll say no more than that, for now.
Another question is why it took Labour this long to query these donations. Too busy accusing innocent party members of anti-Semitism?
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On one side, we see Nicola Sturgeon. The First Minister of Scotland has been found to have misled Parliament by giving an inaccurate account of meetings with Alex Salmond in 2018.
If an inquiry finds that she knowingly uttered falsehoods, then that is a resignation offence for an elected minister of any government, according to the Ministerial Code, and she should go – without question.
On the other side, we see Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has been accused of having misled Parliament by failing to provide details of funding for renovations to his official Downing Street flat.
The allegation is that private donations to the Conservative Party totalling £60,000 have been used as part of £200,000 worth of refurbishments to the flat.
If so, it should have been reported to the Electoral Commission, because the Ministerial Code demands that “a statement covering relevant Ministers’ interests will be published twice yearly”. The last such statement appeared last July, eight months ago.
It seems clear that Johnson has knowingly breached the Code in failing to declare the sources of funding for the flat.
So he should resign – right?
But within Parliament there has been no pressure for him to do so, while Tory calls for Sturgeon to take a hike have been punitive in their decibel level.
Labour’s Keir Starmer, despite being a lawyer, has claimed Sturgeon should go whether she knowingly misled Parliament or not – which is another indication that he should not be in politics, let alone running a political party.
10 Downing Street says all appropriate codes were followed, but this rings hollow. What does Allegra Stratton, Johnson’s press secretary, mean by “appropriate”? Something different from the dictionary definition, one would guess.
That’s how Downing Street has explained the other ways Johnson has recently misled Parliament, as I mentioned in a previous article:
After he said there would be no funding cut for the body tasked with improving transport in the north (he’s taking away 40 per cent of its funding), Downing Street tried to suggest he had been talking about transport generally for the north of England.
And after he claimed all Covid-19 contracts had been published and were “on the record” – only to be contradicted by the High Court – a minister said all CANs – Contract Award Notices – had been published. They are not the same thing.
Today’s howler was his claim, in Prime Minister’s Questions, that Keir Starmer had voted against a promise of a 2.1 per cent pay rise for nurses – that his own government is breaking.
The plan was in the NHS Funding Bill last year – which passed without a formal vote because all the main parties supported it. Starmer didn’t need to vote, but if he had, he would have supported the Bill.
Johnson (or rather, Stratton – he’d done his usual runner) eventually came out with a claim that he had been saying Starmer voted against the Queen’s Speech – but the plan wasn’t mentioned in it.
The document Starmer had been waving around at PMQs – and to which he had been referring – was the NHS long-term plan, which was a policy document and not a piece of legislation on which he could have voted.
So it seems clear that Johnson had knowingly misled Parliament but the issue also seems to have gone away because nobody is calling for his resignation over it.
If you’re wondering who did fund the renovation, here‘s openDemocracy:
The Mail also claims that party officials have since been looking for ways to keep the donation anonymous by returning it, and then repeating it through a new ‘Downing Street Trust’ that would conceal the original source.
Lord Brownlow, who served as vice-chairman of the Tory party in 2017-20 and was made a peer in 2019 by Theresa May, is expected to head up this new non-charitable trust.
So the person who allegedly provided this dodgy donation is set to head the organisation dedicated to hushing it up. More corrupt cronyism?
Let’s face it: nobody involved in this is going to come out smelling of roses.
It’s just that Boris Johnson, more than anybody else, is going to be smelling of faeces.
And it will take more than a Union Flag to wipe them away.
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