| I really think this might be the end for Johnson 10:40 - Mar 22 with 8291 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Pippa Crerar (the lead journalist breaking the original Partygate story) is combing through the documents bundle released today by the Parliamentary Committee.
Here's a fairly key Tweet:
Nice strategy Number10! That worked out well!
The tweet following re Case's evidence is also another nail in the coffin for Johnson. [Post edited 22 Mar 2023 10:41]
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 23:45 - Mar 22 with 1365 views | BlueBadger |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 22:50 - Mar 22 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I am trying the hearts and minds approach with Brexiteers, Badger. .
Worth a shot... |
Not sure that Airliner has much of a mind, tbf... |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 08:22 - Mar 23 with 1237 views | HARRY10 |
from Prime Mister to prime suspect seems to sum him up.
Quite a bad day for the cap doffers, over all.
Anyone else aware that everyone, and I mean everyone, knows there were parties on a regular basis at No 10 that broke the Covid lockdown rules, would not think it a good idea to have it all dragged out into the open, again. Only an ar se of the highest order would think he could bluff it out.
Once the prepared written submission was read out and fat boy was out on his own it fell apart at a rapid pace. So much for the 'bombshell' evidence the rightie media were squeaking about on Tues.
Having the time to write a script and time to rehearse a latin phrase usually gets him by. It is when he has to think on his feet that he is left floundering. As his time at the dispatch has consistently shown.
The 'strange 'questions' (at the end) asked by the Harry Worth sound alike and Harriet Harman were not so much a chance for the bloater to redeem himself and show a bit of contrition, but were clarification to justify the sanctions they will recommend
Meanwhile down the corridor in the House, a vote on the Windsor Agreement was taking place. Here, we had been told, was when the real support for the bloater would be seen ..... all 22 of them. About the same number who turned up to protest at another crook being held to account - Trump
The country smells a good bit better this morning. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 08:42 - Mar 23 with 1222 views | bluelagos |
So I listened to much of the exchanges yesterday and came away thinking he'd got away with it.
But seeing clips again, the exchanges-
Where he tries to claim that it was ok not to socially distance if it wasn't possible (where it clearly was possible)
Where he basically states that the people he relied on to tell him no rules were broken were 2 of his advisers
Where he gets defensive when asked why he didn't seek wider and legal views...
He really looks banged to rights on the recklessly misleading parliament. I think knowingly is debatable - if I was putting odds on it I'd say 95% based on his attendance rather than on any evidence he was told.
How it plays out, we can but wait and watch, but as a political force I think the paltry 22 that voted against the govt yesterday is the maximum support he now has.
Interestingly a year ago we had Johnson, Sunak, Patel and Truss in the 4 great offices and 3 of those voted against the govt yesterday.
Their vote on legislation that improves the trading with NI seems quite bizarre other than it being a fck u Sunak vote.
And that there are just 22 shows how little influence Johnson now has. A non flushing turd, but one that is losing it-s relevance with every day. |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:01 - Mar 23 with 1167 views | noggin |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 08:22 - Mar 23 by HARRY10 |
from Prime Mister to prime suspect seems to sum him up.
Quite a bad day for the cap doffers, over all.
Anyone else aware that everyone, and I mean everyone, knows there were parties on a regular basis at No 10 that broke the Covid lockdown rules, would not think it a good idea to have it all dragged out into the open, again. Only an ar se of the highest order would think he could bluff it out.
Once the prepared written submission was read out and fat boy was out on his own it fell apart at a rapid pace. So much for the 'bombshell' evidence the rightie media were squeaking about on Tues.
Having the time to write a script and time to rehearse a latin phrase usually gets him by. It is when he has to think on his feet that he is left floundering. As his time at the dispatch has consistently shown.
