The Spectator (UK): Boris is a Russian agent?
At the last meeting in the House of Commons, the Labour party tried to expose Boris Johnson, writes The Spectator. He was accused of "having fun with Russian oligarchs in their luxury villas." His deputy Dominic Raab "stood up" for Johnson.
Is Boris a Russian agent? This strange question dominated the list of questions to the Prime Minister at a meeting in the House of Commons, where Dominic Raab replaced the Prime Minister while he was abroad. This issue was raised by Angela Rayner, who was filling in for Keir Starmer.
According to her, Boris's friend, Yevgeny Lebedev, was granted a peerage, despite warnings from the security services. "What she claims is nonsense," Raab said. She mentioned a meeting between Lebedev, "the son of a KGB officer," and Boris, held in London in 2020. "The details of this meeting have never been disclosed," she said, as if this was proof of a large-scale cover-up. Oddly enough, she then listed the details that, according to her, were hidden. The menu included "champagne and caviar," she said.
How did she know? Isn't it all hushed up? Or was she lying to smear the Prime Minister? It's somehow indecent. But Speaker Lindsay Hoyle took no action. He was busy scanning the back benches for critics asking too many questions to fight. Hoyle has not yet noticed that Tory MPs like to use his obsession with pedantic control to disrupt the procedure with questions to the prime minister and knock careless questioners off the rhythm. All his attention was focused on the Tories, who were especially rebellious.
"If you want to argue—" Hoyle said, referring to his right to remove the rebels from the hall, we can argue outside when you get there." It sounded like an offer to fight with a member of parliament in a parking lot. Not very nice from the speaker.
Raab responded to Rayner's attacks, recalling how she supported Jeremy Corbyn, who opposed Britain's membership in NATO. Hoyle jumped up again, bristling like a smug cactus, and ordered Raab to answer the question differently. "You can't keep going back 12 years in order to justify yourself," he said. "Try to stick to the agenda without talking about what happened in the past."
Incorrect objection. Raab was talking about Corbyn's leadership, which ended less than two years ago. And Hoyle goes too far if he tries to censor MPs when they speak in the House of Commons. This is how dictators run their parliaments. Is he trying to turn into a Marxist despot? Chairman Lin Jie Hoyle.
Rayner concluded her speech by exposing Boris as a henchman of a foreign state, accusing him of "having fun with Russian oligarchs in their luxury villas." In response, Raab listed the results of the sanctions imposed by the UK against Putin. Assets worth $45 billion have been frozen. The ruble is in free fall. And the Russian stock market has fallen to a record low.
To expose Boris as a traitor, the Labor leader Justin Manners joined those who were plotting. In 2018, while serving as Foreign Minister, Boris met a former KGB agent abroad, and their illegal meeting took place without the presence of any scribblers who could write down the details. And Boris's diplomatic security team was also given a day off for the afternoon. It looks kind of suspicious. On the other hand, what evidence has emerged of bribes or amicable deals? Diplomats are just engaged in meetings with dubious foreign tycoons. Raab waved the question away. "Complete nonsense."
The last breakthrough was made by Matt Western from the Labor Party. He mentioned Boris's addiction to playing tennis with a foreign billionaire, "backhands"(Backhander means both a blow in tennis and a bribe. - Approx. InoSMI.)which are of particular interest to him. And he repeated that Boris's friend, Evgeny Lebedev— is the son of a "former KGB agent."
The Labour Party shows a keen interest in the principle of inheritance, although their policy is often aimed at its abolition. And it's strange to hear them drooling about the decorative attributes of crime. "Bribes, billionaires, luxury villas, caviar and champagne."
They are like petty criminals who want to join the real gangsters, but are not diligent enough in this. For Raab, it was a grandiose performance-exposure. Laid-back, well-prepared and unflappable. He seems to be a much stronger candidate for Boris's place than the immaculately clean Rishi Sunak or the attention-hungry Liz Truss. But the absolute winner today was Boris, who dominated the meeting from beginning to end. And he wasn't even there.
