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The award for Top Tory Toady is hotly contested today, with their planted questions
The award for Top Tory Toady is hotly contested today, with their planted questions
You are not kidding.
But, they must realise that Johnson will combust sometime soon and being as far away from that might not be a bad idea.
Or maybe toadying scores Tory points under any circumstances?
I was going to say prior to this that Blackford would be expelled for calling Johnson a liar. Obvious move from him.
But, they must realise that Johnson will combust sometime soon and being as far away from that might not be a bad idea.
Or maybe toadying scores Tory points under any circumstances?
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It's quite interesting (in a perverse way) if you think about it - He must be damaging the party in the polls A LOT.
So they should want him out ASAP to help thier chances in the next GE, fresh leader, water under the bridge and all that.
BUT they gotta balance that with; who in the party wants to inherit the shitshow before it's calmed down a bit?
Timing is obviously key, any new tory leader needs time in office to distance themselves from the current regime.
That's what the tories are currently attempting to calculate. They are not concerned with Ukarine, NHS crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis, brexit crisis or anything else.
The focus will be 100% on staying in power.
Accusing the Labour front bench of taking drugs is a bold move.
Guardian article today about how other countries in Europe are dealing with the energy crisis - compares starkly with what our government is currently up to and what they consider important.
300 photographs! How arrogant were they to be doing that? I assume some for revenge / blackmail / ass covering but in reality I am sure most were phone snaps of folk having fun like folk do.
"Wait for the conclusion of the police enquiry" ... is the new "wait for Sue Gray" batting away of all questions.
The tory back benches will be meeting and discussing things - and as above weighing up tactics. do they want Johnson out for moral reasons? Or is it to get their own contender in? Whats best for them?
I don't expect a flurry of activity from them for a day or two and indeed I expect a lot of it to be done by stealth. I will be very suprised if there are not enough letters to Brady by the end of the week.
They need a "bullshit" button installed in the house like on the last leg.
That'll liven things up a bit
I will be very suprised if there are not enough letters to Brady by the end of the week.
i think you will need to be prepared to be very suprised. The Tory whips will keep them all in line.
nothing will happen as Johnson will just wait it out.
They need a “bullshit” button installed in the house like on the last leg.
That’ll liven things up a bit
He must be damaging the party in the polls A LOT.
i think you overestimate the average tory voter. I'd put money on a tory majority if there were a snap election this week. a reduced one, but still a majority.
They need a “bullshit” button installed in the house like on the last leg.
That’ll liven things up a bit
A QI style Klaxon alarm. I'd vote for that.
Van Halen - it only needs a dozen or so more. There is already 40 or so there by all accounts. tory whips are having trouble getting folk into the chamber to ask sycophantic qurestions
i think you overestimate the average tory voter. I’d put money on a tory majority if there were a snap election this week. a reduced one, but still a majority.
Sorry, I didn't mean a snap election, you would be correct. I was more refering to a tory internal leadership contest.
300 photographs! How arrogant were they to be doing that? I assume some for revenge / blackmail / ass covering but in reality I am sure most were phone snaps of folk having fun like folk do.
to be fair, that's only about one photo per party....
A year to investigate some parties!! FFS!!!
Police investigation 'won't take longer than a year'
More lines now from the Met Police commander leading its investigation into parties, which Boris Johnson has repeatedly urged MPs to wait for over the past hour.
Catherine Roper has told the media:
Her team will start contacting people soon to ask them questions and expect "that people will tell the truth"
The investigation will not last "more than a year" and she wants to fast-track it
The police wanted Sue Gray's report to hold back certain information because it would otherwise make it harder to interview people and have them provide "their account from their own memory"
Police officers on duty at Downing Street could be questioned if appropriate
After seeing the report earlier I thought it was bad but easily manageable and Johnson would keep his MPs happy enough for now
But he was just awful in the commons, Starmer nailed him, Blackford stunt was we timed, some of his own MPs, including May nailed him. His response to it all was dire.
I appreciate that I am very biased against him, but after that I can't see how he won't avoid 54 letters
This was funny tho
https://twitter.com/Alain_Tolhurst/status/1488193905975865350?t=KOhhs33ONZP-B5FYJP1joA&s=19
When the Tory Toadies blather on about Boris's successes during Covid, why don't the journalists respond with:
"Do you mean the highest death rate and the slowest post covid economic growth rate in Europe?
Just sayin'...
A year to investigate some parties!! FFS!!!
There are a lot of parties that need investigating.
Looking at the longer game. Perhaps having BJ keep on as PM serves to keep these parties in the forefront of peoples mind come next election....also plenty of time for him to be caught lying again between then and now...
here's hoping anyway..
