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^^^^
Also, I don't think we have got to the stage where 'knowing where the bodies are buried' means actual bodies. Yet.
But if the last five or so years have taught me anything it is how precarious checks and balances I take for granted actually are. Anything is possible if the electorate are stupid enough to start the ball rolling and it achieves a critical mass.
Will he want a walking wounded around him like Hi Risk Anus or will he be given the royal order of boot?
You have to assume he will take the chance to give rishi rich the boot as it removes a challenger
dazh
Full Member
I should say ‘developed’ countries there. Truly tinpot kleptocracies don’t count.You don’t think we live in a kleptocracy? The man who sets tax policy has a wife who evades millions in tax. The same man refused to investigate billions of pounds of fraud after 37bn was handed to tory friends and donors during the pandemic. His party hands peerages to wealthy donors, including allies of Putin. Need I go on?
You're like a stuck record, again, where is your evidence that his wife has evaded millions in tax, you are making an accusation again without any evidence being provided.
Also, he is the Chancellor, he is not the man who 'sets tax policy', that is what parliament do, again you are trying to make it sound like he has the power to change laws to his own benefit without the democratic process that we have in this country, where his department provide the oversight for the policies, which then have to go through parliament, independent review and so on before becoming law.
As for handing out peerages, again what's the point in making bland statements without backing it up, every party has done that since year dot, wealthy donors, MPs who give up something to get their seat in the other house and so on, i believe cash for peerages scandal was under a labour government as well.
Where's Cummings in all this?
Where’s Cummings in all this?
He seems to have got himself a STW login...
zippykona
Full Member
Where’s Cummings in all this?
Oh he won't be happy, sunak was his man + that leaked picture of the lockdown garden party was taken from sunaks treasury office balcony
Johnson has played a blinder here in removing his most serious contender as replacement, this will give his MPs pause when it comes to any leadership challenge.
Can't wait to see what Cummings does next, I'm guessing just before the local elections we will find out
Can’t wait to see what Cummings does next, I’m guessing just before the local elections we will find out
Fun isn't it?
I mean, it would be better as the plot of a soap opera. It is a strange way to run a country, though, and I bet it's providing no end of amusement to our former partners. But that's Brexit Britain for you - government by soap opera / panto.
Where’s Cummings in all this?
Suddenly realising that he's not as good a 4D chess player as he thought, cos Boris / Carrie (I'm actually suspecting Carrie more than Boris in all this) have managed to move all the scrutiny away from Partygate AND get rid of the next closest leadership contender all in one go.
Carrie will be sitting there going through all of Liz Truss' skeletons now, she'll be next in line for a hatchet job.
The squirmy little shit (Cummings) will pop up again at some point, he's like an unflushable turd but right now I doubt he's got much useful to contribute to the noise.
The squirmy little shit (Cummings) will pop up again at some point, he’s like an unflushable turd but right now I doubt he’s got much useful to contribute to the noise.
I'm hoping for cast iron proof that he lied to the Po-Po about Partygate.
Carrie will be sitting there going through all of Liz Truss’ skeletons now, she’ll be next in line for a hatchet job.
I actually think that Carrie Antionette has a little KitKat shuffle whilst she's plotting the next knifing.
I’m actually suspecting Carrie more than Boris in all this
I think you probably give them more credit in the Machiavellian stakes than I think they deserve. I think they flounder around like everyone else does
This is the alternative to Boris, the Daily Fail and Torygraph are presenting her as the next Mrs T.
She's someone who used the floods in Yorkshire as another photo op, a kind of disaster/poverty porn shoot for her middle-aged Tory members Only Fans subscirption.
In the next photo she's ignoring the flooding in Mytholmroyd and is scanning the horizon - it's all part of her lifelong quest to find her dignity/empathy/intelligence* but alas it was fruitless.
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In the next photo she’s ignoring the flooding in Mytholmroyd and is scanning the horizon
Amateur.
Needs hi-vis and a hard hat.
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Ha ha. In that second photo Truss looks like she's just about to be pounced on by the guys from the secure unit she managed to slip away from*.
*Obviously slipping away from a real secure unit would be beyond a dunderhead like Liz, but luckily this one's been contracted out to G4S. Even Liz can outwit a school leaver who's too busy perfecting the perfect bubblegum bubble and texting her mates whilst she's supposed to be keeping an eye out, but earning minimum wage for doing so.
😄
But that’s Brexit Britain for you – government by soap opera / panto.
Oh no it isn't!
Oh....yes....it is 🥺
In the next photo she’s ignoring the flooding in Mytholmroyd and is scanning the horizon
She’s looking up to Hebden Bridge. Like we all do in Mytholmroyd, all the time. [ joke ]
In the next photo she’s ignoring the flooding in Mytholmroyd,
Calder Valley has returned a Tory since 2010. In 2019 with an increased margin. Presumably the locals where happy since those floods happened in 2015.
