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Tory MPs shouldn’t bottle it this time – send the letters in – politicalbetting.com
Tory MPs shouldn’t bottle it this time – send the letters in – politicalbetting.com
The last time there was an opportunity to oust Johnson was in January though at the time there wasn’t the strength of opinion to carry this through.
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It's not like there won't be another pretext to do it, Boris is a reliable purveyer of scandals.
And therefore there is no desire to rock the boat.
Unless next year's locals are utterly disastrous (and given the baseline, they are likely to be reasonable), then I simply don't see it.
Johnson will - probably - lead the Conservatives into the next election. If the cost of living crisis is resolved, then I suspect he will win, albeit with a reduced majority. On the other hand, if it is not, then he's likely to be butchered by the electorate.
"There is now photographic evidence that when the prime minister stood up in parliament and was asked directly was there a party in No 10 on this date and he replied 'no', he lied to Parliament," she told Channel 4 News.
"I don't think his job is tenable and his position is tenable. The office of prime minister should be above being traduced by the person who holds it."
And current Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross demanded an explanation of why the PM thinks his behaviour was "acceptable" when most will think the pictures "seem unjustifiable and wrong".
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/partygate-tory-mps-criticise-photos-of-pm-at-lockdown-drinks-ahead-of-sue-gray-report-12620093
Worm re-re-re-turns
I just looked at my phone Photos for November 2020 ... at no stage do any of them look like this. Try it with your photos... if you can find a party with raised glasses you probably were a Tory politician or SPAD .. that's how bad it is
https://mobile.twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1528835927279288322
I looked, and found pictures of only two people I don’t live with, for the entire month. FWIW.
German Federal Security Council has been blocking the export of 100 Marder IFVs to Ukraine for over a month, Bild writes.
The application by Rheinmetall company to supply Marders was submitted on 22 April but remains not approved by the German Government.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1528929275998441474
The pictures are damning, but the attempt to knobble Sue Grey is legally, constituionally and politically even worse.
The voters know Boris is a wrong un and the Tories know that they know. Sure the Conservatives lose Tiverton (pretty certain), and Wakefield (Likely) and anything else going, and still some Bufton Tufton will declare that there is a mystical link between Boris and the voters. From the point of view of the country as a whole, if Johnson stays in place, the Tories lose, from the point of view of the Tories: "Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad".
Just show me the arse
Who raises a glass
And I’ll treat him to hay in a manger.
*The Farmer’s Toast.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/23/millions-marching-starvation-putin-unleashes-global-food-catastrophe/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10847419/Royal-Navy-escort-ships-carrying-Ukrainian-grain-Black-Sea.html
Edit: and Henry Kissinger can f.off too.
Former Senator David Perdue ended his campaign for governor of Georgia with a racist appeal to Republican primary voters on Monday, accusing Stacey Abrams, the presumptive Democratic nominee, of “demeaning her own race.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1528873446255599617
Perdue on Abrams: She’s not from here. My inclination is to say “you don’t like it, go back to where you came from”
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1528864818270048257
And Johnson will obviously not resign - so he would need to lose a vote. Cannot see a majority of Tory MPs voting against him. Maybe a newbie like Aaron Bell will sacrifice his career for the ludicrous belief that his colleagues care. But that's it surely.
Struggling to imagine what new evidence of parties could emerge at this stage... handwritten invitations from Boris that there will be a champagne fountain out of his bedroom window in Downing Street? Let's be honest, there is no MP that believes his stories - and the vast majority simply don't care. This is clear.
I'm expecting the tory MPs to bottle it and for them to suffer a landslide defeat in two years.
No. Shit. Sherlocks.
There is plenty of time and they could do it.
Will they? No, like you I don't think they will.
The PCP should be grateful to the German Government, otherwise they might be the biggest political cowards in Europe.
If he survives the next month, he stays until the GE.
I know tech stuff gets updated often but this surprises me slightly. It's a pretty basic function, though maybe it's security related. Or maybe they just want people to buy new e-readers.
