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Someone must have organised these parties at Downing Street, so surely someone will be getting the £10k fine?
“Dead cats! Get yer dead cats here! Bargain prices! Dead cats! Dead cats for every occasion!”
I properly laughed at that.
This is Sunaks chance - if he resigns he can walk away from the economic shitshow and the non-dom scandal, be seen to do the right thing, and skewer Boris/Carrie who no doubt were behind the non-dom leak.
Can we have the Gray report now?
Christ that Roger Gale interview 😡🤬
This woman is even worse.
Can we have the Gray report now?
Can we have the
GrayRussia report now?
Go big or go home
I'd like to see "now is not the time" always responded to immediately with "well when is the time? If the only issue is that now is not the time then we can assume he'll stand down immediately after it not being the time?"
A pretty bang on assessment by Peston of where we presently are
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1513874044877221888?s=20&t=F0IbjnC7TQt2nCRkHMqidQ
Someone must have organised these parties at Downing Street, so surely someone will be getting the £10k fine?
Well, one of the many defences Johnson has used (I know it's hard to keep track) is that because these events were in HIS house and HIS office, well, then he couldn't avoid being there (even if he previously said he wasn't at any of them). So the "it's personal" defence should now be used against him, no? If these events were planned (they were, there were invites) by HIS immediate staff, and took place at either HIS office, or HIS home, with his knowledge... he's the organiser... no? The big fine should be for him. Perhaps he'll be asked to pay it after he steps down for lying to parliament, his ministers, and the public about his law breaking.
I might start a petition to stop them using the phrase "The Right Honourable..." in the House of Commons and replace it instead with something more suitable.
The Right Lying...
The Right Shitty...
Christ that Roger Gale interview 😡🤬
This woman is even worse.
Shouted at the radio! It was the bloke before Roger Gale that was really bad - but didn’t catch who it was.
It was the bloke before Roger Gale that was really bad – but didn’t catch who it was.
That was Micky Fab
He actually looks like this. People actually voted for this. Go figure...
I love how Boris's supporters are now re-writing history
"well everyone who worked together would get together for drinks after work, and everyone ignored the rules anyway..."
NO THEY *ING DIDN'T!!!
People went without seeing their terminally ill relatives before they died you utter *s!!!
Even now, they still don't get it
So Cash'n'Carrie becomes Carrie Oot?
Dick has gone but the Met is still corrupt and in the pocket of the PM
Face it folks. The kind of person who votes for a party led by Boris Johnson was probably also having their own lockdown pissups due to their own sense of entitlement and disregard for others - just so long as I get what I want, me, me, me, I, I, I.
So he'll probably draw the obvious conclusion that there are enough selfish oafs like him to keep him in the job.
Political calculations are very easy these days for the likes of Johnson.
Im not surprised Johnson has been fined (possibly multiple times, the official statement is vague on that front) for attending parties during lockdown but am surprised the MET have actually done it. Handy timing though, right when he can't be held to account in PMQ's.
Looking at all the different media reports of this (even the Heil) I'm struggling to find anywhere that isn't at least suggesting Johnson and Sunak need to resign immediately.
Do we dare hope this is the story that finally topples Johnson?
Micky Fab
He reminds me a lot of Joe Pesci playing David Ferrie in 'JFK'.
Only more ridiculous.
Im not surprised Johnson has been fined (possibly multiple times, the official statement is vague on that front) for attending parties during lockdown but am surprised the MET have actually done it.
Remember that they weren't going to investigate originally (the great defence of there being no evidence of any wrongdoing until people pointed out that the actual job of the police was to go and look for the evidence). The Met Police had to be sued by the Good Law Project before they actually agreed that yes, they could receive an allegation of wrongdoing and then - oh I dunno - *investigate it*.
In fact the initial decision by the Met not to investigate was likely unlawful as well.
The kind of person who votes for a party led by Boris Johnson was probably also having their own lockdown pissups due to their own sense of entitlement and disregard for others
The people I know who voted Tory in 2019 absolutely stuck to the rules. They moaned about it (didn't we all) but they stuck to them. That include funerals. Family of mine being buried with only a handful of close relatives in attendance, while people at the heart of government partied in to the early hours of the morning. Every time Johnson laughed all this off he's been laughing and sneering at the hell that people who voted for him have been though. What we've all been though. Whoever we voted for. And even those who don't get to vote...
