Tory Peer Michelle Mone To Take Leave Of Absence From Lords To Spend More Time With Her Money

[Hymie]

Nothing more to say really

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63871448

[Zacs-Master]

Then please don't.

[Hymie]

Under orders to keep quiet about Tory sleaze.

[Gromit]

// She will also no longer be bound by parliamentary rules to declare her interests, including any directorships, shareholdings and non-financial interests. //

Oh that is fortunate. And convenient.

[Gromit]

// A second company that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of her husband’s family office, the Guardian can reveal.

Lady Mone’s lobbying on behalf of the company, LFI Diagnostics, which she tried to help secure government contracts for Covid lateral flow tests, prompted a formal rebuke from a health minister who reminded her of “the need for propriety”.

A departmental source told the Guardian that Mone was “in a class of her own in terms of the sheer aggression of her advocacy” on behalf of LFI Diagnostics.

However, it is the revelation that the company was a secret entity of the office that manages the wealth of her husband, Douglas Barrowman, that will deepen the controversy over the Tory peer and her access to ministers. //

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/06/revealed-second-firm-pushed-by-michelle-mone-was-secret-entity-of-husbands-office

[Gromit]

I wonder if she declared an interest in LFI Diagnostics (her husbands firm). Now she is on leave of absence which means she doesn’t have to.
All very dodgy.

[Hymie]

I work for a FTSE100 company which requires all employees to adhere to the company’s ethics code.

If I was involved in some tender arrangement, and a fellow employee sent me an e-mail as outlined in the news reports, I would immediately forward it to the company compliance officer for investigation.

Based on the contents of that e-mail, the sender would almost certainly be dismissed for gross misconduct unless they could show that such lobbying was impartial, in line with the company’s code of ethics.

The fact that Mone is of the view that the allegations have been unjustly levelled at her speaks volumes for her lack of honesty and integrity.

[Gromit]

She has said the allegations are unjust, but she hasn’t explained what the £29 Million, that she immediately stashed off-shore, was for ?

[Peter Pedant]

Under orders to keep quiet about Tory sleaze.
oh poo!
from those wonderful people named moderators
or from the usual AB whiners and gristlers

I have to say that if you are going to profit from your time in govt - then £29m seems a very reasonable target.....
er is that before tax?

[Peter Pedant]

The fact that Mone says that the allegations have been unjustly levelled at her speaks volumes

No - just lawyer speak. You go in crying crocodil tears of Meghan size and weep "what can I say"
and Mr Lawyer-man at £200 / h, says "oh I hve put together a communique saying you will fight fiercely to combat these unfair and unfounded..."
and you say thank you ! and gratefully hand over a cheque for £500....for starters.
ahhhhhh

[tomus42]

Given that her attendance rate at the Lords is about 12%, a leave of absence shouldn't be too much of a hardship for her.

Let's get rid of these parasites.

[Gromit]

// her attendance rate at the Lords is about 12% //

What’s £300 daily attendance rate, when you can get £29 Million by twisting a few arms of Health Ministers on the few days you do turn up ?

[tomus42]

Yes gromit. I'm sure she still claims for every one of those attendances on top of the 29 million though. Plus travel, sandwiches etc etc.

[Ellipsis]

> Mr Lawyer-man at £200 / h

Considerably more than that, I would think ...

[youngmafbog]

Guess she is guilty by trial in Social media judging by the replies here.

Oh well, no change there.

[Gromit]

The allegations have been made in the Guardian.

The usual course is to vehemently refute the allegation and then offer some evidence to back up your version of events. She has done the former, but not the later.
And now appears to be hiding rather than do her public duty.
In the fullness of time we should get somewhere near the truth.

[ynnafymmi]

Perhaps she can join the SNP,they always know ways of making English tax-payers money disappear.

[Snackrite]

It says on the net that Sunak is shocked at the allegations. Imagine his surprise when he finds out who was Chancellor when all that money was signed off on. He’ll be flabbergasted.

[bobbinwales]

//Yes gromit. I'm sure she still claims for every one of those attendances on top of the 29 million though. Plus travel, sandwiches etc etc.//

Well if she does attend she cant be doing much there as the story say's "Baroness Mone, who joined the House of Lords in 2015, has not taken part in a vote since April this year and has not spoken in a debate since March 2020."

I hope the Guardian and whoever else can get to the bottom of it ... it smells fishy but to be fair we dont know all the details yet so innocent till prooven guitly etc, and am sure the facts will come out in the end

[jno]

bobb, I have heard on occasion of lords and ladies just popping in to register their presence and claim their £300-odd daily allowance, but I couldn't say if Baroness Bra is among them.

[Gromit]

Allegations have been levelled.
She has said those are unjust. But not elaborated further. And daily further claims are revealed.
But the longer she keeps stum the more people who will believe the Guardian version.