PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Pickman's model]

Surely - surely - this is the death knell for this arsehole's premiership?

can't be long till he's pinched

 

[cupid_stunt]

The latest claim from Downing Street is that Johnson had forgot about being briefed on the 2019 case.

As if you would forget something so serious, especially when new allegations are made, that would jog the memory.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Surely - surely - this is the death knell for this arsehole's premiership?

Part XVII in a continuing series

 

[cupid_stunt]

As David Davis predicted during PMQs, back in January, if Johnson didn't go, he and the party would suffer death by a thousand cuts, and and so it comes to pass.

 

[Sue]

As David Davis predicted during PMQs, back in January, if Johnson didn't go, he and the party would suffer death by a thousand cuts, and and so it comes to pass.

We need a shrug/do I look like I give a shit reaction emoji really.

 

[Rob Ray]

As if you would forget something so serious, especially when new allegations are made, that would jog the memory.

 

[elbows]

Vicki Young on the BBC live updates page:

It’s not been difficult since partygate to find Conservative MPs willing to criticise Boris Johnson but his response to the Chris Pincher allegations is prompting another wave of unhappiness.

Even some of those who’ve been previously loyal are struggling to defend the evolving lines emerging from No 10. A cabinet minister suggests there’s a certain “arrogance” at the top which makes them think they can “slide their way out of anything”.

A minister tells me the “rot remains in No 10” and several MPs say the “mood has hardened against the prime minister over the weekend.”

It certainly feels like anger is building again, as it did before the vote of confidence.

Mr Johnson promised a new team to sort out problems after partygate, but as one former cabinet minister put it: “It’s not the team that’s the issue, it’s the team leader.”

13:46 entry on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62048657

 

[Storm Fox]

Well, either he's lying, or has actually forgotten as he thinks Pincher's behaviour is so insignificant it's not worth remembering.
Either option isn't a good look.

 

[Bingoman]

The latest claim from Downing Street is that Johnson had forgot about being briefed on the 2019 case.

As if you would forget something so serious, especially when new allegations are made, that would jog the memory.

How hell can you forget something like that or has chose to forget?

 

[elbows]

He is less likely to have genuinely forgotten this one due to it fitting in with his humour via 'pincher by name, pincher by nature' shit.

 

[Pickman's model]

As David Davis predicted during PMQs, back in January, if Johnson didn't go, he and the party would suffer death by a thousand cuts, and and so it comes to pass.

a thousand cunts, he said there'd be the death of a thousand cunts. or at least 358

 

[Bingoman]

a thousand cunts, he said there'd be the death of a thousand cunts. or at least 358

Is that how many seat they lose at the next election

 

[Pickman's model]

Is that how many seat they lose at the next election

it's how many people currently tory mps will be looking for clean trousers or skirts before election night is out.

 

[JimW]

Why don't we have journos who can ask if the reason he's been soft on Pincher is he's a sex case himself? He really wouldn't dare take it to court IMO.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Bingoman]

What a difference a day makes lol

 

[Pickman's model]

What a difference a day makes lol

24 hours is a long time in politics

 

[two sheds]

Which papers had that edict from the top that Johnson should go now?

 

[Numbers]

24 hours is a long time in politics

Even longer than 24 hours in Pontins.

 

[elbows]

Which papers had that edict from the top that Johnson should go now?

The fucking Mail.

But signs are still mixed because Hodges was already one of those who wrote the critical article in the Mail on Sunday last weekend, so the sentiments in his most recent tweet are not completely new from that particular Mail staffer.

 

[two sheds]

The Mail and Mail on Sunday editors hated each other as I seem to recall from Private Eye.

 

[elbows]

The Mail and Mail on Sunday editors hated each other as I seem to recall from Private Eye.

I believe we were told a good while back that the days of the Sunday and weekday editions taking very different stances were going to come to an end. However that may have been when Dacre was still due to be moving on to a cushy regulatory job, and so the landscape may have shifted further back in the old direction once his job prospects changed again and he returned more fully to the daily impale group. I've not kept up with this shit properly. I said yesterday I'd keep an eye open for signs of the weekly edition shifting its stance towards Johnson but I'm already regretting having to pay attention to their shit. And I neednt bother really, if the shift happens in full then it will be very obvious and much commented on by others, as the attention paid to that Hodges tweet earlier already shows.

 

[andysays]

It's getting ridiculous now. How long until they trot out a version of the "dog ate my homework" excuse?

I wonder what the result would have been if that VoNC had been delayed a few weeks until now...

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[AmateurAgitator]

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Mail and Mail on Sunday editors hated each other as I seem to recall from Private Eye.

That was Paul Dacre Vs Geordie Greig. The latter eventually got the former's job at the daily paper, although didn't keep it for long IIRC.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[ruffneck23]

As David Davis predicted during PMQs, back in January, if Johnson didn't go, he and the party would suffer death by a thousand cuts, and and so it comes to pass.

Which is what I have been saying to my mp for months, oh well shame he didn't listen.

 

[Supine]

The Sun suggesting he might be rolled before the summer recess. If changing the rules leads to another vote quickly enough i suppose.

 

[ruffneck23]

I love the fact that.it won't be Johnson just gone , he will take the majority of the front bench with him, now if only we had an effective opposition...