Punchable cunt
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)
UK Politics
3089 readers
49 users here now
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both [email protected] and [email protected] .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
"£10m? No, definitely not. They paid me £9,999,989.59 precisely so I could avoid this type of question."
"Separately, an unrelated, partially-owned-arms-length-subsidiary company paid me a completely unrelated £10.41"
"I repeat that I definitely and honestly did not receive £10m."
"I only have to answer the question 'yes' if you guess the exact number, to the penny".
Need to keep track of the currencies in this article! It says £8.2m, which the reporter helpfully explains in brackets would be about $10m, but then quotes a politician asking about £10m.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lord Cameron has denied he was paid £10m by the collapsed financial firm Greensill Capital but has declined to disclose his earnings as its advisor.
The foreign secretary was repeatedly asked by the BBC how much he earned from the company at the centre of fraud investigations in two countries.
After being asked on the Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday show if he had been paid £10m by Greensill Capital, Lord Cameron said: "No, that isn't true."
In this role he tried to persuade ministers to allow the firm to join a scheme called the Corporate Covid Financing Facility (CCFF).
Criminal inquiries into alleged fraud are ongoing in Germany and Switzerland, where Mr Greensill has been named as a suspect.
The lobbying scandal which surrounded Lord Cameron's work for Greensill prompted a series of inquiries at Westminster.
The original article contains 350 words, the summary contains 136 words. Saved 61%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!