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My main worry now , is what shitstorm will they cook up to take us in another direction…
Looking at all the different media reports of this (even the Heil) I’m struggling to find anywhere that isn’t at least suggesting Johnson and Sunak need to resign immediately.
Do we dare hope this is the story that finally topples Johnson?
a lot of power in Sunaks hands right now
If he resigns then Johnson looks even more vulnerable
Ultimately Johnson has no shame, his MPs are amoral cowards & the Tory base care only for themselves
SO he will probably succeed in bluffing it out, especially if the locals are only moderately bad for the Tories
I want the Queen to take over. Dissolve the Government immediately. Like a broken computer, everything should be restored to the last known point of working which I think was about May 2016.
Sack the lot of them, I imagine you could lock most of the Tories in the tower for various breaches of the law. Then, just to piss off all the Leavers (and Putin), we rejoin the EU. Full Schengen, the euro, the whole lot.
Email sent to my MP. They are a labour member but we need our MPs to understand just how enraged we are at this and whilst they can't do much, to encourage them to do all they can to recall parliament and push the PM to resign.
The people I know who voted Tory in 2019 absolutely stuck to the rules. They moaned about it (didn’t we all) but they stuck to them.
Well Johnson's a goner then. I presume they'll all be voting for someone other than the Tories to express their anger?
Fiver says Johnson is still Tory leader at the next GE and they piss it again.
Do we dare hope this is the story that finally topples Johnson?
It comes down to Tory MPs, no-one else can get rid of him. And they'll be making cynical calculations based purely on how much electoral damage this will do them.
If you have a Tory MP, this is probably a good time to remind them of how appalled you are.
Fiver says Johnson is still Tory leader at the next GE and they piss it again.
Agreed. And sadly we will have to accept it unless we want serious civil unrest which won't work anyway as it never does in this country
Fiver says Johnson is still Tory leader at the next GE and they piss it again.
No way I'd take that vote.
He won't be replaced as leader... his two obvious successors are now...
a) stuck to this as well, and also just lost his reputation as a safe pair of hands
or
b) clearly as mad as a hatter and seen as a bigger election liability by MPs
A whole load of extra shit will have have gone down by the next election. Johnson has lost voters he'll never get back. But he'll win enough back, and find some bullshit to convince a load of new voters that he's on their side, and that the opposition are dangerous in some way.
clearly as mad as a hatter and seen as a bigger election liability by MPs
You’re going to have to narrow it down a bit there.
I've just fired off a letter to my **** of a Boris-cheerleading Tory MP
Not that it'll make any difference, but I just thought I'd howl into the void and let him know how disgusted I am at all this, and this disgrace of a prime minister
As I watch the frantic scrambling to (yet again) defend the indefensible it reminds me that I've often thought Guy Fawkes was onto something.
Civil unrest saw off the Poll Tax.
Planned recall of parliament to discuss Russian use of chemical weapons now cancelled to avoid partygate scrutiny
Johnson needs gone ASAP
write to your MP
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/
I want the Queen to take over. Dissolve the Government immediately. Like a broken computer, everything should be restored to the last known point of working which I think was about May 2016.
To be fair, the Queen has very little power in reality, she's a figurehead and we do all the stately stuff for show and pomp, looks great to the rest of the world, but if she were to actually try and do something against the houses, it would end the whole charade, which she knows as well as they do.
I hope all the nurses and teachers on here will now 'fess up to all the after-work drinks parties they had.
Fabricant is something else.
The state of the ****...
https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1513892877562228740?s=20&t=ARVqL46dkpgyoCvR77Iuig
What kept my sister going through her 16 hour shifts at hospital was the thought of getting bladdered in the staff room at the end of her shift. Well that and the Thursday evening round of applause obviously. Fabricant is scum.
The sad truth is there'll be a lot of memes, cries of outrage online and in certain newspapers, but it'll all be forgotten about in a week or two, Johnson has an unreal ability to have something else cover up his cock ups, he doesn't even come out to defend himself any more as there's just no threat to him at present.
Those teachers and nurses… with their suitcases full of booze.
I know NHS staff that couldn’t even go home at the height of the pandemic, never mind meet with colleagues for a knees up.
Teachers who “celebrated” significant birthdays by zoom with their family.
And as for Roger Gale, that lack of internal logic in his argument is spectacular.
"I sent my letter to the 1922 Committee six months ago because of Boris' lack of judgement'
"Now is not the time to be having a leadership election, we're in the middle of an international crisis."
I guess that's exactly when you want someone with zero judgement or integrity running the shop, isn't it?
