> The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role.
> Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnson’s Downing Street lifestyle in November and December 2020. Sharp, 66, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had already submitted his application to become chairman of the public service broadcaster and had reached the final stages of the recruitment process.
> Late in 2020, Johnson, 58, was in financial trouble as he faced divorce payments, childcare costs and bills for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat. Sharp, a friend and former adviser to the politician who has given £400,000 to the Conservative Party, became involved that November after a dinner at the home of Sam Blyth, an old friend, in west London.
They stumble from fuck up to scandal to fuck up these jebblers. They are living proof that there is no direct correlation between wealth, status and competence. Both of these men are born into privilege and I would trust neither to hang my washing out. They are without a moral compass and really suck at being Bond villains.
The corrupt interdependence at the upper echelons of politics and media is obvious and this reporting just makes it clear. Cue lots of mainstream choking on the ever-influential BBC.
Move along, just the famous BBC impartiality. Any Prime Minister can have a million pound loan.
inb4 tory cunts try and say bbc is safe from government influence and is impartial.
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> The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role.
> Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnson’s Downing Street lifestyle in November and December 2020. Sharp, 66, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had already submitted his application to become chairman of the public service broadcaster and had reached the final stages of the recruitment process.
> Late in 2020, Johnson, 58, was in financial trouble as he faced divorce payments, childcare costs and bills for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat. Sharp, a friend and former adviser to the politician who has given £400,000 to the Conservative Party, became involved that November after a dinner at the home of Sam Blyth, an old friend, in west London.
They stumble from fuck up to scandal to fuck up these jebblers. They are living proof that there is no direct correlation between wealth, status and competence. Both of these men are born into privilege and I would trust neither to hang my washing out. They are without a moral compass and really suck at being Bond villains.
The corrupt interdependence at the upper echelons of politics and media is obvious and this reporting just makes it clear. Cue lots of mainstream choking on the ever-influential BBC.
Move along, just the famous BBC impartiality. Any Prime Minister can have a million pound loan.
inb4 tory cunts try and say bbc is safe from government influence and is impartial.