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Did anyone catch the Ch4 interview?
Where the journalist points out that No10 is now the single address with the most FPN issued for lockdown breaches in the country? It was, apparently, a student party where 28 were issued in one night, but the fines issued to No10 breaks that record by a country mile, with yet more to come
What a state.
Tobias Ellwood putting g the boot in on a radio news report earlier.
He's being kept to be sacrificed after the local election.
Did anyone catch the Ch4 interview?
Absolutely skewered by Gary Gibbon.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1517198119573893120?s=20&t=ImpjxO50TsT-ROD_hlkK_A
He doesn't like having to explain consequences to his actions does he?!
All those years of consequence-free activities, doing what he wants when he wants with who he wants and never having to bother about any of it. Now suddenly he's the point where the buck stops and he really doesn't know what to do!
Did anyone catch the Ch4 interview?
Where the journalist points out that No10 is now the single address with the most FPN issued for lockdown breaches in the country? It was, apparently, a student party where 28 were issued in one night, but the fines issued to No10 breaks that record by a country mile, with yet more to come
What a state.
yup and thats with 2 of 12+ partiies worked through so far
the final figure will likely run into the 100s
"comment on stuff I don't know about"
YOU'RE THE _______ PRIME MINISTER BEING ASKED TO COMMENT ON YOUR LIFE, YOUR OFFICE, YOUR HOME, YOUR LAWS !!!
So in summary.
He wants to move on and doesnt want this to go on and on but declines to answer any questions until the police investigation is complet.
There's got to be a way of drawing a line under it
Yes - resign.
So in summary.
Yup, delay, delay, delay.... oh, it's too late now, stop looking backwards...
Handy guide to how the fines system is calculated. Subsequent fines can get very expensive very quickly
£6400 fines for the sixth , and subsequent offences
The Tories clearly can't have a situation where opposition leaflets during local elections say things like "Your local Tory refused to denounce a known law breaker" etc.
Now we'll just have to see whether BJ weathers the storm or not. Anything is possible.
Now we’ll just have to see whether BJ weathers the storm or not.
The Tory whips clearly didn't think that they had the numbers of MPs that would 'Back Boris' yesterday. And thats with a 3 line whip and no doubt all manner of threats issued. In fact, there's no 'think' about it. They will have sounded everyone out and KNOWN that they couldn't win it, which is why they first came out with the clear nonsense that it would be a 'free vote'. Did anyone actually believe that crock of shit?
They knew that enough Tory MPs would, if not necessarily vote with the opposition, then find somewhere else they needed to be instead. Ironically, something that the treacherous snake Boris himself has done many, many times when it suited his interests.
Surely if you can't muster enough of your own MPs to commit their support, on the record, despite having an 80 seat majority, then Steve Baker is right and the gig is indeed up.
ADPJ is going nowhere of his own accord, that's just not his style. It's going to take someone to put on the grown up pants and make this decision for him.
Where they'll be looking for his replacement is another matter . . . .
You're right that there is no way on earth he's going to resign. He's far too entitled and devoid of shame for that.
He'll have to be removed, and unfortunately theres only Tory MPs who can do that at the moment.
I think it's becoming increasingly clear that he's only being spared in order to take the rap for the inevitable electoral hammering that they're going to get at the local elections in a couple of weeks.
As for the successor? Remember that Boris was the exception, and the usual Tory rule is that whoever wins the leadership election, it isn't anyone who was predicted.
I'm sure that in the background, plenty of leadership campaigns are being quietly mobilised
Handy guide to how the fines system is calculated. Subsequent fines can get very expensive very quickly
Indeed. If it looks humiliating now, could look much worse in a month or two.
How many of the potential replacements are also getting/have got fines I wonder?
The Tory whips clearly didn’t think that they had the numbers of MPs that would ‘Back Boris’ yesterday
The thing is it was pretty pointless fighting it anyway aside from to dodge the "first pm reported to the committee". They have a majority on it so can control the results to a decent degree so even those who might be inclined to support him overall could well have decided it was a fight not worth the hassle. Especially after they got so badly burned with Paterson.
I think the whole Paterson debacle would have been very prominent in peoples minds when being asked to defend the indefensible yet again
The what? It's amazing what effect time can have on proceedings as the Johnson well knows (and demonstrates). I don't think the general public now give two hoots about the Patterson affair and I very much doubt ADPJ does. This stuff doesn't build up, it just fades away over time.
The trouble is that there's now an underlying, base level of sleeze and people have become desensitised to it. We've gone nose blind to the stink.
Handy guide to how the fines system is calculated. Subsequent fines can get very expensive very quickly
No matter how high it could rise to ,it would be likely covered by some tory party donor, seen as normal practice for the hard would they were putting in during the pandemic.