I'm so angry at what has happened today that if Johnson isn't out of No10 by the weekend I'll have trouble controlling myself from not going down there myself and dragging the little shit out of there by his ballsack.
There is no way that we, as a country, can criticise any other country for the way they go about their business as we are now World Leaders at destroying the idea of democracy. I genuinely no longer recognise the country I live in.
Fantombiker - the longer he is in post the better for labour and the SNP i am quite sure. I did enjoy the double bluff from Nandy ( I think it was) who said something like "its better for labour to have in place as a discredited leader but its better for the country if he goes" Thats aimed squarely at the tory back benches because it puts doubt in their minds about saving him
FFS up to a year to investigate - they can't seriously be intending to keep the full report from being published until then? Or have they accepted the full report can be published in advance?
Looking at the longer game. Perhaps having BJ keep on as PM serves to keep these parties in the forefront of peoples mind come next election….also plenty of time for him to be caught lying again between then and now…
Mine and a lot of others thoughts, exactly. However you have to assume the wider tory party is astutely aware of this, and acting accordingly when it comes to the timing of ousting thier own leader.
It has to be long enough after this latest scandal, but short enough to allow the new blood to change the swing voters.
And that's allowing any future law breaking/corruption from boris.
He has now committed to publishing the report in full
FFS up to a year to investigate
Fixed penalty fines, I suppose the investigation is to see who gets the big one for organising the party:-)
I don’t think we’ll get to see who got fined or the final report for a looong time (if ever under a Tory leadership), more likely to see the pictures released as they become worth more and more to the papers.
He has now committed to publishing the report in full
Doubt he has. He’d have thrown something to his MPs… he’ll say anything to them. But we won’t see the full report published while Johnson is PM.
He still doesn’t get it, ‘I can fix this’,
it’s like getting caught shoplifting and offering to pay.
It’s more like getting caught shoplifting and saying , “I get it, I’ll go straight back to my office and do what’s expected of me there, honest… and I’m sorry if you have lost something from your store… perhaps you should act on that and rearrange some of your security team.”
Yep, my bad,I forgot he never offers to pay for anything.
How can even dyed in the wool Tories back this corrupt, lying idiot. Its a shame more MPs didnt follow Blackfords lead. Shows how bad things have become if im praising the SNP. Lindsay Hoyle was pathetic, Bercow wouldn't have rolled over like that.
I was going to say prior to this that Blackford would be expelled for calling Johnson a liar.
Captain Hindsight 😀
But he has said sorry …( I’m sorry I keep getting caught) did he have his fingers crossed behind his back like we used to do at primary school? Met looking like weeks away from any outcomes if only they had investigated sooner! Coincidence maybe ..one day they’ll have him out🤞
Nadine Dorres, who I presume is the only Tory MP prepared to go on camera to defend Johnson, had just given an absolute car crash of an interview to channel 4 news. Truly cringeworthy and pathetic
https://twitter.com/ambers196524/status/1488229948095700992?s=21
In stark contrast a visavly angry and upset Ruth Davidson was on immediately afterwards to absolutely slate Johnson
He’s not the victim here.
It’s a shame he didn’t die.
He’s not the victim here
It’s pretty clear they that’s exactly how Johnson sees himself
IANAL but an actual lawyer found it odd that anything had to be kept back as the offences would be subjected to fixed penalty fines and not be going to a jury trial so makes no difference if the names are out there.
The rule breaking in itself wouldn't be subject to anything other than a fixed penalty. But you can exacerbate a minor crime by committing more serious ones to cover them up. You can turn a fixed penalty for speeding into jail time for perjury for instance
At least there is reference to booze at work meetings needing review.
When people said Johnson and others in No 10 should have considered the optics... it seems the best place to put them would be next to the wine fridge.
It’s a shame he didn’t die.
I don't disagree with that.
Ffs, look what the Tories have made me become….. One of those people whose Twitter rants make the local news
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/the-people-stourbridge-care-residents-22936963
Don't know about Mr Hindsight it should be Admiral Inadvertent. After all MPs aren't allowed to say a truthful sentence about him without including the word.
The Speaker should be ashamed shooting the messengers rather than the guilty party.
They need to start making MTB clothing out of whatever it is Boris is coated in. You'd come home from every ride as clean as a whistle.
I don't think Dom is done with him yet though.
Did anyone else catch the Andrew Neil 'Dispatches' on Channel 4 last night?
It was just weird, He's the Chairman of the Spectator and was discussing the Down it Street parties with the Spectator's political editor, who just happens to be Alleges Stratton's husband. Yet he didn't think to ask wether as the political editor of the Spectator he had information about those parties that he was either hiding from the readership, or wether he had been knowingly misleading the readership with misinformation, (as Dominic Cummmings whife had with her article for the same journal around the time of the Barnard Castle escapade).
