Boris Johnson's Saudi bromance

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Nothing bizarre about Johnson loving Mohammed Bone Saw

Johnson has no scruples about his 'friends'; they are whoever can benefit him.

As a veteran News of the World reporter, Stuart Collier spent much of his Fleet Street career exposing villains. But the only criminal he investigated who prompted a threat to him and his family’s safety was Boris Johnson’s close friend Darius Guppy.

Guppy’s secretly recorded plot in 1990 to have Johnson – then a young Daily Telegraph Brussels correspondent – supply him with Collier’s address so he could send over heavies to beat him up came to nothing.
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Guppy ended up being jailed for staging a fake £1.8m jewellery heist – thought to be the subject of Collier’s inquiries. Some years later, the 69-year-old journalist left the NoW for a quieter existence in the Oxfordshire countryside, where he worked as a postman and Tesco delivery driver before retirement.
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On the taped call, Guppy tells Johnson he wants to scare Collier by getting heavies to give him “a couple of black eyes” and a “cracked rib”. Appearing to indicate he is happy to help supply Collier’s address, 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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/black-eyes-boris-johnson-plot-attack-reporter-darius-guppy