The 'strange 'questions' (at the end) asked by the Harry Worth sound alike and Harriet Harman were not so much a chance for the bloater to redeem himself and show a bit of contrition, but were clarification to justify the sanctions they will recommend
Meanwhile down the corridor in the House, a vote on the Windsor Agreement was taking place. Here, we had been told, was when the real support for the bloater would be seen ..... all 22 of them. About the same number who turned up to protest at another crook being held to account - Trump
The country smells a good bit better this morning. |
Yeah but he swore on the holy bible so he must be telling the truth  |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:07 - Mar 23 with 1163 views | DJR |
Whatever the outcome, and I'm inclined to think Johnson will be found to have recklessly misled the House, the best rated comments on the Mail website indicate the vast majority are hostile to him, with the result that any hopes he might have of a comeback are delusional. |  | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:09 - Mar 23 with 1152 views | HARRY10 |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:01 - Mar 23 by noggin |
Yeah but he swore on the holy bible so he must be telling the truth |
as opposed to the unholy bible  | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:10 - Mar 23 with 1153 views | Churchman |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 18:33 - Mar 22 by Ryorry |
I'm gonna rise to your challenge. If I'd been PM -
1. I'd have gone with what my science & medical advisors advocated.
2. I'd have stuck 100% to the guidelines they and other specialist advisors advocated, and insisted that my staff, colleagues & family did the same.
3. I'd have watched what was going on in Italy & other places, & acted swiftly & flexibly as required.
4. I'd have had empathy with what others in the UK & globally were going through & not done partying of any kind.
5. I'd have ordered fully guaranteed PPE from manufacturers proven reliable & experienced in producing it in bulk, not bunged iffy contracts to mates who'd never supplied it before. Consequently, fewer super-dedicated NHS workers would have ended up sacrificing their lives or long-term health.
6. Ditto a decent T&T system, which would also have resulted in fewer lives being lost amongst the general population.
Shameful that you've decided to crawl out of the woodwork just to defend the indefensible. |
This is spot on.
Regarding point 2 ‘sticking to guidelines and insisting staff, colleagues, family the same, I’m staggered that didn’t happen. There are one or two people on this forum who’ve worked in the CS on or near high profile stuff and will know that you are always aware of ‘the Daily Mail Factor’.
A minor example: you would be careful after work what you said and did in public and where you drank. There were some things that you would not disclose to family or anything else. It was the nature of that game.
With the pandemic, given what people were having to endure such as not being with loved ones when they passed or even at the funeral, I cannot imagine how or why the events that took place on Johnson’s watch occurred. If Johnson even just knew of them let alone be present, why weren’t they stopped? I’d never have allowed them and had I been working there and asked to attend, I wouldn’t have.
There are no excuses, no ‘I didn’t realise’. I know the staff operate under considerable pressure, having worked with people who’d worked there, but if you work anywhere or on anything high profile, you apply the rules scrupulously and if necessary go above and beyond. That was my experience.
Intelligent he may be but Johnson strikes me as a lazy, weak, arrogant, useless, self entitled idiot of a man. An irrelevance who should never have been within a million miles of government.
As footnote, you wouldn’t have lasted five minutes as a politician. Honesty and integrity is the last thing these lizards want! [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 9:11]
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:25 - Mar 23 with 1122 views | bluewein |
Jee. Sus. Christ...!
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:26 - Mar 23 with 1119 views | Swansea_Blue |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:25 - Mar 23 by bluewein |
Jee. Sus. Christ...!
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Dacre clinging on to the hope of that place in the Lords! Sarah Vine has always been a lost cause as well. |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:30 - Mar 23 with 1107 views | DJR |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:10 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
This is spot on.
Regarding point 2 ‘sticking to guidelines and insisting staff, colleagues, family the same, I’m staggered that didn’t happen. There are one or two people on this forum who’ve worked in the CS on or near high profile stuff and will know that you are always aware of ‘the Daily Mail Factor’.
A minor example: you would be careful after work what you said and did in public and where you drank. There were some things that you would not disclose to family or anything else. It was the nature of that game.
With the pandemic, given what people were having to endure such as not being with loved ones when they passed or even at the funeral, I cannot imagine how or why the events that took place on Johnson’s watch occurred. If Johnson even just knew of them let alone be present, why weren’t they stopped? I’d never have allowed them and had I been working there and asked to attend, I wouldn’t have.
