Why was the story deleted from the Times? Who is pushing the buttons and why?
>*The story expanded on claims in a biography of Carrie Johnson by the Tory donor and peer Lord Ashcroft that Johnson had tried to appoint her to a £100,000-a-year government job when he was foreign secretary in 2018.*
>*Walters told the Guardian: “I stand by the story. I went to all the relevant people over two days. Nobody offered me an on-the-record denial and Downing St didn’t deny it off the record either.”*
Image of Walters article:
>[Times: Johnson tried to give Carrie top Foreign Office job during affair](https://archive.ph/UszCZ/29df51fca85f401ce36d6d84eb14b3164ced4aff.jpg)
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>Boris Johnson tried to appoint his future wife as his chief of staff at the Foreign Office but was blocked by colleagues after they discovered their affair
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>*MailOnline rewrote the Times’ story about the proposed government job for Carrie Johnson in the early hours of Saturday morning but has since also deleted its article without explanation or an editor’s note. News aggregation sites have also deleted their copies of the MailOnline article.*
>Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) [June 19th 2022](https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1538588391499091969)
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>The ‘missing story’ (pulled by Times after no10 call Fri night) is true. Walters repeatedly published accurate stories, e.g on illegal donations. Times pathetic to have folded & shd reverse ferret. Truth is worse! 🛒 wanted to appoint girlfriend to gvt job in Q3 2020 too
Yes we don’t live in a Putin-esque society where the media are complicit in creating an artificial bubble of a reality in order to protect the rich and powerful.
However, it is increasingly undeniable that a particular view of the world is painted for the British public and that view may not be maintained by a secret cabal but is maintained by like-minded individuals whose interests align.
Almost all mainstream media including the BBC and SKY run a rightwing/Tory propaganda machine that would make Goebbels jealous.
>Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) [Jun 19, 2022 · 7:08 PM](https://nitter.net/ThatTimWalker/status/1538584405115035649#m)
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>About time the Guardian and Observer group had the guts to run with this story. @TheNewEuropean broke it yesterday, of course, and was first with Simon Walters’ comments today, but better late than never.
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>Interesting that Carrie Johnson is now apparently denying the story. She was given the opportunity to do so by Simon Walters ahead of publication of the Times story in its Saturday first edition, but chose not to.
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>Love the idea, incidentally, that No 10 reckons it’s ‘sexist’ to run a story that says Johnson tried to impose his mistress in a £100,000-a-year job.
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They posted theirs at 1:35pm
>The New European: [Times journalist: I stand by my Johnson scoop](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/simon-walters-i-stand-by-my-johnson-scoop/)
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>Simon Walters, the journalist whose byline appeared on the Times‘s scoop about Boris Johnson attempting to make his then mistress Carrie Symonds his £100,000-a-year chief of staff when he was foreign secretary, has told Mandrake he stands by the story, even though it was mysteriously dropped after its first edition.
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>“I stand by the story 100 per cent,” Walters told me. “I was in lengthy and detailed communication with No 10 at a high level, Ben Gascoigne and Mrs Johnson’s spokeswoman for up to 48 hours before the paper went to press. At no point did any of them offer an on-the-record denial of any element of the story.”
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We need to investigate dodgy salaries. It’s an easy way to bribe or pay off useful people. “We can’t give you money, but how about a nice little 6 figure sinecure?” What? What ho? Tax and police can’t touch yer.
Johnson does have a lot of friends and connections in the media, being the Tory leader helps too. That means stories criticising him or portraying him in a bad light could easily disappear at a moment’s notice once the higher-ups see it.
And the curious case of the BBCs reporting over the last 12 years.
Fuck this clown and his ho. I will celebrate his downfall so hard.
Click bait.
Uh Oh…the job that never was, just like the parties that never were…Collective ‘petards’ are about to be ‘hoisted’…CORRUPTION….
>The paper’s editor, John Witherow, is reported to be off work.His deputy Tony Gallagher edited the newspaper on Friday, with multiple sources saying he made the call to drop the story from later editions.
Published: 22:20, 5 February 2022 | Updated: 21:39, 6 February 2022
[…]
By the autumn of 2017, Carrie was casting around for a new job, having completed a temporary placement with Sajid Javid, who was at the time Housing Secretary. She set her sights on a whole new challenge.
Her private life, too, was in a state of flux. Things between her and her long-term journalist boyfriend had cooled and she had become close to other men, one of whom was a married Conservative MP with a high public profile.
