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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
@fascinatorfun
Aug 18, 2019 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
This is dizzying. Imagine the tip offs Max Johnson can get from his brother Boris

He expects the £, which has weakened 6.2% against the US dollar in the past 6 months, to be a big draw for foreign investors. It has fallen 11.7% since the ref in June 2016 scmp.com/business/banki…
2/.
Max, 34 yrs old, plans to launch a £1 billion (US$1.2 billion) real estate fund targeting Asian investors. He is said to be in advanced talks to co-found a hotel investment fund targeting Asian high net worth individuals and pension funds
3/.
While Johnson declined to name the partner, he said the company owns & operates hotels in London that are popular with Chinese tourists. 3 of these properties will be sold to the fund, tentatively set for launch 3 months after the UK’s departure from the EU or a GE.
4/

“It is a fantastic time to buy education [study], properties, products and be a tourist in the UK,” Johnson said, noting the pound fetches only around 8.5 yuan, compared to 15 in 2007 when he first lived in China.”
5/

Imagine what an edge you would have if you knew when B Johnson was going to talk up No Deal, or reign back on it?

Imagine that.
This links in neatly to @libdemfightbac finds about metal markets and Max.

7/. 2 additional thoughts/ connections/leads

This from @shady_inf0 👏

Max Johnson (article 24/7/2019) saying he’s set up a trading business in Moscow. I wonder in what & with whom?

businessbecause.com/news/podcast/6…
8/. Lord Barker was an advisor to B Johnson when he was Mayor, amongst other relevant matters. He stepped down in Nov 2016 by which time Johnson was Foreign Secretary.

He knows the Johnsons.

quercusassetsselection.com/team/the-rt-ho…
9/ @RealBristolNews points out he runs the EN+ GROUP International (aka Rusal) on behalf of Deripaska who was sanctioned by the USA, as was EN+. Barker spent the last 2yrs getting the US to lift sanctions by reducing Deripaska’s ownership

Mi6 v concerned
thenational.ae/world/europe/m…
10/. Barker was called before the Foreign Affairs SC about these interests and refused to give evidence publicly to them. Concern about this conflict of interest with him as a law maker too

Never mind. His “modest” reward for getting the sanctions listed was a cool $3-4 million
11/. So those sanctions negotiations with the US were going on when Johnson was Foreign Secretary & when Kim Darroch was the UK Ambassador to the USA.

12/. Can’t help but wonder how well he knows B Johnson backer, Lynton Crosby, given it seems he too worked as an advisor to Johnson as Mayor AND with Cameron when Barker, then Tory MP and also an Environment Minister.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
13/. Barker certainly has long standing business connections in Russia & with Russians, including Abramovich owned Sibneft and

He was alleged to have connections with infamous Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky (who fled Russia to escape fraud prosecutions) per Wiki.

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What is “Deliverism”?

It is the argument that simply “governing well using all levers available”, as Stoller put it in the first half of Biden’s presidency, does not necessarily translate into popular gratitude or political success.”
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There has to be a continual storytelling which connects to people’s day to day realities.

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Jul 6
I’ve been thinking about the broad but shallow majority Labour has and what it means

1/. It is the result not just of a profound disgust at Tory political behaviour even from their own traditional voters but also of a highly intelligent and organised electoral strategy.
2/. It is pretty obvious that Lab and Lib Dem struck some sort of non aggression pact in a large number of seats to their mutual benefit. It took a lot of the poison out of tactical voting that we saw in 2017 and in 2019 in particular. So did the change in leadership.
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In just 42 seats in England and Wales was the Tory vote bigger than the combined Lab/Lib one.
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That’s not the brilliant deal it sounds.

They don’t tax your state pension. But your state pension is added to any other income you have and that IS taxed…(basically treating your state pension as part of your normal personal allowance (PA). Not enough to meet the PA limit.
So the personal allowance is £12570.

7 out of 8 pensioners do not GET the full new state pension. Most are on the old state pension (or less) of c £8,800 pa.

So that arrives untaxed.
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Even on the NEW full state pension you are way off the PA still.
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Today installation is steaming ahead.

Alex the Project Manager is here, Andy the electrician that did the original scoping & Rob the lead electrician .

Three scaffolders from Wales and my house is quite awkward to access but they are doing a great job


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We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch

They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.

Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.

James is ex military

Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)

Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.
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Just thinking about my young Ukrainian Refugee today.

Two years ago today she was awoken by her brother in law, a customs official, telling her to get out of Kyiv straight away. Forget her home and job there. The Russians were invading.

She left to go to her parents
So did her sister and her two young children. To a tiny village in the Poltava Region. All living together in their parents house.

What must it have been like for her? Realising that the war was not going to be over quickly and her lost home and lost job were now her reality
Meanwhile her cousins were fighting at the front. The loss of life and destruction of property all too real and the grim stories of torture, rape and deportation of children growing louder.

Suddenly having to take off to a foreign country she had never visited to survive
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The abuse of doctors, nurses and front line staff

The lying

The lying.

Oh God the lying.
The lying

All those PPE procurement cases were not just about cronyism and corruption.

It was about the health & protection of medical and front line staff. Life and death.
Not a drama.

Real people. Real sickness. Real deaths.

Real heartbreak

Real brain break. PTSD.

Real #LongCovid
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