A 90s throwback…
The new deputy council leader of the London borough of Southwark is dating a man who was jailed for stealing £130,000 from his employer. Including almost £30,000 from a refugee charity…
Southwark Council is now run as of this week by a coalition from hell of the Greens and Liberal Democrats. Its deputy is now the LibDem group leader Victor Chamberlain, whose longtime partner, Simon Burke, was convicted in July 2021. And jailed for two and a half years…
Reports from the time said Burke “worked as an events director in Milton Keyes and used his position to doctor invoice payments to display his own bank details.” He was found to have taken £103,660.80 from the company for his own financial gain and also “de-frauded £28,000 from the company which was intended to be donated to a charity to help refugees in another country.” He was arrested on 11 December 2019 and was charged on 11 March 2020…
Investigating officer PC Jonathan Holt said at the time:
“What makes this crime even more shocking is that he was willing to take money that was earmarked for a charitable donation, which would have helped vulnerable refugees in need of aid in a foreign country.
I am satisfied that Burke has been sentenced and that he has faced up to his crime by pleading guilty.”
In 2024 Burke went on to open an “inclusive LGBTQ+ pub with a cabaret stage” the borough of Southwark called The Rising, which features on Chamberlain’s register of interests. It received permission from Southwark Council in the same year to open “London’s first LGBTQ+ cinema.” He “decided to take over the lease to create this swanky venue – despite never having owned a pub before”…
Chamberlain is also chairman of the council-run Pride in Southwark programme. Next month an official council-supported Pride “after-party” will take place at his boyfriend’s bar. Welcome to your new council…
Yesterday Guido was first to reveal the depth of the Unite the Union’s involvement in a political party called Reform Jersey (no link to Reform UK) – and it is now facing fresh questions after new material emerged. The party shares ties with the Jersey Palestine Solidarity Campaign, founded by Reform Jersey leader and Unite member Sam Mezec. Unite are Reform Jersey’s largest donor, providing 94% of the party’s publicly declared donations at the last election. A Unite delegate is even constitutionally required to sit on Reform’s board…
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A dive through the JPSC Facebook page turns up some grim reading. The campaign has shared posts including: “Zionists actively thwarted the saving of European Jews from the Nazis” and accusations of “Zionist-Nazi collaboration”. Not what you’d expect on sunny Jersey…
Guido’s Ross Kempsell sits down with Solana Policy Institute founder and CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine to hear why America’s stablecoins are coming for the pound, and why he thinks the Bank of England is flirting with a huge mistake.
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Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of an event with commentator Kirsty Lockwood to talk about her debut book “We Know What You Did.” How drole…
Lockwood, a columnist and political commentator based out of Glasgow, is publishing the murder mystery novel this year. Dear wee krankie was set to talk about it with her at a cosy evening event in an Edinburgh church on the 5th June…
The event, previously titled “Kirsty Lockwood in conversation with Nicola Sturgeon for We Know What You Did at Pilrig St Paul’s” is now simply: “Kirsty Lockwood for We Know What You Did.” You can still see the old URL though…
Yesterday Sturgeon ran away into a restaurant kitchen in Ireland to avoid Sky News cameras. Coping well, is she?
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
