Does he think “how can I look good here” and then just does the opposite?
It don’t rain but it pours – just not his day today
>The prime minister arrived in India as a fierce row rages in Delhi over the demolition of mainly Muslim settlements in an area of the capital hit by communal violence – an issue that is being considered by India’s supreme court.
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>TV footage about the demolition controversy, running prominently on Indian channels, showed JCB bulldozers being used to flatten properties.
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>The campaign group Amnesty India tweeted: “In the backdrop of Municipal Corporation of Delhi using JCB bulldozers to raze down shops of Muslims in north-west Delhi’s Jahangirpuri yesterday, UK prime minister’s inauguration of a JCB factory in Gujarat is not only ignorant but his silence on the incident is deafening.”
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>Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a historian and campaigner, posted: “The British PM went to a bulldozer factory at a time such as this! Talk about optics. Wow! Garlanded bulldozers. Just what I needed to see.”
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>During a visit to a new JCB factory, Johnson called it a “living, breathing incarnation of the umbilicus between the UK and India”.
>JCB paid Boris Johnson £10,000 three days before he gave a speech at its headquarters last week in which he repeatedly praised the company’s business acumen and innovation, it has emerged.
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>The payment was disclosed on the new register of MPs’ financial interests, which also shows that JCB – owned by Anthony Bamford, a pro-Brexit Conservative peer and donor – is paying the former Brexit secretary David Davis £60,000 a year as an “external adviser”.
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>Johnson’s speech in Staffordshire was primarily about Brexit and widely seen as a pitch for the Conservative leadership. However, he also mentioned JCB a number of times, noting at the start how the company had sold nearly 750,000 units of one model of digger.
My tired eyes initially read this as “Outcry in India as Boris Johnson plans to demolish JCB plant”
Just toss it onto the mountain of scandals. At this point, if he did a racist mockery of india, it wouldn’t be surprising.
> Boris Johnson’s attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursday
Not just a Tory donor, but one of the few businesspeople to support Brexit.
FYI scheduled bitching on Twitter by the same faces does not count as an outcry
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Does he think “how can I look good here” and then just does the opposite?
It don’t rain but it pours – just not his day today
>The prime minister arrived in India as a fierce row rages in Delhi over the demolition of mainly Muslim settlements in an area of the capital hit by communal violence – an issue that is being considered by India’s supreme court.
>
>TV footage about the demolition controversy, running prominently on Indian channels, showed JCB bulldozers being used to flatten properties.
>
>The campaign group Amnesty India tweeted: “In the backdrop of Municipal Corporation of Delhi using JCB bulldozers to raze down shops of Muslims in north-west Delhi’s Jahangirpuri yesterday, UK prime minister’s inauguration of a JCB factory in Gujarat is not only ignorant but his silence on the incident is deafening.”
>
>Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a historian and campaigner, posted: “The British PM went to a bulldozer factory at a time such as this! Talk about optics. Wow! Garlanded bulldozers. Just what I needed to see.”
>
>During a visit to a new JCB factory, Johnson called it a “living, breathing incarnation of the umbilicus between the UK and India”.
>>[Photos of JCB bulldozers demolishing Muslim homes in India](https://www.google.com/search?q=jcb+demolition+india+muslim+homes&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjVxqiB96X3AhXrDmMBHeNJBvgQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=jcb+demolition+india+muslim+homes&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDFC9DVj5NWC8VWgAcAB4AYABsQmIAYgakgEPMC40LjEuMC4xLjAuMS4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=yrVhYtW5IuudjLsP45OZwA8&bih=850&biw=1350&client=firefox-b-d)
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An earlier post on Johnson’s trip to Bamford’s place this morning [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/u8jp8d/boris_johnson_flies_4000_miles_to_india_on/)
Of which I’ll repost this comment:
From [Thu 24 Jan 2019](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/24/jcb-paid-boris-johnson-10000-three-days-before-speech):
>JCB paid Boris Johnson £10,000 three days before he gave a speech at its headquarters last week in which he repeatedly praised the company’s business acumen and innovation, it has emerged.
>
>The payment was disclosed on the new register of MPs’ financial interests, which also shows that JCB – owned by Anthony Bamford, a pro-Brexit Conservative peer and donor – is paying the former Brexit secretary David Davis £60,000 a year as an “external adviser”.
>
>Johnson’s speech in Staffordshire was primarily about Brexit and widely seen as a pitch for the Conservative leadership. However, he also mentioned JCB a number of times, noting at the start how the company had sold nearly 750,000 units of one model of digger.
And during his time as PM it is hard to count how many hours he has spent promoting Bamford’s businesses [from the JCB plant](https://www.google.com/search?q=boris+johnson+jcb&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFy63h8KT3AhXIi1wKHaM5C5IQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1519&bih=850&dpr=0.8) to [Bamford’s hydrogen business](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/22/the-jcb-heir-with-big-money-in-green-energy)
My tired eyes initially read this as “Outcry in India as Boris Johnson plans to demolish JCB plant”
Just toss it onto the mountain of scandals. At this point, if he did a racist mockery of india, it wouldn’t be surprising.
> Boris Johnson’s attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursday
Not just a Tory donor, but one of the few businesspeople to support Brexit.
FYI scheduled bitching on Twitter by the same faces does not count as an outcry