Yvette Cooper has used an urgent question in the Commons to ask if Alexander Lebedev
sought to arrange a private phone call between Boris Johnson and the
Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, during a weekend party in April
2018.
A day after Johnson admitted for the first time that he had met Lebedev,
a former KGB agent, the shadow home secretary told the Commons there
were further questions raised by the trip to the party at an Italian
palazzo owned by Lebedev’s son.
“There
are also rumours that Alexander Lebedev was trying to arrange a phone
call from the meeting with the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov,
is that true? Did that phone call happen?” Cooper asked from the
dispatch box.
In reply, Vicky Ford, a junior
Foreign Office minister, said: “I take national security issues
seriously,” but she failed to address the question substantively. She
said ministers had introduced “world-leading sanctions packages” since
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …
Ever the conservative way! When asked a direct question, reply with many words that do not answer the question! rethugs have constantly done that at least since I was a kid.
Dishonesty has been the one constant in Johnson’s career – in the end the deceit proved too much to bear
Lies
and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and a brazen
contempt for the rules brought his fall. Which means the political
odyssey of Boris Johnson
has a curious symmetry. Except that what began as defects in the
personality of one man ended as defects in his party and his government,
inflicting great damage on the entire country.
The
lies that proved his undoing are now all too familiar. The last, fatal
lie was his claim that he had not been told directly of complaints of
sexual misconduct committed by the former deputy chief whip Chris
Pincher, a claim rapidly exposed as false in a rare intervention from a
former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, Simon McDonald. It
turned out that Johnson had indeed been briefed about Pincher, and that
once again Johnson had not told the truth. …
Is it just me or should prisoners work for free….? You’re in prison because you committed crimes, some of them incredibly heinous and disturbing….. Why should we pay you for manual labor whilst in prison?
Because if you’re forced to do labour for free, that makes you an actual fucking slave.
Prisoners are human.
Humans have rights that must not be infringed upon.
A country where they can put you in a for-profit prison, charge taxpayers to house and feed you, while also using your sweatshop labor to produce and market “made in america” goods, has an incentive to criminalize and incarcerate their population.
