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    https://www.scotsman.com/news/politi...rnment-3989137

    Busy day for Alistair Jack. Looks like his company trousered £2m from the govt.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    https://www.scotsman.com/news/politi...rnment-3989137

    Busy day for Alistair Jack. Looks like his company trousered £2m from the govt.


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    I'm not getting the controversy over this, tbh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    I'm not getting the controversy over this, tbh.
    Think the company hasn’t filed their accounts in a timely manner and is under investigation.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    Think the company hasn’t filed their accounts in a timely manner and is under investigation.


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    The accounts are less than 3 weeks overdue. Companies House don't mount "investigations" into companies whose accounts are that overdue. They fine them and, ultimately, strike them off.

    Jack and his family, according to the last Confirmation Statement, have less than 1% of the shares. He isn't on the Board.

    It was a loan. There has been no suggestion that the loan hasn't been, or won't be, repaid.

    There are many things to decry the Tories about. IMO I can't see this as being one of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    The accounts are less than 2 weeks overdue. Companies House don't mount "investigations" into companies whose accounts are that overdue. They fine them and, ultimately, strike them off.

    Jack and his family, according to the last Confirmation Statement, have less than 1% of the shares. He isn't on the Board.

    It was a loan. There has been no suggestion that the loan hasn't been, or won't be, repaid.

    There are many things to decry the Tories about. IMO I can't see this as being one of them.
    Does this fall into the 'desperate' category when trying to score political points?

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    Quote Originally Posted by James310 View Post
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    Does this fall into the 'desperate' category when trying to score political points?
    Possibly, but yours definitely does!
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    Now we learn from the Sunday Times about an arrangement where a distant cousin of Johnson’s, a rich Canadian named Sam Blyth, guaranteed the cash-strapped prime minister an £800,000 line of credit to help fund his wallpaper habit.
    https://thecritic.co.uk/clear-them-all-out/

    Should a prime minister be allowed to accept a very large gift from a rich foreign person and keep it a secret? This does not feel like one of the trickier propriety and ethics questions. And yet, somehow, it turns out that it was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James310 View Post
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    Does this fall into the 'desperate' category when trying to score political points?
    In what way? It's publicly available information.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    In what way? It's publicly available information.
    Because it's a non story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James310 View Post
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    Because it's a non story.
    My post?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    My post?
    No, the story about Alistair Jack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James310 View Post
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    No, the story about Alistair Jack.
    Ah ok.

    In that case, I agree with Radge

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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    Ah ok.

    In that case, I agree with Radge


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    Is it because so many arguments (Scottish Independence, Brexit, Westminster Politics in general) are now blighted by straw man arguments, irrelevance, triviality, mudslinging and utter bollocks that the Tories are more than ever able to hide in plain sight for the genuinely deplorable things that they do?

    Subjects I once found engaging and interesting I'm finding more and more to be a chore to follow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibbyradge View Post
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    Desperate

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    Quote Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod View Post
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    Desperate
    I'll take anything I can get!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartie View Post
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    Is it because so many arguments (Scottish Independence, Brexit, Westminster Politics in general) are now blighted by straw man arguments, irrelevance, triviality, mudslinging and utter bollocks that the Tories are more than ever able to hide in plain sight for the genuinely deplorable things that they do?

    Subjects I once found engaging and interesting I'm finding more and more to be a chore to follow.
    Not far off Johnsons strategy of making so many gaffs people don't know which one to concentrate on.

    There is so much noise and so many in public office acting in bad faith that switching off for some is guaranteed.

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    ****ing Tories.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...droidApp_Other

    Under a further change to the bill, video footage that shows people crossing the Channel in small boats in a “positive light” will be added to a list of illegal content that all tech platforms must proactively prevent from reaching users.

    Donelan said posting positive videos of crossings could be aiding and abetting immigration offences. Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover, had originally tabled an amendment proposing the change.
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    ****ing Tories #2

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    https://twitter.com/marinapurkiss/st...WVYUBCBE0kVFog


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    This is just levelling up by building back better, or one of those, no? Seems like intelligent business people running rings around the Anti-Growth Coalition. Stuff like that.

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    Fraser Nelson is a tory prat but he exposes Hunt here for trying to claim its his doing that inflation is about to fall

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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...box=1674050765

    Strikes have now cost more than it would have cost to settle the dispute.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...box=1674050765

    Strikes have now cost more than it would have cost to settle the dispute.


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    I'm sure the tories were more than aware that this would ultimately be the case and will use it to double down on anti-union coverage.

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    https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/stat...HaIclWcdysCc2g

    Levelling up funds all going to already wealthy areas.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    Levelling up funds all going to already wealthy areas.


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    Is Granton a wealthy area?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    Levelling up funds all going to already wealthy areas.


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    The Richmond one is outrageous hardly the poorest part of the country, wonder who the MP is.

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    https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...nce-in-brexit/

    Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit

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    Quote Originally Posted by James310 View Post
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    Is Granton a wealthy area?
    You never miss an opportunity to defend the Tories.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozyhibby View Post
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    You never miss an opportunity to defend the Tories.


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    You said all the money was going to wealthy areas, just pointing out that's wrong. Facts matter don't they? You don't want to be spreading misinformation? You were simply just wrong, that's all.

    Elsewhere in Scotland:

    A multi-storey car park in Dundee has been granted £14m for its redevelopment into a sustainable transport hub.

    Nearly £20m will be spent to help demolish and reroute the A78 dual carriageway to reconnect and transform Greenock town centre.

    The regeneration of Riverside Park in Fife and improved access to the River Leven will be accelerated with the award of more than £19.4m

    In Cumbernauld, more than £9m will support the demolition and regeneration of two shopping centres and a vacant office block

    Nearly £11.3m of funding will help free up land at a former coal-fired power station in East Lothian

    Almost £18m will help Dumfries and Galloway turn redundant spaces and buildings into new cultural and leisure opportunities

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