PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[brogdale]

Murdoch press going with deffo nobbled:

 

[gosub]

Murdoch press going with deffo nobbled:

The ABBA party? That was the'job interview' wasn't it

 

[Raheem]

The ABBA party? That was the'job interview' wasn't it

"I'll admit I'm not perfectly qualified, but I'm asking you to take a chance on me."

 

[ska invita]

What is it with fucking ABBA and Tories? First Theresa May then Dominic Cummings now this?

 

[Ax^]

maybe it the waterloo connection

you know flag shaggers

 

[gosub]

What is it with fucking ABBA and Tories? First Theresa May then Dominic Cummings now this?

Trying to appeal to younger voters

 

[Calamity1971]

((Dylan))

 

[Bingoman]

((Dylan))

Wow he sounds unhinged

 

[Wilf]

Guardian talking up the number of potential letters in this. Wishful thinking I feel, though there will probably be a tipping point. Of course the ideal scenario is if they get 54 letters, he stands again... and then wins, but with a 1/3 or so voting against him.

Top Tories say Boris Johnson is ‘plunging party into an identity crisis’

Partygate and U-turns on tax are ‘undermining message’, say Conservative MPs as more call for him to quit

www.theguardian.com

 

[Calamity1971]

Absolute fucking state of this.

 

[not-bono-ever]

not the first time I have said this, but its not funny anymore. its sickening. I'm even finding myself viewing Rory S in a more positive light these days

 

[not-bono-ever]

 

[Elpenor]

everyone who needs to know knows what a yard, a foot, an ounce, a furlong, a mile, a pound and a pint are. not to mention a stone. and you can see by ready example in every supermarket what a litre or kilogram consists of, while a kilometre is a ten minute walk

RED MEAT FOR THE RED WALL

 

[Raheem]

not the first time I have said this, but its not funny anymore. its sickening. I'm even finding myself viewing Rory S in a more positive light these days

Thatcher too. Bet she was always scrupulous about condoms with strangers when HIV first became a thing.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

We never got to see Trump in a big military hat with medals like Bill Maher had predicted, PLEASE let Johnson go all the way

 

[not-bono-ever]

im going to take a drink. i might be back later to smash my keyboard repeatedly

 

[Elpenor]

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The Saj leadership campaign rebranding?

 

[Dystopiary]

everyone who needs to know knows what a yard, a foot, an ounce, a furlong, a mile, a pound and a pint are. not to mention a stone. and you can see by ready example in every supermarket what a litre or kilogram consists of, while a kilometre is a ten minute walk

Hopefully he won't be here furlong now, and someone will give him a good pounding.

 

[Raheem]

I can't weight.

 

[maomao]

Hopefully he won't be here furlong now, and someone will give him a good pounding.

Was going to try and better this but you're out of my league.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Murdoch press going with deffo nobbled:

Here's the paywall busted link to the whole article - archive.ph

There's a bit of hope in there.

The latest revelations prompted a trickle of MPs announcing that they were submitting letters of no confidence. Fifty-four need to do so but the number who have gone public is in the mid twenties.

There is growing concern in Tory high command that there could be a vote when MPs return from recess in the week beginning June 6. “Under Theresa May the number of letters was about twice the number who were publicly declared,” said one party official.

One of the MPs involved in the plotting said: “The really dangerous thing for Boris is that it’s not co-ordinated. It’s just people who have had enough.”

YouGov modelling published on Friday suggests that if an election were held now the Conservatives would hold just three of 88 battleground seats, with Johnson’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat falling to Labour. It also predicts that Labour will reclaim Wakefield, which the Tories won in 2019, in the by-election on June 23. On the same day party sources say they are resigned to losing the Tiverton & Honiton seat to the Liberal Democrats, an election caused by the resignation of Neil Parish who admitted watching pornography in parliament.