Nope, whitewash a'coming.
As for the successor? Remember that Boris was the exception, and the usual Tory rule is that whoever wins the leadership election, it isn’t anyone who was predicted.
I’m sure that in the background, plenty of leadership campaigns are being quietly mobilised
anyone see Gove lately?
Brilliant that he came into this wanting to be remembered as the new Churchill. I reckon his name will be synonymous with Nixon in years to come.
Or Cockwomble, it’s not like he puts any effort into doing anything.
Had it all on a plate but fekked it up as he was just to stupid/lazy to play the game.
If he’d not have been so dense he’d probably have got another term but wallpaper and a few beers.
Hope does talk a lot of bobbins
but....
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1517477661832105984
interesting that theyre making it about the local elections
what sort of Tory losses will be enough? because while polling has Tories set to lose a lot of councilors, only a handful of councils
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_localelectionpoll_20220415.html
because while polling has Tories set to lose a lot of councilors, only a handful of councils
Yes, but lots of those councillors are often the backbone of the local Conservative parties. They're the organisers, the canvassers, the folks that sit on selection panels for local MPs candidates...If they're seen to have suffered *because* of the way Johnson has behaved, central office will not be best chuffed. Are you going to be motivated to go and and canvass locally for an MP who cost you your [position on the council because he supports Johnson?
He'll still vote as he's told but......
Dear 100th,
Thanks for your email. I hope you are well
My anger about these events at Downing Street during the lockdown is well known. It is completely unacceptable that these events went ahead.
I do not understand who could have organised or attended such events and think it was compliant with the rules. Like millions of other people, I made significant sacrifices during the lockdown.
As you know, the police confirmed that the rules had been breached and issued penalty notices. No one should be above the law.
Yesterday, Parliament passed a motion for the Privilege committee to undertake an investigation into whether the Prime Minister misled the House over lockdown parties. I agree that the Prime Minister should be subject to parliamentary scrutiny on this matter.
I absolutely understand the concerns that have been raised about comments relating to NHS staff and teachers having drinks in staff rooms after work. I do not agree with these comments. The overwhelming majority of key workers have been exemplary in their adherence to the rules, despite the enormous difficulties that they were faced with.
Kind regards.
Yours sincerely,
John
OOps
Indeed.
From the tweet above:
Met police say they won't update until end of election period
It'd be kind of nice to know about someone's criminal past before voting for them. I mean, when applying for jobs you have to state minor little things like criminal records up front...
It’d be kind of nice to know about someone’s criminal past before voting for them. I mean, when applying for jobs you have to state minor little things like criminal records up front…
Fixed penalty notices may not count as a criminal record?
OOps
least he can be comforted in the knowledge Dom gets one too 😀
least he can be comforted in the knowledge Dom gets one too 😀
Looks like Johnson may have the last laugh on that
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1517580177605279745?t=zhVqFDO1pBJ0Im465UnnMQ&s=19
Fixed penalty notices may not count as a criminal record
When filling out security clearance forms you have to put motoring fixed penalties down, even expired ones.
Might take him a while to fill out his forms.
Good to see Rees-Mogg doing his best to motivate those around him https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61202152
Good to see Rees-Mogg doing his best to motivate those around him
Luckily, most civil service organisations ignored the government's instructions to return to work last summer, putting staff safety as a higher priority, and I suspect most civil service organisations will continue to run with hybrid working to ensure staff work at best capacity, rather than ensuring offices are at maximum capacity.
Yeah, it's what we're doing in our place, COVID is through the roof and we've had more positives in the last month or two than any period since lockdown was lifted!
It's also worth adding it's half term and the end of the leave year so quietest time of the year in any office, Rees-Mogg wouldn't know that due to probably never having to look after a child, that's a job for nannies and wives in his world!
Apologies morecashthandash, I don’t know what area you work in… but hybrid working in the civil service predates Covid by a good few years. If the minister for turning back the clocks wants it to come to an end, he’s going to have to buy back office space and make sure everyone has a permanent desk again.
Did he write the note on parchment with a quill then use a wax seal with the family crest?
I despise all of this shower of ****s with a passion, but Rees Mogg is the one who you’d really like half an hour with in a locked room with some medieval torture implements, isn’t he?
His levels of smug, superior, smarmy, self-satisfaction are absolutely off the scale
Apologies morecashthandash, I don’t know what area you work in… but hybrid working in the civil service predates Covid by a good few years.
Pre-Covid, in our corner of the CS hybrid working was only for managers - they had laptops etc as they had to be contactable at weekends etc etc.
