PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[littlebabyjesus]

I do fancy the sort of job where you can’t tell whether you’re at a party or at work, though.

Politicians set up working parties all the time, mind you. Not sure what the fuss is about.

 

[flypanam]

It's a depressingly familiar pattern.

Tory wins an election then fucks up something or other, resigns.
New tory comes in, wins an election then fucks up something or other, resigns.
New tory comes in, wins an election then fucks up something or other, resigns.
New tory comes in...

Isn’t that something written by de Tocqueville?

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Isn’t that something written by de Tocqueville?

C'est la Belle Démocratie.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

What I want to know is: what booze did he bring? I suspect he’s the type to turn up empty handed. I guess he might have found a bottle of Teresa’s Mateus Rose at the back of the cupboard

 

[Doctor Carrot]

It’s all very entertaining to see him in strife, but what’s the outcome going to be? The guy who was in Number 11 moves next door? It’s not much of a win.

This, I'd actually rather he stayed where he was and booted out at the ballot box instead of some libertarian nutcase coming in who will be worse.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s all very entertaining to see him in strife, but what’s the outcome going to be? The guy who was in Number 11 moves next door? It’s not much of a win.

Johnson lives in number 11.

Sunak has been sabotaging Johnson for ages by refusing money for his policy priorities. Don't imagine his responsibility for where we are will go unnoticed for too long

 

[gosub]

Johnson says he accepts things should have been done differently at the party in the garden. Why don't they ask him how he would have done things differently?

Had he known it was a party? Probably strippers and a better DJ

 

[andysays]

Better catering.

The whole "bring your own booze" still seems odd to me, especially given that I imagine they normally spend large amounts of cash on "hospitality".

I wonder if it was done like that deliberately in an attempt to ensure deniability or something.

Hasn't worked out too well, has it?

 

[andysays]

I do fancy the sort of job where you can’t tell whether you’re at a party or at work, though.

That was my first thought when this story originally broke.

I'm genuinely surprised it's turned out to be as big as thing as it has, even if it isn't ultimately the final nail in Johnson's career as PM.

 

[danny la rouge]

Johnson lives in number 11.

I know. I was using the convention of the address standing for the office.

Basically, this changes nothing.

 

[gosub]

Easy to miss amongst all the bluster...

Not read PMQ's yet. Did that not come up?

 

[Chilli.s]

The whole "bring your own booze" still seems odd to me, especially given that I imagine they normally spend large amounts of cash on "hospitality".

And as yet another piss take of the little people, put in the invite but only as an in joke

 

[seeformiles]

One of the shittiest insincere apologies:

Jim Shannon: DUP MP in tears as he questions No 10 drinks party

Jim Shannon cries as he tells Parliament his mother-in-law died alone with Covid-19 in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[agricola]

Missed PMQs because our boss brought in her sound system, several trays of nibbles and ten bottles of Chablis, did anything happen?

 

[Teaboy]

Sunak has been sabotaging Johnson for ages by refusing money for his policy priorities. Don't imagine his responsibility for where we are will go unnoticed for too long

Sunak was conspicuous by his absence today. Down in Devon it would seem.

 

[Sprocket.]

All this confirms is what we already know.
Tories are sacks of shit and their greatest pleasure is laughing at everyone else, even those poor souls who are dying as a result of their mismanagement.

 

[Sprocket.]

Jo Coburn is tenacious though.

 

[xenon]

The whole "bring your own booze" still seems odd to me, especially given that I imagine they normally spend large amounts of cash on "hospitality".

I wonder if it was done like that deliberately in an attempt to ensure deniability or something.

Hasn't worked out too well, has it?

I think so. There can’t have been many catering businesses doing much work then. Word would’ve very easily got out.

 

[Pickman's model]

I know. I was using the convention of the address standing for the office.

Basically, this changes nothing.

