This country is broken and in my opinion the divisions created by this/Covid/BJ is just making it worse. It won’t happen, but it’s about time we all rallied as one rather than dissolve further into extremist groups and hold the necessary bastards responsible.

Meanwhile caring people are encouraged to define themselves into smaller and smaller boxes based on sexuality, skin colour, preferred mode of transport etc so we miss the bigger picture, or are too fragmented to do anything about it.

Jeremy Hardy always said he liked BJ’s bumbling persona but believed that behind it he had the ruthlessness of a military dictator

So does anyone think the latest lobbying scandal will change effect teflon bozos polling numbers?

Im not sure if the current plan is to leak all the sleaze now so it cant be sprung on them before the local elections

Johnson is supported by people who will say “Labour would be just as bad, and we’d have to queue for food”, or something.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/14/pm-struggles-to-keep-head-above-water-as-barbs-from-keir-starmer-pierce-blubber

Of all the things he and his Gov have done, why’s it this that seems to be causing most trouble?

Hang on – all civil servants have to disclose second jobs, and have done for years……..

Times like these Johnson does need to be seen to be cracking a few heads, physically as well as metaphorically, preferably a distractor who is not in government, hopefully someone who approached your competitor and is someone you resent (and they got a 1st.) But you appoint a chum to give a guaranteed light-touch ‘inquiry’ verdict of ‘lessons to be learnt’ and no shiny heads get bashed and everyone’s let off with a ‘it’s only human nature’ shrug.
Is there a bung for taking a dive?

It’s a good time to conduct a ‘see no evil hear no evil’ light touch enquiry.

The gammons are still weeping into their tea about Prince Philip and the ultras don’t give a shit about corruption so long as you tell them someone who doesn’t have english as their first language is claiming £x in benefits and ‘taking the piss’.

The greased piglet will be happy to keep it isolated to Cameron (remainer, elitist type) but hopefully Cameron will fire a few shots in return. This issue really needs linking to the far bigger scandals of PPE and Track & Trace.

You’re forgetting that this lot in charge, from the top down, think they’re invincible. They’re confident they’ve got the majority of the press on their side, they’re seeding the BBC and C4 boards and directors in their favour, they know how to dupe the general public as a whole into believing they are doing the best job possible and they think they have the ace cards of having ‘Got Brexit Done’ and the vaccine success (so far) to fall back on.

They are playing the game behind the main game to ensure they cling onto power for the long-term regardless of what they do in the short-term. Sadly it is working so far.

Looking at the broader picture it is a very opportune time to ‘get sleaze done’.

Welcome to the past,1984 is where it’s unfortunately at.

Tories vote to not look into Tory sleaze. Now there’s a surprise!!

If you can be bothered to sit through this, it’s a real eye opener.
Interviews with the blokes that broke the story: Financial Times’ Robert Smith, the Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund and Riley Quinn from Trashfuture Podcast. The Riley Quinn bit at the end is particularly interesting.

“Watch out mate, Boris is coming”

– one of group of “lads” on cycle path, Red-wall county, 2021

“Watch out mate, Boris is coming”

– one of group of “lads” on cycle path, Red-wall county, 2021

Silly little chumps think they’re ‘part of something’.

🤣

Good grief Charlie Brown this Greensills things vile…

It seems they were intent on getting earnd(a payday loan type app) into the nhs during covid.

Cameron rode the wave of covid

(Sunday Times)Sorry it’s behind a paywall but this is wow.

The Times gives you a few articles weekly if you register for free

Surely some big questions for Hancock there about the sell off of NHS staff records

Clapping for carers whilst simultaneously selling of their private data is so Tory

Clapping for carers whilst simultaneously selling of their private data is so Tory

See also plantation owners in the nineteenth century patting a slave boy on the head.

Or giving a teddy bear to a kid in a refugee camp whilst arming the forces that put them there.

DrJ
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Tories vote to not look into Tory sleaze. Now there’s a surprise!!

No, it’s a great idea this. Just imagine how it’d revolutionise the court system if we put criminals in charge of that too? Prison populations would be slashed, cases would be fast and efficient… It’s the way forward.

Enjoying this thread…

"…and you know what, he didn't do the thing he promised!"

— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) April 23, 2021

Cake Have Eat.

the room next door – Boris Johnson and Bunny Hugging pic.twitter.com/RgfWpZIT6q

— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) April 24, 2021

Cash for curtains

Looking at the broader picture it is a very opportune time to ‘get sleaze done’.

You should work for Labour PR.

I’d like this to be John Major moment but let’s face it this sort of news disappears after a few days now.

Yep vaccine bounce & pubs opening inoculates Johnson from pretty much any bad news you can imagine

Only once economic cosi of covid really hits home and furlough ends will it start to matter

A covid inquiry that isn’t a complete whitewash in the autumn for example….

A brave move putting olympic level dimwit Liz Truss up for the press this morning

She simply repeated the same line ‘Boris Johnson met the full cost of the Downing Street refurbishment’ while refusing to elaborate on where he actually got that money from.

Such gross arrogance from this government, perfectly displayed by Liz Truss, constantly ducking & diving to avoid the question of whether PM borrowed money from a Tory donor first *before* he “personally met the cost” for the No 10 flat refurb #sleaze #Marr

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) April 25, 2021

I’m sure Dom’ll let us know in due course.

The final line on the beeb report sums up UK politics at the moment…

“I think this a complete load of Westminster tittle tattle that people simply don’t care about.”

Cash for curtains

Deserved some credit 👏

Cash for curtains

It’s an open and shut case.

The public is blind to this kind of corruption. Time to draw it to a close.

I wonder if this will cut through with the ‘but he’s doing his best’ brigade

Boris Johnson: 'Let the bodies pile high in their thousands'. PM's incendiary remark during fight over lockdowns is latest claim in No10 drama https://t.co/7MAQPAqJy2 pic.twitter.com/mrlx0fo7CX

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) April 26, 2021

I wonder if this will cut through with the ‘but he’s doing his best’ brigade

Possibly. Until it reaches the ‘Labour wouldn’t have done any better’ brigade.

Bellends are nothing if not predictable.

Ah the Brexit free pass…

That’ll do nicely sir.

I can totally see Boris saying something like that. If he said it do I think he meant it no… well i hope not anyway. But when he goes off on those classic Johnson waffle rants im pretty sure he has no clue what hes said.

Well you could always txt him and check 🙂

He will sleaze his way out of it

Got to hand it to the tories. They aren’t shy of stabbing each other in the face.

Boris has served his purpose, Gove for PM by the summer?

looks like he’s still got the Dirty Diggers support

Possibly. Until it reaches the ‘Labour wouldn’t have done any better’ brigade.

They couldn’t really have done any worse, let’s be honest.

I’m a bit confused now – I thought it was Cummings who was anti lockdown/pro herd immunity?

I don’t know which leak to believe…

I’ll just leave this here

I’m a bit confused now – I thought it was Cummings who was anti lockdown/pro herd immunity?

In March definitely, but they are talking about September and Cummings wants to deflect blame – remember he’s the guy who edited his own blog the day after his Durham holiday & whilst his boys was in ITU, to say he predicted the pandemic