18 Sep
9:11am, 18 Sep 2024
4,520 posts
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Cheg
You can get lost in the register of members interest. publications.parliament.uk The £300k of legal expenses for Jeremy Corbyn and his libel case caught my eye. |
18 Sep
9:41am, 18 Sep 2024
22,148 posts
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Chrisull
On the Israel terrorist attack (and that is what it is). The devices " are going off in markets, shops,supermarkets, buses, cars…". (source - New statesman foreign correspondent - Bruno Macaes) There is no control over WHERE the Hezbollah people are when the pagers were detonated. It isn't surgical at all. The first casualty was a 10 year old. People going why does a 10 year old have a pager, completely missing the picture, the 10 year old was probably near her parent when the device went off.... |
18 Sep
9:44am, 18 Sep 2024
50,970 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it is sickening, very poorly targeted and potentially a war crime in violation of Geneva convention. I thought perhaps I was missing something.
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18 Sep
9:48am, 18 Sep 2024
17,822 posts
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jda
“Potentially” is generous. It seems Palestinians don’t really count as people in the west.
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18 Sep
9:49am, 18 Sep 2024
22,149 posts
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Chrisull
Cheg - the Corbyn one, JDC Defence Ltd, I just looked them up. Is that a coincidental name and there's a benign company with that name I'm confusing them with?? Or is it as bad as it first sounds? Like uh???
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18 Sep
9:57am, 18 Sep 2024
25,625 posts
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larkim
How the hell did Israel get covert bombs disguised as pagers into the hands of so many people? Both appalling and astonishing. And undoubtedly Israel's work.
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18 Sep
10:03am, 18 Sep 2024
4,521 posts
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Cheg
JBC Defence Limited is a company limited by guarantee. Its business is activities of political organisations. I think it will have been set-up for that particular case. I assume by some Corbyn supporting solicitiors. Directors are Elizabeth Davies, Andrew Gregg and Carole Morgan. Might be worth checking them out. I'm not exactly sure how the register works. That £300k might have been the 'market' value of the work. But then the solicitors may have been working pro-bono, for the love and the publicity etc. Carole Morgan organised a gofund me for his legal defence. It raised over £500k. That company may have been the vehicle for distributing those funds. gofundme.com |
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18 Sep
10:36am, 18 Sep 2024
25,626 posts
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larkim
Corbyn was apparently represented by the law firm "Howe & Co" in the Millet vs Corbyn action. So JBC Defence Ltd was paying Howe & Co (and the barrister) would be my assumption. It does look like a vehicle to provide some shield against disclosure, but I would have thought that the parliamentary rules made that pretty difficult, otherwise every large Tory donation would come through some shell company that disguised the original donor. |
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18 Sep
10:47am, 18 Sep 2024
4,522 posts
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Cheg
Yeah my best guess is that was the vehicle to spend the £500k raised online. The 'donation' came from that company to then pay Howe & co who did the work. |
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18 Sep
10:51am, 18 Sep 2024
4,523 posts
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Cheg
It is a treasure trove across those 779 pages. Tickets to Pet Shop Boys. The charity shield. I can see it abit more with Starmer when he was leader of the opposition and then the PM. The security arguments and access. Representing the country, building relationships etc. It is more the Labour MP for random consitutency having a jolly to watch the football with the family. |
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