PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Obviously ITN were excited about their leak/scoop but they were doing their best at 10 to remind viewers just how tight the lockdown was at that stage and flagging up 2 immediate issues that will dog blustercunt...one being the use of the word “we” at the start of the email invite and the other misleading parliament.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
The Tories really have no morals or principles left these days (they had almost none to begin with). Just ruthless self interest. It makes me wonder how big an impact Ayn Rand had in right wing circles. I just dismissed her as an embittered Soviet dissident nut job who no one in their right mind would take seriously but apparently Sajid Javid is a fan.
The ghost of Ayn Rand lives on in the Conservatives’ Covid-19 policy
Sajid Javid’s remark on “cowering” before Covid-19 was no accident – he believes in the survival of the fittest.
www.newstatesman.com
ETA: I suppose she’s the answer to this Galbraith quote.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
We've got an PM's Ethics feller who can't bring himself to resign even when the PM directly lies to him about the very thing he's investigating.
Now we've got a 2nd Party Investigator, after the first one resigned because he went to the parties.... who the PM asked if there were any parties and will now have to pick up on the parties that the PM attended... and a process where the PM refuses to answer public questions about whether he went to parties because Party Investigator Number 2 is now investigating whether he went to a party. And don't get me started on the shithouses in the Met....
Have I missed anything?
Now we've got a 2nd Party Investigator, after the first one resigned because he went to the parties.... who the PM asked if there were any parties and will now have to pick up on the parties that the PM attended... and a process where the PM refuses to answer public questions about whether he went to parties because Party Investigator Number 2 is now investigating whether he went to a party. And don't get me started on the shithouses in the Met....
Have I missed anything?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Whoever the Tory MP was on newsnight tried to justify it, 'Well it was hard work during the crisis, so a drink after work, ya know'. Interviewer pointed out it was clearly a party.
Mr Shortstraw, ' well we don't know that yet, that's just what the media are saying' .
Mr Shortstraw, ' well we don't know that yet, that's just what the media are saying' .
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Shaun bailey not at an illegal party where they had some snacks from a Tesco local.
Shaun bailey in picture at an illegal party with what looks like a buffet put together by Fanny Craddock. Met police change their logo to three wise monkeys?
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In the taxonomy of tory MPs, you can probably draw a distinction between the ones who can breeze through an interview like that and probably jog off afterwards to tell anyone further up the greasy pole how loyal they were. Then there's the one's who get the slightest twisting in their guts when they get sent out on the 349th interview to lie, avoid and wheedle in that fashion. On that showing, I wasn't sure where to put that feller. Suppose 'in a noose' is the safest answer.Whoever the Tory MP was on newsnight tried to justify it, 'Well it was hard work during the crisis, so a drink after work, ya know'. Interviewer pointed out it was clearly a party.
Mr Shortstraw, ' well we don't know that yet, that's just what the media are saying' .
Curiouscarl
Active Member
Follow the money.
But, the West's intelligence agencies are not for the, "people". They're for the very few.
They're for hire. For whoever has the most £$£$£$£$$£££$$£$£
Allen Dulles is a good example.
Jobs for the boys kind of thing. They're all in the same clique.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
So it's the 'West's intelligence agencies' (collectively, individually?), but no it's some unidentified very few very rich people, and just to muddy the waters a little more, they're all the same anyway (or are at least members of the same club). Not the most detailed or convincing explanation of Johnson's success.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Heard a minister on R4 just now spinning that line. One way to look at it is that he was trying to cover Johnson's arse; the other way - that he could barely contain his glee that while said minister was saying nothing disloyal: Yay! this finally nails him!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's beyond parody though, the first enquiry being abandoned as the enquirer was at the fucking party. They ripped the piss out of us by doing it in the first place and they continue to rip the piss with this enquiry nonsense.
scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
Doing a turn at Billy Smart's Circus
This fiasco would be hilarious if not for the thought of the misery and despair people went through of not even being allowed the comfort of sitting with their dying loved ones, whilst these parties went on.
Tories. Despicable bastards the entire shower of them.
Tories. Despicable bastards the entire shower of them.
If I remember back to that first long lockdown gatherings did happen. I can recall seeing people in the car park of their flats in socially distanced circles having a chat, often with a drink in hand. Presumably this happened in communal gardens as well.
I also think in general I the police shouldn't be retrospectively investigating this sort of thing, I don't think any good would come of it.
Of course with the government and PM in particular it really is a different matter. I find it extraordinary that no one told them it was against the rules and it must not happen. Its a mixture of extreme stupidity, arrogance and callousness. Its the principle so much more than the events themselves.
I also think in general I the police shouldn't be retrospectively investigating this sort of thing, I don't think any good would come of it.
Of course with the government and PM in particular it really is a different matter. I find it extraordinary that no one told them it was against the rules and it must not happen. Its a mixture of extreme stupidity, arrogance and callousness. Its the principle so much more than the events themselves.
Michael Fabricant has just been on 5Live saying the party was ok as these were 'key workers'. There was another person on the line who was a teaching assistant at the time and had to muddle through setting up Bubbles for the kids etc and would have never considered having a staff party after hours. I'd argue teachers might be more 'key' than a keyboard jockey in Downing St.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Yeah there was never any rule about key workers getting special permission to have social gatherings. Not like 'key workers' was ever properly defined either; I saw accountants claiming that they counted as key workers and all sorts of shit.
Every worker is a key worker to their boss. That’s why we need to use other ways to define who is a key worker than asking their bosses
bemused
Well-Known Member
Imagine being the Number 10 PR team.
PR Team: 'right, no ministers on the media today we need a plan for PMQs'
TV in the background: 'up next Michael Fabricant'
PR Team 'fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck'
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
johnson pays for his toupees.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
we all know who weren't key workers and that's the people who attended this do
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
A whole new meaning and spelling to Tories and whigs.
scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
Holy toupées, that syrup looks like the same one sported by Terry Stone in the interminable Rise of the Footsoldier film series... a wig that gets around.
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