Didn't address the latest allegations at all!
Look at him FFS!! A face like a smacked arse! He actually thinks he’s the victim here, doesn’t he?
What an utterly shameless **** that man is!
But effectively admits misleading the Commons, which should prompt his resignation under his own ministerial code. But of course he won't.
So he admits being at the party for 25 minutes, that's it then, only 25 minutes is not defence, the only possible reason for him being there for any length of time was to disband it. Admitting he attended proves he broke his owns rules and the law and condoned others doing the same.
So there we go – the non-apology dressed up to sound like an apology, but isn’t
I'm sorry if you feel that rules were broken.
I tripped and fell into the garden and sat there for 25 minutes, dazed and confused. Staff rallied round to get me some refreshing drinks and small morsels of food to allow me to regain my strength.
This happened on several occasions that month.
😉
The PM says when he went into the Downing Street garden, at the time he “believed this was a work event.”
A “bring your own booze” work event? Well I suppose he did used to be a sort-of journalist, maybe they still have different standards to pretty much everyone that isn’t still living in the ’90s or ealier.
Starmer, Raynor and Blackford have had him on the ropes plenty of times, to the point where he’s erupted in fury, but even he can’t risk that today. Look at the hatred in his eyes for Starmer after the last question.
Not a lot of vocal support from his backbenches.
Surely asset-ness is relative not absolute. They may be doing OK, but if they would be doing better with another leader, for both the local and general elections, then surely they should change? Why wait for the local elections to prove he is a liability? Is local government control not a little bit important?
PM is appointed by MPs not local councillors. Once you've risen to the ranks of tory MP you have no desire to go back to the petty insignificance of local councils. Plus once you've hamstrung the councils with no funding and ever harder obligations you don't really want your rosette on it when they are about to implode. Nice to let the otherside have a shot, just when its all going to shit. And finally, "what really matters is implementing the democratic will of the people and getting brexit done" 😉 and if that means sacrificing a few council seats then its in the interest of democracy.
Is this the first time that Starmer's called for his resignation?
even the scum are pouring the scorn on "Tries to claim it was a WORK EVENT"
The Speaker has shifted into "the PM can say anything he likes" mode, hasn't he.
Outsiders must watch PMQs with some amusement:
PM excoriated and told he has debased the office and asked to resign, next bloke stands up and starts describing a proposed law affecting washing machine manufacturers. 🙂
This is the funniest PMQs in history. Everyone demanding his resignation and tory MPs asking questions about washing machine filters.
Did the Eastleigh geezer actually really just say 'levelling up the south'? I know coastal Hampshire has its low spots, but surely he was taking the piss.
I think his new “story” will play well… if voters are willing to forget that it’s the third version.
- I don’t know about any party
- wasn’t at any party
- was at a party, but it was a work party
This is the funniest PMQs in history. Everyone demanding his resignation and tory MPs asking questions about washing machine filters.
And Peter Bone asking for the BBC license fee to be abolished, just to add to the totally surreal spectacle
Does anyone know where Rishi was? Clearly he had some other more pressing appointment. As did Gove
Rishi is in Ilfracombe apparently handing out £60 million
Rishi's whereabouts are up there ^^^
Ilfracombe 😂
A “bring your own booze wife “ work event? FTFY
Did the Eastleigh geezer actually really just say ‘levelling up the south’? I know coastal Hampshire has its low spots, but surely he was taking the piss.
He means raising it above sea level - because they are ignoring global warming and its all going to flood!
You can see why he avoided parliament yesterday (while he formulated a new lie). This new joke of an excuse would not have played well against a backdrop of MPs talking at length about those they lost and couldn’t say goodbye to, or attend the funeral of. I couldn’t visit my uncle in his last weeks. I couldn’t travel and attend his funeral, to be there with my aunt and cousins.
– I don’t know about any party
– wasn’t at any party
– was at a party, but it was a work party
Ain't no party like a 'fessed up party.
