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Was simply, the Garden is my Office and I should have sent them back inside?
Not stop, go home. Sent them back inside to continue drinking?
Utter buffoon
Incredible. Prime Minister "apologises" by continuing to deny the party was a party and asserting he had no idea because Number 10 is a big department.
My neighbour died alone. I have done 'final visits' via Zoom. I couldn't hug my mum when she received her cancer diagnosis. I've made dozens of calls to people and explained, sometimes at length, why they can't visit their desperately ill relatives until they're actually formally designated as 'dying'. My father-in-law had to undergo neurosurgery frightened, confused and alone. I've had more 'we can't do anymore, we need someone to make the decision to palliate' decisions to put to senior clinicians in the last two years than I have the preceding twenty. I've had the nightmares, the 'could I have done more' self doubts. I've done the health promotion, I've done the 'for fook's sake stay home/have your jabs' posts. I've held the hands of the dying in full PPE. I've sent broken colleagues home.
F**k Boris Johnson, f**k people who voted him in, f**k poeple who still, cravenly support him.
I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
So the apology from Johnson on 12:13 - Jan 12 by ElderGrizzly
Sending them back inside was worse!
Agree, they gamed the Cummings eye test story too and that was appaling
"Sending them back inside was worse!"
Exactly. Basically he's admitted it, given a form of pseudo apology because forced to while nailed & wriggling on a hook, what on earth further evidence he thinks the Gray enquiry can possibly provide to somehow "exonerate" him lord knows.
All previous PMs, even Tories, would have resigned by now, but he doesn't have any kind of moral compass. Hanging on for the extra few £££££ of the PM's salary would be just his 'style'. Beneath contempt.
So the apology from Johnson on 12:51 - Jan 12 by footers
I don't particularly like the fella, has to be said.
Of course @BorisJohnson could have asked his wife, Carrie Johnson, who was with him and drinking (gin, I’m told), whether they were at a party, if he wasn’t sure
So the apology from Johnson on 13:04 - Jan 12 by giant_stow
I share your anger Stokie - just wondering why now / what comes next post-Johnson.
I don't care really, one thing at a time and that thing is that Johnson shouldn't be allowed to stay in the highest office of the land with the behaviour he's demonstrated.
What comes later can be tackled at that point.
SB
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So the apology from Johnson on 13:09 - Jan 12 with 865 views
So the apology from Johnson on 13:04 - Jan 12 by giant_stow
I share your anger Stokie - just wondering why now / what comes next post-Johnson.
More Tory MPs unhappy
'Very thin ice indeed' from Roger Gale. Another MP: "We are in a very tricky situation" A third MP. "Not sure the line I thought it was a work event convincing" https://t.co/vVnadM2rMw
So the apology from Johnson on 13:09 - Jan 12 by ElderGrizzly
More Tory MPs unhappy
'Very thin ice indeed' from Roger Gale. Another MP: "We are in a very tricky situation" A third MP. "Not sure the line I thought it was a work event convincing" https://t.co/vVnadM2rMw
So the apology from Johnson on 13:06 - Jan 12 by StokieBlue
I don't care really, one thing at a time and that thing is that Johnson shouldn't be allowed to stay in the highest office of the land with the behaviour he's demonstrated.
What comes later can be tackled at that point.
SB
Adam Wagner thread is good as usual. As a reminder for context, his wife was there knocking back Gin and it has been revealed the event was known to him before it took place.
The apology - when read carefully - was to the millions of people who "wouldn’t see it in that way", but because he also said technically it could be said to fall within the guidance he is implicitly saying the millions of people are wrong in their interpretation.
This is very much about his personal liability - he is implicitly denying he knew what the event was, had seen the email or had anything to do with it. Because here's the key point: on the wording of email ("bring your own booze") this couldn't technically have been a work event
Also, how do you believe something implicitly? Is the point that he didn't really understand the rules he had set? Or not particularly engaged with them?
