If you’re the pro-Brexit billionaire Sir James Dyson or the diplomat killer Mohammed bin Salman, you get the right to have the British Prime Minister on ‘speed-text.’ If you’re an ordinary taxpaying citizen, you get sweet Fanny Adams.
Summing up the present government’s attitude to the public and taxpayers’ money, our picture of the week – shared by the @WinstonCProject on Twitter – shows a protest outside the entrance to Downing Street by individuals sporting masks of amongst others Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and David Cameron.
Featuring also envelopes stuffed with £50 notes emblazoned with ‘Taxpayers’ Money’ in red, the message attached also reads: “To Tory chums, Dodgy contracts, Jobs for mates… If found please return to The Conservative Party.”
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Picture of the Week – Kippered Boris
March for Change attendees from Devon send a clear message to new Prime Minister Boris Johnson about his lies about kippers Snapped at last Saturday’s March for Change, a couple attending as part of the Devon for Europe grouping decided to bring along a packaged kipper as part of the placard they carried. The […]
Picture of the Week: Victory for Hameron
Is a pig named after David Cameron sweeping to victory a sign of things to come?
Elsewhere yesterday, after resigning from Johnson’s rotten government, Johnny Mercer remarked:
“I think it’s pretty clear that not everyone tells the truth up here do they. I mean, I told people, I was resigning as a courtesy to government. You know, three hours later, it’s in the press. And, of course, they all denied they ever leaked it.”
“This is the most distrustful, awful environment I’ve ever worked in, in government. Almost nobody tells the truth is what I’ve worked out over the last 36 hours.”
“And, you know, I don’t think anyone really can get on their high horse about trust and ethics and all the rest of it in politics, because as far as I’m concerned, most of it is a bit of a cesspit.”
#JohnsonOut
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Carrie Symonds is sickening and it is no wonder she was associated with a charity that Ghislaine Maxwell was involved in. She isn’t a good person for any woman to aspire to and we need Samantha Cameron back please.