Not sure now is the time to be criticising the MET
is that a critisism or a thinly veiled threat to 'sort' out the culture if those pesky investigations don't go well for the Tories?
But she said she had confidence in Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick to make the changes that were required.
much like every football team owner have confidence in their manager after the run of 15 games without a win.
Ian Hislop’s work in the last few days may well have earned Private Eye a new subscriber in the last few days!
More than one.
Boris has told Sun he's going to call an election in '23.
Rather optimistic at this stage but I'm all for him staying on in the short term.
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That election ‘23 story… high risk, no? Could push MPs into turning on him sooner.
Dead cat, Shirley...?
Yesterday's wordle was "moist". I wonder if they knew about that pic in advance...
Peston corrected himself and said they meant 24 for the election on tv last night
🤮🤮 >>stops playing Wordle<<<
That pic of dorres has put me off my breakfast, and probably my lunch too
Ah, but she looooooooves him!
She recognises a fellow low performing alcoholic
https://twitter.com/andyhazeldine64/status/1488971766450040833
this one is more disturbing ....sound on
The Independent are saying that the ONS told Boris not to use the claim about more people being in work now than before Covid because it isn’t true well before he used them in PMQs yesterday.
I’d like to rant & shout into the internet to feel better but its well beyond that.
That pic of Dorries reminded me of the old Gold Blend adverts. What was the line?
"Remember Paris...."
Or something like that.
He definitely has, hasn't he?
*shudders*
I expect there were. 🤢
Well I for one didn't know that Kay Burley was a deputy Russian UN ambassador.
Kay is good, but maybe not that good.
Sky has the correct Deputy Ambassador: https://news.sky.com/story/senior-russian-diplomat-we-dont-trust-british-diplomacy-its-worthless-12530767
We're probably now about as credible as Russia on the international stage nowadays. Probably less so
It was telling that the overseas press didn't even bother asking Boris Johnson any questions in his disappearing act Ukraine press conference the other day, just directing questions to the Ukranian President instead. All the UK press asked him about what party's, obviously.
Very Churchillian
How much Russian money is there in London? Rather a lot, no?
We’re probably now about as credible as Russia on the international stage nowadays.
Perhaps should be
We’re a Russian vassal state on the international stage nowadays.
Whilst many of the familiar Tory MP's shy away from the cameras as they weigh up their options it's thrown the spotlight on the new intake, eager to toady up to the dear leader.
Going by the faces that are getting the airtime at the moment, the Tory party looks more like the National Front or the BNP. The common character trait is spitefull thuggishness and in relation to comments on another thread about the influence of social media, they frame their arguments and deliver their rhetoric like they're arguing on Facebook.
The longer Johnson clings on, the more these yobs will become the face of the Conservative Party. I bet there's more than a few Tory MP's who would rather lose the next GE and rebuild the party in a traditional one nation conservative mould. That could be a terrible risk for them, the worry being that the right wing takeover will preside but I'm sure it's crossed their minds.
In places like the home counties where I grew up, there's a large constituency of small c conservatives who actually have a threshold for the repugnant. Are the Tories are in danger of taking them for granted in the same way as Labour did with the red wall constituencies?
As much as the Liberal Democrats are seen as an irrelevance, they frequently come second in those constituencies. A pact with Labour could make some of those seats vulnerable.
Some of the new intake have been the first to call Johnson out as well.
Possibly less than 10 more letters required, aparrently.
How much Russian money is there in London? Rather a lot, no?
It's everywhere, not just London. I used to go to Zurich a lot with work and the number of large black German made executive cars with Russian reg plates is incredible. Usually to be found parked outside private banks, parked next to the Mercedes Vito people carriers full of Chinese people with cases of cash.
Some of the new intake have been the first to call Johnson out as well.