Pollsters say the collapse of Tory support in the south is caused by Johnson’s unpopularity. James Johnson, who was No 10 pollster under Theresa May, said: “The brand damage caused by the Downing Street parties — and the ensuing cover-up — has fundamentally changed views of Boris Johnson, which will persevere beyond the story being in the news.

 

[not a trot]

Guardian talking up the number of potential letters in this. Wishful thinking I feel, though there will probably be a tipping point. Of course the ideal scenario is if they get 54 letters, he stands again... and then wins, but with a 1/3 or so voting against him.

Top Tories say Boris Johnson is ‘plunging party into an identity crisis’

Partygate and U-turns on tax are ‘undermining message’, say Conservative MPs as more call for him to quit

www.theguardian.com

I read somewhere, that it is within the gift of the leader, that he can change the rules concerning leadership, anytime he likes.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hopefully he won't be here furlong now, and someone will give him a good pounding.

Perhaps he could be chained to a stone and left for birds to peck

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Nothing to hide here then...

They can't help themselves can they? Was there cake? And/or booze?

 

[rubbershoes]

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Plenty of lampposts in Downing St

 

[MrSki]

Doesn't look like partygate is over yet.

 

[steveseagull]

From the Sunday Times:

They had expected the document at 8am. It was now 10am and they had just an hour to prepare Johnson’s statement to the Commons and pass it to Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker, and Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition. Johnson and Barclay began to read while Harri flicked to the end to read the conclusions. Then the silence was shattered as Johnson’s dog, Dilyn, began to bark in the Downing Street garden — “going absolutely apeshit”, as one witness put it. Johnson could not concentrate. “Can someone deal with that f***ing dog?” he snapped.

Ben Gascoigne, Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, was sent to calm the recalcitrant canid. No sooner had he returned than Dilyn began yapping again. Johnson repeated his outburst. The third time it happened, an irate PM yelled: “Will someone put that dog down!” One of those present suggested that his military adviser, a former special forces commando, could dispatch Dilyn “with his bare hands”.

Another example of lax discipline was that the 8.30am meeting of senior staff was moved at one point to 9am because Johnson kept being late. “You had people coming in from miles away to be there by 7.30am but he couldn’t be bothered to walk down two flights of stairs to get there on time,” a source said.
It is also claimed that Martin Reynolds, the former principal private secretary who left after organising a “bring your own booze” party, used to pretend Johnson was in meetings to cover for him while he was having an afternoon nap.

archive.ph

 

[ruffneck23]

Well he certainly seems to have pissed Murdoch off, oh well...

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

While it's understandable that people are angry, it's a bit silly to try and say these are equivalent situations isn't it?

I think that was cupid_stunt 's precise point, really, that there's no equivalence.

That Johnson's justification of attending these parties because they were 'work events' - although the persons in question had left their role, no work was being done at the parties or thereafter - and that saying goodbye to colleagues who they'd maybe worked a few months or a few years with, was somehow more important and justifiable than people being able to be with and say goodbye to their spouse of several decades, or their elderly parent, or eg their 13-year-old son, or to gather for funerals, etc.

I mean, I can't imagine what that boy felt, or his parents, or the rest of his family.

Coronavirus: 13-year-old with Covid-19 'died alone' without his family around him, friend says

Coronavirus: 13-year-old victim 'died alone' without his family around him | ITV News

Mohammed Motlib described Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab as a "loving, pure child." | ITV National News

www.itv.com

I think cupid_stunt 's point was that there's no equivalence. Not that I think people should necessarily have been allowed contact, because of the need for infection control, the pandemic was bad enough with all those measures in place, more that the politicians and civil servants (and PM's wife and PM's wife's friend and PM's interior designer, etc) should have adhered to those same measures instead of thinking they were special and above all that.

The whole us and them, the ruling classes and the plebs aspect of this is just disgustingly despicable.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Well he certainly seems to have pissed Murdoch off, oh well...

I doubt that, the Times & Sunday Times still has an independent editorial board, and independent editors.

If he had pissed off Murdoch, he would be using the Sun to attack him, whereas that rag still supports him.