True Conservative Style.

[gulliver1]

Boris Johnson gets Legal aid . To fight his Partygate case. Although he has just moved into a £4m Oxfordshire Mansion and he once described his £250,000 jounalist salary as chicken feed ,and claims to have made £5m since resigning as PM While a single mother of three who worked for the NHS has been dragged through the courts by an abusive former partner ,has been refused legal aid and has had to sell her house to pay legal fees of £40,000 and is now forced to use food banks feed her children.
Do you think this is right ????.

[webbo3]

Waiting for an ed to post a link for gullible.

[Gromit]

Boris begs most of his money like a cheap rent boy. He famously cadged wallpaper.
Be knows he will lose so he does not want to waste his own dish fending the indefensible.

[Hymie]

There is currently a spat going on between Boris & Sunak – Sunak is unhappy that Boris is planning to bring down the Tory party/government along with him, over the party-gate scandal - and has threatened to withhold paying Boris’s legal fees, now that he has sacked his government appointed lawyers. Watch this space.

[gulliver1]

Gromit 14.02 Don,t know about comparing Boris with a rent boy. But agree that he should lose the party gate case. But would not be at all surprised if he was found not guilty at end of it all by his legal Con Cronies and awarded millions in compensation
Then shared out amongst them behind the bike shed.

[webbo3]

Wallpaper you say, I give you Labour's Lord Irvine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/politics/61665.stm

[retrocop]

I'll raise and give you Angela Rayner. How many ears does this fiddler possess? She paid the money back because she was caught!!! If she had the money to pay back why did she attempt to fiddle them on her expense account in the first place?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/25/angela-rayner-tried-to-put-airpods-expensesfor-second-time/

[Deskdiary]

I forgot about Lord Irvine.

According to the BofE inflation calculator, £650k in 1998 is now £1.177m.

[-SharonA-]

If the story in main post is true, then this is an abomination.

[Gromit]

And adjusting for time, how much will this…

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F9cdef3bc-7dc3-11eb-8de9-4ee21426ea3f.jpg?crop=4554%2C2562%2C23%2C3171&resize=685

…have cost in 25 years time ?

[jno]

I'm sure English Heritage will want that room listed as a uniquely tasteful example of 21st century New Orleans bordello style

[retrocop]

I think most of the less gullible posters on AB are aware that many of our ‘Hon Friends’ have been at it and trying by it on for years no matter what party they represent. Pity one poster is so naive that he chooses to cherry pick the ‘wrong uns’. It’s a big world out there Lemuel.

[Gromit]

Jon,
Unfortunately, unlike Lord Irvine’s tasteful decor which was in keeping with the building and will probably remain there for another 25 years, carrie’s Downing Street apartment was vacated 2 PMs ago, and the wallpaper went in a skip months ago.

[douglas9401]

I was going to 'cherry pick' the flame-haired temptress but somebody, without a hint of irony, beat me to it.

[david small]

It’s blatantly wrong, it’s morally wrong, and very definitely very unjust. Nothing new really. Those that can do....those that cannot, pay.

[jno]

///many of our ‘Hon Friends’ have been at it and trying by it on for years no matter what party they represent///

Is that true? Have previous prime ministers - of any party - demanded that the public should fund their appearances before parliamentary inquiries? We're already paying for the other side...

[gulliver1]

Yes ,This lady who applied for Legal aid was told that she had too much Equity in her Family home so she did not Qualify for Legal aid. While Boris and his millionaire friends get all their bills paid by the Taxpayer. Britain has now a become a Country where rich and powerful people like Johnson and his Cronies recieve state support for all their Legal problems even when they are wrong.

[Peter Pedant]

we have to use recognisable facts Gullz
Bonka BoJo is NOT on legal aid. If the abused single muvva had been an MP and abused by another MP within the H of C - then she wd be assisted in any enquiry

BoJo is not 'fighting a case' he has already er lost that ( penalty for parties).

and he didnt resign, he was thrown out on his bum

so yeah, by and large, on the facts I think it probably is fair

[Peter Pedant]

Boris begs most of his money like a cheap rent boy. He famously cadged wallpaper.

chrissakes he goes out and earns his money from people who pay to hear him speak. He cant sell influence, he doesnt have any.

To recycle / repurpose Oscar Wilde - he couldnt be a rent boy, he is far too ugly

[Old_Geezer]

Legal representation should not be for the rich only. Everyone (with a reasonable case) should have access to equal representation as a right of the citizen. So although I do not know the circumstances of the 2 cases you compare, it's probably not right. The question should be as to why the abused mother was considered ineligible.