Obvz doing something right…

controlling the media.

A twitter thread to help remind us who our PM is:

Boris Johnson, you are a racist, Islamophobic, Anti-Semite. No, your words have not been taken out of context. No, your words are not "robust". Your words are blatant, explicit and clear. It's all in print, it's all capable of being evidenced. [THREAD] pic.twitter.com/qtnthth8KB

— Snigdha (@snigskitchen) March 5, 2020

And, sadly, I think his popularity is largely because of all this, not despite it… which reflects very poorly on us, the people of the UK.

Another day, another unpublished report…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53375707
No doubt the ‘demanding boss’ line will gather momentum – bloody snowflake civil servants etc

Another shambles for Johnson at PMQs

admitted he’d not read his governments own report on the 2nd wave

a question about bereaved families was used as the excuse to slip in a scripted joke about underpants……..

but he did promise starmer an inquiry of some sort at some point

Did he actively say his own government would investigate it, or is it possible it could be delayed so much that he is actually long gone by the time it ever happens?

As for Grayling as Int Committee, presumably that’s aiming to use Grayling’s enormous incompetence as a sort of report losing device, to lose the Russia report before it surfaces?

but he did promise starmer an inquiry of some sort at some point

Much like the one into Islamophobia within the Conservative Party that he promised about a year ago and which has never been heard of since.

And even when Reports, Reviews and Inquiries are commissioned and actually happen, they often seem to mysteriously stall between closing and publication.

Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War is a classic example and obviously the report into Russian interference which I’m assuming must say something like “oh yes, when Dominic Cummings lived in Russia, we turned him then, he’s actually Senior Advisor to Vladimir Putin”.

As for Grayling as Int Committee

BREAKING Tory Chris Grayling denied chairmanship of powerful Intelligence Committeehttps://t.co/HGzvnu1P42 pic.twitter.com/IPOAPdrYzb

— Mirror Breaking News (@MirrorBreaking_) July 15, 2020

He even failed at that ?

He even failed at that ?

Just when you think his failings couldn’t get any worse, he fails at winning a job contest rigged by the Prime Minister himself.

That’s quite a spectacular level of incompetence from both Failing Grayling and Boris Johnson!

9 on the committee; 5 appointed by johnson; 3 by labour; 1 SNP.
Labour member & SNP made it clear they would support Julian Lewis so he voted for himself as well resulting in 5-4 surprise.

Chris Grayling really couldn’t even find his own arse, using both hands 😂

That’s hilarious (leaving aside the painful reality that we’re all paying his salary) – in a kinder age, he’d lock himself in his study with a loaded revolver and a whisky, but if he tried to blow his own brains out, there’s a fair chance he’d miss 🙂

He’ll probably still have managed to spaff a couple of hundred million of taxpayers money in the process.

Is anyone keeping a running total? His ****-ups must have cost about the same as the banking crisis by now?

but if he tried to blow his own brains out, there’s a fair chance he’d miss 🙂

Difficult target, to be fair…

there’s a fair chance he’d miss

and in the process spill the whisky

Ok so apparently the word “winningest” is a thing so do we now have “failingest” too?😁

As in ‘failingest Graylingest’?

Lewis thing is interesting. He is a hard Brexiteer but that likely means he will loathe Cummings.

It gets even funnier

Julian Lewis has been chucked out of the Tory Parliamentary Party for working with Labour MPs to get himself elected as chair of the Intelligence Committee, beating Chris Grayling

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 15, 2020

In 1972 a crap commando unit was sent to prison for the being a bit shit. This man promptly destroyed the penal system & escaped to run ferries. He survives as a soldier of misfortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find him, DO NOT HIRE the Grayling.

— Mark ne-Francois-pas MP (@MarkFrancois12) July 15, 2020

Marina Hyde last week:

For now, Grayling’s ascent to chairman is expected to be a formality. I very much enjoyed last night’s Guardian headline, “Grayling closes in on role as chair of UK intelligence committee”. Closing in suggests a degree of targeted precision that Chris Grayling’s career does not. The only way Chris Grayling could close in on the intelligence and security chair is if he was actually attempting to close in on the keys to a holiday caravan in Rhyl.

Should read ‘Gray Team’ surely?

@kimbers That’s going to backfire spectacularly. It’s not going to make Lewis more pliable, and it just makes Johnson look more spiteful and vindictive than he does already.

It gets even funnier

The purge continues. It’s no longer a political party.