I got it slightly wrong, this third story, after the first two have been shown to be deliberate mendacious lies… the new story is…
- was at a party, but I “believed” it was a work party
The difference is important. How do you prove that in his head full of deceits piled upon deceits that he didn’t “believe” that it was a work gathering, even if the evidence eventually piles up that is was a social gathering.
Well that was the most entertaining political theatre I've seen since May's dementia tax meltdown. Gone by the end of the week.
Does anyone else regard their garden as 'an extension of the office'?
If we'd have all known that in May 2020 then we'd have been able to invite 100 of our mates business associates around for a party business meeting
His repetitive response seems to be 'Wait for the outcome of the Gray report', sounds like a foregone conclusion
Gone by the end of the week.
the scum are running the web headline...
THE PARTY'S OVER
lets see what the dirty digger decides
I admit, that made me laugh out loud.
Gone by the end of the week.
Can't see it sadly. He won't walk.
Right voters of England - this is your moment to shine. All the other nations didn't need to see this to comprehend that the Tories are a bunch of **** knuckles. But for some reason you can't.
I feel the same about Johnson as I do about Trump.....they are Ronseal leaders. This is exactly what I'd have expected a Johnson Downing Street to be like in the very same way as Trump was exactly the president you'd expect him to be. They are not the problem - the voters are the problem.
You lot **** this up and vote them in again and I guarantee every other part of Britain will do all they can to abandon ship and leave you to wallow in your own tory smelling mire.
All purely anecdotal but talking to people at work - who are for the most part, white English, Brexity, working class Tory voters - none of this would inspire them to vote Labour or Liberal if there were an election tomorrow.
If they were to vote for an alternative to the Tories then it would be for Farage. Given that the Tory who succeeds Johnson is likely to be to the right of him, then it seems to me that any change that comes from this will just see us move further to the right, one way or another.
Depressing.
Does anyone else regard their garden as ‘an extension of the office’?
To be fair binners, I don't think there are many in here who have a house and garden supplied by employer and occupied daily with our staff team.
We have outside space at both offices that are workspace
Trailmonkey true but let's enjoy the ****s squirming.
If they were to vote for an alternative to the Tories then it would be for Farage.
I've just had a similar conversation at my practice with a nurse and receptionist.
To be fair binners, I don’t think there are many in here who have a house and garden supplied by employer and occupied daily with our staff team.
We have outside space at both offices that are workspace
I guess the equivalent would be doctors and nurses boozing it up outside their hospitals, once they'd finished their shift.
Anyone see that?
No, well, not here at least. They were too shattered after covering for the workmates that had caught Covid and had to go home.
Is this the first time that Starmer’s called for his resignation?
Max Headroom and his posse must be jumping with joy to see that the opportunity to grab power based on the boozy party.
Angela Rayner for PM, LOL! That will learn you.
If he thought it was a work event why bring his wife?
also did he bring his own booze, or scrounge off others
We have outside space at both offices that are workspace
Is BYOB a feature also of those outside workspaces?
We also have external spaces where I'll admit that we held meetings last summer but BYOB would be instant dismissal (NB last summer when meetings and even gatherings were legal)
Even if there's some latitude for a bit of boozing in Westminster circles (onsite bars, indeed) .Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...... but what, he thought it was a set of occasional tables?
A thought just struck me, where did they get all the booze from?
As I understand it, the invite was sent in the afternoon, so did they then nip out to the Sainsbury Local to stock up? And mixing with a lot of other people while doing so?
If he thought it was a work event why bring his wife?
also did he bring his own booze, or scrounge off others
If anyone is going to blag booze off someone else it’s going to be him, wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t try to cop off as well.
Angela Rayner for PM,
She'd be awesome at the job, no doubt in my mind. Sorry to distract from the subject at hand.
If they were to vote for an alternative to the Tories then it would be for Farage.
Lets not forget that the present Tory majority was in no small part due to the nicotine-stained tree-frog standing down his monkeys in all Tory seats, and thus handing the racist vote to Boris, unopposed
If loads of people who voted Tory last time vote for whichever Farage is hawking this time, happy days. Thats more likely to deliver a labour government
