Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has received a surge in cash from Russian donors

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

A new investigation reveals that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has received a surge in cash from Russian donors over the past year, news that comes as his government continues to block publication of a report into Russian influence over recent elections.

An OpenDemocracy investigation found that the UK Conservative Party received at least £498,850, or about $642,000, from Russian business executives and their associates between November 2018 and last month.

This was a significant increase from the previous year, when such donations amounted to less than £350,000.

The increase came despite increased pressure on the party to cut its ties to Russian oligarchs since the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last year.

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[democratisphere]

1. Corruption abounds.

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What is it with these total idiots with sorta white f'ed up hair financially colluding with russians.

[NCLefty]

4. Where have all the cowboys gone?

I don't even know anymore with humans... :p

[tymorial]

5. Long time paasing.

[Rstrstx]

2. No parallels whatsoever

So let me get this straight, according to the article the Conservative party received illegal contributions from Russians, their intelligence community has investigated it and other Russian interference and made a report about it, and orangey BJ won't sign off on allowing the full report to be made public, at least not before the election. No, that doesn't even sound remotely familiar.

[uponit7771]

3. +1