Which meant that most of the buggers suddenly had something urgent to attend to at home on a Friday but were contactable as they had a laptop. The rest of us couldn't possibly have any kit to work from home, ever, despite any caring or disability or any other reasons. (Unless we'd closed your office and forced you to choose between full time home working and redundancy if you couldn't travel 2 hours to your new base office)
2 weeks into lockdown 40,000 staff were suddenly working from home quite successfully. Twas truly miraculous.
Our new office was designed for 80% occupancy, our new contracts specify 2 days a week WFH.
Did he write the note on parchment with a quill ?
More likely on human skin and in blood.
Rees mogg always reminds me of Himmler.
Moggs stunt is just that
Pure pre-election gammon bait
Best ignored
Rees mogg always reminds me of Himmler.
It's the glasses isn't it?
Moggs stunt is just that
Pure pre-election gammon
The sad fact is that it works, and he knows it.
It just galvanises the impression with the rich, senile old racists that the entire public sector is staffed by Jeremy Corbyn lookalikes who sit around reading poetry and eating organic hummus all day, before getting their Union reps to agitate to go on strike
And these *ers all go out and vote Tory, every *ing time on the strength of bollocks like this
It’s the glasses isn’t it?
Yup, and the self assured expression of smug arrogance. He has it to a T.
argee
Full MemberGood to see Rees-Mogg doing his best to motivate those around him
Well he's got time to spare, having absolutely completed his day job and found loads of brexit wins.
Rees mogg always reminds me of Himmler.
There's a chilling video of him justifying the British use of concentration camps in the Boer war (another great British invention we gave to the world)
And these *ers all go out and vote Tory, every *ing time on the strength of bollocks like this
Exactly what I said to the wife when some old buffer in the audience was defending Boris on Question time a while back.
How many who bitch and moan don’t bother to vote
Well he’s got time to spare, having absolutely completed his day job and found loads of brexit wins.
Oh, do go on Minister for Brexshit wins, do tell us...
I despise all of this shower of ****s with a passion, but Rees Mogg is the one who you’d really like half an hour with in a locked room with some medieval torture implements, isn’t he?
Half an hour wouldn't be long enough to inflict on him the amount of pain he's inflicted on the entire country. Several days...
His levels of smug, superior, smarmy, self-satisfaction are absolutely off the scale
And yet just like the rest of them, he's thick as mince. His sister, who was briefly an MEP, is also a thoroughly nasty and very stupid individual. Maybe not quite up there with Priti Patel for pure evil but certainly well up alongside her in the stupidity stakes.
British use of concentration camps in the Boer war (another great British invention we gave to the world)
Union and Confederate forces used them in the American civil war.
Union and Confederate forces used them in the American civil war.
POW Camps surely unless you have evidence of non combatants on mass being interned ?
Oh, do go on Minister for Brexshit wins, do tell us…
Ohh well apparently you wouldn’t have been able to supply help to the Ukrainians unless of Brexit.
Does irk me the fact that they have to lie about every Brexit benefit an x years in there’s no real poster child win.
Good to see Rees-Mogg doing his best to motivate those around him
The simpering pampered half wit born into a pile of cash, handed every privileged, and by his own admission was too lazy to even change the nappies of his many children, who clearly has time enough on his hands to pin labels to empty chairs probably isn't best placed to lecture other people about doing a days work.
British use of concentration camps in the Boer war (another great British invention we gave to the world)
Union and Confederate forces used them in the American civil war.
POW Camps surely unless you have evidence of non combatants on mass being interned ?
Same continent, but surely ‘Indian’ (First Nations) reservations pre-dated the Boer war and ‘concentrated’ non combatants?
Edit: but Binners has it, loathsome individual is the Mogg.
Fixed penalty notices may not count as a criminal record
Says something about the world when Johnson picks up a criminal record for attending a party but gets off scott-free with providing a journalist's personal details to his mate so he could have the shit kicked out of him.
The story about Angela Raynor in the Mail on Sunday hints at a certain desperation at that rag and on the Tory benches. Absolutely pathetic, misogynist crap.
(I won't link it...)
Rees Hogg hard at work
Police fines for the garden party, but not for Boris? The one we have a photo of him attending?
Edit I love auto correct, I'm keeping that.
Even Johnson is calling out the Rayner 'story'...
https://news.sky.com/story/angela-rayner-and-boris-johnson-condemn-sexist-and-misogynistic-mail-on-sunday-article-claiming-tory-mps-accuse-her-of-basic-instinct-ploy-to-distract-pm-12597729
As is Nadine Dorries.... check both tweets for sincerity
johnson and dorries - sincerity personified...
I'd heard reference to the Rayner story but had avoided going looking for it - should have known the Mail was involved.
Sincere or not, Boris's response was well done, so presumably not from him personally.
Feeding below the belt nonsense stories to the press, with plausible deniability, and then distancing yourself from those stories once they've left their stain... it's almost like they've reopened their election playbook at a well thumbed page.
