British police called to home of PM candidate Boris Johnson after altercation
British police were called to the home of Boris Johnson, the favorite to be the next prime minister, after neighbors heard a loud altercation between him and his girlfriend. The police were called in the early hours of Friday to an address in south London where Johnson is living with his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds. Johnson is currently divorcing his second wife.
“The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbor,” the police said in a statement issued on Friday evening. “Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well.”
“There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action,” the statement said.
A spokesman for Johnson declined repeated requests for comment. Symonds could not be reached for comment.
The Guardian newspaper, which first reported the story, said an unidentified neighbor had heard a woman screaming followed by “slamming and banging”. At one point Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.
Despite a series of scandals in the past and criticism about his attention to detail, Brexit supporter Johnson has dominated the race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May.
After a series of ballots to whittle down the race to two candidates, 160,000 Conservative Party members will now chose either Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt as their next leader - and thus the next prime minister.
A neighbor of Johnson told the Guardian newspaper that they had recorded the altercation from inside their flat out of concern for Symonds.
The Guardian said it had reviewed the recording and that Johnson could be heard refusing to leave the flat and using a swear word to tell Symonds to get off his laptop. Crashing sounds can also be heard, the newspaper said.
Reuters has not reviewed the audio.
Symonds is heard saying Johnson had ruined a sofa with red wine, according to the Guardian’s account.
“You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything,” Symonds is quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Another neighbor interviewed by the BBC confirmed the argument and said she had heard a woman shouting.
Johnson, 55, who served as London mayor for eight years, has cast himself as the only candidate who can deliver Brexit on Oct. 31 while fighting off the electoral threats of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-johnson-police/british-police-called-to-home-of-pm-candidate-boris-johnson-after-altercation-idUSKCN1TM2ML
fucked up even moar trying to take it away
FRS=Federal Reserve System
> (PBOC) is dumping its US Treasury holdings
they have sold some but really are trapped. who is going to buy them?
also this is additional pressure on the yield curve outside of our own banking and institutions tossing them back and forth. wouldn't surprise me if treasury was buying them back. The way this is accounted for (who is actually buyign/selling) in the issued reports has changed much over the last 15 years and this was done to make it moar opaque.
it was but that one had a different spin on it. Its all just gas-lighting anyway.
Former Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer to Join BlackRock
Feb. 13, 2019
Mr. Fischer is joining the BlackRock Investment Institute, the investment analysis division of the world’s largest asset manager.
Mr. Fischer’s appointment will “help us discern the trends, identify the inflection points and understand the interlocking intricacy of assets, markets and economies,” said BlackRock executives Laurence Fink and Philipp Hildebrand in a company memo announcing Mr. Fischer’s hiring on Wednesday.
In 2014, President Barack Obama tapped Mr. Fischer, a luminary in central banking who previously served as the head of the Bank of Israel, to serve as the Fed’s No. 2 official. He resigned his four-year term for personal reasons in Oct. 2017.
During a career as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Fischer taught many leading policy makers. His students included European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. He also held senior posts at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Citigroup Inc.
As a key member of former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s inner circle of decision makers, Mr. Fischer pushed to gradually unwind the central bank’s postcrisis policies, including by raising short-term interest rates after holding them near zero for many years.
More recently, Mr. Fischer has warned against efforts to roll back postcrisis banking regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-fed-vice-chairman-stanley-fischer-to-join-blackrock-11550073715
he talks a lot and does very little, hussein appointee. At this point it's a bit confusing to know who is actually on what side but he has some good observations but the background is …meh
o7
even though it says the date on the blackrock thing you might want to add it..( )
you know about people and reading