There are no excuses, no ‘I didn’t realise’. I know the staff operate under considerable pressure, having worked with people who’d worked there, but if you work anywhere or on anything high profile, you apply the rules scrupulously and if necessary go above and beyond. That was my experience.
Intelligent he may be but Johnson strikes me as a lazy, weak, arrogant, useless, self entitled idiot of a man. An irrelevance who should never have been within a million miles of government.
As footnote, you wouldn’t have lasted five minutes as a politician. Honesty and integrity is the last thing these lizards want! [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 9:11]
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One person who comes out of the whole matter very badly is Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary
There are quite a few other things which have gone wrong on his watch, and I have sensed all along that he was just too close Johnson.
He clearly is not of the same calibre, both in terms of integrity and ability, as his predecessors such as Sir Robin Butler, Sir Jeremy Heywood etc, none of whom would have permitted the sort of culture in Downing Street that led to Partygate. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:33 - Mar 23 with 1093 views | Swansea_Blue |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:30 - Mar 23 by DJR |
One person who comes out of the whole matter very badly is Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary
There are quite a few other things which have gone wrong on his watch, and I have sensed all along that he was just too close Johnson.
He clearly is not of the same calibre, both in terms of integrity and ability, as his predecessors such as Sir Robin Butler, Sir Jeremy Heywood etc, none of whom would have permitted the sort of culture in Downing Street that led to Partygate. |
From the little I've seen of him, he appears to have been seriously over-promoted. I don't know his background though, so that's just a first impression based on how he's responded the few times he's been thrust into the limelight over all this partygate stuff. | |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:47 - Mar 23 with 1079 views | NthQldITFC |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:07 - Mar 23 by DJR |
Whatever the outcome, and I'm inclined to think Johnson will be found to have recklessly misled the House, the best rated comments on the Mail website indicate the vast majority are hostile to him, with the result that any hopes he might have of a comeback are delusional. |
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for having the courage to take one for the team and then to come back here to report that good news! I hope you have had a bloody good wash, either way I'll be more than happy to buy you a pint as thanks for your sacrifice.  |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:55 - Mar 23 with 1052 views | HARRY10 |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:10 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
This is spot on.
Regarding point 2 ‘sticking to guidelines and insisting staff, colleagues, family the same, I’m staggered that didn’t happen. There are one or two people on this forum who’ve worked in the CS on or near high profile stuff and will know that you are always aware of ‘the Daily Mail Factor’.
A minor example: you would be careful after work what you said and did in public and where you drank. There were some things that you would not disclose to family or anything else. It was the nature of that game.
With the pandemic, given what people were having to endure such as not being with loved ones when they passed or even at the funeral, I cannot imagine how or why the events that took place on Johnson’s watch occurred. If Johnson even just knew of them let alone be present, why weren’t they stopped? I’d never have allowed them and had I been working there and asked to attend, I wouldn’t have.
There are no excuses, no ‘I didn’t realise’. I know the staff operate under considerable pressure, having worked with people who’d worked there, but if you work anywhere or on anything high profile, you apply the rules scrupulously and if necessary go above and beyond. That was my experience.
Intelligent he may be but Johnson strikes me as a lazy, weak, arrogant, useless, self entitled idiot of a man. An irrelevance who should never have been within a million miles of government.
As footnote, you wouldn’t have lasted five minutes as a politician. Honesty and integrity is the last thing these lizards want! [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 9:11]
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Intelligent he is not. Don't mistake low cunning and deceit for intelligence, nor TGE ability to learn a swat up on a latin phrase as being intelligent either.
Johnson, like the stick insect, presumes that because they attended an expensive school they have a higher intellect and so will play to that (self) delusion.
Johnson has shown over the years that he lacks the intellect to see beyond the immediate moment. Anyone not so dim would have known that holding those lockdown breaking parties was laying himself open to 'blackmail'.