Although I have decided not to name him, I can say that he was somebody other than Boris Johnson.
They were even seen together in a quiet area of the House of Commons ‘not quite kissing but certainly much closer than a woman would normally stand next to a male colleague, put it like that,’ says a source. ‘The body language made it obvious something was happening.’
Even so, Johnson was at the forefront of her mind. One source recalls how, at this time, she began to quiz people about his personal life. ‘There was a period where she repeatedly asked about Boris, the state of his marriage and whether he was ‘available’,’ says the source.
‘It got to the point where it was impossible not to ask her if she and Boris had become involved.
At this suggestion, Carrie once made a vomiting sign by pretending to stick her fingers down her throat. I can only think she did this either to show that she genuinely found Boris physically unattractive, or just to put others off the scent.’
Hearing that then Foreign Secretary Johnson was looking for a new special adviser, Carrie approached him about the role.
To her chagrin, Johnson hired Lee Cain, Vote Leave’s broadcast communications strategist. But the matter would not end there.
In late 2017, civil servants at the Foreign Office advised Johnson to appoint a chief of staff. Installing somebody of the highest competence would, they believed, ease their collective post-Brexit burden. This suggestion seemed at first to fall on deaf ears.
But by the beginning of the following year, Johnson seemed keener on the plan. The person he had in mind for the plum, six-figure role? Carrie Symonds.
His allies were ‘aghast’, according to one source. She would have been out of her depth in such a senior post, they felt, with potentially disastrous consequences.
‘Everyone advised him not to do it,’ says a source. ‘They told him she had been over-promoted and that making her his chief of staff was ridiculous.’
By the spring of 2018, a small number of Johnson’s staff had become aware the couple were having an affair. Some were dismayed that he had betrayed his wife, Marina, whom they knew and liked. Others took the view that it was none of their business.
All now understood why Johnson had been so keen to hire Carrie as his chief of staff.
Nobody is surprised by the act- it is Johnson after all. Id be more surprised if he wasn’t on the fiddle.
My surprise is a respectable newspaper like The Times pulling a story because No.10 don’t like it. If I wanted Tory pretty drivel, I’d read the Daily Mail / Telegraph
Just get your news from Private Eye. I do.
>The Strange Case of The Vanishing Times Story
“Come, come Watson this is not even a half-a-pipe problem; it was spiked!
On spikes, be a good chap and hand me my syringe, an injection of 7% Cocaine in celebration of another solved case is *just* what the …..*Doctor* ordered!”
* S. Holmes, Consulting Detective.
Wonder if this was a super-injunction or just his mates in the media helping out. Either way its crooked.
Tax avoiding billionaires/ foreign billionaires own the newspapers and TV stations, public school boys (servants of billionaires) run the BBC.
People are easily brainwashed, especially in a divided, class based society where people are defferent towards authority/ monarchy etc.
If only the story had not been [already published](https://archive.ph/YIGvZ/2d9df566a0876f972f387be16ed059eb3938f0bd.jpg) in Lord Ashcroft’s book *First Lady Intrigue at the Court of Carrie and Boris Johnson* it would be awfully believable that the disappearance is the actual story. Rumours of a superinjunction being only created by the sudden yeeting of a minor story. Minor in the sense of less important than the real story.
This is Carrie’s “Streisand Effect” moment. Had the times not pulled it it would have been mostly forgotten about or overlooked but now it’s everywhere!
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Why was the story deleted from the Times? Who is pushing the buttons and why?
