I’ll caveat this by saying I think Boris is an absolute cretin.
Boris has always had personal wealth. He was a journalist earning £800k+ for many years. He’s written books. Was on TV.
He and his ex-wife had a big house in Islington. A place in the country. He will have ridden the London property market wave.
It’s no surprise really he can afford to spend £3.8m on a house.
That he thought his £160k salary wasn’t enough to cover his living expenses, is about cash flow – not wealth.
People with wealth won’t want to touch it. We all do it with our savings don’t we – you don’t want to be remortgaging your house to pay your bills.
Well – that’s the issue Boris had. His salary basically dropped by hundreds of thousands of pounds when he became PM. He will have stupidly massive outgoings on school fees and mortgages.
Obviously he deserves no sympathy for this situation, he’s vastly better off than most, but that’s the rationale. The take home pay on £160k wouldn’t cover his four kids school fees.
How the other half live…!
Maybe we should pay our PM a salary similar to that of a CEO?
Yet we the taxpayers are still footed with a bill in the £100,000s to pay for his legal costs.
Personally for the role running the country (irrespective of who it is) £160k is a joke.
Effectively on hand 24 hrs a day making decisions that for starters 50% of the population are going to hate you for it
He wants to try living on statuary sick pay, when not well enough to work
That’s his money – he earned it.
How he earned it is what matters: speaking fees.
Speaking fees for what exactly? Speeches? Or services rendered in the past?
Take a pick.
Ok, hands up anyone, so you can get urgent psychiatric care, who beleives that this lying, deceitful, vile narcissist has even the tiniest spec of decency in him…
‘Let the bodies pile high’
it just shows how bad salaries are in the UK if a PM complains about £160k.
Cost of living increasing and salaries barely averaging £31k (median average)
Does anyone honestly think this was bought with his own money?
He has money. A lot of it. But he never spends it.
Why would he, when someone else is willing to pay.
Boris was always obsessed with making as much money as he could for himself. Spent the majority of his time in office doing dodgy deals and personal favours to increase his wealth, and ignored the main business and pressing matters. He built the persona of the loveable fool and expected everyone to forgive his misdemeanours and laugh it off with a roll of the eyes and ruffle of his hair
Did he pay for it or did someone else?
Because his accommodation is usually paid for by someone else.
People are saying “Oh well he’s made a tonne of money off speaking fees etc. etc.”. This is boris johnson, he has at all points had the opportunity to act with integrity and never has. So I’ll ask the question: We know that his earnings since leaving as PM were around £5m. We know his effective rate of tax on that is 40%. So at best he has £3m – assuming he’s not spent anything on anything else, let alone the hundreds of thousands in stamp duty. So I’ll ask the question: Where has the money come from.
It’s at this point people will bluster about how he’ll obviously definitely have money from somewhere, as if they’ve had a bonk on the head and forgotten the entire history of boris’ dodgy finances.
We may never get to the truth of it, but I bet you this cash came from somewhere dodgy as fuck.
That’s 2 1/2 donkey sanctuaries, for those of you on red team.
Not surprising they are paid handsomely by companies to look away, corrupt government.
Lol johnson is absolutely polluted with money.
All the politicians are that’s why none of them are worth a light. A rich person will never ever understand the problems of somebody who is say struggling to afford to eat or heat their properties. There’s many things they willl never understand and frankly they dont care. As long as their £££ keeps rolling in nothing else matters.
One way to deal with it people. Vote. Do as much research as you can on each candidate and each party. And try and vote for the arsehole you think is least likely to do this kind of shit, and the part that’s least likely to pull this shit again.
I know it’s hard. I know they all lie. I know they’re *all* arseholes. I know you’ve got enough on your plate as it is. But if you don’t even try then they’ve already won. And they’ll carry on doing shit like this and worse.
You bought a mansion out of social embarrassment? Sometimes I buy a big issue out of social embarrassment. I don’t buy a fucking mansion!
What a grotesque slob we had as PM and the lies he told about Brexit. Where is the money for the NHS that you had painted on the bus??
Wow…..all the back handers he received during the convid era….
Let’s keep this (and him needing a £800k loan) in mind when Tories and the pro-Johnson members of the press are criticising nurses, doctors, teachers, train drivers etc for not “living within their means”
These people are starting to do my fucking head in, none of them (all parties) know how to do their job properly and just seem to be making things harder.
They waste our money on shit instead of investing for the future and when one party does manage to get on the right track, the other party will come in and demolish any progress.
So none of them are actually doing a damn thing, it’s like we’re stuck going round in circles.
Didn’t he refer to his c.200k roll with a newspaper as “chickenfeed”
What the title should have said was “Boris Johnson paid £3.8m cash (probably someone else’s) for a nine bed mansion”. He seems to spend most of his time funding his lifestyle on someone else’s dime.
If he’s spent a bit more money on condoms he’d have saved a fortune on the cost of all those illegitimate children! No wonder he couldn’t manage the country or the economy…
I’ve had a house purchase accepted in the same village 2 days before this was new. I’m about a week away from completing…
I wonder what the AML checks carried out were like.
When the cameras are on him, he keeps his hair ruffled to try and look *simple* .
What a waste of money, regardless of whose cash it was.
£3.8 million plus taxes and legal fees for a property in England with only nine bedrooms. I wouldn’t consider going higher than 2 million including taxes.
I wasn’t able to pay £10.000 cash for my van, apparently proceeds of crime law. This MF needs investigating
Makes me wonder how American politicians can all leave office 10’s of millions better off than they started with…
If only there was a way to find out about his income…
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I’ll caveat this by saying I think Boris is an absolute cretin.
