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Carrie Johnson too
where has Cummings gone to
shredding all the evidence of Putins funding for Vote Leave cant take that long!
Nothing it going to happen is it? Labour and the other Parties will make as much noise as they can, but I bet even the moderate(ish) media will drop it once the next round of Russian atrostities is revealed.
The whole thing is very sad really isn't it? Does it really matter where you sit on the political spectrum, but our PM has lied about this, and so many other things to the point it would be farical to think he's even close to being an honest person.
Does a covid fine make you a 'criminal'? In either case, the Prime Minister has been found to have broken an incredibly important law in one of the darkest times in modern history to have a piss up and it's 'no big deal' he'll pay £50 (probably on expenses) and that'll be it, and it's not like he's a dead man walking in the polls either, he could quite easily win another term as PM.
We've lost any sense of shame in the UK.
I reckon Sunak will resign which will be ever interesting regarding Boris NOT resigning.
Which he won't of course.
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
I reckon he will choose to be prosecuted and defend it. He's a pioneer, he can become the first PM to defend a criminal prosecution whilst in office. That will cement his place in history.
to be fair the next Tory ****show will be in the news then
That is exactly how Johnson operates. Every **** up is useful to take attention off the last one. Just keep firing them out 'till fatigue means that the media and voting public alike can't remember or keep their attention on past ones.
Carrie as well.
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
A link/detail please?
Edit : sorry - a bit slow today!
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
Very good… stealing this.
This one will have to keep you going until Boris and Rishi cough up their fine money (or choose to be convicted in court, obviously)
EDIT: <Winks at Dantsw13>
Finally, some politicians with convictions.
That's quite good.
Does it really matter where you sit on the political spectrum, but our PM has lied about this
I think the excuse they will try and use is he didnt know it was against the law and hence didnt lie.
he didnt know it was against the law
The law he enacted, only a couple of months previously...!
Carrie as well.
Keep his wife's name out of your ****ing mouth!
We’ve lost any sense of shame in the UK.
Boris is good at knowing what he can get away with. The trouble is that in the UK there are a lot of people who think (for example):
"everyone" speeds a bit (so it's OK)
"everyone" would shag around given half a chance (so it's OK)
"everyone" would claim a few extra £ on expenses if they could (so it's OK)
"everyone" would tell a few porkies if it got them what they wanted (so it's OK).
I know that not everyone thinks that way but the genius behind this is that somehow Boris has convinced "everyone" that by doing all of the above he is a man of the people. Do a bit of wheelin' 'n' dealin', shag the mistress on the side, take a few undeclared gifts - those are basically things that "everyone" can relate to. The Sun-reading, white-van-man (yes, I'm really stereotyping now!) can relate to things like that.
Multi-millionaires dodging taxes starts to be seen as very unfair though. It's a very elitist thing to do and that usually winds up the stereotypical hard-working, tax-paying, good honest Sun reader.
got to be more than one fine for Johnson if Sunak got one.
Carries took one for the team
Broke the law, lied about it, photos were produced, adapted his lie, grinned like a fool…
Jesus what a bunch of lying, cheating, stealing scumbags this lot are.
Applying the Withnail defence, didn't Sunak attend 'by accident'? What about those Derby students who got fined £10k each? Can they get away with a fifty?
The law he enacted, only a couple of months previously…!
I didnt say it was convincing but just the line that I think will be used.
Or he could go all out and use Rees-Moggs one that the law was inhuman and too harsh. For which your comment needs repeating with the insertion of lots of swear words.
They've all taken to the airwaves already, all the usual suspects
Sir Roger Gale is on Five Live now....
"now is not the time...."
is the fairly predictable line
Someone must have organised these parties at Downing Street, so surely someone will be getting the £10k fine?
“Dead cats! Get yer dead cats here! Bargain prices! Dead cats! Dead cats for every occasion!”
I properly laughed at that.
This is Sunaks chance - if he resigns he can walk away from the economic shitshow and the non-dom scandal, be seen to do the right thing, and skewer Boris/Carrie who no doubt were behind the non-dom leak.
Can we have the Gray report now?
Christ that Roger Gale interview 😡🤬
This woman is even worse.
Can we have the Gray report now?
Can we have the
GrayRussia report now?
Go big or go home
I'd like to see "now is not the time" always responded to immediately with "well when is the time? If the only issue is that now is not the time then we can assume he'll stand down immediately after it not being the time?"
A pretty bang on assessment by Peston of where we presently are
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1513874044877221888?s=20&t=F0IbjnC7TQt2nCRkHMqidQ
Someone must have organised these parties at Downing Street, so surely someone will be getting the £10k fine?