If you think they will remove him 6 months before a GE because of a wish for sunlit uplands then you totally misread Boris Johnson. For all his many faults by the time we get to autumn next year he will be into election bribing big time. He will promise them the universe and many will still believe him.
It’s a damning indictment of the Republicans that such a person is able to rise high in their counsels.
Even allowing for Ossoff’s brilliance.
Sounds like Wakefield is a hold then.
One in five employees expect to change jobs this year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61552546
Interesting that younger employees seem to be keen on working from home. The frequent impression on here is that it's the opposite.
Maybe it just offers them more flexibility in what jobs they can do?
Big story, FAC expressly calls for head of FCO to resign. And says Johnson responsible for dog evacuation
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/23/still-working-home-probably-middle-aged-wealthy/ (£££)
After an election defeat will be the best time.
I can imagine rather a lot of managers insisting everyone else cram into a commuter train while they sit sipping coffee at home...
I'd wait until you've seen a picture of maskless Gove drinking inside the pub before you rely on it too heavily.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/timeseries/dzls/pusf
Another fairly big revision to the February figure. Here's what it looked like in March, when it was first reported:
And here's what it looks like as of May:
I wonder if ONS would be better off reporting three months after the month-end? I guess someone must get some value out of seeing an initial figure, but it does change quite a lot.
Anyway, it looks like we're back to where we were 10 years ago, which isn't especially great, but at least it's not as bleak as the first set of figures suggest. I'm not sure how much there is left to be gained from rolling back COVID spend. It might be that the "new normal" means less income for the government.
But it could just as easily be something else.
I don't have photos like either of theirs at either dates, but its amusing to see people who are utterly 100% adamant that drinking alcohol is a party/campaigning [delete one as applicable] depending upon who is photographed.
The hypocrisy is strong.
As far as I can tell the oldest e-readers will still work except that buying books from the store will no longer be possible (by using said device).
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/24/from-monk-to-multilingual-dolphin-whisperer-who-is-sam-lim-labors-new-member-for-tangney
That's very common. You develop unreasonable hatred based on their politics. They are always wrong. Their opposition must therefore always be right. Why?
Much better to distrust all politicians - you're never disappointed then.
What a mess.
https://twitter.com/SpaceHub_SL/status/1528392579167191040?cxt=HHwWgIDU6f68-LUqAAAA
From memory I believe in February we will still doing bullshit like free tests and things that were costing about a billion a month? So that's about 10% of the deficit right there.
Add in that in February a lot of people were still being very cautious socialising etc because of all the fear-mongering around Christmas about Omicron etc which takes time for people to regain their confidence over. Heck the ridiculous f***ing law about needing to wear masks in public was still in place in February, that only ended in the middle of March.
Thankfully now when going out and about masks and all the rest of the Covid bullshit are becoming ever rarer to see, unlike February when they were still legally required. The more Covid theatre we abolish, the more things can go back to a real normal instead of a new normal.
However, seeing the difference between the one rather dull looking affair in Durham and a culture of regular parties across the Westminster estate including DJs and Karaoke is not partisan hypocrisy, it's how the general public also see it - they are not stupid.
As a Lib Dem I am of course crossing my fingers nothing equivalent even to Keir's curry comes up, but to be honest I severely doubt it.
She's not a graduate and I throw that into the mix with caution because, despite occasionally suggesting otherwise, I don't really like that supercilious 'we know best' attitude. But I think it's pertinent because there's no doubt that Boris is continuing to draw support from non-graduates and those who have failed as yet to see through the magician's sleight of hand. Oh dear, I've just been supercilious. It's hard so don't get angry BR & Co.
It genuinely baffles me how anyone can still support him. And I'd have a lot more respect for the Conservatives if they had, not just the bottle, but the integrity to remove him.
Personally I'd be very happy if both Johnson and Starmer get the boot.
Maybe their transgressions weren't nearly as bad as what went on in Number 10, but Labour wanted to prolong COVID way beyond what was necessary. So it's pretty galling to see that they were only doing so because they thought it politically expedient.