>*The story expanded on claims in a biography of Carrie Johnson by the Tory donor and peer Lord Ashcroft that Johnson had tried to appoint her to a £100,000-a-year government job when he was foreign secretary in 2018.*
Add this for that passage
>Rupert Myers @RupertMyers [Jun 19, 2022 · 4:10 PM](https://nitter.net/RupertMyers/status/1538554849121427456#m)
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>What’s odd about this missing story is that @LordAshcroft wrote it ages ago and that version hasn’t been taken down:
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>>[relevent book passage – image](https://archive.ph/YIGvZ/2d9df566a0876f972f387be16ed059eb3938f0bd.jpg)
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>*Walters told the Guardian: “I stand by the story. I went to all the relevant people over two days. Nobody offered me an on-the-record denial and Downing St didn’t deny it off the record either.”*
Image of Walters article:
>[Times: Johnson tried to give Carrie top Foreign Office job during affair](https://archive.ph/UszCZ/29df51fca85f401ce36d6d84eb14b3164ced4aff.jpg)
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>Boris Johnson tried to appoint his future wife as his chief of staff at the Foreign Office but was blocked by colleagues after they discovered their affair
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and
>*MailOnline rewrote the Times’ story about the proposed government job for Carrie Johnson in the early hours of Saturday morning but has since also deleted its article without explanation or an editor’s note. News aggregation sites have also deleted their copies of the MailOnline article.*
Managed to make a copy: https://archive.ph/bAopT
Also actual Mailonline page: https://archive.ph/6yMid
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Bonus:
>Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) [June 19th 2022](https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1538588391499091969)
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>The ‘missing story’ (pulled by Times after no10 call Fri night) is true. Walters repeatedly published accurate stories, e.g on illegal donations. Times pathetic to have folded & shd reverse ferret. Truth is worse! 🛒 wanted to appoint girlfriend to gvt job in Q3 2020 too
Yes we don’t live in a Putin-esque society where the media are complicit in creating an artificial bubble of a reality in order to protect the rich and powerful.
However, it is increasingly undeniable that a particular view of the world is painted for the British public and that view may not be maintained by a secret cabal but is maintained by like-minded individuals whose interests align.
Almost all mainstream media including the BBC and SKY run a rightwing/Tory propaganda machine that would make Goebbels jealous.
>Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) [Jun 19, 2022 · 7:08 PM](https://nitter.net/ThatTimWalker/status/1538584405115035649#m)
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>About time the Guardian and Observer group had the guts to run with this story. @TheNewEuropean broke it yesterday, of course, and was first with Simon Walters’ comments today, but better late than never.
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>Interesting that Carrie Johnson is now apparently denying the story. She was given the opportunity to do so by Simon Walters ahead of publication of the Times story in its Saturday first edition, but chose not to.
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>Love the idea, incidentally, that No 10 reckons it’s ‘sexist’ to run a story that says Johnson tried to impose his mistress in a £100,000-a-year job.
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They posted theirs at 1:35pm
>The New European: [Times journalist: I stand by my Johnson scoop](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/simon-walters-i-stand-by-my-johnson-scoop/)
>
>Simon Walters, the journalist whose byline appeared on the Times‘s scoop about Boris Johnson attempting to make his then mistress Carrie Symonds his £100,000-a-year chief of staff when he was foreign secretary, has told Mandrake he stands by the story, even though it was mysteriously dropped after its first edition.
>
>“I stand by the story 100 per cent,” Walters told me. “I was in lengthy and detailed communication with No 10 at a high level, Ben Gascoigne and Mrs Johnson’s spokeswoman for up to 48 hours before the paper went to press. At no point did any of them offer an on-the-record denial of any element of the story.”
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We need to investigate dodgy salaries. It’s an easy way to bribe or pay off useful people. “We can’t give you money, but how about a nice little 6 figure sinecure?” What? What ho? Tax and police can’t touch yer.
Johnson does have a lot of friends and connections in the media, being the Tory leader helps too. That means stories criticising him or portraying him in a bad light could easily disappear at a moment’s notice once the higher-ups see it.
And the curious case of the BBCs reporting over the last 12 years.
Fuck this clown and his ho. I will celebrate his downfall so hard.
Click bait.
Uh Oh…the job that never was, just like the parties that never were…Collective ‘petards’ are about to be ‘hoisted’…CORRUPTION….
>The paper’s editor, John Witherow, is reported to be off work.His deputy Tony Gallagher edited the newspaper on Friday, with multiple sources saying he made the call to drop the story from later editions.
Spot the difference:
[Page 5 from the early edition](https://archive.ph/bpAKz/d1a84be5fcc8671b7b782a12b46ae74178b0976c.jpg) and [Page 5 from a later edition](https://archive.ph/K82Jp/988d7b35c29626061a74626ff3015001f01448a4.jpg)
Still online:
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[Carrie uncovered: The explosive book by LORD ASHCROFT that’s set Westminster alight – including a close friend’s claim that ‘Carrie is the reason Boris has squandered the chance to become a great Prime Minister’](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480695/Carrie-Johnson-uncovered-Book-LORD-ASHCROFT-thats-set-Westminster-alight.html)
By Lord Ashcroft For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:20, 5 February 2022 | Updated: 21:39, 6 February 2022
[…]
By the autumn of 2017, Carrie was casting around for a new job, having completed a temporary placement with Sajid Javid, who was at the time Housing Secretary. She set her sights on a whole new challenge.