Sincere or not, Boris’s response was [s]well done, so presumably not from him personally.[/s] identical to the tweet from Nadine
FTFY.
Someone in central Comms has realised how appalling badly that played and how it's been taken to pieces in the press and some hasty damage limitation tweets have been ordered.
Somehow "woman moves legs, distracts Boris" isn't quite the story they thought they'd get. Proper Mail level of "journalism" though. Misogyny, sexism and distraction all in one story.
I reckon the backbenchers have seem enough polling and received enough grief from their constituents that the round is chambered and the hammer cocked.
They'll do fatso in after the locals. They need a new leader with enough time before the next GE, but why would you start a new leader's scorecard with a shellacking in the locals?
This shitshow have run out of options. Sure they can stoke up a bit of racist/xenophobic shit when they want, but I don't think it will be enough now. People are seeing places shut (it's all down to covid the blue rinsers shout even though the proprietors cite covid as one factor amongst many - supply chain issues, cost of living and lack of labour).
And the one thing guaranteed to upset the miserable old gits is the idea that whilst they were cocooned up in their bungalows, only daring to open the curtains long enough to do a bit of informing, Bozo was taking the piss living it up like the crass arsehole he is.
Johnson will not be leader at the next GE. The best solution by far is to let him take the fall for the locals and give someone else as clean and long a run as possible. Obviously we could well end up with someone who is a less incompetent bastard, but that is for later.
I hope that in a few years time we are treated to shaky camera phone footage of Johnson going through the bins in piss-stained trousers, but it is more likely he will end up living in some Black Sea resort in a life of undeserved luxury.
The timing is the issue. More shit is likely to happen. So an alternative is to let all that happen to Johnson and install a new leader so the GE happens during the honeymoon period and before any shit can be laid at their door. A tricky call I would say.
Nicely put by Stewart Lee (again).
But Johnson’s Rwanda Solution did give the Brexit government the opportunity to do what it does best, namely creating new and blameless enemies for the asset-stripped and non-specifically aggrieved British public to hate, Nineteen Eighty-Four-style, instead of them hating Johnson and his shameless cabal of outright liars and thieves as they ought to.
But I don't think it will be enough. People who vote Tory post-Brexit and with Johnson at the helm do not give a shit what happens to anyone who isn't from Englandshire. What does affect them is the affront to their self righteousness that 'Partygate' provides.
They’ll do fatso in after the locals
Devastatingly well put
Imagine if Angela Rayner had maybe 6, 7 or 8 children by different men, cavorted with a male pole dancer, left her husband when he was ill, shacked up with a chap 20 odd years younger and then had two more children? Now, there's a story
Meanwhile, in other news...
"Andrew Bridgen in brexity lout turns out to be liar and a really shit bloke shocker".
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20075557.andrew-bridgen-tory-mp-lied-conduct-family-feud/
Lovely stuff. 😆
Imagine if Angela Rayner had maybe 6, 7 or 8 children by different men, cavorted with a male pole dancer, left her husband when he was ill, shacked up with a chap 20 odd years younger and then had two more children? Now, there’s a story
Aye, the double standards are off the ****ing scale.
Aye, the double standards are off the **** scale.
Yeah, but she's unpatriotic, remember?
^^^^
Oh my god. Give me a 20 yard run up and I could launch myself in a knee high, two footed lunge through that pile of shit.
I'm even willing to risk being crushed by the 17 stones of useless offal in the aftermath. I reckon I could hit him hard enough to be through and out the other side though.
"Now clap for the NHS, you ****".
Quesyis how messy will leadership contest get ?
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1518351205017260035?t=CoHGVoldx_Dm_T5lmrTcWw&s=19
dannyh, oops I mean gardentigger - bridgen is a known liar and arse.
A judge has now confirmed and put it on the record.
Got any holibobs coming up?
Got any holibobs coming up?
Just got back from a long weekend away, thanks.
This dannyh person must have riled up a few of the STW Untouchables Clique from what I can tell. Not really my concern.
🤷♂️
What's the point of that picture? If anything, it looks like he's trying to improve his fitness by doing some exercise, and for that (alone) he gets a modicum of respect from me -don't shame him for that.
Shame him for being a mendacious self-interested kleptocrat.
For me it's the enormous flamingo shorts that amuse me. But I wouldn't want to ridicule anyone for exercising. No matter how much I utterly despise them.
I thought the photo was because he had his legs out. Distracting people.
It's all part of the "I'm just a regular guy who doesn't have all the gear like all us other normal blokes for whom salad is effeminate" bullshit.
A ****y bit of distraction. As always, basically.
The act is wearing thin, though, and the unmistakable sound of sharpening knives is getting louder.
Good.