Dearie me. An unerring instinct for a wrong ‘un ‘Chinese spy’ with close links to Prince Andrew banned from UK in a secret hearing The businessman was invited to the Duke of York’s birthday party and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China apple.news/Ax53kQm-kSOa... - ThreadSky

fascinatorfun.bsky.social • 149 days ago

Dearie me. An unerring instinct for a wrong ‘un

‘Chinese spy’ with close links to Prince Andrew banned from UK in a secret hearing

The businessman was invited to the Duke of York’s birthday party and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China

https://apple.news/Ax53kQm-kSOaXXZ0S8bI8AQ

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mojumi.bsky.social•149 days ago

And Andrew's instincts aren't so hot either - BOOM! BOOM! as Basil Brush used to say.

lioncub19.bsky.social•148 days ago

Andrew doesn't seem to be particularly bright.

dennischatterton.bsky.social•149 days ago

WOW.
They say things come in threes, what next.

tonysleight.bsky.social•149 days ago

The royal family and the Tories are determined to undermine the security of the country for their own profit.

democritus3.bsky.social•148 days ago

The heir of Great Uncle Edward?

jacksonactual.bsky.social•148 days ago

Oh Andrew… too susceptible to flattery to ever see how played you were. What a dolt

bernardmontgomery.bsky.social•148 days ago

Leave him alone!

He's just misunderstood.
🙃

asymetricjockey.bsky.social•149 days ago

time for this again I think…..

jacksonactual.bsky.social•148 days ago

Harry is just the latest in a long line. Edward VIII, Margaret, Andrew… and plenty before them, but none had social media to out them.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•148 days ago

I think you missed the point of that cartoon, which is not directed at Harry

jacksonactual.bsky.social•148 days ago

Not at all… tho it could have been directed at Harry. Harry has been a problem for family, too.

asymetricjockey.bsky.social•148 days ago

Harry’s only problem as far as I can see is that he married a lady of colour(royals&MSM aghast-why couldn’t he have married “one of us” -some Henrietta from”our” upper class circle,or obscure european Princess),worse a US actress..and doesn’t like the straitjacket into which he was born.Good on him!

jacksonactual.bsky.social•147 days ago

Harry’s problem is that he’s been spoiled and covered for all his life. He’s admitted to many lies in his book, and his wife has no respect or care for a country with a 1000 years of history and tradition. That’s why they don’t like her.

gillmh.bsky.social•149 days ago

Thanks for reminding me.

madridhack.bsky.social•149 days ago

The whole institution's centuries past its use-by date, no wonder it's rotten to the core.

paulobro.bsky.social•148 days ago

He's up to his neck in it! Randy Andy strikes again. How thick is he? I mean all that paid for edjukashun and he's thick as mince!!

chrisg59.bsky.social•149 days ago

Is he the secret funder?

kernowmad.bsky.social•149 days ago

Poor spy, having the stigma of being associated with pronce Andrew.

3chordrock.bsky.social•149 days ago

Andrew did a wonderful job, promoting Pizza Express in Woking. If he's broke, he should open a Pizza franchise rather than going into business with Chinese spies.

No doubt, his habit of paying women he's never met for things he never did is expensive.

Was he considering opening a Chinese takeaway?

espritescalier.bsky.social•149 days ago

I heard he was going to open a sandwich bar but Kemi put him off the idea.

officialstehee.bsky.social•149 days ago

What would his Mummy have said…..

“Where is my cheque book?”

anghoneyb.bsky.social•149 days ago

He’s an arrogant, entitled, ignorant, grasping, thick as mince sponger, he’s a complete waste of space. He shouldn’t be stripped of any title or privilege and made to go on a ‘DWP Introduction to Work’ scheme.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

“MI5 allegedly discovered the businessman, 50, was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and was working for its United Front Work Department (UFWD), which gathers intelligence.

His ban from entering the UK has been upheld after an appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.”

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

“The hearing was told that the contents of the businessman’s mobile telephone were downloaded when he was stopped under counterterrorism laws at a UK border in 2021.”

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

The mobile’s contents revealed that Prince Andrew, 64, authorised the man to set up an international financial initiative known as the Eurasia Fund to engage with potential partners and investors in China.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

“The phone contained a March 2021 letter from Dominic Hampshire, a senior adviser to Andrew, confirming the businessman could act on behalf of the duke in engagements with potential partners & investors in China

The letter referred to him having been invited to the duke’s birthday party that month

seani1.bsky.social•148 days ago

This Dominic Hampshire character is .. interesting...

bewareblackdog.bsky.social•96 days ago

As a Uni student I remember working with someone with this name at a McDonalds in South West in the late 80s. The name, age range & appearance suggest it could be him. That I remember over 35 years later is a function of the less than favourable impression this DH made on me.

southerncelt.bsky.social•148 days ago

Interesting. Dominic Hampshire sounds dubious in the extreme. Who would act as an "advisor" to Prince Andrew without enormous compensation from somewhere?

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•148 days ago

Very!

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

The letter states: “I also hope that it is clear to you where you sit with my principal & indeed his family. You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship … outside of his closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on.”

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•149 days ago

“It added that after a meeting with Andrew they had “wisely navigated our way around former private secretaries and we have found a way to carefully remove those people who we don’t completely trust”.