Boris has always had personal wealth. He was a journalist earning £800k+ for many years. He’s written books. Was on TV.
He and his ex-wife had a big house in Islington. A place in the country. He will have ridden the London property market wave.
It’s no surprise really he can afford to spend £3.8m on a house.
That he thought his £160k salary wasn’t enough to cover his living expenses, is about cash flow – not wealth.
People with wealth won’t want to touch it. We all do it with our savings don’t we – you don’t want to be remortgaging your house to pay your bills.
Well – that’s the issue Boris had. His salary basically dropped by hundreds of thousands of pounds when he became PM. He will have stupidly massive outgoings on school fees and mortgages.
Obviously he deserves no sympathy for this situation, he’s vastly better off than most, but that’s the rationale. The take home pay on £160k wouldn’t cover his four kids school fees.
How the other half live…!
Maybe we should pay our PM a salary similar to that of a CEO?
Yet we the taxpayers are still footed with a bill in the £100,000s to pay for his legal costs.
Personally for the role running the country (irrespective of who it is) £160k is a joke.
Effectively on hand 24 hrs a day making decisions that for starters 50% of the population are going to hate you for it
He wants to try living on statuary sick pay, when not well enough to work
That’s his money – he earned it.
How he earned it is what matters: speaking fees.
Speaking fees for what exactly? Speeches? Or services rendered in the past?
Take a pick.
Ok, hands up anyone, so you can get urgent psychiatric care, who beleives that this lying, deceitful, vile narcissist has even the tiniest spec of decency in him…
‘Let the bodies pile high’
it just shows how bad salaries are in the UK if a PM complains about £160k.
Cost of living increasing and salaries barely averaging £31k (median average)
Does anyone honestly think this was bought with his own money?
He has money. A lot of it. But he never spends it.
Why would he, when someone else is willing to pay.
Boris was always obsessed with making as much money as he could for himself. Spent the majority of his time in office doing dodgy deals and personal favours to increase his wealth, and ignored the main business and pressing matters. He built the persona of the loveable fool and expected everyone to forgive his misdemeanours and laugh it off with a roll of the eyes and ruffle of his hair
Did he pay for it or did someone else?
Because his accommodation is usually paid for by someone else.
People are saying “Oh well he’s made a tonne of money off speaking fees etc. etc.”. This is boris johnson, he has at all points had the opportunity to act with integrity and never has. So I’ll ask the question: We know that his earnings since leaving as PM were around £5m. We know his effective rate of tax on that is 40%. So at best he has £3m – assuming he’s not spent anything on anything else, let alone the hundreds of thousands in stamp duty. So I’ll ask the question: Where has the money come from.
It’s at this point people will bluster about how he’ll obviously definitely have money from somewhere, as if they’ve had a bonk on the head and forgotten the entire history of boris’ dodgy finances.
We may never get to the truth of it, but I bet you this cash came from somewhere dodgy as fuck.
Here’s the listing for the curious
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/10702989/
That’s 2 1/2 donkey sanctuaries, for those of you on red team.
Not surprising they are paid handsomely by companies to look away, corrupt government.
Lol johnson is absolutely polluted with money.
All the politicians are that’s why none of them are worth a light. A rich person will never ever understand the problems of somebody who is say struggling to afford to eat or heat their properties. There’s many things they willl never understand and frankly they dont care. As long as their £££ keeps rolling in nothing else matters.
One way to deal with it people. Vote. Do as much research as you can on each candidate and each party. And try and vote for the arsehole you think is least likely to do this kind of shit, and the part that’s least likely to pull this shit again.
I know it’s hard. I know they all lie. I know they’re *all* arseholes. I know you’ve got enough on your plate as it is. But if you don’t even try then they’ve already won. And they’ll carry on doing shit like this and worse.
You bought a mansion out of social embarrassment? Sometimes I buy a big issue out of social embarrassment. I don’t buy a fucking mansion!
What a grotesque slob we had as PM and the lies he told about Brexit. Where is the money for the NHS that you had painted on the bus??
Wow…..all the back handers he received during the convid era….
Let’s keep this (and him needing a £800k loan) in mind when Tories and the pro-Johnson members of the press are criticising nurses, doctors, teachers, train drivers etc for not “living within their means”
These people are starting to do my fucking head in, none of them (all parties) know how to do their job properly and just seem to be making things harder.
They waste our money on shit instead of investing for the future and when one party does manage to get on the right track, the other party will come in and demolish any progress.
So none of them are actually doing a damn thing, it’s like we’re stuck going round in circles.
Didn’t he refer to his c.200k roll with a newspaper as “chickenfeed”
What the title should have said was “Boris Johnson paid £3.8m cash (probably someone else’s) for a nine bed mansion”. He seems to spend most of his time funding his lifestyle on someone else’s dime.
If he’s spent a bit more money on condoms he’d have saved a fortune on the cost of all those illegitimate children! No wonder he couldn’t manage the country or the economy…
I’ve had a house purchase accepted in the same village 2 days before this was new. I’m about a week away from completing…
I wonder what the AML checks carried out were like.
When the cameras are on him, he keeps his hair ruffled to try and look *simple* .
What a waste of money, regardless of whose cash it was.
£3.8 million plus taxes and legal fees for a property in England with only nine bedrooms. I wouldn’t consider going higher than 2 million including taxes.
I wasn’t able to pay £10.000 cash for my van, apparently proceeds of crime law. This MF needs investigating
Makes me wonder how American politicians can all leave office 10’s of millions better off than they started with…
If only there was a way to find out about his income…
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/230502/johnson_boris.htm