Oh, and he was an argent Brexitier, this is no longer about Europe (if it ever really was).

Bloody brilliant! Inept PM thinks he has stitched up the nomination – gets stitched up himself and then acts like a spoiled child and removes the whip 🙂

Not said it for a page or two, but he is a despicable shit of a man.

Al this would make for a really shit tv series. We are in a parallel universe from a few years ago, in sure of it.

About 14% on Rotten Tomatoes?

How mad is Cummings ?

Will they try & remove Lewis from the committee?

He’s a brexit true believer, so can’t see that going down well, I’m sure anything vaguely bad in the Russia report will be heavily redacted anyway.

Might be more of a problem with Cummings planned cuts to the military

Committee is meeting tomorrow; could be v interesting.

This seems to imply that being on message with the Russian interference is more important than being on message with Brexit. In a government whose raison d’etre (treason d’etre?) is to deliver Brexit. I met Julian Lewis when he was with the Defence Select Committee, and whilst he was known as a maniac, he was also a Russia hawk, and will not be about to hush up anything he feels is harmful to British interests by them.

Not said it for a page or two, but he is a despicable shit of a man.

not said often enough, should be a sticky at the top of every page of this thread.

im perplexed as to how he’s not been punched/slapped when out n’ about on his arranged factory/shop walkabouts for the tv/press photo opportunities

Too much security, presumably.

This seems to imply that being on message with the Russian interference is more important than being on message with Brexit. In a government whose raison d’etre (treason d’etre?) is to deliver Brexit

Brexit?

The deadline for anything other than total-f-up-Brexit has passed. It’s no longer a goal of The Cummings Party. It is not something The Cummings Party need to fight anyone over, in order to stay in power.

The main required attribute of any member of The Cummings Party at this point in time, is simply blind unswerving loyalty and obedience to The Dear Leader Dominic Cummings.

If any member is found
guilty of treason
to be ideologically impure
acting on their own opinion and judgement,
they will be expelled from The Party.

The main required attribute of any member of The Cummings Party at this point in time, is simply blind unswerving loyalty and obedience to The Dear Leader Dominic Cummings.

But Dear Leader Seems to have a goal of some sort in mind, which appears to be achievable within the next 6 months or so. What is that goal? Is it a one way transaction which, once it is done is irreversible ( or difficult to recover from). For him to deliver it requires blind loyalty, but of a particular type, and of a type which does not always tie in with having the UK’s interests as a priority.

Yeah, and levity aside about this epic grayl, select committees exist to hold government to account and are meant to operate independently of whip’s offices.

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/brief-guides/select-committees.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwioypu1rdHqAhWCShUIHdLoDf0QFjALegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0qpge5tH32UQdn2QwTAzvd

Seems that’s all gone now.

The purge continues. It’s no longer a political party.

Something I keep saying to dyed in the wool ‘traditional’ tories. This is not the party of personal prudence, reliance on family, cricket on the village green etc. It is a kleptocracy masquerading as populist nationalism. They’re going to leave us with the political nastiness when they’ve **** off with their payouts.

It’s a Parliamentary Committee, which has gone through proper procedures to elect its Chair. While the Tories are welcome to withdraw the whip from Julian Lewis, they can’t remove him from the committee.

So they’ve not only failed to get their useful idiot candidate in place, but by peevishly kicking Lewis out, have created a 5-4 opposition/independent majority on a key parliamentary committee. The very committee which controls the release of the Russia Report which Boris and Dom seem so interested in suppressing. <Slow handclap>

Russia report won’t be that interesting & I’m sure Cummings cares little

Cummings angry because he wants big cuts to the military & Lewis will oppose them

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/army-to-be-cut-by-20-000-if-no-10-plan-is-approved-bc2zbqm2h

Oooof — Julian Lewis hits back…. pic.twitter.com/KFVj9wjHpp

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) July 16, 2020

As the committee was created by John Major – oh, yes! – when he was PM, does johnson have the authority to disband it?
If he does, would he?

It’s pure BoJoCum to withdraw the whip from an MP for not doing the thing that a “No10 spokesman” explicitly said he was not being asked to do.

Indeed. Publicly announce one thing, whilst privately demanding another.

It’s almost like the internal workings of an old communist state.

Something I keep saying to dyed in the wool ‘traditional’ tories. This is not the party of personal prudence, reliance on family, cricket on the village green etc. It is a kleptocracy masquerading as populist nationalism.

Exactly.