Another thug running for high office

A journalist who Boris Johnson secretly discussed helping a friend to have beaten up has demanded an apology from the Conservative leadership candidate as he stands on the brink of Downing Street.

  Guardian

Two things. 1) All this man wants is an apology? 2) The fact that Boris Johnson is this close to being elected Prime Minister should be altogether unacceptable. Sometimes it seems the Nazis are winning again.

In 1990, Johnson was secretly recorded agreeing to provide the address of the News of the World reporter Stuart Collier to his friend Darius Guppy, who wanted to arrange for the journalist to have his ribs cracked as revenge for investigating his activities.

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Guppy attended Oxford University with Johnson, where the pair were members of the Bullingdon Club. Guppy was jailed in 1993 after staging a fake jewel robbery in New York three years earlier and fraudulently claiming £1.8m from insurers.

Mobsters.

The discussion never came to fruition, while Guppy ended up being jailed for a separate £1.8m fraud and Johnson later dismissed the call as a joke.

Textbook.

During the call, Johnson told Guppy he had tried four contacts to obtain the reporter’s details but was fearful his role in the plot would be uncovered.

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After expressing some reservations over the severity of the beating, Johnson is heard saying at the end of the call: “OK, Darry, I said I’ll do it. I’ll do it, don’t worry.”

Sound like a joke to you?

A bureaucrat who found himself on the wrong side of one of Johnson’s stories said: “He was the paramount of exaggeration and distortion and lies. He was a clown – a successful clown.”

Perhaps why they call him Britain's Donald Trump.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.