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Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 4:35 pm From Newsnight to Wing Kingz, how have the mighty fallen.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:13 pm Complaining about a minimum wage waitress, good bit of casual classism from Tommeh there.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:25 pm Could it be she was a person of colour?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:31 pm I just knew it’d be Christopher Chope that shouted “Object” somehow.

The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.

The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
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Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”

A former minister said: “The fact we can’t deselect these people is baffling”, while a frontbencher called Chope “a selfish twat”. Backbenchers complained it would “make a bad situation even worse”, and expressed severe disappointment it was “handing Labour a freebie”.

The All New KevS wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:37 pm With the news emerging that the Liverpool bomber was allegedly a Christian convert, it's quite entertaining watching the Gammon tie themselves in knots on the Twitsphere.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 12:31 am https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ach-report

The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.

The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
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Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”

A former minister said: “The fact we can’t deselect these people is baffling”, while a frontbencher called Chope “a selfish twat”. Backbenchers complained it would “make a bad situation even worse”, and expressed severe disappointment it was “handing Labour a freebie”.

People owed an estimated £2m by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson have appointed an independent insolvency expert to try to recover their money before a March deadline.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, declared himself bankrupt last March.

In July, a judge ordered him to pay £100,000 to a refugee schoolboy he had wrongly accused of attacking a girl.

He also owes an estimated £1.5m in legal costs for the boy's lawyers.

Robinson failed to convince the High Court his claims that Jamal Hijazi had attacked "young English girls" in his school in Huddersfield were true.

The legal costs are before any accrued interest.

Other creditors include HMRC, a former business partner and Barrow-In-Furness Borough Council.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-60052754

Cyclist wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:13 am

People owed an estimated £2m by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson have appointed an independent insolvency expert to try to recover their money before a March deadline.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, declared himself bankrupt last March.

In July, a judge ordered him to pay £100,000 to a refugee schoolboy he had wrongly accused of attacking a girl.

He also owes an estimated £1.5m in legal costs for the boy's lawyers.

Robinson failed to convince the High Court his claims that Jamal Hijazi had attacked "young English girls" in his school in Huddersfield were true.

The legal costs are before any accrued interest.

Other creditors include HMRC, a former business partner and Barrow-In-Furness Borough Council.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-60052754