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16-09-2019, 12:16 PM
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Meanwhile in Brussels...

The EU don't even try to hide their corruption anymore.

https://order-order.com/2019/09/16/e...ruption-probe/
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Originally Posted by Bread ->
The EU don't even try to hide their corruption anymore.

https://order-order.com/2019/09/16/e...ruption-probe/
Spare us guido bollox. If this is your news source then no wonder you have a such a skewed and narrow view of the world. You bleat about possible backhanders for arms deals by German politicians but somehow are quiet about our own arms trade. The UK is world leaders at dodgy deals. If you set a high bar for openness and honesty then at least have the decency to point out that the UK fails to get anywhere near that bar.
But nope, for the likes of you everything that can taint anything european is acceptable. I guess 30 years of anti-EU newspaper reporting has done that. Blinded by bullsh*t.
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16-09-2019, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by gascony ->
Spare us guido bollox. If this is your news source then no wonder you have a such a skewed and narrow view of the world. You bleat about possible backhanders for arms deals by German politicians but somehow are quiet about our own arms trade. The UK is world leaders at dodgy deals. If you set a high bar for openness and honesty then at least have the decency to point out that the UK fails to get anywhere near that bar.
But nope, for the likes of you everything that can taint anything european is acceptable. I guess 30 years of anti-EU newspaper reporting has done that. Blinded by bullsh*t.
I say Goscony old chap! You are using quite a lot of ANGLO
SAXON for a citizen of la belle france old bean?
How do you explain yourself??

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Originally Posted by Bread ->
The EU don't even try to hide their corruption anymore.

https://order-order.com/2019/09/16/e...ruption-probe/
Yes they do Bread! There will be no enquiry apparrently?
Probably an internal probe but nothing public??
I only hope Junker's not bunging Boris today?
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16-09-2019, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by gascony ->
Spare us guido bollox. If this is your news source then no wonder you have a such a skewed and narrow view of the world. You bleat about possible backhanders for arms deals by German politicians but somehow are quiet about our own arms trade. The UK is world leaders at dodgy deals. If you set a high bar for openness and honesty then at least have the decency to point out that the UK fails to get anywhere near that bar.
But nope, for the likes of you everything that can taint anything european is acceptable. I guess 30 years of anti-EU newspaper reporting has done that. Blinded by bullsh*t.
Calm down dear

I have many, many news feeds not just Guido (including the guardian, but I tend to only use that for comic value).

The EU don't hide their corruption anymore, just look at convicted criminal Christine La Garde heading up all the Eurozone banking ... shame shame shame
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16-09-2019, 03:41 PM
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Yes they do Bread! There will be no enquiry apparrently?
Probably an internal probe but nothing public??
I only hope Junker's not bunging Boris today?
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The corrupt look after their own DM.
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16-09-2019, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
Yes they do Bread! There will be no enquiry apparrently?
Probably an internal probe but nothing public??
I only hope Junker's not bunging Boris today?
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Wasn't pretty patel found talking to israelis? Corbyn dislikes them, but your arms merchants fare well by all this.

UK reclaims place as world's second largest arms exporter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-arms-exporter
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It didn't end with just that though.. opening up another question of why and did it actually reach the Syrian Government or was it for the other factions fighting against the Syrian Government who were backed by USA.??

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...weapons-probe/

Belgian company targeted in Syrian chemical weapons probe

Three international NGOs have filed criminal complaints against Belgium’s largest chemical manufacturer in a probe intended to clarify the company’s role in the 2014 shipping to Syria of chemical components found in toxic agents used as weapons by the Syrian regime.

The complaint targets BASF Antwerpen NV—the Belgian branch of German chemical giant BASF and the largest chemical producer in Belgium— together with two other German firms, Sasol Germany GmbH and Brenntag AG, which three human rights organizations suspect of bypassing European Union (EU) sanctions on the shipment of certain chemicals to the war-torn country.

Export documents examined by the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Syrian Archive and TRIAL International show that the companies sent unauthorized shipments of isopropanol and diethylamine to Syria via Switzerland in 2014.

“There is sufficient evidence for an investigation to be conducted, and we hope prosecutors will clarify why dual-use components manufactured by European companies ended up in Syria,” Montse Ferrer of TRIAL International said in a statement.

