Thread: Sunak's Aides Charged With Betting On Date Of Election

The Gambling Commission has today charged 15 people with betting offences related to last year's general election.

They include Craig Williams, who was previously the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire and Rishi Sunak's aide, and ex-police officer Jeremy Hunt.


Also charged were Russell George, the Welsh Conservative Senedd member for Montgomeryshire, and Anthony Lee, the former director of Conservative Party campaigning.


Laura Saunders, Lee's wife and a former Tory candidate for Bristol North West, was also on the list of 15 names.


An investigation had considered whether people placed bets on a 4 July election as a result of inside knowledge in the days leading up to the then prime minister Rishi Sunak's shock announcement of an early poll on 22 May.


Williams, formerly Sunak's parliamentary private secretary, is one of 15 people charged with an offence of cheating under Section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission said.


They are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court at 10am on Friday 13 June 2025.


The full list of those charged by the Gambling Commission are:


Simon Chatfield, 51, of Lower Bourne, Farnham
Russell George, 50, of Newtown, Wales
Amy Hind, 34, of Loughton, Essex
Anthony Hind, 36, of Loughton, Essex
Jeremy Hunt, 55, of Horne, Horley
Thomas James, 38, of Brecon, Wales
Charlotte Lang, 36, of Brixton, London
Anthony Lee, 47, of Bristol
Iain Makepeace, 47, of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Nick Mason, 51, of Milton on Stour, Gillingham
Paul Place, 53, of Hammersmith, London
Laura Saunders, 37, of Bristol
James Ward, 40, of London
Craig Williams, 39, of Llanfair Caereinion, Welshpool
Jacob Willmer, 39, of Richmond, London

Well, we already know what a bunch of grubby opportunists they are, of course.

I'll see your tory sunaks "a fiver each way" charge and raise you a socialist tulip sadiqqis £4 billion corruption arrest warrant.

your move. you hypocrite!

Tulip Siddiq hit with arrest warrant on corruption charges

Bangladeshi court accuses former City minister of receiving plot of land through ‘abuse of power’


13 April 2025 12:30pm BST



Tulip Siddiq stepped down as a Treasury minister in January Credit: House of Commons

An arrest warrant has been issued for Tulip Siddiq over allegations she illegally received a plot of land from her despot aunt’s government.

Sheikh Hasina, Ms Siddiq’s aunt, and several others face possible detention after charges filed by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The ACC believe the former City minister received a 7,200 sq ft plot in the diplomatic zone of the capital Dhaka through “abuse of power and influence”.

It is part of a wider investigation into the alleged unlawful allocation of state-owned land to Ms Hasina, the ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, her children and close relatives.

The case is separate from a £4 billion embezzlement investigation by the ACC into a nuclear deal struck by Ms Hasina, in which Ms Siddiq had also been named.

Ms Siddiq, who resigned from the UK Government in January amid scrutiny of her links to Ms Hasina, has been named in three Bangladeshi inquiries. She has denied the charges and accused the Bangladeshi government of a “targeted and baseless” campaign against her and asked why it had briefed the media but not put its allegations to her directly.



The ACC petitioned the Bangladeshi courts on March 10, asking for a travel ban to be imposed on Ms Hasina, Ms Siddiq and other family members.

The same court had earlier issued arrest warrants against Ms Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed and 16 others in another corruption case involving plot allocation. There is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Bangladesh.


On Sunday, the Conservatives called on Ms Siddiq to step down as an MP and Sir Keir Starmer to suspend her from Labour.

A Conservative spokesman said: “If it is the case that Keir Starmer’s choice for anti-corruption minister is the subject of an international arrest warrant for corruption, she should immediately stand down as Labour MP.

“It is shocking that Keir Starmer believes ‘the door remains open’ for Ms Siddiq returning to a government position.

“Keir Starmer must put his close friendship and association with Ms Siddiq aside and take the action he should have months ago.”


The arrest warrant places renewed focus on the absence of an extradition treaty between Bangladesh and the UK.

Bangladeshi authorities were pressing Britain to formalise an agreement. In 2023, Anisul Huq, the then Bangladeshi law minister, confirmed that discussions had been held with the British High Commissioner.

Dhaka seeks the return of several high-profile fugitives, including army officers implicated in the 1975 assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. However, talks stalled after Ms Hasina’s government was toppled in a civilian uprising.
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Hypocrite?

What a ridiculous fool you are.

Suddenly Bangladeshi courts carry as much weight as English ones with you now?

Anyway, start a thread on it, eh?


What utter scum these tories are - and up before the beak on Friday the 13th.

the tory lot are small potatoes. as i said it's a fiver-each way kind of stuff.

the bangla bint and all her family have had their snouts in the trough for years, fleecing the truly poverty struck peasants of bangladesh, ( as opposed to the british so called poverty struck work shy peasants with their thousands in benefits, their bmws, their wide screen tvs, their silicone implants, their i phones and their 3 trips to spain every year) for millions, if not billions.

I'll have a bag of sand on Sir Nige and Reform to be the next government.

Bollocks to the old corrupt two party system, they're both the same.

Politicians eh? Scum sucking bottom feeders the lot of them.

Animals, kill them all bloody useless politicians that is.

Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is in favour of building airports now? That’s a turnaround. In January she railed against Labour party leader Keir Starmer when he dropped his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow. To execute such a U-turn in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ is ‘reckless, short-sighted and indefensible’, she cried. ‘The planet’ will suffer thanks to Sir Keir, she warned.
Yet now she’s all about airport construction. Suddenly she loves it. Not here, though. Not for us undeserving Brits. No, it’s in Mirpur in Kashmir that she wants to see terminals being erected and runways constructed. She has put her name to a weird MPs’ letter calling on the Prime Minister of Pakistan to acknowledge the importance of building a new international airport 5,000 miles away in Mirpur.
Try to get your head around this. One month Sultana is chastising the PM for even thinking about expanding capacity at Heathrow.

Why does Zarah Sultana want an airport in Mirpur? | The Spectator

Originally Posted by cyrille

What utter scum these tories and Labour are

Fixed that for you Ciz, no need to thank me.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Politicians eh? Scum sucking bottom feeders the lot of them.

Unhelpful hyperbole.

Joe 90

One month Sultana is chastising the PM for even thinking about expanding capacity at Heathrow.
then she puts her name to a weird MPs’ letter calling on the Prime Minister of Pakistan to acknowledge the importance of building a new international airport 5,000 miles away in Mirpur.

hypocrisy. its hardwired into the DNA of every fucking socialist on the planet.

just look at cyrille. educated for free thanks to the uk taxpayer only to slink off to line his pockets working in the tax free gulf, and then retiring to live in a corrupt military dictatorship where the poor are trampled into the ground at every opportunity.

Originally Posted by taxexile

of course cyrille could be a dyed in the wool capitalist just trolling us here.

He's gone quiet on his thread, says it all really.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is in favour of building airports now? That’s a turnaround. In January she railed against Labour party leader Keir Starmer when he dropped his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow. To execute such a U-turn in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ is ‘reckless, short-sighted and indefensible’, she cried. ‘The planet’ will suffer thanks to Sir Keir, she warned.
Yet now she’s all about airport construction. Suddenly she loves it. Not here, though. Not for us undeserving Brits. No, it’s in Mirpur in Kashmir that she wants to see terminals being erected and runways constructed. She has put her name to a weird MPs’ letter calling on the Prime Minister of Pakistan to acknowledge the importance of building a new international airport 5,000 miles away in Mirpur.
Try to get your head around this. One month Sultana is chastising the PM for even thinking about expanding capacity at Heathrow.

Why does Zarah Sultana want an airport in Mirpur? | The Spectator

You can't make a Fruitcake without sultanas.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Joe 90


hypocrisy. its hardwired into the DNA of every fucking socialist on the planet.

just look at cyrille. educated for free thanks to the uk taxpayer only to slink off to line his pockets working in the tax free gulf, and then retiring to live in a corrupt military dictatorship where the poor are trampled into the ground at every opportunity.

How is that different to hua hin?

Thank God for Katie Lam. Yesterday the government tried to conduct a grubby betrayal of thousands of young girls groomed and raped in towns and cities across the country. On the last day parliament sat before the Easter recess, Jess Phillips, the junior minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls spoke to an almost empty Commons to update MPs on the government’s plans to deal with ‘grooming gangs’. Few MPs were present.
Phillips assured her colleagues that Labour are developing ‘a new best practice framework to support local authorities that want to undertake… local inquiries’. A meagre £5 million will be available for local authorities should they wish to investigate organised child rape clans in their areas. Everything is to be ‘locally-led’. Phillips promised codes of practice, audits and schemes, but no statutory national inquiry into these horrific crimes, nor into how they were facilitated and allowed by police, social workers and local councillors across the country.
Phillips told MPs this was sufficient because the Jay inquiry into child sexual abuse hasn’t been implemented yet. But the Jay inquiry did not focus on the issue of clannish kin-groups of mostly Mirpuri men grooming and raping young girls, nor on the culpability of many public servants and bodies. While Phillips closed her statement with a promise to ‘victims and survivors’ that ‘no one should go through what they did’, her promise to ‘strain every sinew’ to prevent these crimes being repeated rang very hollow.
Thankfully, Katie Lam, MP for Weald of Kent since last July was in the chamber. She cut through Phillips’ obfuscation to demonstrate the extent to which the government has failed victims. As Lam said, ‘The girls we are talking about are predominantly white. The men who preyed on them were predominately Muslim, generally either from Pakistan or of Pakistani heritage… one of the victims from Dewsbury was told by her rapist: “We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government.”

What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal? | The Spectator

The problem with a local inquiry is that some of those people working for the local authorities commited the crimes.
No point having a criminal investigate his own crimes he will probably find himself not guilty.

one of the victims from Dewsbury was told by her rapist: “We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government.”

the problem with jess phillips is that her majority is only 650 votes, in a constituency with a large muslim population, a population that has increased by over 13% in the past 4 years.

Birmingham Yardley: Religions
Religion Census 2021 Population Change %
Muslim 48,432 13.3
Christian 34,022 -16.1




phillips doesnt want to "offend"* them, although how an enquiry that seeks to shine a light on violent rapists, white hating racists and their facilitators could offend anyone is beyond me.


* translation, lose their votes.