Perdue is a vile racist scumbag as are the entire rotten edifice of the GOP. The GOP needs to be torn down from top to bottom, Abraham Lincoln would be rolling in his grave ashamed of what his party has become.
Whatever happens with Boris now he is since Lloyd George the most shameless occupant of Downing Street and had things not become so hyper partisan you would feel his own side would have removed him long ago. You have to really hate your opponent to want to hold onto a leader like that.
I also think there is another sizeable chunk who have no love for the man but see him as a vehicle for their partisan agenda so are happy to overlook the character flaws so long as he is [delivering Brexit; insulting the French; keeping out the migrants]. Unfortunately for him that pragmatic group doesn't now include: cutting taxes; keeping out Corbyn; levelling up; or for that matter "delivering Brexit".
Most of supportive ones fall back on "everyone did the same."
Which just doesn't ring true.
A toxic PM with a toxic cost of living crisis = a toxic result. Simple really. No change = no chance. Put your letters in and let's be done with this embarrassment of a Prime Minister.
Thank you.
Then we have Simon Clarke. A man who has been promoted to the Treasury specifically because he is tall and it winds up Sunak. Clarke has this track record now of being sent out on the media all innocent like to repeat whatever he has been told only to have Number 10 reverse fettle hours later.
And here it was. Repeating the Number 10 / Paul Dacre line that its all that bad'un Gray's doing. Which sounded preposterous from any mouth other than Clarke's. So it would be unfair to ask Clarke to resign as he had no idea that he was defaming a senior civil servant to try and save his boss who has brazenly and corruptly tried to spike the independent and damning report into his behaviour.
EDIT: not 'put' - a one fat finger typo that changed the entire meaning of the post!
I think the brouhaha over your guy was drinking alcohol because he's a party animal, my guy was drinking alcohol because he's hard at work campaigning is stupid, hypocritical asinine bullshit that has dominated the public conversation far too much but that doesn't change the fact that Boris should go because he raised taxes.
Everyone has their own red lines and that was my one.
Boris was not fined but others were for that same event. So perhaps the rozzers concluded that saying goodbye to colleagues at a leaving do counts as a legitimate work event (allowed) but that after the Prime Minister left, it degenerated into a no holds barred booze-up (verboten).
Do you not see that being surrounded by empty glasses and bottles is evidence not of a party, but a bone fide piss up? This isn't a technical breach of the rules it is a piss up.
In Johnson's favour no one can accuse him of being unable to organise a piss up in a brewery.
Heres a little clip of her failing to understand the First Amendment:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528441681191788544?t=9qLL81Ya2_OnhsvPL9B4Vw&s=19
GA GOP Gov candidate Kandiss Taylor today: “We’re gonna do a political rally and we’re gonna honor Jesus .. They’re not gonna tell us ‘separation of church and state.’ We are the church! We run this state! .. The church runs the state of Georgia!” https://t.co/CP19s4KKSL
He did of course defeat me in the election. After an entertaining spat where he shouted abuse firstly at me and the rest of the candidates and then at a resident whilst parked outside the funeral home as they were forming up a funeral procession complete with coffin in the back.
You get what you vote for!
Keep going old codger.
So in one sense, Boris could hardly complain. MPs would only be following their leader's example.
Either you accept that alcohol was allowed, in which case the PM is not a liar just because alcohol is present, or you believe that alcohol was verboten, in which case Keir Starmer is a liar and a hypocrite.
You can't have it both ways. Anyone who tries to is just revelling in their own hypocrisy.
The legal red line? No.
Anyone else's red line? Don't be silly.
Yet this is this week's straw man that you have decided will batter all other arguments and posters into submission. Erm, no.
The home automation stuff is terrible for it, lots of startup companies who end up acquired and shut down. Avoid anything by Google too, for them everything is a beta product.
Samsung stuff is good, as is anything supporting Apple Home - they can be controlled locally with no internet connection required.
Johnson broke his own rules, which he had enforced on the rest of the country, and then lied about to Parliament.
That's the issue. Not whether what was in his glass was 40%, 13% or 0% proof.
Good morning PB