[Malcolm Armsteen]

Given how easily he lies about everything, a lie about ‘paying you back next week’ would be nothing for him.

You mean he was just waiting for a postal order, chaps?

[Bones McCoy]

I think we're failing to understand how "loans" work for these type of people.

There's never any intention to repay (or expectation of the loaners are from the same social strata).
Payback comes in "favours", a tip on a promising stock floatation, a nice job that pays well, while not eating into your afternoons at the club, a word in the ear of a foreign power...

The nouveau riche caught on recently; see Jimmy Carr's loan based tax aversion scheme.
As above, nice soft loan, gives you a living with no expectation of repayment.

Crank it down a couple more social rungs and you've got:
"Living beyond their means, iresponsible spending, never learned how to budget".

[mattomac]

He actually got another book deal for his memoirs last week.

[Youngian]

It wouldn’t surprise me if Johnson were actually quite rich, with cash squirrelled away so his ever increasing number of ex wives can’t get at it

You bet he has, if poncing off others is an art then Johnson’s Picasso.

[Watchman]

I thought we’d got a Foreign Secretary who’s job description contains international relations

The thought also occurs, what if some Russian sniper fancies making a name for himself, or a random missile causes havoc. I know it’s highly unlikely that he would ever be anywhere need trouble

[Andy McDandy]

Martyrdom wipes a lot of slates clean.

[Abernathy]

Martyrdom wipes a lot of slates clean.

Pretty sure martyrdom is not what Johnson has in mind.

What I want to know is who the fuck paid for a backbench MP to go on a jolly to Ukraine.

[kreuzberger]

What I want to know is who the fuck paid for a backbench MP to go on a jolly to Ukraine.

You did.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's something very funny about this Sharp stuff.

This Sam Blyth bloke apparently read about Bozo have money trouble in the press. He's a mate of Sharp's but why would he approach him? "Richard, you're applying for BBC chair, so you must know Bozo, right?" Why would he bring it up in the first place? For Sharp not to immediately say "Um, Sam, what do you think this is?" is pretty damning. Let alone to go out of his way to speak to the Cabinet Secretary on his behalf. Why can't Sam Blyth phone up the Cabinet Secretary himself?

[Watchman]

When ever I read about de Piffle’s self-inflicted “money problems”, I must admit my first thought isn’t “oh, I must lend him the thick end of £1m” out of the goodness of my own heart

[Andy McDandy]

It's that psychic powers training they give them at those schools. You just instinctively know when a chap might need the thick end of a million, and can offer it to him, and he can accept, without any physical record being left.

[Youngian]

It’s still all a bit weird unless Mr Blyth demanded property collateral and a DD from the PM’s salary to repay high interest rates. Or a more informal repayment plan. We still don’t know if the £800K came from guarantor Blyth.

[Bones McCoy]

It's that psychic powers training they give them at those schools. You just instinctively know when a chap might need the thick end of a million, and can offer it to him, and he can accept, without any physical record being left.

And no bother about deposits, collateral or credit rating.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bozo supposed to be considering a move back to Henley, with the possibility of becoming MP for there again.

I also noticed the following.

Johnson still owns a house in Thame, in the Henley constituency he represented from 2001 to 2008, according to the register of MPs’ interests.

This is not a cheap area of the country. Couldn't this have been sold to help with "money struggles"? To pluck a totally random figure, is the house worth £800k? Funny how Richard Sharp and Sam Blyth didn't suggest this before they approached the Cabinet Secretary,

[Tubby Isaacs]

£1.2m apparently. Advertised for rent at £4,250 a month.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/20270 ... ious-home/

[Tubby Isaacs]

[satnav]

The Daily Mail are suggesting that Boris Johnson would make a good party chairman!

[kreuzberger]

The Daily Mail are suggesting that Boris Johnson would make a good party chairman!

FFS, they are needier than Dorries. Is Dacre ovulating?

[Yug]

By Tory standards he *would* make a good Party Chairman. He's well down to the preferred standards of spivs, chancers and cunts they've had in the role in recent years.

[Crabcakes]

Who could possibly have predicted that Boris “my name is actually Alexander” Johnson, a serial liar, would have lied about this?