Just as the reason homosexuality was decriminalised, because it put people in a position where they could be blackmailed, so any political figure avoids being put, or putting themselves, into what could be seen as a compromising situation.
Amongst his cunning plans is a usage of Beano type language. Yet the one Beano character he most resembles is not some toff, but Roger the Dodger. Someone who thinks there's always a wheeze somewhere. Some shortcut to success. The type who always disappears into the toilet when it is his round, who doesn't pay for what he actually had in a restaurant when the bill comes round.
These types thibk somehow are being clever. That no one notices, because, as often, nothing is said. However, Johnsons lies have been noted, and as the 'round dodger' his run has ended.
The only 'friends' left will be the weird, the absurd and the dull witted.... Dorries, Stick-Insect, Fabricant, 30p Lee, Francois, Upskirt Chope, Bone Head (MP), who will try to peddle some ridiculous 'stab in the back' guff about his downfall.
Johnson served his purpose at the time. That time has long since passed. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:10 - Mar 23 with 1014 views | Churchman |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:30 - Mar 23 by DJR |
One person who comes out of the whole matter very badly is Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary
There are quite a few other things which have gone wrong on his watch, and I have sensed all along that he was just too close Johnson.
He clearly is not of the same calibre, both in terms of integrity and ability, as his predecessors such as Sir Robin Butler, Sir Jeremy Heywood etc, none of whom would have permitted the sort of culture in Downing Street that led to Partygate. |
He does indeed. I was going to mention the Cabinet Secretary senior dudes, but my post was already too long. Heywood certainly wouldn’t. I knew about him through a chum who worked for him for a while.
Frankly, aside from Johnson who is ultimately accountable, I just don’t understand how senior people allowed this to be even contemplated let alone happen. I can understand how some staff would feel intimidated to attend, want to attend etc and others dubious about it, but in a high pressure environment like that it’s up to the leaders to lead. Simple really.
On the last thing I worked on, one of the earliest things done as the original team was set up was one of the original heads of it, who later became HMRCs chief Solicitor, despite us all being mega busy got us all together and went through standards of behaviour. What we could and couldn’t do, along with well-being and all that stuff. He thought it important and he was right.
None of this is rocket science. It’s basic common sense and actually common decency, given what was happening to people.but the common decency is sadly lacking in Johnson and many of his shower. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:17 - Mar 23 with 987 views | DJR |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:33 - Mar 23 by Swansea_Blue |
From the little I've seen of him, he appears to have been seriously over-promoted. I don't know his background though, so that's just a first impression based on how he's responded the few times he's been thrust into the limelight over all this partygate stuff. |
He did have a civil service background but was appointed as Cabinet Secretary after being Prince William's private secretary, and he had no experience of running a Whitehall department.
He just seems fit the pattern of Johnson surrounding himself with second-raters and sycophants (Lord Frost, Nadine Dories etc). [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 10:20]
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:49 - Mar 23 with 924 views | HARRY10 |
johnson was the chief weasel who led the capture of Toad Hall with other assorted vermin. They were brought down mid party* and send packing.
The General Election cannot come soon enough. With luck it will send packing a whole raft of useless Tory MPs, from those 'oop north' who did not expect to win and are not up to it through to those down south who did expect to win but should be evicted the same reason.
As if proof that PR is never workable the Torys will always be stuck with the ERG and its variants. They will not form a separate party so as to be allocated a minority of seats with minimal influence. Far better to remain within the Tory Party and try to take control - as they have done for the past few years.
Many Tory constituency parties are now controlled by these zealots, who will seek out fellow cranks and nutjobs to replace those jumping ship before the GE.
However with no common cause to rally round (brexit) I suspect wiser heads with eventually gain control. Not before a long drawn out battle though.
Sunak needs to have a read up, and pay heed, to the Night of the Long Knives | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:55 - Mar 23 with 915 views | Churchman |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:55 - Mar 23 by HARRY10 |
Intelligent he is not. Don't mistake low cunning and deceit for intelligence, nor TGE ability to learn a swat up on a latin phrase as being intelligent either.