The French seem to be able to hold a full presidential election in the middle of said international crisis.
And Hungary has just had parliamentary elections, and it borders Ukraine.
Pretty sure I'd be sacked if I got pissed in the staff room after work. Lockdown or no lockdown.
I'm NHS and my wife works in a school, we were specifically banned from having gatherings of staff both in and out of work throughout the various stages of lock down.
We had several long standing members of staff leave and we couldn't have retirement or leaving do's for them, despite the fact we all work in the same room. It felt kinda daft, but we all accepted the rules and moved on.
The Tories already stuck two fingers up to mid-low level NHS staff by saying "we got a few pensioners to clap for you pointlessly, so you can forget about a decent pay rise".
The levels of NHS staff who bore the brunt of Covid in 2020 don't tend to vote Tory anyway. Most Tory voters would happily stick the boot into these staff now they feel like they don't need them as much.
Appear tearfully in May 2020 on social media saying you're at your wits end and can't even get milk on your way home from working in a covid-riddled hospital = love and hearts and tear emojis all round from people feeling vulnerable.
Ask for a decent pay rise nowadays in light of the stresses of the last two years = denounced as an ungrateful commie by those same people now they're happily vaccinated and feeling bulletproof.
Brexit Britain innit.
What are all these public sector workplaces where booze is allowed? Is it just the heart of government which conveniently has no policy on it?
Johnson needs gone ASAP
write to your MP
Mine's David Warburton, so I'm not sure I'll be bothering.
So thats one out of 6 parties he was alleged to have attended
fne goes up to max of £6400 for multiple offences
who reckons theyll try & get out f telling us if he gets fined again
Mine’s David Warburton, so I’m not sure I’ll be bothering.
Edward Argar here. He's such a greasy pole climbing oleaginous shit that he'll do anything to stay in favour with whoever is in charge at that particular moment.
I'm still going to email him, though, if only to make me feel a small amount better.
What are all these public sector workplaces where booze is allowed?
This afternoon Michael Fabricants reply, when asked about suitcases full of booze being wheeled into Downing Street, was that they should really fit a bar at Downing Street so there wouldn't be any need for that.
I'm not even joking
Mine’s David Warburton, so I’m not sure I’ll be bothering.
Mine - James Daly - is a slimy little shit who is a rabid brexiteer and fully paid up member of the Boris fan club.
He's also a lawyer, so I've written to him to ask him his lawyerly opinion on whether its tenable to have a lawbreaker and someone who has lied repeatedly to parliament as PM?
I'll not hold my breath for a reply
Who will be the first minister to be rolled out with priorities defence, there is a war on, what the public really care about is Ukraine, Boris needs to be allowed to focus on Ukraine, he went to Kiev etc etc.
Edit: we have a winner
Conservative MP Roger Gale - who had called for the PM's resignation - said now was not the time to "unseat" him because of the Ukraine war
Oh yes I heard 'poundshop boris' suggesting they should install a bar in number 10 😂
Fudge me what bunch of lunatics elect that disgrace? Baffling.
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1513888166545014785
Its all the fault of those pesky teachers and NHS staff drinking in the staff room after work 😂
Now would be a good time for Sunak to resign. He can get his revenge for Johnson f***** him over his wife's taxes by resigning because of the fine, then Johnson would also be forced to do the same.
Jesus christ the state of Mickey Fab!
Where can you buy that hair? Would that Simon Hoggart were alive today...
Now would be a good time for Sunak to resign.
Yeah, but he won't.
They all know how many dullards out there will vote for them if they appear in front of enough union jacks and talk tough about dinghies in the Channel for a couple of weeks beforehand.
He actually looks like this. People actually voted for this. Go figure…
When did Frank McAvennie get into politics?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Emailed my tory MP. My wife's a teacher - must have not been invited to all these piss ups.
What an utter shower of ****s.
In my fevered imagination I'd love to see Starmer convene a hasty party political broadcast where he says:
"To those Tory voters out there who are professing their indignation at Johnson's lockdown pissups I ask you one question. Are you going to make that indignation known by not voting Tory ever again? If the answer is 'no', then shut the **** up about it and go away. If the answer is 'yes' I say welcome to the real world".
Won't happen, of course. He'd be better off having a skin-full and nutting a student with the UK electorate as it is.
Now would be a good time for Sunak to resign. He can get his revenge for Johnson f***** him over his wife’s taxes by resigning because of the fine, then Johnson would also be forced to do the same.
