Boris' Flat In No. 10

[Khandro]

Isn't Boris right when he says the general public don't give a toss about how it's re-furbished?
Isn't this the MSM (& Starmer) trying to make something out of nothing?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56870370

[ToraToraTora]

""No chance,never won an Election in 50 years" forgetting the Labour win under Blair. " - that was Tory Lite, not "real" Labour.

[dannyk13]

Tambo//Its a council property paid for by HA.//
Not true, it is a crown property:-
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/pp113-141

[emmie]

well now the question is still who paid for it, was it a tory donor, if so then it should have been declared if that was the case. If Boris paid for it himself, a) there's no story, b) more fool him.

[tamborine]

Inkthat Danny - as Boris sees his landlady weekly am sure she would have agreed his plans first.

[Khandro]

Letter in this morning's Telegraph:

'SIR – The threat of Covid is still with us. The country is trillions in debt, and a rapid and sustainable recovery is essential to our future.

The Leader of the Opposition doesn’t see it that way. Who paid a few thousand pounds to refurbish the Prime Minister’s flat is to him the major issue now facing us.

If this is reflective of his response to the challenges that lie ahead, then heaven help us if he is ever elected to power.'

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Just about sums it up for me!

[emmie]

me too Khandro, its what i have been saying all along. however if Boris took money from a Tory donor to do up the place, then that should have been declared.

[ummmm]

I think people forget how much things cost. All he has to do is buy two TVs and he's down 2k.

We don't really expect the PM to go shopping in IKEA do we?

[emmie]

no and i said the same on another thread, 30k - i could spend that no problem, and probably have alongside the thousands its cost me to decorate the flat, professional decorators don't come cheap, and to be honest they would have to be ones assigned to do up the place, as you can't let any old jobsworth have a go at it.

[anneasquith]

It’s true emmie, not any old jobs worth for Boris. Maybe he has a friend who owns a building/ decorating company, they could be awarded the contract ?

[diddlydo]

Slightly at a tangent - why spend loads of money on a flat where he is only squatting short-term, along with his mistress and illegitimate child?

[anneasquith]

Because he can .

[ummmm]

She's not his mistress. Illegitimate? You know it's 2021?

[Bobbisox1]

How is his child illegitimate Diddly ?
He’s not father ‘unknown’
Please explain or are all parents that aren’t married and choose to live together , are their children illegitimate as well?

[emmie]

its a three hundred year old building i believe, one assumes that there must be designated decorators, decor designers that are used time and again. Watching the West Wing, yes i know its a drama but bear with me, the Oval Office was given a makeover to suit the incoming President, and a budget was set for each office, as one might expect it was an expensive makeover, but no one said they should ask the President to put his hand in his pocket. I suspect that no one would ask the question who pays for it, not like here.
I could be wrong of course.

[diddlydo]

Ummm - Chambers dictionary definition of illegitimate "born of parents not married to each other". Yes I know it's 2021 as my calendar tells me that. She is his mistress even though she wears the trousers over far too many things.

[emmie]

for goodness sake, she's his partner, not mistress, that denotes some underhand goings on, he is not married now, and is free to marry if he so chooses.

[emmie]

so another one who is Privy to Boris's love life, just like Gulliver,
how do you know who wears the trousers in their relationship......

[Bobbisox1]

So to all you Mistresses out there that have illegitimate offspring ( sighhhh)
Diddly what a crock of chite !!!!

[ummmm]

Times have moved on, thank goodness, I have 3 children and have never been married. I do not consider them illegitimate and nor do they.

[emmie]

see what Trump spent, crikey

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/trump-administration-spent-175-million-on-furniture-and-renovations-to-the-oval-office