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So he's lying?

Police are assessing evidence about donations to Robert Jenrick’s campaign to become Conservative leader in 2024 after a referral from the elections watchdog, the Guardian can reveal.

The information was passed on by the Electoral Commission, which the Guardian understands has been investigating allegations that almost £40,000 of donations to Jenrick’s leadership campaign before he defected to Reform UK, were from a foreign source in breach of electoral rules.

The Met said: “On Tuesday, 6 January we received a referral from the Electoral Commission concerning donations connected to a leadership campaign. This referral is under review and until it has been completed, we’re not in a position to comment further.”

The Electoral Commission confirmed that it had sent evidence about a leadership campaign to the Met after conducting its own investigation, with its inquiries now paused while the police review the material. The exact scope of the review is unclear and the police have not confirmed whether it relates to any specific individual. They could decide to open an investigation or take no further action.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eign-donor

So much for honest Bob.

Nothing will happen. It never does.

These cunts - and particularly this cunt - are / is taking the piss.

To ignore it sees us slipping down the path to client / failed statehood.

Jenrick - along with Farage - were two of the MPs for whom no vote was recorded in the Privilege motion.

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:15 pm Jenrick - along with Farage - were two of the MPs for whom no vote was recorded in the Privilege motion.

You don't expect them to concern themselves with trivialities, do you?

Too busy with their fuel protest.

mattomac wrote:Too busy with their fuel protest.

Probably trying to get the bus to start...

No paper trail for them.

Jenrick picks the wrong bank holiday to make his naff dog whistle. And uses a stock library pic that one reader spotted in an article from seven years ago.
https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/ ... es-2038698

I'm not sure that it is a stock image. The photo is credited to Chris Etchells in the earlier article. I do hope Mr Etchells takes action if his photo has been used without permission.

Once again a senior PaYTreotTic IngLiSHmeNs shows he knows absolutely fuck-all about English traditions.

But, of course, it isn't about patriotism, it's about people with brown skin and/or the wrong religion.

If he was referring to yesterday, that was the Whitsun bank holiday - that sort of thing was at the beginning of May.

My late mother remembered the original holiday and used to tell me about it.

I noticed that in 1982, someone tried to abolish the early May holiday:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1 ... Amendment)

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2026 9:07 am Jenrick picks the wrong bank holiday to make his naff dog whistle. And uses a stock library pic that one reader spotted in an article from seven years ago.
https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/ ... es-2038698

If I remember correctly, Wellow make a big "touristy" thing of their May Pole events, so not quite your typical "every village green in England" take on things.

The irony of the likes of Jenrick championing communal activities taking place on common land.

I noticed that in 1982, someone tried to abolish the early May holiday:

I'd forgotten about that, Michael Foot made Mad Day a bank holiday so very suspect and commie as far as Tory backbenchers were concerned.

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2026 11:14 am I'd forgotten about that, Michael Foot made Mad Day a bank holiday so very suspect and commie as far as Tory backbenchers were concerned.

Indeed - from Atkins' speech in Parliament (source: Hansard);

Since the inception of this politically motivated May Day holiday—announced in 1976 and implemented in 1978—I have never ceased to be astonished by the number of people, from all walks of life and of all ages, who have shown their irritation at the celebration of that day as a holiday, and who, since the announcement of my Bill, have written to me in great numbers—all but one in favour of the Bill. Everyone wants extra holidays and no one will turn down a day off, whatever the national cause. It is my contention, however, and the motivation behind the Bill, that a more appropriate day should be chosen, more in keeping with the traditions of England than the workers' jamboree, most readily associated with the march through Moscow displaying all the military might and hardware of the Communist bloc.

Atkins was born in 1940 so too young to remember those pre-WW2 celebrations of May Day - which my mother, born ten years earlier in a rural area, remembered very clearly.