The programme was an utter joke, and I hear C4 are looking to employ him to front a new politics programme! Someone who for the most part has tried to cover up or excuse the goverments misdemeanors in the last couple of years by being the poster boy for Johnson's culture war.
I'd rather someone commission a politics programme fronted by Danny Dyer.
I see Liz Truss has tested positive for covid after spending all afternoon in the HoC without a mask on
Good old Liz
She’s clearly given a lot of thought to how today could become even more of an utter farce
She doesn’t have to be humiliated by Johnson if he goes to Putin now.
That’s bloody convenient for her . Wasn’t she meant to be going out to visit Vlad soon ?
I wonder if he had offered to give her a guided tour of the local Cathedrals ? 🤔
There must be a reason why she took a test, I.e. she had a suspicion that she might be positive in which case it was reckless to be in that packed chamber and later meeting without a mask on. Especially given the state of politics and need to respond to the Ukraine issue - infecting and effectively therefore immobilising those responsible for dealing with it is a big deal.
Or - it’s a rather convenient excuse to dodge being seen to fail at discussions with Putin and gives the ability to get her leadership campaign planning underway out of the limelight.
So - reckless selfishness or lying, which one do you reckon ?
Dimwitted. So dense she has her own gravity field
Be funny if the entire government suddenly catches it
https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann/status/1488244088075923458?s=19
You’d come home from every ride as clean as a whistle.
Whilst the mud would slide off the outside the problem is the shite and slime on the inside.
Send Nadine she'd put Yeltsin under the table.
I'm increasingly frustrated by the Speaker of the House and the mechanics of parliament. It seems no one is able or willing to do something and force the PM and cabinet to address the issues.
We've had a fortnight now of protecting Boris - every distraction, manipulation, mis-direction and ignoring of facts that can be dragged out, is being dragged out.
The Gray report is buried for a year.
The House is innefective.
Democracy is being eroded here, at a dramatic rate.
Yes. Boris is a proven liar but you can't say it ffs
Worth watching again…
https://twitter.com/karlturnermp/status/1488242449394896904?s=21
How did we end up with a government minister like this?! I know the answer, Johnson surrounding himself with the inept as long they’ll debase themselves and politics in general to support him. He needs to go. He needs to take his legion of lying and inept ministers with him.
Also wtf is a 'work event' if not a social gathering?
Work is work, a meeting is a meeting...
"I thought it was a work event" to me is an admission of guilt.
Dorries was born to demand to speak to the manager wasn't she?
Is it just me , or does she look like she’s just come out of the bar ?
I wish the next time he starts babbling about vaccines Starmer interrupts and says that Johnson should be consistent and wait for the covid inquiry to complete first. The one we are still waiting to get started.
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It’s a shame he didn’t die.
They'd have made him into a martyr or a saint if that had happened. Brave, brave Boris, laying down his life to save the grateful people of Britain from the nasty EU and that horrible Covid.
+That interview from Dorries was absolutely painful. floundering and waffling. Is that really the best defense they could put o the telly?
She's the only person sufficiently dumb, and sufficiently pissed, to do it.
Could post any one of many Conservative MPs asking pertinent questions and expecting bugger all answers from the man who is the leader of their party… but this one is delivered particularly calmly, carefully and precisely… and very damning for it…
https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1488179017282949126?s=21
EDIT: some of the replies to that ITV tweet!!
https://twitter.com/colmmagan/status/1488230225662066688?s=21
Unfortunately, Johnson has purged the party of all but a tiny number of MPs who have even a shred of decency and intelligence and replaced then all with thick-as-mince Brexiteer nodding dogs.
Nadine Dorries is a disgrace of a human being. She should be nowhere near a ministerial position, like so many of the other frontbench ****-wits
The only redeeming feature is that they’re so incompetent they’re unlikely to get anything at all done
loved their exchanged looks!
I think she might have an even lower opinion of him than I do.
Enough watching Johnson squirm and say nothing at all… let’s take a few minutes to check out the alternative…
https://twitter.com/lionelbarber/status/1488187564800499715?s=21
The contrast is so stark.
She should wear skis for interviews.
Flipping heck, Starmer really tore him a new one.
It looked like boris was about to start crying at one point, lol
Good god is Dorries pissed?!
How the hell did Great Britain become this?
As if Brexit wasn't humiliating enough for Brits - the EU not "begging us to please make a deal with them" like we were promised they would etc etc - we now have the whole world watching this shitshow in a bad suit lying to Queen and Country, then lying about the lying....... ****.