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British PM accused of ‘cronyism’ for knighting party donor

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Rishi Sunak (L), Mohamed Mansour (R).

Rishi Sunak has announced a surprise round of honors, including Egyptian-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash and accusations of cronyism for his decision to confer a knighthood on one of the Conservative Party’s biggest donors, who has contributed millions of pounds.

Sunak announced his ‘Easter Honours List’ on Thursday, a step many viewed as unusual as it was made outside of the traditional honors rounds, which are granted at New Year’s or the King’s Birthday.

The list, which included a number of Conservative MPs, several figures involved in working on artificial intelligence and Oscar-winning film director Christopher Nolan, also featured Egyptian-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour.

Mansour, who has served as senior treasurer of the Conservative Party since 2022, is a vocal supporter of the prime minister. Last year, he gave £5 million ($6.3 million) to the Conservatives, the single largest donation they had received in over two decades. Mansour’s knighthood was awarded for “business, charity and political service.”

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However, the billionaire’s newly-minted title has raised eyebrows among UK political figures, with some accusing Sunak of blatant “cronyism.”

“The nation is sick of the Tories and their obscene cronyism. Bung them a few million quid and a peerage or knighthood is yours. The whole thing stinks like a rotting fish, from the head,” Reform UK leader Richard Tice told The Telegraph.

Labour Party chairman Anneliese Dodds voiced a similar opinion, telling Sky News it showed “a blatant disrespect for the office [that Sunak] should feel privileged to hold,” adding that giving money should not be an “automatic pass” to knighthood.

Conservative peer Lord Robert Haywood also warned that the public would be “unhappy” with Sunak’s move. “The problem is that you’ve got people who are genuine philanthropists who also give money to a political party, and that’s where the line isn’t differentiated,” he said.

The Telegraph noted that the “highly unusual” decision to award honors before the Easter recess will likely fuel speculation that the prime minister may call a summer snap election, with the knighthoods seen as an attempt to boost support for his party.

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  1. My theory is that you can always recognise the toadies by the simple fact that they have been knighted. Honours mean nothing now.
    Anyway, Sunak doesn’t care. He knows he’ll be out as soon as there is another election. He was never elected by the people anyway, but placed there by his globalist masters. His wife is a wealthy woman in her own right and doesn’t even pay tax in the UK. They will probably be off to America when he is ousted.

    • Or…off to India to overthrow Modi…or takes-up a job at the IMF / World Bank like former PM and Zionist J3w ‘Sir’ John Key once held. (BTW- I DO NOT bank w/ ANZ NZ for the above reasons…in addition to ANZ NZ cutting our family off from EFTPOS during Easter when we went to purchase baby formula and could not!).
      Yes, the ‘New Year’s Honours’ are only for the toilets and toadies, Freemasons, and those on the take.
      It’s also who you know, and who’s ass one kisses…oftentimes for decades!
      Look at the title ‘bestowed’ on Jabby…horrifically disgusting!
      Understanding the fact that the world was given over to the Nephilim for the Satanists and their sub-cults the Luciferians and Freemasons, one can see that ‘No matter where you go,…THERE YOU ARE!”
      Faith in God diminishes since He seems to allow this crap to happen on a global scale. God is noted in Scripture to be a ‘Jealous God’, yet jealousy / coveting is banned in the Ten Commandments. There are so many Biblical contradictions in the Holy Bible and Quran that they have become ‘Manuals for War’.
      And the Evangelical ‘Christians’ continue to support the Zionist terror State of Israel, a non-state and non-country!
      Pastor John Hagee can go to hell for all I care, insisting that a terrorist state is ‘God’s Chosen’…!
      & BTW- where are the UFO’s as mentioned in the Bible ie the Books of Ezekiel, Enoch and Genesis?
      After all, when Jesus walked about for 40 days post-crucifixion, he ‘ascended on high’ and ascended ”into the clouds’ (on the other side of the cloud was a UFO levitating Jesus upwards like the Travis Walton abduction…) which took Jesus off to India and the land of the Aryans in NE India.
      There He was married to Mary Magdalene, and the bloodlines were and are Aryan, and shared with the Palestinians who descended from the Philistines, who-in turn-came from northeast India!
      Consult the Sanskrit accounts, the Vimana craft, and the numerous Renaissance paintings showing UFO’s going to & fro…
      The truth has indeed set those of us free who can see the logic in the methodologies, and without the brainwashing aspects of the controlling, psychopathic ‘churches’ responsible for wars, inquisitions, and excommunications aimed at those who question ‘Holy Authority’, of which; there is NONE!

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