Johnson, like the stick insect, presumes that because they attended an expensive school they have a higher intellect and so will play to that (self) delusion.
Johnson has shown over the years that he lacks the intellect to see beyond the immediate moment. Anyone not so dim would have known that holding those lockdown breaking parties was laying himself open to 'blackmail'.
Just as the reason homosexuality was decriminalised, because it put people in a position where they could be blackmailed, so any political figure avoids being put, or putting themselves, into what could be seen as a compromising situation.
Amongst his cunning plans is a usage of Beano type language. Yet the one Beano character he most resembles is not some toff, but Roger the Dodger. Someone who thinks there's always a wheeze somewhere. Some shortcut to success. The type who always disappears into the toilet when it is his round, who doesn't pay for what he actually had in a restaurant when the bill comes round.
These types thibk somehow are being clever. That no one notices, because, as often, nothing is said. However, Johnsons lies have been noted, and as the 'round dodger' his run has ended.
The only 'friends' left will be the weird, the absurd and the dull witted.... Dorries, Stick-Insect, Fabricant, 30p Lee, Francois, Upskirt Chope, Bone Head (MP), who will try to peddle some ridiculous 'stab in the back' guff about his downfall.
Johnson served his purpose at the time. That time has long since passed. |
Academically he is intelligent. That is beyond dispute. But like many intelligent people he is also all the things I described in the other post. Loathsome and useless basically.
Intelligence takes many forms and those who have it use it well, badly, dysfunctionally, not at all.
So some people are able to make best use of the gifts they are born with, many are not. Johnson? A waste of space. That he became PM shows how broken our political system is. Add in Truss and others and it’s clear that to reach high office decency, ability, hard work, dedication are things that are not required. People with those remain firmly on the back benches alongside failures and the odd one dribbling over porn on his phone.
Political reform required! | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:12 - Mar 23 with 890 views | DJR |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:55 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
Academically he is intelligent. That is beyond dispute. But like many intelligent people he is also all the things I described in the other post. Loathsome and useless basically.
Intelligence takes many forms and those who have it use it well, badly, dysfunctionally, not at all.
So some people are able to make best use of the gifts they are born with, many are not. Johnson? A waste of space. That he became PM shows how broken our political system is. Add in Truss and others and it’s clear that to reach high office decency, ability, hard work, dedication are things that are not required. People with those remain firmly on the back benches alongside failures and the odd one dribbling over porn on his phone.
Political reform required! |
This from the FT suggests he is not as bright as Cameron, but both to my mind lacked the main quality that makes a good leader, namely, judgement. I would add that with the quality of his pre-university education, he ought to have done better if he was really bright.
"Boris Johnson knows the pain of a disappointing exam result. At Oxford university he thirsted for a first-class degree, but had to settle for a second. He retained a jocularly disguised bitterness for his political rival David Cameron, who did get a first, labelling him a “girly swot”."
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:14 - Mar 23 with 873 views | Churchman |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:12 - Mar 23 by DJR |
This from the FT suggests he is not as bright as Cameron, but both to my mind lacked the main quality that makes a good leader, namely, judgement. I would add that with the quality of his pre-university education, he ought to have done better if he was really bright.
"Boris Johnson knows the pain of a disappointing exam result. At Oxford university he thirsted for a first-class degree, but had to settle for a second. He retained a jocularly disguised bitterness for his political rival David Cameron, who did get a first, labelling him a “girly swot”."
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He was well known for not doing any work at Eton, Oxford. Nothing changed. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:16 - Mar 23 with 858 views | HARRY10 |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 10:55 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
Academically he is intelligent. That is beyond dispute. But like many intelligent people he is also all the things I described in the other post. Loathsome and useless basically.
Intelligence takes many forms and those who have it use it well, badly, dysfunctionally, not at all.
