Wonderful Boycott style flat bat defense from Ellis. Trouble is flat bat defense never wins anything - the best you can hope for is a draw. Maybe Botham will appear to run him out?
Marina Hyde on her usual excellent form.
Not a fan of the Met Police, but were the people at the party already in the building? You let them in to work, you let them out when they finish, not sure they stand at every door checking what people are up to.
And if your focus is watching out for armed nutters, the reasons for a bunch of staff heading into the garden probably aren't high on your priority list.
I hadn't realised the email invite had gone out from the PPS. As a civil servant, that's ****ing embarrassing.
hands, face, drinks at my place.
Needs more credit
I have always viewed Borris as a real Churchillian leader gifted to us for troubled times. For a while now, I have felt a bit of unease creeping in. But these latest escapees are the last straw. I don't mind admitting now that he may not be the man of steadfast, integrity and courage I had assumed.
borderline genius
Needs more credit
I stole it off twitter 🙂
Remember that time when Alistair Carmichael leaked a memo, denied leaking the memo, called for an enquiry into who leaked the memo, watched as public money was spent on the investigation into who leaked the memo, and then it turned out he'd leaked the memo? That was one of the low-water marks of that particular lib-dem suicide pact and now it's just mainstream policy.
send this to your Tory MP/MSP
I'm sure I would, if I thought he would give a shit about it.
I have always viewed Borris as a real Churchillian leader gifted to us for troubled times. For a while now, I have felt a bit of unease creeping in. But these latest escapees are the last straw. I don’t mind admitting now that he may not be the man of steadfast, integrity and courage I had assumed.
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I have always viewed Borris as a real Churchillian leader gifted to us for troubled times.
The sad reality is this is how people do actually view him... well my tory supporting mother any way. I think the only the resemblance is they are fat, white and old... or pale frail and stale.
I’m sure I would, if I thought he would give a shit about it.
I knew that mine wouldn't give one, but I sent something anyway, just to add to the noise...
Does seem to be not be going away.
I can’t see a way out of this one for him other than stretching the investigation out it out and leaving the job with some excuse ,as much as they’ll want him to take the flack before a new leader I don’t think a everything was within the rules will cut it now.
He’s busy concocting some bullshit reason for not turning up for PMQ’s tomorrow, isn’t he?
I’ll be amazed if he changes the habit of a lifetime and actually faces the music
I’m sure he’ll find an urgent need to visit a vaccination centre (his definite favourite) in Inverness.
I wonder who he’ll get to cover for him? I can’t imagine there’ll be many takers
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Really does feel like the end
Anyone else think he'll sleaze his way out of this?
Gray will let him off coz its house & he just wandered into the garden accidentally with a case of champagne
Keep his head down, ignore it all, bumble along as usual
The Tories will announce free Stella for all Tory constituents and lasers defending every statue, just before the locals and Johnson will be a hero again.
It's all the fault of someone else. I knew it couldn't be Boris.
Good old Telegraph - a beacon of light in these dark times 😂
Well Reynolds is definitely the fall guy then. He’ll be shuffled aside to move this on for a bit.
Jeepers. How empty was the commons on the Tory side?😐
Jeepers. How empty was the commons on the Tory side?
If he couldnt be arsed turning up why should anyone else?
PMQs will be interesting though. If its equally empty he really is just being kept on to get blamed for everything when they switch to a new leader a year and a half or so prior to the election.
They are desperate to keep him in the job until after the May elections (probably keep trotting out the shit about the official investigation) then he will be dumped and the new messiah will be put in place.
Even Kuenssberg is sticking the knife in now ( well as much as she ever would attack a tory)
I was chatting to my daughter today who's in year 6. They watch Newsround in school, and apparently whenever Boris Johnson is on he gets booed. By 10 year olds 🙂
The thing is, how did Kuenssberg not know at the time? "My sources at Downing Street" and all that...
Wait for the video. And then the next event and video, and the next... He's done. Drip...drip... drip... A visitation from the 1922 executive is in order.
Can't see him lasting now.
Yep, can't wait for the video. Apparently someone stuck a go-pro on Larry the Cat.
Larry the Cat need his own show on the BBC, he'd do a better and more insightful job than Laura and that damp squib on News****. Sorry, Newscast or whatever its called.
A visitation from the 1922 executive is in order.
The only issue which concerns the Tory Backbenches is whether Johnson is an asset to them or not. I doubt that there is anything in the recent revelations that has taught them anything about Johnson's personality which they didn't previously know.
The last 3 national opinion polls only gives Labour a 4 percent lead over the Tories which isn't too shabby at all for the government at this stage of the electoral cycle.
The last poll was conducted on Monday so I expect the margin to widened in the coming days for at least a while, depending how much more can be drip fed to the media.
But it's the local elections in May might decide his fate, if things go quiet for a while. Although they are still far enough away for him to recover if nothing more materialises and he has some luck.
I'm starting to think they might want him gone before May to try and avoid such a massive landslide defeat in the local elections.
PMQ's should be entertaining later.
The back benches may want him gone but Johnson will have to be defenestrated. He will not walk away . Same as Trump - he is simply incapable of realising he is in the wrong. What he says IS the truth and what he wants is what will happen.
Have they the guts to "no confidence" him? I don't think so yet. Perhaps after a disaster in May.
Same as Trump – he is simply incapable of realising he is in the wrong. What he says IS the truth and what he wants is what will happen.
100%! Only addition i would make is this also extends the majority of his party too. Boris wont go over this and he will fight another election which i would be extremely surprised if he didn't win. My faith in the public not voting tory is very low.
The only sliver of hope is that the press seem to be all turning against him now. Today's PMQ's are going to be pivotal, not in what happens but in how it is reported.
He's making a statement b4 PMQs
A semi- apology? Or just a desperate attempt at deflection, a load of waffle, wait for investigation
Well if they get the Priti Bill over the line , it’s not like you’ll be able to demonstrate against them or or anything.
I think it lies in the hands of the media if they don’t stop reporting on it Non-stop, on ‘one rule for them one rule for us’, I’m not so sure he can brazenly ride it out as that is pretty much confirming it.
I think Johnson will be gone before the election. I just feel there is a lot more blood to be spilt first especially given the way the best candidate ( Sunak) is too brown for the membership and the other front runner Truss is clearly useless so there will be some resistance to getting rid of Johnson as there is no saviour in sight.
Under tory party rules the MPs get to whittle down the candidates to two thenthe membership votes to chose from those two
so many folk with naked ambition that I very much doubt there would be a "coronation" with only one candidate so it will go to the membership who will vote for the furthest right whitest person. so Truss it is and IMO the tory MPs know in their hearts she would be useless even tho she has the best appeal to the membership
Same as Trump – he is simply incapable of realising he is in the wrong
Nah, I think Johnson knows full well when he's "done wrong" he just doesn't feel he should be blamed for doing so, or held to account for it. I think he thinks that a wholesome enough apology (whether heartfelt or not) should suffice, and if you then still feel hurt by what he's done, then that's your problem not his.
Truss is clearly useless so there will be some resistance to getting rid of Johnson as there is no saviour in sight.
But did she stay away from parties during lockdown is the biggy 🙂
If the media onslaught continues anyone other than BJ will a win, As much as the public love a Tory I don’t think another Barnard castle eye test card can be played.
Nah, I think Johnson knows full well when he’s “done wrong” he just doesn’t feel he should be blamed for doing so, or held to account for it. I think he thinks that a wholesome enough apology
He was doing his best,imagine how bad it would have been under Corbyn.
Nah, I think Johnson knows full well when he’s “done wrong” he just doesn’t feel he should be blamed for doing so, or held to account for it. I think he thinks that a wholesome enough apology (whether heartfelt or not) should suffice, and if you then still feel hurt by what he’s done, then that’s your problem not his.
Yep the one thing about Johnson is he’s not slow in reading the people, he doesn’t care about them but he knows how to play them.
Apparently bojo was lying down in the back of his car this morning to avoid being papped 😂😂😂
What a ****ing embarrassment. Do you think all the other world's PMs take the piss out of him at UN conferences etc? 😅
I Imagine they just ignore him.
