Kinky! Kinky! I’m surprised at you Swimmy. ??
Donkeyman!
Boris Johnson refuses to say just who IS paying for Carrie Symonds’ £200,000 renovation of their Downing Street
Boris Johnson has refused to say if a lavish £200,000 refurbishment of his Downing Street flat orchestrated by Carrie Symonds was funded by Conservative funds or wealthy party donors.
The Prime Minister was forced on the defensive today over where the cash for the project was coming from, amid claims Tory coffers were raided.
The Daily Mail on Saturday was told that Conservative Party funds met a large part of the bill, but after being warned this could be ‘improper’, and amid a backlash from outraged party elders, the Tories are said to have tried to launch a cover-up.
Mr Johnson was put on the spot at a live Downing Street press conference tonight. asked if ‘the Conservative Party or party donors’ funded the work, he replied: ‘All I can say is that all such inquiries will be answered with the normal declarations in the normal way.’
The new “normal” for the Tory government is prevarication, obfuscation and equivocation … :roll:
The title of this thread says it all l think?
( Carrie Symonds and the gold wall paper), sounds like a fairy story
don’t it??
Donkeyman!
Keeping quiet is probably the best way to stifle the aspirations of those determined to provoke dissent no matter what is said.
Was a secret Tory money trail used to pay for Carrie Symonds’s Downing Street makeover?
The mystery over the lavish makeover of the Prime Minister’s Downing Street flat deepened last night after claims emerged of a secret Tory money trail used to pay for ii.
According to Downing Street sources, the scheme was devised ‘in a panic’ when Mr Johnson said he could not afford the expensive decor chosen by Miss Symonds.
The allegations are expected to lead to new pressure on the Prime Minister and Conservative chiefs to say who paid for the refurbishment; how and when it was funded and why full details have still not been made public.
According to Downing Street insiders, cash for the makeover was channelled via a web which involved:
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[]A payment of around £60,000 from Tory party coffers to the Cabinet Office, which is responsible for maintaining Downing Street, to pay for expensive items;
[]A payment of the same amount from Lord Brownlow to Conservative HQ to reimburse the party;
[*]A plan by Tory chiefs to state publicly that the £60,000 came not from party HQ or Lord Brownlow, but from a newly established ‘Downing Street Trust’.
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A No 10 spokesman said last night: ‘Conservative Party funds are not being used to pay for any refurbishment to the Downing Street estate. All reportable donations to the Conservative Party are correctly declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and comply fully with the law. At all times, the Government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct. Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed. Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in Government transparency returns.’
The payments by Tory HQ and Lord Brownlow are said to have been made about six months ago.
Will this be Allegra’s opportunity to “paper over the cracks” … :?:
the scheme was devised ‘in a panic’ when Mr Johnson said he could not afford the expensive decor chosen by Miss Symonds.
See, this is the kind of conversation I want to have with Mr P…not the usual one which goes:
“I would like that”
“We can’t afford it, sorry”
“Ok, how about this then?”
“Hmm, ok, its a stretch, but I think we could manage it”
Hi
As long as the Taxpayer is not contributing to it, they can spend what they want.
Election watchdog quizzes Tory party over funding of PM’s flat makeover
The Electoral Commission said it was trying to establish whether any of the spending needed to be examined within its own remit on political donations.
A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said in a statement: “We are in contact with the party to establish whether any sums relating to the renovation works fall within the regime regulated by the commission. If so, they would need to be reported according to the rules specified in law, and would then be published by the commission as part of our commitment to the transparency of political finance.”
A Conservative party spokesperson said: "All reportable donations to the Conservative party are correctly declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and comply fully with the law. Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in government transparency returns.
Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they … :roll:
I doubt if they lied because The Electoral Commission has enforcement powers that cannot be ignored.
New leaked memo shows Conservative Party chief knew £58,000 donation was earmarked for Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat
20 April 2021
Dramatic new evidence of the way the Tories used nearly £60,000 of party funds on a lavish makeover of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat emerged last night. Leaked emails seen by the Daily Mail show Conservative co-chairman Ben Elliot was told in October that a £58,000 donation to party coffers was earmarked for the refit.
Lord Brownlow told the party’s head of fundraising, Mike Chattey, and Ben Elliot, nephew of the Duchess of Cornwall, that he was giving two donations to the party. One gift of £15,000 was for general party funds, discloses the email, obtained from Downing Street sources.
Will BJ wriggle out of this … :?:
Nothing to wriggle out from. No tax payers money was involved, so case closed. Its no different to me paying for next door’s painter.
If I were to donate vast sums, I would expect it to go towards the party…say paying wages, admin, getting the flyers made up and distributed. I would hope it would be a progression of the party, not making someone’s flat posh.
We shall see … 
The Electoral Commission is not concerned with tax-payers money - it is an independent agency that regulates party and election finance and sets standards for how elections should be run.
Hi
i have no idea at all who paid for this makeover.
As long as it is not the taxpayer, I am cool about.
I agree .
But forget GCSEs
Find some ageing unattractive bloke who happens to be PM and this is very important get preggars and have a child and wow the perks are great .
hahaha! Muddy!! I’m sure you are right, of course, but she should surely have learned how he treats his families, from the other ones he made and left… :roll: she can’t be sure of a future with him, fancy wallpaper or not.
Cummings sticks his oar in:
Cummings said he had warned Johnson about renovations to his Downing Street flat costing a reported £58,000, for which the prime minister had allegedly sought outside funding from Conservative supporters.
He wrote: “I told him I thought his plans to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended… I refused to help him organise these payments.”
Earlier, the government sought to close down the renovations controversy by releasing a statement saying no outside finance had been involved.
The statement, released on Friday by a Cabinet Office minister, Nicholas True, revealed that contractors had been brought in to paint, sand and refresh floorboards. But Lord True added: “Any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally.” *
* That’s that, then …
Hi
The big thing here is that I simply do not understand women.
I am kind, polite, respectful and do wash and shave before meeting a lady.
I am not a fat, piggy eyed lecher who will shag anything with a pulse.
I give up, I really do.
That is simply not me.
Swimmy, this is because you are a gentleman, not a philanderer with a few ex wives and a litter of children
PM covered flat refurbishment costs from his own pocket, says Liz Truss
Boris Johnson paid for renovations to his Downing Street flat “from his own pocket”, one of his ministers has said.
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC “everything has been fully declared” in line with the rules.
But she did not answer repeated questions on whether a Tory party donor initially provided the money to him.
A simple question requires a simple answer … :?: