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FT reporting that BoJo found to have committed “multiple contempts” – politicalbetting.com
FT reporting that BoJo found to have committed “multiple contempts” – politicalbetting.com
EXCL: Boris Johnson has been found to have committed ‘multiple’ contempts of Parliament in privileges cmtte report out tomorrow, according to people close to inquiry. From me & @GeorgeWParker https://t.co/cUn2gVGsZ9
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Does that include leaking the results of the inquiry to the FT?
Boris! lied to parliament. Repeatedly. Openly. Deliberately. A committee which has very senior and respected Tory Brexiteer MPs on it has examined all the evidence and is presenting its findings to parliament.
Boris! and his toadying lickspittles decided not to hang around for the report - because then you have to defend. Instead he flounces off and denies the validity of the committee. The last minute "Jenkin is a Bad Man" attempt is simply the very last flail before showtime. Baseless, irrelevant, ignorant.
If as they allege Boris is innocent (and will lovingly continue to do casework!!!!), why did he not await the judgement of the Commons? His party has a huge majority thanks to Boris! Surely the morons and lickspittles would vote down such an invalid report against an innocent man?
And even if Sunak decided to wash his hands like Pilot, that doesn't mean there would be a recall election, and if there was would not an innocent man rise like Lazarus and be reaffirmed in triumph?
No. Because Boris! is a coward. And his supporters are cowards too.
If it's of character, Johnson seems to have comprehensively failed it.
"Conservative MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dame Andrea Jenkyns, both close allies of Johnson, have branded the committee’s inquiry a “kangaroo court”."
There really needs to be a rethink here. Boris Johnson has flounced away from parliament having disgraced himself. Contempt for parliament - on repeated occasions - and criminality is not the behaviour of a former PM who deserves to be respected.
Yet two of his lickspittles are here grifting for him with their "honours".
The Boris! honours list needs to be suspended. That we have "Dame" Andrea Mince defaming parliament is in itself a contempt of parliament.
Over there, yet another baseless attempt to censure Adam Schiff runs into the sand - and George Santos.
All 5 House Democrats on the Ethics Committee voted “present” to table the motion (makes sense to stay away from the fray)
but so did “George Santos” after tweeting that he was going to censure Schiff
https://twitter.com/sfpelosi/status/1669087930793742336
Imagine, an ethics committee with Santos as a member. On which he's the closest thing the GOP has to a voice of reason.
Only have limited Internet access but I could not agree with you more
We all deserve so much better than the malign Johnson with his appalling honours list and his sycophants
Sunak refused to comment earlier as he has not seen the report but once published he needs to state Johnson will not stand for the conservative party again, suspend the whip from Dorries, and endorse any sanctions proposed to other conservative mps
He has one opportunity to cleanse the party of Johnson and others and now is that opportunity
Andrea Jenkyns is my MP. Hmm. Not inclined to vote for a kangaroo enthusiast.
We are in for epic entertainment though in this campaign though.
However, while he certainly has been a 'Heineken Tory' from a campaigning POV, he is not 'Britain Trump'; he doesn't have the Trump cheat code rendering him immune to public opprobrium for his misdeeds. Indeed, outside of his true believers - as the polling shows - he is now pretty widely viewed negatively and these shenanigans will only continue to drive his numbers down. They look desperate and grubby. Multiple contempts indeed.
It isn't about whether such people have been approved by the appointments committee. It is whether they should have been proposed at all. Watson is divisive but as a former deputy LOTO he should have been proposed - up to the committee whether to accept him or not. Bercow is similarly divisive, ex speaker so again should have been proposed. Was rejected (rightly).
The problem with Johnson's list is that these people should not have been proposed. Rees-Mogg lied to the Queen. Ermine for the party DJ the night before the Queen sat alone at the funeral, and for his notdaughter. Why? On what grounds are these people fit to be proposed for anything? Rees-Mogg then doubles down by committing a contempt of parliament by means of thanks.
The entire list is uniquely suspect. I know Labour are attacking the forthcoming Truss list and Truss was a disaster. But other bad PMs have made a list - and so far at least Truss hasn't egregiously held parliament in contempt and tried to appoint family members to the Other Place.
Sky: Can we talk about the report?
Sunak: Report?
Sky: Into Johnson.
Sunak: I haven't seen it.
Sky: Everyone knows what's in it.
Sunak: I don't.
Sky: Can we talk about it once you've seen it?
Sunak: Seen what?
Sky: The report.
Sunak: I'd rather talk about illegal migration. ~AA
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1669241068699648000
But that is a *recommendation*. It is up to the Commons what to impose. And the Tories have a big majority. They like grift and corruption, so surely they would have considered the option of not imposing sanction. Reports in the media that FritSunak will whip his MPs to "note" the findings not pass them.