The key difference between Johnson and Sunak here- is Johnson will need someone to lend him £50.
In times like this you get to know how strong any opposition in the party is, because they can mount a credible challenge to raise a vote of no confidence and with promises and a bit of backing they could remove Johnson.
You also see how strong of a position the leader has by how much they are backed within their party in front of the press and in the papers through leaks.
I am not seeing any opposition to Johnson, which tells a very sad story about UK politics just now.
I’ve just watched the statement Johnson just released
That lying sack of shit couldn’t possibly have looked any more shifty.
He was clearly reading what somebody else had written for him. I’ve never heard such insincere bullshit since…. erm… the last lot of insincere bullshit he used to try and justify it.
He’s going to brazen it our then? As predicted? Did anyone expect anything different?
I just dispair.. I really do.
People will still vote for him.
Douglas Ross must be onto a decent backhander as he's now not calling for de pfeffel to go.
Fabricant has held Lichfield since 1997.
It is a relatively prosperous constituency with 94.6% of its population identifying as white British against 84.8% nationally. It voted 59% leave and has had a total **** of an MP for 25 years.
I reckon he knows his audience pretty well.
What are all these public sector workplaces where booze is allowed? Is it just the heart of government which conveniently has no policy on it?
Well, the Commons has its own bar, subsidised by the taxpayer…
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Jesus christ the state of Mickey Fab!</span>
Is that who it is? I thought it was someone taking the piss out of BoJo with a cheap wig! 🤣
I am beginning to view Johnson (or arguably just Johnson's version of the tory party) very much the way I view Trump - less the problem themselves and more of the litmus test of a societal problem.
Of course he was going to struggle to remain within the law set for the little people
Of course he would not resign if found guilty of breaking said law.
Of course he would see no problem with either of these in terms of honour or respecting the office.
But we never thought he would. He has never really hidden what he is.
The problem is not him, but the people who vote for these shits. The problem are the arseholes or the pig shit thick knobbers we share the nation with who put them into power. The problem is your neighbour, or your DM reading FiL or maybe even it's you...if you were responsible for giving them the power they have.* They are the people who should be hanging their heads in shame tonight. They are the problem.
*the problem is also having an opposition that made themselves so unattractive that the grunts got their heads turned too.
I am beginning to view Johnson (are arguably the tories party) very much the way I view Trump – less the problem themselves and more of the litmus test of a societal problem.
100%.
The problem is not him, but the people who vote for these shits. The problem are the arseholes or the pig shit thick knobbers we share the nation with who put them into power.
Careful with talk like that. They're just misunderstood.
😂😂😂
They are the people who should be hanging their heads in shame tonight.
Shame is for hand-wringing liberal pinkos who want to take us back into the EU.
Boorish stupidity is much more British.
Tsk, don’t worry it’s all ok because although he’s been caught openly lying again, breaking the ministerial code again, rubbing the publics face in it again it galvanised and energised him lead us and to level something up.
What a ****er, I can’t look at a picture of him it makes me feel physically sick.
Still no word from sunak. Could he really be considering bringing the temple down on their heads? He could redeem himself in the eyes of the nation. I know what I would do n his shoes 😀.
David Lammy was excellent on 5 Live tonight, referring to a refusal to be bound by the rules as Trumpian and pointing out that we cannot defend democracy and rule of law in Ukraine while undermining it here at home.
David Lammy was excellent. We have a track record of changing PM in times of crisis (WW1 WW2 Poll Tax Brexit x2).
Still no word from sunak.
Probably trying to translate it from American English.
Still no word from sunak. Could he really be considering bringing the temple down on their heads?
Not
In
A
Million
Years
They've realised how low a bar they have to hurdle with the UK electorate. They know Johnson is a reflection of a large enough segment of the 'us' that his presence guarantees electoral success.
The Tories have been proven right, twice, in their contempt for 'us'.
You don't ditch a winning formula, even if it is utterly incomprehensible to anyone with more than three brain cells.
🤷♂️
Roger Gale was on R4 saying that the conventions of resigning because of law breaking/lying effectively no longer apply, since people have now started ignoring them - he also believes now is the wrong time to think about changing leader because of the international crisis (and because of course kicking the can until no-one can be arsed to continue objecting is the Tory way).
Tin-pot third-world corruption is with us in the UK, friends.
And still the nuckle draggers at work continue to defend Johnson.
I can see myself loosing my sh#t with one in particular who is a fully paid up member of the sovereignty alliance.