So some people are able to make best use of the gifts they are born with, many are not. Johnson? A waste of space. That he became PM shows how broken our political system is. Add in Truss and others and it’s clear that to reach high office decency, ability, hard work, dedication are things that are not required. People with those remain firmly on the back benches alongside failures and the odd one dribbling over porn on his phone.
Political reform required! |
It is NOT the system, it is voters.
Who support the liars
Gutbucket claimed the notorious “bring your own booze” garden party on 20 May 2020 had been aimed at motivating staff because cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill had quit.
But Mr Sedwill did not resign until 29 June 2020 — more than a month later — revealing he would step down from his top Downing Street role in September. [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 11:27]
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:26 - Mar 23 with 833 views | DJR |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 11:14 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
He was well known for not doing any work at Eton, Oxford. Nothing changed. |
Interesting also that both Cameron and Johnson (as well as being lazy) weren't interested in detail which meant that none of their policies stood up to scrutiny. I suppose their attitude (which reflected their background) could be said to be a feature of some with an Eton education, although a fellow Etonian in my office who was in same class as Cameron was nothing like either of them. | | | |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 13:25 - Mar 23 with 720 views | Ryorry |
| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:10 - Mar 23 by Churchman |
This is spot on.
Regarding point 2 ‘sticking to guidelines and insisting staff, colleagues, family the same, I’m staggered that didn’t happen. There are one or two people on this forum who’ve worked in the CS on or near high profile stuff and will know that you are always aware of ‘the Daily Mail Factor’.
A minor example: you would be careful after work what you said and did in public and where you drank. There were some things that you would not disclose to family or anything else. It was the nature of that game.
With the pandemic, given what people were having to endure such as not being with loved ones when they passed or even at the funeral, I cannot imagine how or why the events that took place on Johnson’s watch occurred. If Johnson even just knew of them let alone be present, why weren’t they stopped? I’d never have allowed them and had I been working there and asked to attend, I wouldn’t have.
There are no excuses, no ‘I didn’t realise’. I know the staff operate under considerable pressure, having worked with people who’d worked there, but if you work anywhere or on anything high profile, you apply the rules scrupulously and if necessary go above and beyond. That was my experience.
Intelligent he may be but Johnson strikes me as a lazy, weak, arrogant, useless, self entitled idiot of a man. An irrelevance who should never have been within a million miles of government.
As footnote, you wouldn’t have lasted five minutes as a politician. Honesty and integrity is the last thing these lizards want! [Post edited 23 Mar 2023 9:11]
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Thanks. Should also have added, but forgot -
7. I'd have praised & thanked the NHS for successfully rolling out the vaccination programmes, instead of claiming both at the time & ad infinitum ever since that it was down to the brilliance of myself & my govt. - particularly as "my" party had been defunding, depopulating the staff & generally running down the NHS for years.
Never ceases to grind my gears that one, highlights Johnson's disgusting ability to hijack the success of others; & also shed his own blame onto others (the entire Civil Service yesterday! He really shot himself in the foot with that one, clearly ridiculous over-egging). |  |
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| I really think this might be the end for Johnson on 09:06 - Mar 24 with 554 views | HARRY10 |
Not looking good for the podgy 'porkie pie' peddler
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/boris-johnson-question-time-partygate-b230
Which makes you wonder how that stacks up with his sweaty paw on the Bible, vowing to tell the truth
It's one thing ranting in Parliament, but this was him answering questions having sworn an oath to tell the truth - on oath.
"Johnson claimed the notorious “bring your own booze” garden party on 20th May 2020 had been aimed at motivating staff because cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill had quit.
But Mr Sedwill did not resign until 28th June 2020 — more than a month later — revealing he would step down from his top Downing Street role in September."
Lord Sedwill’s resignation was not announced until 28th June — more than a month after the event on 20th May. Sedwill's resignation letter was also dated 28th June. *
Which is technically perjury. Actually no. No technicalities about it. It is perjury........ 'wilfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath'. Having repeatedly made that erroneous claim. he would have been well aware he was lying - hence, wilfully.
* https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/boris-johnson-says-sedwill | | | |
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