Thread by @fascinatorfun

@JayMitchinson It matters for numerous reasons @JayMitchinson
1/. Cash for favours. How would anyone feel if someone coughed up £58k to get us out of an embarrassing mess entirely of our own making?

@JayMitchinson 1/ contd @JayMitchinson

And the cash for favours is living and breathing eg in the PPE contract awards, the Town Fund allocation.

2/. It is a question of character. £30k a year taxpayer allowance is not small. £150k over 5 years. And they cannot keep to that budget?

@JayMitchinson 3/ They did this at a time of acute financial distress for many due to Brexit business hits or just cuts in spending - eg battles over free school meals

It shows a huge sense of entitlement that they did not think “If we choose to be extravagant we must pay the balance ourselves

@JayMitchinson 3/ contd. They are freeloaders. Scrounges

4/ The alleged £200k spend (presumably they were permitted to call down future years’ allowance) would have bought fireproof cladding for Grenfell - a fire in which 72 people died
And they continued wrangling over this for months - a yr

@JayMitchinson 4/ contd. A year in which 100k lost their lives (followed by another 50k this year). Many permanently damaged through post Covid sequelae. Numerous others lost their jobs. Yet they did not have the decency to say “I shall pay for my extravagances myself”.

@JayMitchinson 5/. He is Prime Minister. Supposed to be law abiding. Set an example to the rest of us in how to live. Yet he tried to break the law. Misapply Party funds. The rules don’t apply to him. And the suffering of others does not impact on his own choices.

Evident in his response

@JayMitchinson 6/. Some People say “You could have a drink with Boris in the pub”. That doesn’t make this OK. In any event if the account in his biography by his colleague is right he is a tightwad. Wouldn’t buy his colleagues a coffee. He’s the bloke who never buys the round.

@JayMitchinson 7/. He always expects someone else to pay for his own greed and need @JayMitchinson and he is perfectly happy to use taxpayer or party money paid often by people who earn a fraction of his salary and intended to be spent wisely.

@JayMitchinson 8/. He has been reprimanded 9 times for failures to declare financial interests @JayMitchinson the most recent in 2019 that I know of.

He thinks the rules don’t apply to him. Just the little people.

We are being a nation of bad parents if we allow him to get away with it.

@JayMitchinson 9/. Finally. If there is any truth in the suggestion that Carrie tried to get Helen MacNamara sacked from her post as DG of Ethics and Propriety in the Cabinet Office for refusing to sign off her extravagant expenditure then that is a shocker. Spoilt brats the pair of them

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Let’s not forget that not long after she had to resign - the last straw being because Johnson backed the bully - Patel - who was found to have breached the Ministerial Code.

Rotting from the head down.

@JayMitchinson For those who want to read up a bit more on the rules on disclosures, here is a blog by a lecturer in corruption analysis, Sam Power.

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