Well, one of the many defences Johnson has used (I know it's hard to keep track) is that because these events were in HIS house and HIS office, well, then he couldn't avoid being there (even if he previously said he wasn't at any of them). So the "it's personal" defence should now be used against him, no? If these events were planned (they were, there were invites) by HIS immediate staff, and took place at either HIS office, or HIS home, with his knowledge... he's the organiser... no? The big fine should be for him. Perhaps he'll be asked to pay it after he steps down for lying to parliament, his ministers, and the public about his law breaking.
I might start a petition to stop them using the phrase "The Right Honourable..." in the House of Commons and replace it instead with something more suitable.
The Right Lying...
The Right Shitty...
Christ that Roger Gale interview 😡🤬
This woman is even worse.
Shouted at the radio! It was the bloke before Roger Gale that was really bad - but didn’t catch who it was.
It was the bloke before Roger Gale that was really bad – but didn’t catch who it was.
That was Micky Fab
He actually looks like this. People actually voted for this. Go figure...
I love how Boris's supporters are now re-writing history
"well everyone who worked together would get together for drinks after work, and everyone ignored the rules anyway..."
NO THEY *ING DIDN'T!!!
People went without seeing their terminally ill relatives before they died you utter *s!!!
Even now, they still don't get it
So Cash'n'Carrie becomes Carrie Oot?
Dick has gone but the Met is still corrupt and in the pocket of the PM
Face it folks. The kind of person who votes for a party led by Boris Johnson was probably also having their own lockdown pissups due to their own sense of entitlement and disregard for others - just so long as I get what I want, me, me, me, I, I, I.
So he'll probably draw the obvious conclusion that there are enough selfish oafs like him to keep him in the job.
Political calculations are very easy these days for the likes of Johnson.
Im not surprised Johnson has been fined (possibly multiple times, the official statement is vague on that front) for attending parties during lockdown but am surprised the MET have actually done it. Handy timing though, right when he can't be held to account in PMQ's.
Looking at all the different media reports of this (even the Heil) I'm struggling to find anywhere that isn't at least suggesting Johnson and Sunak need to resign immediately.
Do we dare hope this is the story that finally topples Johnson?
Micky Fab
He reminds me a lot of Joe Pesci playing David Ferrie in 'JFK'.
Only more ridiculous.
Im not surprised Johnson has been fined (possibly multiple times, the official statement is vague on that front) for attending parties during lockdown but am surprised the MET have actually done it.
Remember that they weren't going to investigate originally (the great defence of there being no evidence of any wrongdoing until people pointed out that the actual job of the police was to go and look for the evidence). The Met Police had to be sued by the Good Law Project before they actually agreed that yes, they could receive an allegation of wrongdoing and then - oh I dunno - *investigate it*.
In fact the initial decision by the Met not to investigate was likely unlawful as well.
The kind of person who votes for a party led by Boris Johnson was probably also having their own lockdown pissups due to their own sense of entitlement and disregard for others
The people I know who voted Tory in 2019 absolutely stuck to the rules. They moaned about it (didn't we all) but they stuck to them. That include funerals. Family of mine being buried with only a handful of close relatives in attendance, while people at the heart of government partied in to the early hours of the morning. Every time Johnson laughed all this off he's been laughing and sneering at the hell that people who voted for him have been though. What we've all been though. Whoever we voted for. And even those who don't get to vote...
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My main worry now , is what shitstorm will they cook up to take us in another direction…
Looking at all the different media reports of this (even the Heil) I’m struggling to find anywhere that isn’t at least suggesting Johnson and Sunak need to resign immediately.
Do we dare hope this is the story that finally topples Johnson?
a lot of power in Sunaks hands right now
If he resigns then Johnson looks even more vulnerable
Ultimately Johnson has no shame, his MPs are amoral cowards & the Tory base care only for themselves
SO he will probably succeed in bluffing it out, especially if the locals are only moderately bad for the Tories
I want the Queen to take over. Dissolve the Government immediately. Like a broken computer, everything should be restored to the last known point of working which I think was about May 2016.
Sack the lot of them, I imagine you could lock most of the Tories in the tower for various breaches of the law. Then, just to piss off all the Leavers (and Putin), we rejoin the EU. Full Schengen, the euro, the whole lot.
Email sent to my MP. They are a labour member but we need our MPs to understand just how enraged we are at this and whilst they can't do much, to encourage them to do all they can to recall parliament and push the PM to resign.
The people I know who voted Tory in 2019 absolutely stuck to the rules. They moaned about it (didn’t we all) but they stuck to them.
Well Johnson's a goner then. I presume they'll all be voting for someone other than the Tories to express their anger?
Fiver says Johnson is still Tory leader at the next GE and they piss it again.