Boris Johnson!

He asked his supporters not to vote against the report as it would show how few of them there are in the same way not fighting Uxbridge is about dodging losing. He’s a coward and a liar.

Pretty much the summary of Marina Hyde, and very well put together, as always

My newspaper column on returning newspaper columnist Boris Johnson, and the judgment (or otherwise) of Conservative MPs https://t.co/qwieI7niH8

— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) June 17, 2023

Via these strategies of avoidance and denial, Johnson persuades himself that he is actually adored by the country. In fact, last summer, he was booed by crowds on the steps of St Paul’s as he arrived for the late queen’s platinum jubilee service, just as he had been booed by crowds at the cricket, and would soon be booed by crowds on Whitehall clamouring for his departure from Downing Street

Village next to us still has some stocks, so if someone wants to bring Boris and some rotting fruit and veg, we could have a great fundraiser…..

@MoreCashThanDash after he’s had a turn in the Ufford stocks nearby. Perhaps we can organise a national tour.

Classic Johnson

Footage shows Ben Mallett who was awarded an OBE in Boris Johnson's resignation honours

He is running Moz Hossain's campaign to become Tory candidate for London mayor

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) June 17, 2023

At least the Met should now be able to tell whether or not it was party 🤣

Apparently its wasn’t clear enough from the still pictures…

Last night’s HIGNFY is worth watching on iPlayer, they really go to town on the whole Boris thing. Nadine gets (dis)honourable mentions as well…

When it comes to Downing Street, phone/photo/video rules are different. That’s why only mild staged stills are available. No candid videos or photos of people falling over, throwing up, breaking swings, emptying suitcases of booze etc are likely to come out. The Met, Sue Gray and parliamentarians had to make do with the carefully shot stuff (still enough to show the liar was lying). This video is from Tory HQ… but key people involved were awarded gongs for failure and not giving a shit about the rules… because that is Johnson’s way. Always laughing at the people of the UK, while courting their support in doing so.

Im really interested to see how my Tory MP voters tomorrow.

Pretty brexity area (in 2016/19 anyway!…) but Boris’s spell has well and truly worn off for most people nationally. She always votes with the party based on what I’ve seen. If I had to guess, she’ll abstain/ be washing her hair tomorrow.

She’s likely out of a job next year (we flipped to Labour council after decades of being Tory in the locals) but I’ve no idea if she already has a grift lined up. Wondering if that will influence her vote/ not voting in anyway?

I suspect most will abstain

Caught between the majority of the public who think Johnson deserves what he got and the tea party-esque Boris adoring membership, Sunak himself being the prime example

The dwindling band of absolute headbangers will double down on their  ‘poor Boris… it’s all a conspiracy to bring him down and reverse Brexit’ nonsense and continue to back their disgraced hero. The rest of the Tory party will abstain, because they’re all spineless shithouses

Sunak will find an excuse to be as far away from the House of Commons as he can get tomorrow, because he’s the most spineless shithouse of them all

Low & behold

? | BREAKING: Rishi Sunak will avoid voting on Boris Johnson’s sanctions tomorrow as he’s frightened of the consequences

[@thetimes]

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 18, 2023

What a coward

We’ll, who’d have thunk it?

I can’t wait to see what hi-viz, cosplay photo op is so important that he has to get helicoptered to, instead of being in Parliament for the vote

According to the Times;

“Most other ministers are also expected to stay away as Sunak attempts to move on from a week of open Tory feuding and call an end to Johnson’s frontline career”

What a despicable little turd.

Low & behold

Usually it’d be ‘lo and behold’ but in this case you are spot on

It’s pathetic.

Every interviewer from here to the election should just ask him whether he supports the Privileges Ctte report findings on Boris, repeatedly, Paxman-style.

I suspect most will abstain

Well, that’s the cowardly option, so yes most will abstain.

This is the way :-), they just sort of sit stuff out ignoring it hoping it will blow over and some other usefull news cycle will start.

I think BJ actually pioneered this with Brexit and covid, fixing problems is old fashioned,just keep taking the cheques and hope for the best.

I’m trying to keep up with tonights debate via BBC site, some wiser heads on the Tory side happy to tell it how it is, makes the sycophantic nutjobs look even more delusional.

