Florentine_Pogen Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/from-jungles-to-bras-tory-sleaze-is-lurking-michelle-moan-matt-hancock "Finally, the Conservative peer Michelle Mone dodges falling beams, her adult children running alongside her in golden chainmail bras and bikini bottoms, which, like the Medipro PPE contract, are worth more than £200m. An inspiration to self-employed strivers like myself, it is Mone’s mendacity that cuts the deepest. She seemed so nice, her rags-to-£29m-in-an-offshore-trust story giving hope to ordinary, hardworking people everywhere. What happened? In October 1996, newly redundant from her marketing job with Labatt’s mighty Scottish arm, Mone found herself at a Glaswegian dinner dance wearing an uncomfortable, yet cleavage-enhancing, bra. Racked with pain, Mone’s mind wandered. Leftover neeps were scraped into the pigs’ bin, the pipes struck up a doleful dirge, a listless jig began and Mone wondered if there was something that could be done about uncomfortable bras, while staring gormlessly at a lightbulb in the toilet window. In what the peer has subsequently described as being “a lightbulb moment”, Mone realised that the answer to the uncomfortable bra problem was to make bras more comfortable. It seemed so obvious, but no one had thought of it before, probably because of the fact that the bra industry was run by men, who were only interested in how easy it was to undo the fastenings in the dark. By November 1996, Mone had launched the Comforto-Bra 2000 ™ ® brand and changed the world bra industry, and bras, for ever. It’s easy to be facetious about bras, but Mone’s Comforto-Bra 2000 ™ ® changed the lives of millions of uncomfortable women at dinner dances, both in her native Scotland and indeed anywhere that dining and dancing occurred. And Mone’s cleavage-enhancers soon caught the eye of the then Prince Charles. As far as we know, King Charles III does not have any breasts himself, although it is impossible to be certain without checking the inventories of the many properties he has acquired since the death of his mother. Nonetheless, the future king realised that Mone’s work was important and invested £5,000 of Prince’s Trust money so that he could see millions of women sporting Mone’s cleavage-enhancing bras in every high street in the land as quickly as possible. While the new king’s proclivities are more wholesome than those wrongfully attributed to his perma-dry brother Andrew, they surely raise questions. Did the benefactors of the Prince’s Trust imagine their donations would go towards the enhancement of cleavage? And was it King Charles III’s cleavage-financing donation that made Mone think that money was just there for the taking? A convoluted chain of VIP-contract corridors and offshore trusts, companies and accounts, appears to be the route via which £29m of profits from pandemic PPE supply made its way into the hands of Mone and her children. The Tories contaminate everything they touch. And now they have made me hate even bras." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 From the Duchess of Duke St to the Baroness of Barlinnie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Camilla Long didn't miss in The Sunday Times https://archive.ph/EDJFu 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Look at those bad foreigners arresting journalists covering protests. Shocking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter Roaster Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 One of the Just Stop Oil protesters sentences to 6 months. Same length of time as some guy who chased a couple of career crims who were breaking into his shed and ran them over in his motor. They, meanwhile, got community service. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 She should count her lucky stars she didn't do anything truly awful like go to the jungle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Utter Roaster said: One of the Just Stop Oil protesters sentences to 6 months. Same length of time as some guy who chased a couple of career crims who were breaking into his shed and ran them over in his motor. They, meanwhile, got community service. If you are on about the guy on 24 Hours in Police Custody he got 22 months 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter Roaster Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 48 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: If you are on about the guy on 24 Hours in Police Custody he got 22 months You're right, my mistake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SandyCromarty Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 (edited) On 29/11/2022 at 21:28, Caledonian1 said: If you are on about the guy on 24 Hours in Police Custody he got 22 months And there has been protests throughout the land apparently concerning his prison sentence, (he served 8 months from Feb to Sept), while the two career criminals got suspended sentences. Crowdfunding was set up and in a week £127,000 has been donated. Edited December 1, 2022 by SandyCromarty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 It may have been mentioned on this Forum before but I've just come across an article by The Ferret re the Scottish Unionist Association Trust which has donated £416,000 to the Scottish conservative party which has been described as 'dark money' as there is no trail or declaration as to who is donating, the trust has also been fined by the Electoral Commission twice with measly fines due to late declarations. Senior Scottish tories Ross, Carlaw and Mundell and others have received direct donations. In 2019 SUAT benefitted to the tune of £493,322 donation from the Irvine Unionist Club, again 'Dark Money', and this 'club' was fined by the EC in 2018 for not reporting a £100,00 donation to the tory party. Surely this is illegal when this association does not publish it's donors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 38 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said: It may have been mentioned on this Forum before but I've just come across an article by The Ferret re the Scottish Unionist Association Trust which has donated £416,000 to the Scottish conservative party which has been described as 'dark money' as there is no trail or declaration as to who is donating, the trust has also been fined by the Electoral Commission twice with measly fines due to late declarations. Senior Scottish tories Ross, Carlaw and Mundell and others have received direct donations. In 2019 SUAT benefitted to the tune of £493,322 donation from the Irvine Unionist Club, again 'Dark Money', and this 'club' was fined by the EC in 2018 for not reporting a £100,00 donation to the tory party. Surely this is illegal when this association does not publish it's donors. They were found to have been at it and fined the maximum possible of one tunnocks teacake and a very stern look from an old springer spaniel. Democracy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Just now, williemillersmoustache said: They were found to have been at it and fined the maximum possible of one tunnocks teacake and a very stern look from an old springer spaniel. Democracy. It seems tory scum donors want their details hidden, sums up a tory to a tee, nothing up front but all business round the back. We're quite happy with our monthly SNP debit. A poll today see's the Independence vote at 52%. The tory print media, The Sun, Press and Journal, Scotsman, Daily Mail etc will be out with full anti Sturgeon/SNP tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 5 hours ago, Clown Job said: £1.129bn to be more precise should they decide to add in the shoe-in from Baroness Mone-then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Tory MP reported to police about sexual by other Tory MPs! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chester-byelection-results-labour-sunak-b2237443.html Poor wee Rishi will be regretting his ambition… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said: Tory MP reported to police about sexual by other Tory MPs! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chester-byelection-results-labour-sunak-b2237443.html Poor wee Rishi will be regretting his ambition… On ITV website since 8.00am and all rags but not a peep on BBC 5 hours later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Aye, but shite pay rises are cooll for the rest of the year, Tory scum 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Aye, but shite pay rises are cooll for the rest of the year, Tory scumI'm sure mad Vlad is sitting glued to the BBC gagging for the latest union announcement about a strike in the UK. p***ks like Zahawi epitomise promotion to position beyond ability. Strikes = win for Russia is a breathtakingly poor analogy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Billy Jean King said: 3 hours ago, Leith Green said: Aye, but shite pay rises are cooll for the rest of the year, Tory scum I'm sure mad Vlad is sitting glued to the BBC gagging for the latest union announcement about a strike in the UK. p***ks like Zahawi epitomise promotion to position beyond ability. Strikes = win for Russia is a breathtakingly poor analogy. Like so many of the other Tory MPs who have come to prominence during the last year Zahawi is oblivious to the public mood. I think it’s likely that a majority of Tory voters would think his comment about the nurses vis-a-vis Putin was misplaced. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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