She’s someone who used the floods in Yorkshire as another photo op, a kind of disaster/poverty porn shoot for her middle-aged Tory members Only Fans subscirption.
Liz Truss Looking At Things In The Distance With a Disaster Background.
A bit like ChrisFroomeLookingAtStems
you aint seen nothing yet
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1513627688602247168
so
many
questions
"Mother Inferior"
What's behind the curtain, the Wizard of Oz?
Needs hi-vis and a hard hat
How can any actual human being genuinely think that putting this clown, a literal clown, in charge of anything more than a television remote, is beyond me.
@nickc - I'm sure that the flood affected people down in the Calder Valley are not staunch Tory voters. It's the people in the big houses up the hill that voted for Craig Shittaker
@kimbers - as scary as that GCSE photography portrait is, it's what is behind the grey curtain that concerns me
Sorry, that Trussvision offering is a photoshop, right? Right?
More vermin than Vermeer.
Why is she wearing wellies?
Are laces or buckles too hard to use?
giant wellies too
they're huge
Sorry, that Trussvision offering is a photoshop, right? Right?
I don't think it is... but someone should get busy with it...
What should we have being crushed under her left welly?
What should be sticking out from under the backdrop sheet?
Who should be peeping over the wall?
Perhaps a job for Cold War Steve.
I think it needs a halo.
giant wellies too
they’re huge
Most clowns prefer the 'massive shoe' look.
Ofboris
Blessed be the Fruit
Blessed be the Fruit
God knows what scene she's trying to re-enact there but if she pops the apple on her head, I know one scene I'd like to re-enact. Anyone got a crossbow?
I do, but it's not very accurate.
Does that matter?
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Made me laugh. Thanks.
Thanks Kimbers.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-fifty-partygate-fines-handed-26693168
The is a certain genius that not only were the "burn the evidence, kick the results into the long grass" enquiry findings postponed indefinitely for the police to investigate instead, but the results of their findings are secret. A cover up for the whitewash. Layers and layers of process to obfuscate what happened... and dull, numb and bore the electorate into accepting a "move on" narrative... despite losing loved ones, missing funerals, and struggling through such a difficult time with such limited social contact, while Johnson, his household, and his teams, partied on after making it illegal for everyone to do so. One rule for us, one rule for them... and all the tools are available to them to try and hide or distract us from the truth, even when issued with fines for breaking their own laws. Never forget. Don't fall for it.
who's in charge of the Met now?
who’s in charge of the Met now?
Stephen House is acting commissioner as of the 10th of April.
Johnson and Sunak fined! 😂
They gotta go, shirley?
That picture Truss did
that was her showing how pure & virtuous she is
and that she should be the next PM
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1513861944045940738
They gotta go, shirley?
Under any normal administration, one possessing even the slightest hint of guilt or shame, they'd be long gone anyway.
Can you see Boris resigning?
No, me neither.
They'll just carry on brazening it out. They literally couldn't give a ****.
They’ll just carry on brazening it out. They literally couldn’t give a ****.
Will be good to watch PMQs anyway, not because Boris is going to say anything he hasn't before, but because I'm sure Kier will make him look very uncomfortable.
They’ll just carry on brazening it out. They literally couldn’t give a ****.
^That.
Why should they resign… prepare for…
“He didn’t lie to the house, he just, er… look, the Prime Minister tells the truth.”
Lol. Well done to the met for not bottling it. Now piss off bozo.
he just, er… look, the Prime Minister tells the truth.
...to the best of his ability.
Normally you wouldn't expect him to make it to PMQs tomorrow, but hopefully some fire and brimstone awaits him there.
Normally you wouldn’t expect him to make it to PMQs tomorrow
They're on holiday (again) this week, aren't they?
Normally you wouldn’t expect him to make it to PMQs tomorrow
They’re on holiday until 19th (great minds etc!)
Just to pre-empt what we'll be hearing repeated over the next weeks of him refusing to resign...
"Now is not the correct time to be... blah, blah, blah"
Handy timing that. They think it’ll be forgotten about by then, to be fair the next Tory ****show will be in the news then
“Dead cats! Get yer dead cats here! Bargain prices! Dead cats! Dead cats for every occasion!”
He’ll just bluff his way through as usual, “Brexit! Labour would still have us in lockdown! War! Brexit! Common sense! Brexit!”
They’re on holiday (again) this week, aren’t they?
How. Convenient.
Now Rishi has screwed his chance of the big job it’d be quite funny for him to resign as chancellor to put the pressure on that sack of shite in a suit pm.
revenge is a dishi rishi best served cold
https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1513864361412108298
Now Rishi has screwed his chance of the big job it’d be quite funny for him to resign as chancellor to put the pressure on that sack of shite in a suit pm.
