Boris Johnson - Indictment for Misconduct in Public Office

nabby

Don't go quoting Farage's statements to people as leavers will tell you no-one listens to word he says

Sonic67

No.

We give the EU £350 million a week. We currently get back £100 million as a rebate. Which has been reduced before and could be reduced again.

How much are you paid? Before tax and after tax? You are paid one figure but you never see it as your contributions to tax and NI take someway. So there's two actual figures and there's two here.

weaviemx5

I’ve already said the same thing pretty much.  He might get a slap on the wrist and take away some “learnings” from it, but the figure he quoted has been proven as false in the term he used it (several times in this thread alone!)

raduv1

You are setting yourself up for major disappointment my friend . I'm a leaver and I would agree that at the very least he should take his name out of the running for PM. At the same time he has not been found guilty .

We all have our opinions pre set in stone of our MPs and built our walls to defend or repel them.

I personally do not believe he would make a good PM or indeed leaver as I have always believed he used leave to become PM .

nabby

I'm not sure he deserves prosecution over this but he does deserve it over the misappropriation of public funds for the garden bridge project and the dodgy nature over the way he awarded the design brief.

Sonic67

Because the bus was part of Vote Leave. The official Leave campaign.

Farage was with Leave EU. A rival and he was a bit miffed that having done more than anyone else to bring about the EU referendum, he was sidelined.

EarthRod

Gross = £350 million a week.
Net = £250 million a week.

Are these figures correct?

weaviemx5

Literally, the point.  There are two figures;

1) £350m approx - The on-paper cost of our membership, that we never actually send/pay to the EU.

2) £250m approx - The post-calculated figure that we actually pay for EU membership.

We don’t get £100m back, we never pay it in the first place.

As you say, you never actually see your gross pay because the tax/NI has already been deducted on paper before you’re paid.  Now imagine the EU is your bank.  Do they receive your total gross pay then send back the tax/NI deductions to your employer or do they just receive the NET amount?

nabby

This point isn't made enough wrt BJ.

He was, until a few weeks before the referendum, not committed to leaving.  So why is he now treated as some sort of Brexit messiah that's going to go whole-heartedly for the Brexit that leavers claim is what the majority want?  He's already flipped his opinion once before, seemingly on a whim.

Sonic67

Tony Blair decided the best guy to be justice secretary was Charlie Falconer, his flat mate. What an amazing coincidence out of all the people in the UK the best man for the job was his flat mate.

Or maybe politics itself is dodgy anyway. All of it.