I wouldn't be so sure. I can't help thinking - as I've said in the bit of the post you didn't quote - that sunak's disloyalty to Johnson isn't going to help him gain and retain the trust of the parliamentary cp. And I don't see how any initial popularity is going to be retained given his complicity in the events of the past eighteen months-two years. Things like the vast sums spaffed away on shit PPE. As our leaders seem on an accelerating downward spiral I wonder what joys lie ahead with a man whose immediate family is richer than the queen in downing street.

You may think it changes nothing. I think it opens up more possibilities.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sunak was conspicuous by his absence today. Down in Devon it would seem.

When will he next show his face in Yorkshire?

 

[agricola]

Sunak was conspicuous by his absence today. Down in Devon it would seem.

I can remember when it was Afghanistan that our political leaders fled to when avoiding embarrassment in the Commons.

 

[Ax^]

how did he not know it was a party?


did someone not offer him a line of Charlie as he walked in

 

[Pickman's model]

I can remember when it was Afghanistan that our political leaders fled to when avoiding embarrassment in the Commons.

I'd be happy to send them there again if they hadn't been promised to the penguins

 

[Kaka Tim]

The argument that "it changes nothing" I find quite miserabilist - the public outrage sends a message to these wankers about the limits of their power. see also - elections.

 

[agricola]

I'd be happy to send them there again if they hadn't been promised to the penguins

“kibble, not Kabul”

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Sunak was conspicuous by his absence today. Down in Devon it would seem.

I'm keeping my eyes peeled, just in case.

 

[steeplejack]

The argument that "it changes nothing" I find quite miserabilist - the public outrage sends a message to these wankers about the limits of their power. see also - elections.

Miserabilism a pretty mainstream position these days.

Sunak should be in prison for Eat Out to Help Out but he is clearly on maneouvres to take over.

As for today's farcical and unfunny pantomine, no one but political obsessives watch PMQs anymore anyway. Watching Sur Kieth's "cross examination" is like watching an episode of Kavanagh QC on a damp midweek afternoon. Kavanagh QC probably has better viewer ratings, too.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Miserabilism a pretty mainstream position these days.

Sunak should be in prison for Eat Out to Help Out but he is clearly on maneouvres to take over.

As for today's farcical and unfunny pantomine, no one but political obsessives watch PMQs anymore anyway. Watching Sur Kieth's "cross examination" is like watching an episode of Kavanagh QC on a damp midweek afternoon. Kavanagh QC probably has better viewer ratings, too.

PMQs can be important as its the prime minister talking on the record and he is accountable for what he says - so if it can be shown that he lied he is in deep shit. Thats what may do for him. Also the "soundbites" from todays will be mainstream news as its a big story. People will make judgements on Johnson based on those clips. I doubt Johnson's excuse of "i didn't realise it was a party" will convince anyone. This statement from the Covid bereaved families for justice will likely resonate far more powerfully -

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign has accused Boris Johnson of “taking the British public for fools” following his statement to MPs. (See 12.26pm.) Hannah Brady, spokesperson for the group, said:

The prime minister’s lies have finally caught up with him. Not content with kicking bereaved families like mine in the teeth by breaking the rules he set and then lying to us about it, he’s now taking the British public for fools by pretending he ‘didn’t know it was a party’.
Every time he lies to us, he pours more salt into the wounds of those who have already lost so much to this pandemic, but that doesn’t stop him. He’s incapable of telling the truth and he needs to go.
The prime minister is now a walking public health hazard, who has lost the trust, respect and good faith of the public. If restrictions are needed to protect lives in the future, people will simply laugh at him. He has no moral authority and will cost lives.
He has broken his own rules and if he had any decency he would now resign, rather than hide behind an internal “inquiry”. If he doesn’t, his MPs should remove him. They have a moral duty to do so.

 

[pesh]

I think so. There can’t have been many catering businesses doing much work then. Word would’ve very easily got out.

you'd have thought a load of people queing up outside with bags of cans would have been noticed too.