I’m sure if he can get out of it, he will, but I imagine if he doesn’t do it then there might well be a shortage of volunteers to replace him
So it’ll end up being Steve Barclay, who he’s sent to make awkward statements before when Johnson wanted to hide
Say Keir Starmer nailed Johnson and became Prime Minister… how much do you reckon would change?
Not only in terms of quality of life for us commoners here in the UK, but in terms of foreign policy and such…
Without rising to the bait (too much) wasn't Boris meant to be leveling us proles up at some point? When was that happening exactly?
Massive Change is always promised and if we're lucky minor increments delivered.
BoJos tenure has been rather regressive (IMO) despite the brexiteers dreaming they've not scored much more than they would if May had stayed.
So whoever follows now has a pretty low bar to clear. I reckon SKS would be better than the current PM but there is a separate thread with its own exclamation mark and everything for you to spout further on SKS if you want.
Without rising to the bait (too much) wasn’t Boris meant to be leveling us proles up at some point? When was that happening exactly?
Probably average folks idea of the 'level' and Johnson's are two different places..., his been a bit further 'down' than those that were sucked in by him, or it was as simple as:
A Johnson promise is just a lie that hasn't happened yet.
And… all this bumping it up to a legal issue is utterly irrelevant anyway… he told us not to socialise, not to meet up with loved ones unless we lived with them, not to see our dying relatives, not to travel to their funerals if they weren’t local… and he and his team socialised, and he lied to cover it up. He is liar. He couldn’t live up to even the easiest bit of the rules he asked us all to. He should go. What the Met has to say about it is irrelevant. He’s taken us all for mugs.
Yep it’s a clever and calculated move of changing the focus, as they seem to love to do, don’t forget also how the focus was also changed to the drinking culture.
A lot of people knew about the parties and kept stumm, methinks it’s more than him that’s riding you.
Ah levelling up, there’s a audit thing just out about that, and in the usual Borwellian fashion it’s not going to well in the real world.
And my ex-kipper Tory MP Jenkinson is gleefully re-tweeting the Saville comments. It’ll probably shore up the core tory support though.
MPs need to be a little careful here.
Boris seems to have used Parliamentary Privilege to make the allegation. Even Raab had the brains/legal advice to say in a TV interview that he would not and could not repeat it (presumably as he didn't have the protection of Parliamentary Privilege.)
I do wonder exactly which knife Starmer is going to twist in PMQs, or if he's going to bottle it as he has done in the past. Certainly if Boris wants to go down the Saville route again, Starmer should be asking him to repeat the allegation outside the House.
Certainly if Boris wants to go down the Saville route again, Starmer should be asking him to repeat the allegation outside the House.
Or just quote Johnsons own words on historical sex offence inquiries. He is being the typical turd projecting his own failings onto others.
Ah levelling up, there’s a audit thing just out about that, and in the usual Borwellian fashion it’s not going to well in the real world.
Looks like its working just fine from what I can see. Or do you mean doing that its not doing what the name implies vs throwing money at areas which vote tory in good old pork barrel politics.
Without rising to the bait (too much) wasn’t Boris meant to be leveling us proles up at some point? When was that happening exactly?
Today!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60216307
Gove has come off the coke long enough to knock up a report that looks like it was done by a sixth-former pulling an all-nighter. Lots of re-announced policies, very little new money, fluffy deadlines with no clear pathway or milestones.
I mean: "Improve 'well-being' in every area of the UK"
WTAF does that mean? How will it be measured? What's the success marker?
I wont link it, but even the DM writing about how Johnson is being mocked by global media now. His whole presser in Ukraine was foreign press asking him how he has any moral authority & why he can be believed/trusted.
Five Live are reporting that the full Sue Gray report has been published.
So Downing Street has it. I wonder how many minutes it'll take for it to be leaked, because lets be honest; thats the only way we'll get to see it?
EDIT: They've now apologised, retracted that and said it hasn't actually been published
Or just quote Johnsons own words on historical sex offence inquiries. He is being the typical turd projecting his own failings onto others.
Tempting, but I suspect lowering himself down to Boris's scummy level loses the moral high ground and increases the chance of losing to experience.
Well I see the whitewash language is starting to come out. When asked about the report he stated 'We will release what we can when etc etc'. The keyword in his entire statement is 'Can' as in the damning parts will be censored.
the daily fail don't seem to be getting bored of it, running with PM linked to 6 parties.... But I think they are seeing if they can get Johnson to push his wife under the bus for shits and giggles (as they and there readership don't like her)
Well I see the whitewash language is starting to come out. When asked about the report he stated ‘We will release what we can when etc etc’. The keyword in his entire statement is ‘Can’ as in the damning parts will be censored.
I watched Johnson answer that question last night and also noted that the only word that mattered was 'can'.
They clearly have absolutely no intention of releasing anything but a scrubbed and cleaned version of any final report. The only chance we'll get to see it is through a leak
Is it worth reporting tweets to Twitter as misinformation?
Well Trump was banned from the platform for repeatedly posting fake news
Lia Nici, the Tory MP for Grimsby is presently on the MP's panel on Five Live
She has just made a statement that when Keir Starmer visited her constituency last week, before Boris's statement in parliament, that her constituents didn't mention parties at all, but did all mention the failure of Keir Starmer to prosecute Jimmy Saville.
Yeah, right. Totally believable.
When asked to repeat the actual accusation that Johnson made herself, she did the Nadine Dorries defence "well I don't know all the facts...".
So there you have it. It looks like this nonsense is now a clear party tactic, probably briefed directly from central office, being repeated by Tory MPs to smear Starmer.