The chemicals, which can be used to manufacture pharmaceuticals as well as toxic chemical agents, are listed in an EU list of “dual-use” materials requiring prior approval for their direct or indirect shipment to Syria.

The complaints —filed with prosecutors in Antwerp and in the German cities of Hamburg and Essen— come after the NGOs learned from Belgian and German customs authorities that no authorizations had been granted to any of the companies for the shipments in question.

Aside from its medical usage, isopropanol and diethylamine can be used as components of sarin and VX (respectively), two highly toxic nerve agents that have been used by the Syrian authorities against civilians.
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16-09-2019, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Solasch ->
Wasn't pretty patel found talking to israelis? Corbyn dislikes them, but your arms merchants fare well by all this.

UK reclaims place as world's second largest arms exporter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-arms-exporter
Are you on the right thread Solly???
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16-09-2019, 06:17 PM
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Boris Johnson was sacked from his job at The Times newspaper over allegations he fabricated a quote from his godfather, the historian Colin Lucas, for a front-page article about the discovery of Edward II’s Rose Palace.

“The trouble was that somewhere in my copy I managed to attribute to Colin the view that Edward II and Piers Gaveston would have been cavorting together in the Rose Palace,” he claimed.

Alas, Gaveston was executed 13 years before the palace was built. “It was very nasty,” Mr Johnson added, before attempting to downplay it as nothing more than a schoolboy blunder.

After leaving the Times, Mr Johnson moved to The Daily Telegraph, working as the publication's Brussels correspondent between 1989 and 1994.

His articles, like those in several other Eurosceptic newspapers, contained many of the claims widely described as “Euromyths”, including plans to introduce same-size “eurocoffins”, establish a “banana police force” to regulate the shape of the curved yellow fruit, and ban prawn cocktail crisps.

When questioned about them in parliament, he denied suggestions they were a figment of his imagination.

Mr Johnson became editor of the Spectator in 1999 after telling owner Conrad Black, who was later convicted of fraud, that he would not pursue a political career. This promise was broken in 2001 when he won election as Conservative MP for Henley in Oxfordshire.

Three years later he was forced to apologise for an article in the magazine which blamed drunken Liverpool fans for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and suggested that the people of the city were wallowing in their victim status.

Michael Howard gave Boris Johnson two new jobs after becoming leader of the Conservatives in 2003 – party vice-chairman and shadow arts minister.

He was sacked from both positions in November 2004 after assuring Mr Howard that tabloid reports of his affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt were false and an “inverted pyramid of piffle”. When the story was found to be true, he refused to resign.

Mr Johnson's fondness for fallacy continued as London Mayor. Having promised in his 2008 manifesto to ensure there would be manned ticket offices at every train station, he agreed to widespread closures to pay for a 24-hour tube.

He promised to eradicate rough sleeping by 2012, only for it to double during his leadership. He was also accused of telling “barefaced lies” after he stated that police numbers would increase in London despite government cuts.

Launching the Vote Leave bus tour, Mr Johnson returned to the scene of his earlier falsehoods by repeating his old allegations that the EU was setting rules on the shape of bananas.

He also backed the infamous claim on the side of the bus that the UK was sending £350m a week to the EU, followed by “let’s fund our NHS instead”.

The UK Statistics Authority issued an official statement in May 2016 describing the claim as “misleading”, but Mr Johnson repeated it in an article in the Telegraph in September 2017.

The UK Statistics Authority criticised the use of the £350m figure by Leave campaigners during the referendum campaign in 2016, saying the figure did not take into account the UK’s rebate or the money that comes back via farming subsidies, regional development funds or grants to the private sector.

In January Boris Johnson claimed he did not mention Turkey during the referendum after it was suggested he falsely claimed 80 million Turks would come to Britain unless the UK left the EU.

In fact, he co-signed a letter stating that “the only way to avoid having common borders with Turkey is to vote Leave and take back control”.

Mr Johnson, whose great-grandfather was the Ottoman politican Ali Kemal, was also quoted as saying “I am very pro-Turkish but what I certainly can’t imagine is a situation in which 77 million of my fellow Turks and those of Turkish origin can come here without any checks at all. That is mad – that won’t work.”

Well, he is not as bad as trump, but he is working on it.
And like trump his followers will deny every lie Al-Bo tells...
 
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