BBC Chairman Gone

[bitchstewie]

Another one gone for a breach of the code on public appointments.

[shed driver]

Does anyone know what Boris Johnson needed the £800,000 for?

SD.

[dingg]

shed driver said:

Does anyone know what Boris Johnson needed the £800,000 for?

SD.

Child maintenance?

[phil4]

shed driver said:

Does anyone know what Boris Johnson needed the £800,000 for?

SD.

Need? That was his fee for installing the chap as BBC Chairman. Dress it up as a loan by all means, that'll be all we can prove, but that wasn't what was going on.

[Gweeds]

Yet another situation where it was SO obvious he needed to go yet they had to just draw it out.

[ClaphamGT3]

At last; someone in public life with the grace to apologise for wrong-doing and the integrity to resign promptly and with dignity.

Sharp's speech really did throw into stark relief what a low-rent, classless grifter Raab is

[ChevronB19]

ClaphamGT3 said:

At last; someone in public life with the grace to apologise for wrong-doing and the integrity to resign promptly and with dignity.

Sharp's speech really did throw into stark relief what a low-rent, classless grifter Raab is

Unless that’s a joke, you have a very odd definition of ‘prompt’

[ChevronB19]

I’d love to know what he wanted the money for. Does anybody in BJ’s position with his earning potential (speaking, books etc) *need* an 800k loan? I thought we were all supposed to be financially responsible?

[Super Sonic]

ChevronB19 said:

I’d love to know what he wanted the money for. Does anybody in BJ’s position with his earning potential (speaking, books etc) *need* an 800k loan? I thought we were all supposed to be financially responsible?

Greed

[S600BSB]

Another tory crook gone.

[Fundoreen]

Nearly as scary looking as Laurance Stroll in a bad mood. Must have been some sort of punishment appointment by No10.

[Catastrophic Poo]

Well, gives a good new textbook conflict of interest example


Poor Auntie, can’t catch a break.

[ATG]

Super Sonic said:

ChevronB19 said:

I’d love to know what he wanted the money for. Does anybody in BJ’s position with his earning potential (speaking, books etc) *need* an 800k loan? I thought we were all supposed to be financially responsible?

Greed

He didn't have any IMMEDIATE earning potential when this loan _facility_ was arranged. He was the PM and anticipated (incorrectly) being the PM for a hell of a lot longer. The whole point was to give him a loan facility to act as a bridge until he could tap the hugely increased earning potential he would have after ceasing to be PM.

[ATG]

Catastrophic Poo said:

Well, gives a good new textbook conflict of interest example


Poor Auntie, can’t catch a break.

Not the Beeb's problem.

[Catastrophic Poo]

Yup. Cashflow

[Catastrophic Poo]

ATG said:

Catastrophic Poo said:

Well, gives a good new textbook conflict of interest example


Poor Auntie, can’t catch a break.

Not the Beeb's problem.

Doesn’t matter from a reputational PoV, particularly when you look at the headlines.

[Bannock]

ChevronB19 said:

I’d love to know what he wanted the money for. Does anybody in BJ’s position with his earning potential (speaking, books etc) *need* an 800k loan? I thought we were all supposed to be financially responsible?

Ex-wife to be kept in style accustomed to, 7 children (roughly) on private school fees, own extravagant lifestyle of luxury goods (e.g food, you know £27,000 worth of organic takeaways https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/22/butler-smuggled-270... current wife with enormously extravagant tastes. You get the picture. He probably needed the money to help pay for this:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23333376.boris-j...

Grifter needs to keep the grift going, lest he appear to have fallen on hard times, which if it were to happen everyone in "society" would drop him immediately, and he'd be finished. Self-perpetuating cycle of greed and vanity, essentially.

He's probably permanently potless, living hand to mouth, because of his colossal expenditure, required to keep his image up.

[ATG]

ChevronB19 said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

At last; someone in public life with the grace to apologise for wrong-doing and the integrity to resign promptly and with dignity.

Sharp's speech really did throw into stark relief what a low-rent, classless grifter Raab is

Unless that’s a joke, you have a very odd definition of ‘prompt’

His connection to the loan was tenuous at best. People might like to think it was a clear cut case of a conflict of interest, or indeed outright corruption as some have said above in this thread, but if we're actually trying to be dispassionate and fair, it was clearly neither of those things. He failed to make a disclosure about a financial arrangement in which he had had very little involvement. This deserved investigation and consideration before drawing conclusions. And the conclusion itself wasn't so damning that he couldn't have tried to hold onto his position with a reasonable chance of success. But instead he chose to go straight away and that deserves recognition. He's a wealthy chap who took on the position in the first place as an act of public service, not some shyster trying to climb the greasy pole. He was already at the top of the pole.

[sunbeam alpine]

The Mash on form as usual -

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/uncategorized/richa...

[Panamax]

ChevronB19 said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

At last; someone in public life with the grace to apologise for wrong-doing and the integrity to resign promptly and with dignity.

Unless that’s a joke, you have a very odd definition of ‘prompt’

Ain't that the truth. Says he's resigning "to avoid distraction for the BBC" but should have gone much earlier precisely to avoid these many months of distraction.

Everything Boris touched seems to have gone mysteriously rotten through no fault of his own. It's a remarkable coincidence.