The Boris Johnson latest scandal thread

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Revealed: Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network

Sir Lynton Crosby’s firm CTF has built unbranded disinformation pages for Saudi Arabia and major polluters

Claims of misogynistic culture at offices of Lynton Crosby firm
Brexit, cycle lanes and Saudi Arabia: CTF’s Facebook campaigns

The lobbying firm run by Boris Johnson’s close ally Sir Lynton Crosby has secretly built a network of unbranded “news” pages on Facebook for dozens of clients ranging from the Saudi government to major polluters, a Guardian investigation has found.

In the most complete account yet of CTF Partners’ outlook and strategy, current and former employees of the campaign consultancy have painted a picture of a business that appears to have professionalised online disinformation, taken on a series of controversial clients and faced incidents of misogynistic bullying in its headquarters.

They said that such was the culture of secrecy within the firm that staff working on online disinformation campaigns, which selectively promoted their clients’ viewpoints on anonymised Facebook pages that followed a common formula, used initials rather than full names on internal systems and often relied on personal email accounts to avoid their work being traced back to CTF and its clients.


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The disclosures will raise pressure on the prime minister to distance himself from CTF, with former staff members warning that the company might wield substantial influence in the new administration. CTF gave Johnson an interest-free loan to cover office and staffing costs earlier this year, while Crosby’s partners in the business are Mark Textor and Mark Fullbrook, with Fullbrook taking a leave of absence to run Johnson’s campaign for the Tory party leadership along with David Canzini.

The news follows the Guardian’s April report that Crosby’s company was behind a series of hugely influential pro-Brexit Facebook groups, which spent as much as £1m seeding the idea of a no-deal exit from the EU in the minds of the British public.

But the latest revelations reveal that the company has pursued that approach more broadly, in the service of previously unreported corporate interests and foreign governments.

And they expose a major flaw in Facebook’s political transparency tools, which make it possible for Crosby’s company – which boasts on its website that it deploys “the latest tools in digital engagement” – to use the social network to run professional-looking “news” pages reaching tens of millions of people on highly contentious topics, without apparently disclosing that they are being overseen by CTF Partners on behalf of paying clients.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...aganda-network

Distance himself ? Haw, haw...............................haw. Millions upon millions of decent Brits are going to ensure that he doesn't.
The dude is an old-boy network crook.

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Parliament suspension: Thousands protest across the UK

Demonstrations are taking place across the UK against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament in the run-up to Brexit.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cities including Manchester, Leeds, York and Belfast.

Parts of central London were brought to a standstill, with people chanting: "Boris Johnson, shame on you".

A small group of counter-protesters, marching in support of the prime minister, also arrived in Westminster.

Mr Johnson's plan to prorogue Parliament prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit when he announced it on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49534940

Megalomania. Why ? Because he's gotten away with it so far, has Little Britain Trump.

[evince]

another Russian plant


at east yours has a bigger vocabulary

[moon]

another Russian plant


at east yours has a bigger vocabulary

He ain't nuttin' to do wit' me. He's maggot's boy.

[evince]

gotta own it dude


we have to own allowing trump to cheat his way into power

[Tranquillus in Exile]

another Russian plant
at east yours has a bigger vocabulary

Writes his own books, too! Plus, he's a social liberal.

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Ghostwriters are retiring on ' Johnson's book ' earnings.

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Brexit: Gove won't commit to abide by law to block no deal

Tory minister Michael Gove has refused to say whether the government would abide by legislation designed to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49541942

The Johnson government will not commit to abiding by the law ? Haw, haw....................................haw.

Fascism. Try to find another name for it.

[Adolf_Twitler]

Writes his own books, too! Plus, he's a social liberal.

We all are!

The only difference is Social Liberals like you believe in soaking the nations taxpayers for Corporate Welfare instead of welfare for the people!

Why- Because you could care less about people than you do The Trump Organization!

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Dear Adolf,

Have you seen any of my posts on Trump?

Suffice to say, I'm not a fan.

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Johnson states that he will fire any lawmaker who disagrees with him. Haw, haw.......................haw.

Tory deselection threat 'may boost plan to stop no-deal Brexit'
Confrontational approach by No 10 may embolden rebel MPs, says David Gauke

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...no-deal-brexit

Fascism. Try finding another word for it.

[Iolo/Penderyn]

Writes his own books, too! Plus, he's a social liberal.

Oh, he's bright enough, and has - for what they are worth - respectable attitudes. The trouble is that his parents , like so many of their ilk, didn't want children and never gave him any chance to learn to care about anyone else, ever, just sent them away as soon as possible. Like so many public schoolboys he learned to get on without knowing anything about human affection, or real - as opposed to formal - decency. All he learned was to worship 'success': as a journalist he told monstrous lies to get attention, in relationships he betrayed his lovers and children ruthlessly. As a Prime Minister he is what we might expect from a class society gone rancid. I taught girls in one of their upper-class schools once. What they were doing to those kids made me sick, and I'd never do it again.

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Well said. The likes of Johnson are elevated and empowered by ' Oiks ' like Tranquillus in Exile, Stretch and maggot.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

The likes of Johnson are elevated and empowered by ' Oiks ' like Tranquillus in Exile

I believe he was elevated by 66% of Conservative Party members, of which I am not one.

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I believe he was elevated by 66% of Conservative Party members, of which I am not one.

OK- consider yourself ' de-oiked '. As for poor old maggot-.....well. Fore-lock toucher-in-chief.