Michael Gove investigated by Commons standards watchdog

[Digga]

The article is very tight lipped. Any guesses?

Mine is PPE contracts. They were already investigating how 17% odd of them went to businesses owned by those linked to the Plymouth Brethren church/charity and he'd had links to all of that. "Financial interests."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68435262

[Tankrizzo]

It's probably due to the recent football match thing isn't it?

[Digga]

Tankrizzo said:

It's probably due to the recent football match thing isn't it?

Dunno? Illuminate me - it am a complete football ignoramus.

[s1962a]

Well there goes the renters reform bill

[Biker 1]

The sooner the slimy snake Gove disappears from politics the better.

[Tankrizzo]

Digga said:

Dunno? Illuminate me - it am a complete football ignoramus.

Probably related to the slight, ahem, oversight he had the other day...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/m...

[anonymous-user]

Is he clear on his primary residence in 2007?

[S600BSB]

Oh good

[Digga]

Tankrizzo said:

Digga said:

Dunno? Illuminate me - it am a complete football ignoramus.

Probably related to the slight, ahem, oversight he had the other day...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/m...

So it was also connected to the story I had first assumed then: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/02/m...

[JagLover]

Give him a surprise drugs test at the same time

[President Merkin]

Let's see if this runs to 15 pages like the Ange thread

Also, how can anyone be entertained at a QPR match?

[Wills2]

Incredible how these small profit making businesses owned by friends of ministers managed to secure these contracts that supercharged their operations allowing fat dividends to be paid and the business is then suddenly sold off.

[LowTread]

I opened that up thinking he'd been caught having his way with younger male staff members. That was the rumour i heard about him a few yrs ago.

Seems not. Or not yet...

[TGCOTF-dewey]

President Merkin said:

Let's see if this runs to 15 pages like the Ange thread

Also, how can anyone be entertained at a QPR match?

Sado-masochistic tendencies have traditionally been associated with the Tory party to be fair.

[Digga]

Wills2 said:

Incredible how these small profit making businesses owned by friends of ministers managed to secure these contracts that supercharged their operations allowing fat dividends to be paid and the business is then suddenly sold off.

Profit before or after 'charitable' donations to the mothership?

[anonymoususer]

This is just the latest attempt by leftie scum to attack a man of integrity.
Mr Gove is one of the most principled, honest and hardworking MP's the HOC has ever had.
I think we will find that this all blows over and that Mr Gove carries on being one of the greatest politicos of this century.
It's not often I say this but today I will:
Michael Gove is a national treasure with wit, humour and integrity and I for one salute him

[Super Sonic]

anonymoususer said:

This is just the latest attempt by leftie scum to attack a man of integrity.
Mr Gove is one of the most principled, honest and hardworking MP's the HOC has ever had.
I think we will find that this all blows over and that Mr Gove carries on being one of the greatest politicos of this century.
It's not often I say this but today I will:
Michael Gove is a national treasure with wit, humour and integrity and I for one salute him

Have you heard of Poe's law?

[TeaNoSugar]

anonymoususer said:

This is just the latest attempt by leftie scum to attack a man of integrity.
Mr Gove is one of the most principled, honest and hardworking MP's the HOC has ever had.
I think we will find that this all blows over and that Mr Gove carries on being one of the greatest politicos of this century.
It's not often I say this but today I will:
Michael Gove is a national treasure with wit, humour and integrity and I for one salute him

I quite agree. How a man of such unquestionable integrity and impeccable principles can be repeatedly overlooked for the great offices of state is beyond me.

If we were discussing a lesser man, the suspicion might be that there were many potentially embarrassing skeletons lurking in his closet, but this is Michael Gove, and the very idea is ludicrous!!

[Super Sonic]

TeaNoSugar said:

I quite agree!

You are aware au is possibly being sarcastic right? So do you agree with what he says or what he means?
And before anyone sends the parrot, there's no intonation, visual cues, or any of the other indicators of sarcasm that we have in face to face interactions. So your posts are meaningless.

[anonymoususer]

TeaNoSugar said:

I quite agree. How a man of such unquestionable integrity and impeccable principles can be repeatedly overlooked for the great offices of state is beyond me.

If we were discussing a lesser man, the suspicion might be that there were many potentially embarrassing skeletons lurking in his closet, but this is Michael Gove, and the very idea is ludicrous!!

Nice to hear from someone else who rates Mr Gove
I was glancing that article about the football match thing and something jumped out at me - David Meller. Now 25 years ago there was a Tory MP who had an affair and got up to hanky panky with other women.
His career faltered his name -- David Mellor. It wouldnt surprise me if they were one and the same and this Meller chap has set up Mr Gove good and proper. He is probably one of these types that thinks I can't be an MP no more so why should Gove.
I dunno its just a thought I have but it would explain why this stuff has happened.