Fox jumps after cat flap

[Defiant47]

Duplicate thread

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=443160

Ah, thank you. There we go:

Mr Werritty, the best man and self-styled adviser to Dr Fox, will be re-questioned by Cabinet Office officials to try to discover whether he financially benefitted from his links to the minister.

 

[nonconformist]

Whoops, sorry Sil, the thread title was quite vague

Mods can close this, or merge or whatever you fine fellows do

 

[nonconformist]

Philip Hammond is Fox's replacement

When I heard this, I thought it was Dr Phillip Hammond from Private Eye, and I almost had a fit.

 

[Silurian]

Justine Greening has replaced Philip Hammond as transport secretary

 

[Silurian]

merge would be better

I should have taked on defence sec resigns at end of my title

 

[Verarde]

departure was "inevitable"

Why did you hire him in the first place?

 

[RedRalph]

It does sound to me like they were gay for eachothe,r but that's irrelevant. The guy was going around advertising himself as an advisor to Liam Fox and he wasn't.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I'm amazed he wasn't sacked as soon as this came out. I thought Cameron was supposed to clean up politics.

Pretend to be the former Defence Secretary by bringing your best man to work with you.

 

[Silurian]

If he sacked him he would have had an enemy on the back benches.

Allowing him to resign means everyone stays "friends"

 

[GinandTonic]

Actually it sounds like his best man could be in real trouble. The dodgy arms types who were funding his trips thought they were funding a conference to aid peace in the middle east not this weird groupie routine.

 

[Quackers]

I get the feeling more stuff is going to come out.

 

[Silurian]

From the Telegraph

19:00 Details of Ministerial appointments have been announced. Following the resignation from Government of the Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments:

The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, currently Secretary of State for Transport, to become Secretary of State for Defence

Justine Greening MP, currently Economic Secretary at HM Treasury, to become Secretary of State for Transport

Chloe Smith MP, currently an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons, to become Economic Secretary at HM Treasury

Greg Hands MP to become an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8819554/Liam-Fiox-and-Adam-Werritty-live-blog.html

 

[Flying Pig]

A lot of people inside the military will be sad to see him go - one of the few Defence Secretaries who actually seemed to like the military and defend it against the government's cuts. Maybe not omnipotent, granted, but does anyone really think his replacement will be any better? I don't know much about this Hammond chap so I'll reserve judgement, but I'm not optimistic

 

[Glassfan]

In a related story, Elton John has retired over pressure concerning his relationship with David Furnish, and will no longer be Queen of England.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Moderator Action: Threads merged as requested.

 

[Silurian]

From The Independent

Trashed: Letwin rebuked for dumping secret files in park bin
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His behaviour is also being scrutinised by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the data protection watchdog, to check whether he breached the law by throwing away the papers in public.

A spokeswoman for David Cameron said there were no "classified documents" in the material dropped in the bins. But she added: "Clearly, it is not a sensible way to dispose of documents. Mr Letwin has agreed he will not dispose of documents in this way again."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...dumping-secret-files-in-park-bin-2370913.html

From The Mirror the UK tabloid that photographed Conservative minister dumping constituents letters in park bin.

Gail Hurst, 50, wrote to David Cameron on September 30 after husband Colin, 54, was told he was one of 900 workers facing the axe from BAE Systems in East Yorkshire.

After the Mirror revealed that her letter had been dumped by the PM’s right-hand man, the secondary school worker said yesterday: “It is as if the thousands of families don’t count. It’s like we are nobody.

“He is basically saying the people of this country are bin material.

“I think he should be demoted. He is not worthy of that post.”

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...t-even-a-reply-115875-23489604/#ixzz1atWWFk53


The police may now be investigating Werritty for fraud.

From The Telegraph

One of the donors told The Sunday Telegraph they had been misled over how their money would be spent and had called in lawyers. Another company, whose employee set up Pargav on Mr Werritty’s behalf, had instituted a formal investigation by a leading City law firm.

It was the fury of the donors, many of whom are backers of the Conservative Party, which led directly to Dr Fox’s decision to resign on Friday, saying he had blurred his personal and professional lives.
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Labour MP John Mann wrote to police saying they must investigate whether Mr Werritty committed “potential fraud” by misrepresenting his relationship with Dr Fox.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8829655/Fox-affair-donors-fury-over-lies.html

I was not expecting these sort of stories with only just over a year in power.

Added
and this is getting stranger.

from the Independent

Mr Werritty, 33, has been debriefed by MI6 about his travels and is so highly regarded by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad – who thought he was Mr Fox's chief of staff – that he was able to arrange meetings at the highest levels of the Israeli government, multiple sources have told The IoS.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...and-his-ties-to-irans-opposition-2371352.html

 

[Silurian]

There is now speculation that Fox was running a parallel foreign policy but this has been denied.

From BBC

Foreign Secretary William Hague has rejected suggestions that ex-defence secretary Liam Fox and his friend Adam Werritty may have been independently trying to create foreign policy.

"The idea that it's possible to run a completely separate policy by one minister is a fanciful idea," he told BBC's Andrew Marr show.

Mr Fox had co-operated with the Foreign Office in policy matters, he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15326141

 

[useless]

Amazing, totally amazing. The coalition is a joke.

 

[Silurian]

I wonder if this affair will affect the Tories funding

from The Independent

Mr Cameron calculated early on that he would make no decision on Mr Fox's future until next week, fearing a clean bill of health would be undermined by a further round of allegations in the Sunday papers. It was the Friday papers that did for him. The tipping point was the revelation that Mr Werritty's extensive travels around the world were being bankrolled by a series of wealthy figures who had paid money into the previously unheralded company Pargav Ltd. It was a crushing blow for Mr Fox's chances of survival, as the unexpurgated details of Pargav's accounts immediately put men who would otherwise be his allies into the public domain.

Jon Moulton, a venture capital investor who has donated more than £450,000 to the Tories – including £150,000 to Mr Fox himself – protested that he had believed his £35,000 contribution to Pargav was towards a "security policy analysis research organisation". He was "not very happy" to discover that it had helped fund Mr Werritty's travels. Worse, Mr Moulton revealed that it was Mr Fox who had asked him to make the donation – raising questions about Mr Fox's claims that he had not known about Mr Werritty's activities.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-britain-works-follow-the-money-2371361.html

The Electoral Commission is expected to launch an investigation this week into Liam Fox's alleged failure to declare political donations, while David Cameron comes under increasing pressure to explain "the whole truth" of the affair.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-who-profited-from-fox-franchise-2371350.html

 

[Quackers]

I don't think this is turning into the massive scandal people were hoping for.
I zzZZZzzz when scandals happen, the media jump on them whenever they sniff one out and they drag it out for as long as possible...