Her private life, too, was in a state of flux. Things between her and her long-term journalist boyfriend had cooled and she had become close to other men, one of whom was a married Conservative MP with a high public profile.
Although I have decided not to name him, I can say that he was somebody other than Boris Johnson.
They were even seen together in a quiet area of the House of Commons ‘not quite kissing but certainly much closer than a woman would normally stand next to a male colleague, put it like that,’ says a source. ‘The body language made it obvious something was happening.’
Even so, Johnson was at the forefront of her mind. One source recalls how, at this time, she began to quiz people about his personal life. ‘There was a period where she repeatedly asked about Boris, the state of his marriage and whether he was ‘available’,’ says the source.
‘It got to the point where it was impossible not to ask her if she and Boris had become involved.
At this suggestion, Carrie once made a vomiting sign by pretending to stick her fingers down her throat. I can only think she did this either to show that she genuinely found Boris physically unattractive, or just to put others off the scent.’
Hearing that then Foreign Secretary Johnson was looking for a new special adviser, Carrie approached him about the role.
To her chagrin, Johnson hired Lee Cain, Vote Leave’s broadcast communications strategist. But the matter would not end there.
In late 2017, civil servants at the Foreign Office advised Johnson to appoint a chief of staff. Installing somebody of the highest competence would, they believed, ease their collective post-Brexit burden. This suggestion seemed at first to fall on deaf ears.
But by the beginning of the following year, Johnson seemed keener on the plan. The person he had in mind for the plum, six-figure role? Carrie Symonds.
His allies were ‘aghast’, according to one source. She would have been out of her depth in such a senior post, they felt, with potentially disastrous consequences.
‘Everyone advised him not to do it,’ says a source. ‘They told him she had been over-promoted and that making her his chief of staff was ridiculous.’
By the spring of 2018, a small number of Johnson’s staff had become aware the couple were having an affair. Some were dismayed that he had betrayed his wife, Marina, whom they knew and liked. Others took the view that it was none of their business.
All now understood why Johnson had been so keen to hire Carrie as his chief of staff.
[…]
([🪞](https://archive.ph/J8DYa))
Is there an official body to look into this?
If he looks corrupt and acts corruptly, I guess that would make him corrupt.
I haven’t even slightly bothered to verify this, so lets call it entertaining scuttlebutt: https://www.thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/carrie-symonds-ghislaine-maxwell/
Nobody is surprised by the act- it is Johnson after all. Id be more surprised if he wasn’t on the fiddle.
My surprise is a respectable newspaper like The Times pulling a story because No.10 don’t like it. If I wanted Tory pretty drivel, I’d read the Daily Mail / Telegraph
Just get your news from Private Eye. I do.
>The Strange Case of The Vanishing Times Story
“Come, come Watson this is not even a half-a-pipe problem; it was spiked!
On spikes, be a good chap and hand me my syringe, an injection of 7% Cocaine in celebration of another solved case is *just* what the …..*Doctor* ordered!”
* S. Holmes, Consulting Detective.
Wonder if this was a super-injunction or just his mates in the media helping out. Either way its crooked.
Tax avoiding billionaires/ foreign billionaires own the newspapers and TV stations, public school boys (servants of billionaires) run the BBC.
People are easily brainwashed, especially in a divided, class based society where people are defferent towards authority/ monarchy etc.
Another analysis… https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-run-around
If only the story had not been [already published](https://archive.ph/YIGvZ/2d9df566a0876f972f387be16ed059eb3938f0bd.jpg) in Lord Ashcroft’s book *First Lady Intrigue at the Court of Carrie and Boris Johnson* it would be awfully believable that the disappearance is the actual story. Rumours of a superinjunction being only created by the sudden yeeting of a minor story. Minor in the sense of less important than the real story.
Uncharitable people would be speculating about sinusitus and who actually [got the role](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/12/no-10-plague-pit-how-covid-brought-westminster-to-its-knees) rather than dwelling on the also ran; and, all the revamped Wikipedia Pages.
This is Carrie’s “Streisand Effect” moment. Had the times not pulled it it would have been mostly forgotten about or overlooked but now it’s everywhere!