Because they're all sat on paper-thin majorities. They won their seats, but not by much, so they're looking at last in/first out. My own new Tory MP has a majority of 100. I'd be twitchy if I was him. I can't se him writing a letter though. He's a proper Brexit Boris fan boi
Channel 4 were saying that on present polling in the north, all but 3 of the 'Red Wall' constituencies would return to labour if there were an election tomorrow. Thats going to give you something of a different viewpoint to Southern MPs sat on huge majorities
Johnsons head of policy has just resigned over Boris Johnson’s Jimmy Savile attack on Keir Starmer, with a pretty damning letter
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1489259974333063176?s=20&t=-GxkxO-ueVaumr7nHKzldg
I wonder if that will provoke any more letters to the 1922
The person who doesn't believe in institutional racism put in charge of the investigation into institutional racism? Shame to see her leave.
Anyone still on board is looking at risk of going down with the ship.
Yeah, I don't think anyone who's been close to Johnson for a long period of time is going to have a record that many of us would approve of. It's still all part of the abandonment of Johnson, as things get increasingly desperate and he thrashes about and looks for new lows in red meat attack lines to shore himself up.
Munira Mirza: Another one of the old Revolutionary Communist Party who seem to have migrated to the tories. The RCP being big provo supporters bitd - but we don’t mention that because Corbyn supports terrorists.
I think it must have an impact; I think we'll get to the required number of letters in the next week if bad new stories keep coming. I wonder if any outlets are holding something back to sell the weekend papers? Originally I thoguht even if a VONC was held he'd never lose but I'm not so sure now. If one is called and they know its the only oppurtunity to get rid of him for a year will they really want to risk him coming good?
Part of me hours there is a vonc and that he wins.
He will be unable to do anything in terms of policies and he will damage the tories even more.
Hopeful thoughts i appreciate
Once you’ve got 54+ MPs against you, it’s a downward slope whether you win the VONC or not.
I think losing such a central senior advisor in a very public rebuke of his judgement is big. Worse for him than the 11 MPs who have spoken out so far.
When does a letter to Graham Brady expire?
Going by the faces that are getting the airtime at the moment, the Tory party looks more like the National Front or the BNP.
Think you missed an E out there
From here:
1. The current rules
The current rules for electing the leader of the Conservative Party were
introduced in 1998. A leadership contest can be triggered in two ways:
• If 15% of Conservative MPs write to the Chairman of the 1922
Committee saying they no longer have confidence in the leader of
the Conservative Party, or
• if the current leader resigns.
In brief, the election system consists of two stages:
• Stage 1 - Conservative Members of Parliament select a choice of
two candidates to present to the membership of the whole Party.
• Stage 2- Party members vote, on a "one member one vote" basis,
for their preferred candidate from a shortlist of two.
The rules and procedures for stage 1 are the responsibility of the 1922
Committee. The 1922 Committee is a committee of backbench
Conservative MPs that meets weekly when the Commons is sitting (see
section 4). Its chair is elected by Committee members.
The detailed rules for stage 1 are not published and are a matter for the
1922 Committee Executive to agree in consultation with the
Conservative Party Board. In the event of a contest the Chairman will
announce the procedure and timetable to be followed.
So in relation to
When does a letter to Graham Brady expire?
We don't know but I imagine they have to be expressly withdrawn. "Not having confidence" is a state of affairs, not an event.
Another one of the old Revolutionary Communist Party who seem to have migrated to the tories.
Wonder if she will follow Claire Fox to the lords. It was always amusing to see the right wing nuts ranting about communism and Corbyn when Johnson had several RCP senior members around him.
IIRC once the threshold has been reached Graham Brady then has to go round and check that everyone who submitted still stands by their decision.
We’re probably now about as credible as Russia on the international stage nowadays. Probably less so
Who'd have thought that negotiating in bad faith for years then threatening to break an international treaty could undermine your reputation for diplomatic honesty?
I got a reply from my MP today - Anne Marie Morris, yes, that one.
As things stand she is of the opinion the the clown Johnson should move on.
Both the people who have resigned from the No.10 unit recently (so far)are women. As Nikki Da Costa- ex head of legislative affairs unit for May and Johnson said on Twitter it’s not a good look for them to replace Mirza so quickly- I have worked in institutions like that and it shows a very one way concept of loyalty
Nikki da Costa
@nmdacosta
I like Andrew a lot so this is no comment on him, but it's not like a ministerial vacancy when this needed to be rushed out. So it is also a message of brutality, and indicative of a No10 operation that says whenever a good colleague is lost 'Next'.
