Boris Johnson!

I wonder if there’s going to be a fridge in the back of the room for him to hide in.

I just wish he’d **** off for good, he’s a crap politician, has no attention to detail,and works on clichés.

In many ways Johnson is a very good politician in that he has a very clear and manufactured image, he attracts voters ( or did before becoming so tainted) and commands press attention.  What he is not is a good administrator therefore a pretty useless PM.

He’s very good at self-promotion. Everything after that, not so much

It’s not that he’s no good at governing, we don’t actually know whether he was or not as he showed little interest in actually even trying.

He wanted the sugar rush of saying he’d ‘won’, he wanted the job title (after the unavailability of ‘world king’) and the perks and the kudos, but he had zero interest in actually doing the job

My column on Johnson's standards committee showdown: did the leading British liar of the age tell a lie?https://t.co/AjUXegUDzE

— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) March 21, 2023

Apparently he’s voting with the DUP against the Windsor not getting Brexit done again deal.

Apparently he’s voting with the DUP against the Windsor not getting Brexit done again deal.

You mean he’s actually going to turn up to the House of Commons?!
😳

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/22/ten-partygate-questions-commons-committee-could-ask-boris-johnson

The the thing that irks me the most is his just a terrible money shredding machine,to keep face with something which he could have probably set the ‘record straight’ on means a 1/4 of a million in legal fees paid for by us.

It’s worse than corruption he justs burns money up for no reason.

We now get a 4 hour special of the dog ate my homework.

We now get a 4 hour special of the dog ate my homework.

What continues to amaze me is that we all know exactly what we’re going to get this afternoon – just more of the same self-serving, eye-rollingly unbelievable twoddle – that there are people still willing to stand up and defend him.

Admittidly, these aren’t the sharpest tools in the box – Peter Bone, Mogg, Mad Nad – but still…

As for a parliamentary vote on any sanction, they might as well just phrase the question ‘do you think Boris ‘Big Dog’ Johnson is a shameless **** who lied through his teeth to us all?

It’s worse than corruption he justs burns money up for no reason.

Boris has no concept of money because it is ALWAYS somebody else picking up his tab. Usually us.

Hiya,

It’s a tad bit depressing to be paying for the C u next Tuesday. I see now he’s going to vote against the government in the EU/Ireland Windsor accord. This seems to be an attempt to wield some control and nothing but pettiness. I guess the bigger the hole he digs for himself the further he will fall into it.
The only hope I have is that this totally destroys to Tory’s.

BR
JeZ

So far the taxpayers have spaffed 200 grand on a 50 page defence that was riddled with so many grammatical errors and typos that the committee couldn’t even understand it. Who’d want to be a sub-editor on handed his Telegraph columns?

I see now he’s going to vote against the government in the EU/Ireland Windsor accord.

Waaah, you didn’t give me a safe seat for 2024!

No wonder Sunak is giving Tory MPs a free vote on his future. They are belatedly trying to flush the unflushable turd.

And talking of typos…

You’ve spelt bullshit wrong, lads. pic.twitter.com/XNuIc6ardf

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 22, 2023

This seems to be an attempt to wield some control and nothing but pettiness

If theres one thing we know about Boris its that he’s incredibly thin-skinned, petty and vindictive.

I think Johnson would vote against absolutely anything Sunak proposed. Rishi should therfore propose putting a statue of Boris on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and put it to a parliamentary vote, just to really **** with his head

And talking of typos…

The heil really are desperate for its management to get those retirement honours.
I ventured into their comment section. There seems to be a certain lack of support currently for him.

LOLz @ Binners

More evidence is coming out and it looks more and more damning.  its on the grauniad live feed

It looks like all the people who he was about to throw under a bus (which by the end of the day will no doubt cover everyone he’s ever met) are getting their rebuttals in first

Simon Case has pissed in Johnsons shoes 😀

Let’s get this Partygate started!

For most, a suitcase full of wine from Sainsbury’s in the middle of lockdown is definitely a party

For Johnson unless it’s on a private Italian island at a luxury villa, with the finest wines, mountains of drugs, KGB agents and underage prostitutes,
It doesn’t really count?

“party” is irrelevant.  Not a word used in the guidance.  Its a bit of diversion from Johnson to say “they were not parties”  the guidance was always about the number of people gathered together for non work reasons.

So all his advisors at the time have have now made statements saying that they specifically advised Johnson not to use the words ‘all the guidence was followed at all times’ in parliament

So thats his solitary (already pathetically flimsy) argumant gone then?

the guidance was always about the number of people gathered together for non work reasons.

Correct. And they were investigated by the Police and found to be illegal.

The question he needs to answer is did he deliberately mislead Parliament. The gatherings are not a question to be asked.

So is ignorance of the law a valid defence in this case?

If you’re the one making the laws, not really. It’s slightly different from not knowing about half your kids.

So is ignorance of the law a valid defence in this case?

As a general rule it isnt as Johnson himself might spew out “Ignorantia juris non excusat”

I also think its somewhat more tricky to claim ignorance of the law if you were in charge of the government at the time the law was passed and had done several press conferences telling everyone what to and what not to do.

His defence is, basically, he is an incompetent moron who didnt understand what he and his government were telling the rest of the country to do.

.@AndrewMarr9 decodes Boris Johnson's Partygate defence… pic.twitter.com/viVea3huX2

— LBC (@LBC) March 21, 2023

So he lied Parliament

And he lied to the committee yesterday…

Yet they still won’t give him a long enough suspension to warrant a potential recall petition

I’m not sure Boris is thin skinned. I don’t think he gives a crap what people say about him unless it’s a fundamental threat to HIS power.

To Boris, everything with his name in it is great.

His defence is, basically, he is an incompetent moron who didnt understand what he and his government were telling the rest of the country to do

Which has been negated by the fact that the committee has evidence he was told on multiple occasions

He is pretty thin skinned if he feels attacked especially by women

Lying because he didn’t think he was lying, because of recently being told lying isnt lying if you’re lying about lies.
Therefore he has not only done nothing wrong, but has been falsely accused and his accusers are in the wrong, for which he’ll be wanting an apology(possibly monies)

Not guilty, on you go Sir.

How late will the **** be?

He wasn’t late, but he did try and get the committee to delay until after the Brexit vote

He’s also off and running with the bullshit “hand on heart, I did not lie to the house”

“I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”

Oooh you little liar 🤥

Came in 14 minutes late – is he giving us his version of things before the questioning all happens?

And who the bloody hell decided to kick off at 2pm knowing full well the bell would be ringing in 20 mins so they can all go to vote 🙄

Only in this country could you have a really important vote scheduled for the same time as a comittee that everyone is going to be fixated with, when for the rest of the week there appears to be about 4 people in the Commons, including the speaker

And when was the last time Boris was actually bothered about turning up to vote on anything?

I have a feeling he’s going to keep on with ‘I believed xxx was right’, therefore I didn’t lie.

Questioning Harman’s impartiality.
Can’t see that going down well.
Electro magnetic force field to ensure social distancing???

I believed

He’s used that phrase a thousand times already. he’s basically challenging them to be able to prove inside his head that he didnt believe it, which’ll never happen.

It’ll need rock solid evidence – an email, recorded call, WhatsApp or similar with a time and date stamp where someone is advising him correctly to the guidance before he commits an act of rule breaking to get him.

Is he ‘mansplaining’ to the entire country how we all interpreted the rules wrong?

He is, isn’t he?