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Denzil_DC

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14. Add me to the queue to agree with your pointing this out.

Reply to secondwind (Reply #6)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:27 PM

Aug 2020

These "honours" are Johnson's gift, as they have been for prime ministers before him. The queen just rubber-stamps them.

I'm surprised that "career diplomat" Carpenter for some reason was unaware of this or has chosen to let Johnson off the hook with this red herring. The continuing influence of ex-pat Russians' funding of the Tory Party has been well covered in the media. This is part of the quid pro quo.

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Queen Elizabeth just granted a peerage to Yevgeny Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and son of a KGB Rezid [View all] soothsayer Aug 2020 OP

Cheese has fallen off the royal cracker? Zambero Aug 2020 #1

Putin likely blackmailing that family, too, or Boris Johnson, as blm Aug 2020 #2

Lots of material. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #4

WT everloving F? dchill Aug 2020 #3

If this is true, it must be very damaging, and may go up even higher than Prince Andrew. WOW secondwind Aug 2020 #5

And then there is this .... from that thread. secondwind Aug 2020 #6

Ah there you go soothsayer Aug 2020 #7

Thank you BannonsLiver Aug 2020 #8

Or they know the details, but prefer to marybourg Aug 2020 #9

Or they just aren't read up on British procedures? SlogginThroughIt Aug 2020 #12

With Brexit and Boris Johnson all roads lead to Russia. blm Aug 2020 #10

So...quid pro quo. moondust Aug 2020 #11

Add me to the queue to agree with your pointing this out. Denzil_DC Aug 2020 #14

Blackmail? ananda Aug 2020 #13

Proprietor of the main London newspaper, and a national online-only paper muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #15