I’m starting to think this country is becoming hateful enough that I want to leave it.
Which is kind of an own goal for the brexiteers, whilst pretending to be kicking out the 'illegals' but 'not realy', they've effectivley locked in a lot of UK citizens that can't leave now, even if they wanted to.
The Sack has been sewn by the racists, let the rats fight!
Operation "Red Meat" isn't it...
- tough on the "work shy" (otherwise know as lower income job hunters)
- (pretend to) mobilise the military to "protect our borders"
- keep saying we only have vaccines because we're not in the EU
- get your hard hats on and walk around the grounds of some supportive big business
- remind everyone they now have their "freedom" (mask wearing not enforced by law)
Operation "Save Big Dog" next...
- scrub the internal report so that everyone but Johnson takes the flak
- "sack" some civil servants from no10 & Cabinet Office (redeploy them in the FCO)
- welcome the "clearing of PM" when police investigation falls short
- keep saying that the public want to move on, and the opposition needs to stop banging on
London is also a lucrative place for Russia to do business and play. “Three beards” Lebedev is a friend of his and he (Johnson) likely knows that Putin has dirt on him, so I genuinely doubt he’ll do anything other than bluster about sending troops. Weapons, sure. Training, yeah. First sign of trouble?
I wouldn't doubt that a little bit of sabre rattling on the border of Ukraine to create the tension to keep a limping lame-duck PM in office and a country continually politically paralysed by small differences..... is the whole point of the exercise for Putin just now.
We've all seen the heavily redacted government report into Russian interference in UK politics.
There were more scrubbed out lines than there was content.
If that doesn't tell you something, then, well...
Now caught in another lie over evacuating dogs from Afghanistan. a pointless lie at that as he probably would have got public support for it
Boris… He’s basically on the campaign trail isn’t he?
He’s never come off it,it’s the only thing he’s good at.
Which is kind of an own goal for the brexiteers, whilst pretending to be kicking out the ‘illegals’ but ‘not realy’, they’ve effectivley locked in a lot of UK citizens that can’t leave now, even if they wanted to.
Yep,the days of just rocking up in Spain is long gone, unless you got the coin.
We’ve all seen the heavily redacted government report into Russian interference in UK politics.
Wasn’t the telling thing that they didn’t actively investigate the Russian interference in the Russia report 🙂
The UK Government have actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered. We were told that they hadn’t seen any evidence, but that is meaningless if they hadn’t looked for it.
Which is kind of an own goal for the brexiteers, whilst pretending to be kicking out the ‘illegals’ but ‘not realy’,
There's a good program in TV about the Caribbean - vested interest, wifes family is Bajan - and there's a thing called "Blaxit" going on currently, where a lot of black Londoners our going back "home" to get out of dodge.
I’m starting to think this country is becoming hateful enough that I want to leave it
Part of the trouble is that we are awash with corrupt Russian and Middle Eastern oligarch cash, and culturally ripe for the kind of Koch brothers funded anti-science Trumpian borderline-far-right US culture wars BS.
It's a heady and horrific mix and we can see our democracy and public institutions being degraded right in front of us. It's not just the UK but we are particularly bad IMO.
The fact that boorish moron is an MP (and the PM of course) is a good indicator of where we're at.
Can’t believe that guy is an MP
Doesn’t he represent the most racist and moronic Brexity constituency in the country?
He’s a perfect fit then, no?
I’m starting to think this country is becoming hateful enough that I want to leave it.
Mrs DB keeps reminding me whilst I’m whittering away about Boris on Twitter is that he’s the best thing for Scottish Independence and the longer he’s PM, the more likely it will become reality. It would be wonderfully ironic that his ‘greatest’ achievement as a populist flag-shagger is the break-up of the UK. BTW you won’t be the first person to leave England for Scotland
After that fat joke I was really hoping he’d march across the chamber and stick one on Johnson.
Aren't all politicians supposed to have thick skins?
I wonder how many Conservative voters would vote for Putin if given the chance?
I know I won't vote for CCP.
Liz is getting a bit previous.
Clearly thinks she’s PM already
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1486781634200358915?s=21
Her little jolly to Australia cost us muggins taxpayers half a million quid just for the plane.
I wonder how much her Downing Street wallpaper will cost and who’ll be paying for it?
There's quite a few Tories "Shopping for Wallpaper" at the moment..
Well… getting their interior designers to ‘shop for wallpaper’
You know what it's like, when you do a load of DIY and decorating them a change of circumstance leads to a move.
I imagine Boris is thinking "bloody he'll, I've just spent an effing fortune (all money is his money) sprucing the place up, all those hours looking through the catalogues and arguing with Carrie and all for nothing, I'm not going to get the chance to enjoy my mini Versailles"
Perhaps they can have a whip round and get him a wallpaper steamer as a leaving present.
Truss is terrible in front of a camera and she was hardly being pressed there...
I still want her to replace Boris.
I'm with the Truss.👍
Truss has had a tweet unearthed where she says money should be saved of junkets like that
She really is vile.
Also see her insistence on using a pals very expensive restaurant rather than the usual sort of place to entertain. Snout firmly in the trough
Fake account Kimbers.
I just twigged
New photos show Boris drinking with the Berkeley Hunt
What a Berk 🙂
This is the thing with the 'it was only ten minutes' defence/excuse/bullshit. It was only ten minutes on one occasion, only not knowing he was at a party was just another occasion, only his dad waltzing off on his holibags during a travel ban on that occasion. He presided over catastrophic mass infection and death. But it was only death at one at a time. If we make enough noise about defending this weeks transgression maybe we'll forget about last weeks one, and all the others. Lets face it theres too many of them to remember.
I want my tax back on those eyebrows let alone the flight. Does bifurcating make you speak out of the side of your mouth or has she been eating disco biscuits?
Look at her! Stepping off that plane like Judith ****ing Chalmers
I’ve just spanked half a million quid of your money on this, peasants!
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More lies, that model of aircraft doesn't carry enough fuel to go far enough, so any 'time-saving' created by leaving at short notice is cancelled out by stops for refuelling.
Took her 9 hours longer to get to Oz than it would have on a scheduled Qantas for this very reason.
It seems to have fallen off the front pages. Alex is going to just ride this out, isn't he!!!
That photo looks dodgy. It's like she's living in an Instagram dream but lacking the pose, pout, makeup and a bazillion "likes" (apart from the Tory faithful who are still soiling their screens looking at her recent Thatcher-esque photo shoot)
It’s like she’s living in an Instagram dream
What irks me is that it’s on our coin.
Spaffing money up the wall like no tomorrow 🙁
Delay, delay……….
Yup... keep dragging it out 'till the public are bored, and promising to "move on" starts to look like you're burying all this for their benefit, not your own. Could it be more transparent?
Me too!!!!! For a start it exists.........
It seems to have fallen off the front pages. Alex is going to just ride this out, isn’t he!!!
That’s been the plan from the off. He’s completely shameless!
Cressida really has played an absolute blinder for him this week though.
Now all he has to bank on is Tory backbenchers being too spineless to actually call a VONC - probably a safe bet now - and he’s home and dry and we’re all stuck with the brazen **** for the next couple of years
Breaking: The Met Police has asked an internal inquiry into alleged lockdown parties at No 10 to make "minimal reference" to any events it is investigating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60166997
Yep, you'd be foolish to bet against him being PM at the next election now. Might look good for the chance of a non-Conservative PM after the next election to some... but I think boundary changes, voterID, and another round of pork barrel political promises all need to to be added into that calculation. A lot of deck stacking is going to happen in the next few years. Fully expect the Tory share of the vote to drop, and them still end up the largest party... if not getting an out right majority. And boy... will Johnson rub that in all our faces if he gets a second term... there's a lot more breaking of Britain he can still carry out while pulling that telltale grin.
And there you go.
Met have asked grey to limit reporting on things they are investigating.
It'll blow over.
It looks like the Sue Grey report is going to be neutered by the Met to take out any reference to Downing Street parties (so what's the point of even publishing it?)
What do we reckon after that? A few more weeks 'investigation', a few junior civil servants are issued with some £100 fines and are subsequently sacked, and Boris and chums are all exonerated?
Move along now... nothing to see here.
A very British establishment stitch up
It seems to have fallen off the front pages. Alex is going to just ride this out, isn’t he!!!
I thought he'd do so all the way through the story, he has enough cards to play that he can delay it enough to just go away. Expect lots of other stories to come out over the next week in an attempt to push the report out of the way, looking at the current stories I'd say a delay in the NI hike is on the cards at least. The rest will be a mix of old stuff rehashed and new ones that have no hope of being delivered.
It's so predictable. Does anyone remember that they were found guilty of breaking the law with regards to the PPI contracts? We might but a lot of the general public didj t even see the story, let alone recall it!
We're one step closer to being a broken democracy.
We’re one step closer to being a broken democracy.
That ship has already sailed.
We're having a live lesson in what happens when the checks and balances of your 'constitution' are entirely dependent on the goodwill of those in power, and when you get a bunch of shysters like this lot who are happy to ride roughshod over it, then theres not much anyone can do to stop them
A very British establishment stitch up
Not really a shock is it.
Because that's what the establishment do.
I can remember the good old days when people on here thought wallpaper was going to bring down the government.
I won't consider it completely broken until we either no longer have elections or the result of one is ignored, until then we still have hope of getting them out of office. If the electorate vote them in next time then that's a sign of a broken Britain, taking into account boundary changes etc.
Struggling to see a way out of all of this but I refuse to give up just yet.
The Met are making themselves look ridiculous