Thats the level to which they've now sunk to. It's not even gutter level. Its way, way below that. The depressing thing is that I suspect it'll work with his thick-as-mince Brexity base, which is exactly why they're doing it
What’s the success marker?
Apparently:
Among the 12 missions are promises to refocus education spending on disadvantaged parts of the country and eliminate illiteracy and innumeracy; bring the rest of the country's public transport closer to London standards, and provide access to 5G broadband for the "large majority" of households.
So Your kids will be taught to read, you'll be able to catch a bus, and you'll be able to tweet/Tic-Tok about it all...
So 'levelling up' to ~1960s standard infrastructure & public services, with a data plan bolted on...
Binners- you've beaten me to it about lia nici.
Clear evidence that tories are scraping ths bottom of the barrel to find johnson apologists.
She is ignorant and thick as pig shit.
As for Starmer/savile being the hot topic in grimsby last week - utter bollocks.
What proportion of the population even knew that Starmer was head of CPS when savile investigation was ongoing?
They've already rolled back on spending on education and transport in the North (especially here in West Yorkshire). Not sure anyone is bothered about 5G here yet. More concerned about food and heating.
EDIT: They’ve now apologised, retracted that and said it hasn’t actually been published
The main issue appears to have been not understanding the meaning of the word "publish".
She has just made a statement that when Keir Starmer visited her constituency last week, before Boris’s statement in parliament, that her constituents didn’t mention parties at all, but did all mention the failure of Keir Starmer to prosecute Jimmy Saville.
Funny how an MP I saw on Twitter yesterday made the same comment.
Before Johnson said it, I can't remember hearing/reading even the most rabid Tory bot commenting. Although maybe I need to go and look at Twitter today...
There's bound to be a concerted effort to distract and divide; after all, it is our system of governance we're talking about...
Beyond that, this is a key point; many will be doing all they can to defend Boris, so as to protect themselves down the line
A lot of people knew about the parties and kept stumm, methinks it’s more than him that’s riding you.
Liar nisi ?
I offer up my despicable MP as even worse than Johnson in a mini-me sort of way.
No one on the Bassetlaw doorstep is talking about Jimmy Saville. Besides he used hang around with Thatcher anyway.
They are talking about the trashed high street economy, and lack of jobs and good services you numbskull.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1488489465123418116?t=dtQh5NSwjnHgkv7Wz4djCQ&s=19
No surprise, he's got form on being a complete dick e.g. BLM, taking the knee etc. etc.
Just read your comments about Lia Nici on the previous page binners and and advert for pizza popped up right above your post.
Well I guess bottle of beergate failed so they're going full q-anon with this one.
Someone should remind Johnson and his lackies that the intel wasn't 100 percent with that one either.
Not sure now is the time to be criticising the MET
But Ms Patel said the force had "problems" with its culture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60229869
There is a risk here that too much focus on the Savile lie will have the effect of diverting attention from the main issue, that the PM is a liar, a law breaker and has no respect for the public or the sufferings imposed by his government over the last two years.
SKS needs to rise above it, not engage and keep banging the same drum, this isn't about fictional things the opposition leader didn't do ~20 years ago it's about what the PM did do ~20 months ago and subsequently denied...
I really can't fathom why more letters haven't been submitted yet...
In other news, while Gove announces his Levelling up bullshit, another Tory MP gives a typical example of their attitude to the north, when asked about the rail investment that was promised and then cancelled. Could you be any more patronising?
https://twitter.com/robbrown/status/1488891067688787978?s=20&t=8sZE91SShD296i_LUUZJQA
Another letter goes in…..
I thought the Tories were going to save this particular smear for general election time, whenever that might be.
The Tories were bound to pull this dead cat out of the bag at some point. That they have done it now and employed it as such an obvious deflection is probably a relief for Starmer.
All it really achieved was to set more than a few Tory MP's stomachs churning.
Though it does beg the question; 'If this is the bottom of the barrel, what lies beneath?'
And right on cue Karl McCartney answers the question 'what lies beneath the bottom of the barrel.'
Quid pro quo.
Though when asked wether he understands the meaning of the phrase 'don't bite the hand that feeds', Andy Burnham might have done better to have answered with;
'No I don't, what do you mean exactly?'.
I think that is the kind of answer Starmer would have given and it makes me think that that's why he is the best choice of Labour leader right now. I am less ambivalent than I was.
karl mccartney?
MP for adjoining constituency; his pearls of wisdom often pop-up on the lincolnite and lincolnshire live.
Another sycophant who's thick as pig shit and, as can be seen ^^^ spouts bollocks.
Another one, hopefully some momentum now
Is Nadine pissed?
She’s definitely enhanced…
Posted 1 day ago
Apparently this has been explained and she was in fact "constantly swaying due to attempting to stay upright on a sinking ship" 😉
She was just trying to look at the issues from lots of different points of view.
Goves much trailed levelling up announcement didn’t even make the lead article in the BBC North West news. That’s how utterly devoid of substance it was.
Just some tiny sums of re-announced funding and… erm… errrr…
As Lisa Nandy said in reply when he announced it: “seriously?… is that it?!”
I think the whole north of England just collectively rolled its eyes
Well done Mikey!
I think the whole north of England just collectively rolled its eyes
They asked some old girl on the news this morning about what she thought of Gove's plan to level up the transport infrastructure to match that of London.....
She replied " oh great so that means we will have to pay to drive into the centre of Middlesbrough then"
She's probably right and they will say well you asked for it 😉
Once the Tory's backs are up , be prepared for the Political equivalent of the "punishment pass"
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You are Ian Hislop and I claim my 5 pounds!
MCTD - if only but your fiver is in the post anyway.
Will be in magazine emporium to pick up my copy first thing in morning!
