The only thing which i took from the OP is him only having a net worth of £1.6m. This is a man who has had a large income for years (7 figures in a single year recently so is reported) and is a member of a wealthy family, surely he is (obviously is?) far wealthier than that
You honestly think that a man that earns £1 million per year is going to by “bought” for a £15k!
Clerical error at worst, desperate BOJO bashing, non story.
haha, good point! If he really is only worth £1.6m then he must have one hell of a burn rateCocaine and hookers are expensive you know??
Nice humblebrag there, like itI mean it is ridiculous. I only earn a 6 figure salary but my net worth is around half of his.
Nice humblebrag there, like it
Corbyn you would have wanted to know who was perhaps trying to influence him?
+1I can't see how this is legal, it surely falls foul of the Anti Corruption & Bribery laws now a day.
Personally I don't mind tax paying for a pm holiday, just as I don't mind increasing the pm wage by doubling it. Not that I'd want it to happen for boris, but personally I think what a pm gets is too low.
Had a look into this, our fantastic law makers (the MPs) made the Anti-Corruption laws only apply to payments to foreign officials, not our own. Obviously didn’t want to harm their own income streams+1
I'm not allowed to accept or give gifts to people of influence of any value above £25 or something, due to anti corruption policies.
Dodgy as hell regardless who does it but even worse, it now appears Johnson might have lied about who paid for it.
I'm sure the usual lot will rustle up a defence for that also.
Is a bribe any less a bribe then simply because money didn't change hands?. . . there isn’t anything to say that any money changed hands . . .
Lied about who paid for it? How do you know anyone paid for it?
He put the friends name down as he arranged it, there isn’t anything to say that any money changed hands/that anyone paid for it. The house was available or rooms in the house were available and someone let him use it or stay with them.
Doesnt matter if nobody paid for it. It has a value. Otherwise you could just "loan" somebody a £5m house and 300 luxury yacht with no money changing hands and that wouldnt be seen as dodgy?
Wasn't Blair in the habit of having lots of holidays with foreign "Friends"?
Was there any outrage at the time over this??
Doesnt matter if nobody paid for it. It has a value. Otherwise you could just "loan" somebody a £5m house and 300 luxury yacht with no money changing hands and that wouldnt be seen as dodgy?
No one claimed it didn’t have value?
It’s a bit of a different dynamic though - someone inviting him to stay with them or letting them use an otherwise empty villa vs someone handing over cash to pay for a holiday.
Not really. Even if somebody cancelled on the villa i doubt it was it very short notice otherwise BJ would have had something else lined up and with it being new Year and prime travel to that region, most places will be 100% booked up ages ago and they wouldnt have had any problem finding somebody to take it for £15k. So somebody, somewhere has given up £15k of money and BJ has gained to the value of £15k
I would just like to know who that was. I am sure BJ will know.