Interesting that there’s apparently another report due on those MPs who have tried to disrupt/bully/intimidate the committee. Love to see all of them get a long enough ban to trigger a by-election

Not a single cabinet member present in the Commons

Spineless shithouses, every last one of them, none more so than Sunak

They all put Johnson in power, they all enabled his indefensible carry on with their fawning sycophancy, went along with everything and they still won’t condemn him

Morality-free, gutless cowards

I’m sure fat lad will be having a big piss up for his birthday and won’t even bother about any of this. He’s already moved on to his next grift, leaving carnage in his wake, as usual, for other people to sort out

Interesting that there’s apparently another report due on those MPs who have tried to disrupt/bully/intimidate the committee. Love to see all of them get a long enough ban to trigger a by-election

That would bring a 3 line whip on the tory benches to oppose the findings.

some wiser heads on the Tory side happy to tell it how it is

Mordaunt and May seemed to get both the tone and message right earlier. In contrast to the missing cowards who have lost their voices, and the deluded off scene MPs and commentators that will support Johnson no matter what.

Harman summed everything up best though, hardly surprising given the work she has had to do and the lack of concern about upsetting Tory members. Just listen to her bit… presumably it’ll be the most clipped come the later evening news.

We’re all thinking it… right?

As the years have passed, it is clear that Johnson has morphed into someone else, moving further in Trump’s direction, writes @lewis_goodall. https://t.co/17n0D4xOSe

— The New Statesman Politics (@TheStaggers) June 19, 2023

Not a single cabinet member present in the Commons

Penny Mordaunt, who confirmed she’d vote to support the reports findings. Possibly boosting her next attempt to be the leader of the Tory party.

But pretty poor from the other spineless enablers of Boris’ lying

Mordaunt is playing a blinder. I don’t know if she’s getting advice or doing it off her own bat. The really lovely thing is that the person that will be most pissed off by the rise of Pretty Penny is Thick Lizzy.

Oh how we laughed.

Harman’s response to lord snooty’s attempt to trap her is brilliant

Labour triggered a vote, reportedly a few cabinet ministers in the lobby

354 to 7.

Boris’ support finally revealed/exposed.

I don’t think you’d struggle to name the 7 of them

Happy birthday Boris!

354 to 7.

Boris’ support finally revealed/exposed.

Yup, about 290 of the slime bags

I don’t think you’d struggle to name the 7 of them

Having looked at the list I think you would. First time I knew half of them existed although in at least one case looks like because their moronic statements stayed in the local press rather than national.
The haunted pencil and co seem to abstained instead.

Who voted :

https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1566

Among the cons, 118 ayes, 6 noes.

The obvious noes, reet smug, mad nad etc obeyed their glorious leader’s command and abstained.

Our Tory MP voted for the motion, interesting.

Hadn’t realised Fiona Bruce was a Tory MP though. Question Time makes more sense!

Still feels like he has got away with it.  Should be barred from politics for life for being a lying shit

Still feels like he has got away with it. Should be barred from politics for life for being a lying shit

That decision rests in the hands of voters. I can’t imagine even the safest Tory seat being willing to risk selecting him in the short-medium term anyway.

Still feels like he has got away with it.

Because he has. As always!

Once again, he’s just shrugged and strolled away, leaving chaos in his wake, and he’s straight on to the next (highly paid) grift. He couldn’t care less about what happened last night. That’s ancient history already, disappearing in his rear view mirror already

Considering what he’s been responsible for since 2016, he should be behind bars.

Instead he’ll be as ever-present, as always, gobbing off and lobbing hand grenades at everyone with his usual feckless abandon, via the medium of the Daily Mail, surely his spiritual home

Okay, before reading this, remember that Johnson blamed the EU for previous Russian military intervention in Ukraine (after meeting with Russians) and his conversion to Ukraine sovereignty & independence was quite a recent thing (that happened to be politically useful… still dragged his heals when it came to sanctions on Russian contacts even then)…

Aides contacted Buckingham Palace in July 2020 to request monarch intervene after Boris Johnson decided to press ahead despite warnings from intelligence agencies over Lebedev’s father’s links to Putin regime.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 25, 2023

Documentary also claims Canada’s decision to sanction Alexander Lebedev last May was in part based on intelligence which filmmakers understand came from MI6, although British government had not itself imposed sanctions on ex-KGB officer.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 25, 2023

I wonder what Lebedev.com has on the old fly tipped sofa,it must be something humungus.

didn’t he attend a party at a property of Lebedev’s in Italy & was spotted looking rather disheveled (more than usual) on the way home? May have also travelled without his security as well??

as foreign secretary he ditched his protection team and took a meeting with lebedev and his father, a serving fsb member. **** outrageous on several levels, not least when lebedev winds up on his honors list.