I think we need a panel of experts to assess the state of the grasses, shadows and other flora and fauna to give us a likely date. Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock to do the hard work, maybe Monty Don to chair it and add a bit of gravitas. Bit like the Chilcot Inquiry, but with a greater focus on picnic furniture.
Because there is a recording, and no way of definitively suppressing it. Any attempt to explain or minimise what may or may not be on it makes it more likely the recording will somehow make it into the public domain IMO. And regardless whether it may sound worse than it is, it probably still sounds really bad.
For someone with a fair wind of media support behind him, yes, he does somehow manage to fuck up his PR. Just over the last few days I've heard 'they are very much still in love'... 'Boris wants to go back to his previous wife'... 'previous wife and/or Carrie Symonds are sick of his cheating'. It's as if his media management is a mirror of his own internal blathering.
if he can't make up his mind about upon which unfortunate woman he will inflict his company how badly is he going to deal with complex international affairs?
That sounds reasonable though, unless there's an injunction (would we know? Dunno.) I'd have thought we'd at least have had a bit more detail about the tape, particularly if it's bad. By now dozens if not more journos and others have heard it. It's clearly not just sat in the guardian vaults, I heard some tory commentator (can't remember who) saying he'd heard it the other day.
I think Johnson's going to win and probably win easily in the end. I think he'll also have a fair to middling chance of getting some kind of brexit deal (or no deal) through, though no better than that. The irony is though, it's his lying and dodging that is more likely to create a problem for him that his complete failure to think through a 'good brexit'.
Genuine q, if perhaps a naïve one: if there are anything like that many copies out there, why have we not heard it? If the tape is in multiple hands, there won't be an agreement to hold on to it till he comes out with anything that contradicts the tape.
how fortunate the uxbridgese are
Heard a good quote on James O'Brien's LBC show yesterday.
I'm not really disputing this, just trying to think through the practicalities on the ground. The guardian would be on slightly tricky ground releasing the tape, in light of their big push on issues that lead up to Leveson, even more so as the police are not interested. Nevertheless, on balance, I suspect they'd fight an injunction and claim there was a public interest. Again, not sure but have a feeling some injunctions come with an injunction on publicising the injunction (John Terry superinjunction)? But it just seems a bit odd that nothing has dribbled out since Friday and the original story.
As i keep saying. They are not stupid. They know their demographic well.
Not only is this weird but it smells like it's been completely made up on the hoof, probably because his hobbies are really grim porn or somethingthis is real.