This is why the Boris! flounce is so absurd, and the Kangaroo Court claims made by the disgraced even more absurd. Today we could have had a statement in the House from Boris! Mea culpa, honestly did not purposefully do so, accept the report, sadder and wiser engine and all that. FritSunak whips against implementing the report, bit of consternation and uproar then a dead cat pivot onto doing battle against the evil Lords refusing to let Braverman drown children.
He is consistent in refusing to comment on speculation and wants to see the report first, which is sensible and professional if frustrating to the 'gotcha' journalists we suffer from in todays media
The test will be how he reacts and it is his moment if he takes the correct decisons
I'm sure an answer exists, but the question needs to be asked and answered.
Most grimly entertaining of all would be for the GOP to try to be sensible and bar Trump, run a Trump-lite weirdo like DeSantis and then have Donnie run as an independent.
Can we have an end to this in the shilly-shallying over the committees report? Please! There have been leaks, counter-leaks and further evidence ad nauseam. Get the wretched thing published and be done with it. The main author of our troubles has resigned, and with a bit of luck. Won’t be coming back any time soon.
Let us move on somewhere else!
Preferably to Rejoin.
This is the stupidity of media demanding answer to a report not published
Attack Sunak if he doesnt act, but not before the report is published and on the basis of media speculation
This is actually grown up politics
Not as vindictive as BoJo, but that's a low bar to cross.
He simply has promised sinecure to various people that he wants to.
Hasn't thought whether they might be refused, or whether competing news stories might drown each other out.
Nadine Bonkers was supposedly being ennobled - a lifetime seat in the Lords taking a fat allowance for imposing her views onto laws for the next 40 years.
Two entirely different ways of disgracing the United Kingdom, two separate processes.
But if you listen very carefully, you might hear the jingle bells of his reindeer.
I also wonder which was the bigger slap to the face - this report or the rejection of so many lords. That partly feels like the catalyst here: he wasn't allowed to get all the chums he wanted cushy jobs and that's embarrassing. If any deal was made with Sunak to sweep the report away, I wonder if that undid it.
What a time to be alive.
From all the laughter…
@Northern_Al piles on England by an innings…
The more time you have to plan the better.
When gilt yields are at Trussian levels and mortgage rates causing anxiety amongst the Conservative classes, that would have been a better track to follow, although perhaps gilt yields and mortgage anxiety can wait a week. I don't suppose either are going away soon.
Charlotte bloody Owen!!!
We know what kind of penalties are given for that. And it isn't just Mogg, its all of them repeating and propagating the contempt. Including "Sir" Simon Clarke. Note that most of the grifting is being done by people corruptly handed baubles by Boris!
'Former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has said she will not resign until she gets more information on why she was denied a peerage...Ms Dorries said she had put in Subject Access Requests to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office.
Subject Access Requests allow an individual to receive a copy of all their personal data held by a government department.
Freedom of Information expert Martin Rosenbaum has pointed out that under the Data Protection Act 2018, the right of access to personal data does not apply to data processed for the honours system.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65910896
So does this mean the LDs will now switch to Selby from Mid Beds with Labour still focusing on Uxbridge?
What's the betting Mad Nad resigns just after the other two by-elections?
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BREAKING: Privileges committee would have suspended Boris Johnson for NINETY days "for repeated contempts" if he were still an MP.
They now say that he should have his access to parliament as a former MP revoked
Is it acceptable for an MP to commit contempt of parliament - yes or no?
Is it right that an MP committing contempt of parliament be sanctioned by parliament - yes or no?
Simple questions. This isn't about party politics or partisan hackery or votes or opinion polls. This is about standards of behaviour in a parliament that the British people voted to make sovereign.
So is parliament sovereign or not? Because you appear to be suggesting that its rules and standards should offer fealty to your party members.
Uxbridge with its big Hindu vote and with the Tory anti ULEZ campaign could be a shock Tory hold, Selby was Labour at one stage under Blair (albeit on different boundaries) so I can't see Starmer giving the LDs a free run there as in Mid Beds thus splitting the non Conservative vote. Thus the Conservatives could win Selby on just 35-40%
Good riddance .
- Deliberately misleading the house
- Deliberately misleading the committee
- Breaching confidence
- Impugning the Committee
- Undermining the democratic process of the house
- Being complicit in a campaign of abuse and intimidation
Penalty would have been a NINETY DAY suspension
Recommend no "former member's" pass for Johnson
Its pretty damning!
Mogg is probably one of the most personally moral MPs in Parliament.
Technically you are also wrong, it is not Parliament alone that is sovereign under our unwritten constitution but Crown in Parliament that is sovereign
Committee also notes that this is a unanimous report. ~AA
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1669255909812453376
Possibly
Sunak's resignation and attacks on PM Boris last summer were key in forcing Boris to resign
The report was approved unanimously by the committee - which has a Conservative majority.
The PM is not the executive, they are not above the law, and they are not above the house. We know that Johnson and Mogg at best incorrectly advised the crown on prorogation, at worst lied to the crown, why should it be so outrageous to suggest they would be willing to do the same to the house?