Boris Johnson ‘agrees to buy’ £4m nine-bed Georgian manor house (with moat)

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  1. It’s going to take some time until his company files returns.

    I wonder if it is going to show up whether he was taking into account IR35 changes for delivering his speeches and thus paying over 50% of tax on them.

    If someone is performing a personal service to an organisation, likely they are caught by the rules introduced by Boris’s government (by Sunak).

  2. Strange he needed a £800.000 loan not too long back,how’s he making all these payments ? Loan my a..e .

  3. I think we need to wait and see who he taps up for the ‘mortgage’ as I can’t see him funding it himself – or making repayments.

  4. Did he pay for this one himself?

    I mean he hasn’t written two books he’s taken advances on, has reportedly eight kids and two wives he hasn’t paid for, was last seen putting off his sacking as he has nowhere to live, then he was living rent free in someone else’s house, and the bbc guy is about to be thrown out for arranging a huge loan for him.

    I’m just saying…I wouldn’t be lending someone with those finances money for a mortgage

  5. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries, 10,000 people were imprisoned for debt each year.[13] A prison term did not alleviate a person’s debt, however; an inmate was typically required to repay the creditor in-full before being released.[14] In England and Wales, debtors’ prisons varied in the amount of freedom they allowed the debtor. With a little money, a debtor could pay for some freedoms; some prisons allowed inmates to conduct business and to receive visitors; others (including the Fleet and King’s Bench Prisons) even allowed inmates to live a short distance outside the prison—a practice known as the ‘Liberty of the Rules’—and the Fleet even tolerated clandestine ‘Fleet Marriages’.[citation needed]

    Life in these prisons, however, was far from pleasant, and the inmates were forced to pay for their keep. Samuel Byrom, son of the writer and poet John Byrom, was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet in 1725, and in 1729 he sent a petition to his old school friend, the Duke of Dorset, in which he raged against the injustices of the system. Some debtor prisoners were even less fortunate, being sent to prisons with a mixture of vicious criminals and petty criminals, and many more were confined to a single cell.[citation needed]

    The father of the English author Charles Dickens was sent to one of these prisons (the Marshalsea), which were often described in Dickens’s novels.[15] He became an advocate for debt prison reform, and his novel Little Dorrit dealt directly with this issue.[16]

    The Debtors’ Act of 1869 limited the ability of the courts to sentence debtors to prison, but it did not entirely prohibit them from doing so. Debtors who had the means to pay their debt, but did not do so, could still be incarcerated for up to six weeks, as could those who defaulted on debts to the court.[17] Initially, there was a significant reduction in the number of debtors imprisoned following the passage of the 1869 Act. By 1870, the total number of debtors imprisoned decreased by almost 2,000, dropping from 9,759 in 1869 to 6,605 in 1870.[18] However, by 1905 that number had increased to 11,427.[18]

    Some of London’s debtors’ prisons were the Coldbath Fields Prison, Fleet Prison, Giltspur Street Compter, King’s Bench Prison, Marshalsea Prison, Poultry Compter, and Wood Street Counter. The most famous was the Clink prison, which had a debtor’s entrance in Stoney Street. This prison gave rise to the British slang term for being incarcerated in any prison, hence “in the clink”. Its location also gave rise to the term for being financially embarrassed, “stoney broke

  6. Yeah, Boris Johnson is good at treating people like mugs. He’s a piss artist with a posh accent. Plenty of willing mugs out there eager to be taken advantage of by people like Johnson.

  7. There’s bound to be some Lord somewhere who is bankrolling this. Boris doesn’t pay for anything, he just knows how to use people who have more money than sense.

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