The ultimate point is that at the time if anyone had asked the Prime Minister or Health Minister whether it was lawful to have a social work gathering outdoors for 100 with alcohol and food they would have answered with a very hard "no". This is all ex post facto face saving
So the apology from Johnson on 13:06 - Jan 12 by ElderGrizzly
Of course @BorisJohnson could have asked his wife, Carrie Johnson, who was with him and drinking (gin, I’m told), whether they were at a party, if he wasn’t sure
Don't worry, lowhouse will be along soon saying how normal it is in certain industries to make important decisions with alcohol, in a garden with your wife and that this isn't a resigning matter at all...
footers KC - Prosecution Barrister - Friend to all
So the apology from Johnson on 12:28 - Jan 12 by ElderGrizzly
He then had the balls to tell a QC that he should act with integrity! 🙄
The PM’s greatest asset is that he is utterly shameless. Someone with a sense of honour would have resigned but he won’t - how not unless something else happens making his position untenable to him.
He’ll think that he can ride it out and come good. The sad thing being is that he could well be right on this. No punches seem to land on him and his supporters still think that he’s great.
So the apology from Johnson on 13:14 - Jan 12 by MattinLondon
The PM’s greatest asset is that he is utterly shameless. Someone with a sense of honour would have resigned but he won’t - how not unless something else happens making his position untenable to him.
He’ll think that he can ride it out and come good. The sad thing being is that he could well be right on this. No punches seem to land on him and his supporters still think that he’s great.
One disgusting example of that being the **** that texted in to BBC R5l this morning, basically saying that the PM was different to other people as he had such a stressful job running the country, and was therefore entitled to relax with a few friends & drinks in his garden after work ...
So the apology from Johnson on 13:19 - Jan 12 by Bergholtblue
Oh that's OK then, now that he has explained it.
In all my 60 odd years, I have been invited to many work meetings, but never have I been encouraged to bring my own booze. Must be in the wrong job!
Nah, any good modern office should lay on the booze gratis. Surprised No 10 would ask them to pop down the Spar in all honesty. Do they not have a decent cellar, what what.
footers KC - Prosecution Barrister - Friend to all
So the apology from Johnson on 13:21 - Jan 12 by footers
Nah, any good modern office should lay on the booze gratis. Surprised No 10 would ask them to pop down the Spar in all honesty. Do they not have a decent cellar, what what.
Are you Footers? Doesn't Gove hold shares in Spar?
Ade Akinbiyi couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo...
Perhaps Chope doesn't want to look at that particular c**t any more?
Edit: Having read the full quote, it does appear that the Upskirter-In-Chief is still looking up to his leader, and has experienced 'monumental relief', which hopefully did not splash all over his lens.
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# WE ARE STEALING THE FUTURE FROM OUR CHILDREN --- WE MUST CHANGE COURSE #
So the apology from Johnson on 13:22 - Jan 12 by NthQldITFC
Perhaps Chope doesn't want to look at that particular c**t any more?
Edit: Having read the full quote, it does appear that the Upskirter-In-Chief is still looking up to his leader, and has experienced 'monumental relief', which hopefully did not splash all over his lens.
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Nah still a c**t. He was also saying that he thought the apology was sincere "I think that the prime minister showed contrition and he realised he had done the wrong thing in not intervening at the time and all the rest of it.
“I think when somebody makes an apology like that, reasonable people accept the apology - obviously with the caveat that this is continuing because there’s a continuing inquiry.”
So the apology from Johnson on 13:22 - Jan 12 by NthQldITFC
Perhaps Chope doesn't want to look at that particular c**t any more?
Edit: Having read the full quote, it does appear that the Upskirter-In-Chief is still looking up to his leader, and has experienced 'monumental relief', which hopefully did not splash all over his lens.
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I believe Frankie Boyle made a similar joke at the time.
"If Christopher Chope was that desperate to see a photo of a c*** he could've just taken a selfie"
So the apology from Johnson on 13:21 - Jan 12 by Ryorry
One disgusting example of that being the **** that texted in to BBC R5l this morning, basically saying that the PM was different to other people as he had such a stressful job running the country, and was therefore entitled to relax with a few friends & drinks in his garden after work ...
Basically the PM simply stood up at PMQs uttered a poor-apology and answered every question ‘sorry, but wait for the results of the inquiry’. He’s hoping that something else will be grabbing the headlines whenever the inquiry is made public. He knows the attention span of his supporters and that they won’t care.
Hopefully like Trump his soft-supporters will go off him making his ardent supporters voters irrelevant.
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