Was thinking this. He genuinely has nothing to lose, and it may even help his political rehabilitation at some point in the future if he feigns some principles now. Plus it will be a perfect moment of revenge against the man who likely leaked all the non-dom stuff.
Plus, did anyone notice him moving his wife and kids out of Downing Street last week?
My main worry now , is what shitstorm will they cook up to take us in another direction...
Not had a homeland terror alert for a while to keep us in check.
They’re on holiday until 19th (great minds etc!)
Isn't there a war on ? Or are we downing weapons for Easter ?
is what shitstorm will they cook up to take us in another direction…
Article 16?
Johnson and Sunak fined! 😂
Just checking...
They're being fined for the [s]work gatherings[/s] parties that didn't happen, but that did happen but which they weren't at while simultaneously being at them but not knowing they were parties but they did know that all rules had been followed while they both were and were not there.
Is that about it?
I feel sorry for poor Rishi - I know how tough it can be getting an unexpected £50 bill in the middle of the month. Wonder if he can get a pass to wait until payday, poor chap.
The fact that the Met “chose” to do this when parliament was in recess, just goes to show that they all consider themselves above the law (if any more evidence was needed)
Carrie Johnson too
where has Cummings gone to
shredding all the evidence of Putins funding for Vote Leave cant take that long!
Nothing it going to happen is it? Labour and the other Parties will make as much noise as they can, but I bet even the moderate(ish) media will drop it once the next round of Russian atrostities is revealed.
The whole thing is very sad really isn't it? Does it really matter where you sit on the political spectrum, but our PM has lied about this, and so many other things to the point it would be farical to think he's even close to being an honest person.
Does a covid fine make you a 'criminal'? In either case, the Prime Minister has been found to have broken an incredibly important law in one of the darkest times in modern history to have a piss up and it's 'no big deal' he'll pay £50 (probably on expenses) and that'll be it, and it's not like he's a dead man walking in the polls either, he could quite easily win another term as PM.
We've lost any sense of shame in the UK.
I reckon Sunak will resign which will be ever interesting regarding Boris NOT resigning.
Which he won't of course.
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
I reckon he will choose to be prosecuted and defend it. He's a pioneer, he can become the first PM to defend a criminal prosecution whilst in office. That will cement his place in history.
to be fair the next Tory ****show will be in the news then
That is exactly how Johnson operates. Every **** up is useful to take attention off the last one. Just keep firing them out 'till fatigue means that the media and voting public alike can't remember or keep their attention on past ones.
Carrie as well.
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
A link/detail please?
Edit : sorry - a bit slow today!
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
Very good… stealing this.
This one will have to keep you going until Boris and Rishi cough up their fine money (or choose to be convicted in court, obviously)
EDIT: <Winks at Dantsw13>
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
That's quite good.
Does it really matter where you sit on the political spectrum, but our PM has lied about this
I think the excuse they will try and use is he didnt know it was against the law and hence didnt lie.
he didnt know it was against the law
The law he enacted, only a couple of months previously...!
Carrie as well.
Keep his wife's name out of your ****ing mouth!
We’ve lost any sense of shame in the UK.
Boris is good at knowing what he can get away with. The trouble is that in the UK there are a lot of people who think (for example):
"everyone" speeds a bit (so it's OK)
"everyone" would shag around given half a chance (so it's OK)
"everyone" would claim a few extra £ on expenses if they could (so it's OK)
"everyone" would tell a few porkies if it got them what they wanted (so it's OK).
I know that not everyone thinks that way but the genius behind this is that somehow Boris has convinced "everyone" that by doing all of the above he is a man of the people. Do a bit of wheelin' 'n' dealin', shag the mistress on the side, take a few undeclared gifts - those are basically things that "everyone" can relate to. The Sun-reading, white-van-man (yes, I'm really stereotyping now!) can relate to things like that.
Multi-millionaires dodging taxes starts to be seen as very unfair though. It's a very elitist thing to do and that usually winds up the stereotypical hard-working, tax-paying, good honest Sun reader.
got to be more than one fine for Johnson if Sunak got one.
Carries took one for the team
Broke the law, lied about it, photos were produced, adapted his lie, grinned like a fool…
Jesus what a bunch of lying, cheating, stealing scumbags this lot are.
Applying the Withnail defence, didn't Sunak attend 'by accident'? What about those Derby students who got fined £10k each? Can they get away with a fifty?
The law he enacted, only a couple of months previously…!
I didnt say it was convincing but just the line that I think will be used.
Or he could go all out and use Rees-Moggs one that the law was inhuman and too harsh. For which your comment needs repeating with the insertion of lots of swear words.
They've all taken to the airwaves already, all the usual suspects
Sir Roger Gale is on Five Live now....
"now is not the time...."
is the fairly predictable line