Boris Johnson

[Toast 12,885]

This deserves another outing.

 

 

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

13 hours ago, Toast said:

This deserves another outing.

 

 

 

 

Aye, relevant atm because Bojo faces a hearing on Wednesday into whether he misled parliament. He's already been refused permission for his lawyer to speak on his behalf so if it goes really badly he could be suspended for long enough that the rules regarding a constituency recall petition might apply. Basically, if enough people officially ask he'd be forced into a by-election, that'd be tasty too. 

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

So, as of this morning the Telegraph is discussing the "Bombshell Dossier" that'll clear Bojo's name whilst the Observer is discussing the same thing as a "Last-Ditch Bid to Discredit Probe into Partygate"

 

In other news, Rishi Sunak appears to have some deluded notion that setting targets and being judged on delivery is the way a PM should behave. 

 

Likely to be a lively week in Westminster, eh?

[YoungWillz 15,014]

Questions have begun. Cunt's already flailing about.

 

Reminds me of this:

 

 

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

44 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Questions have begun. Cunt's already flailing about.

 

Reminds me of this:

 

 

 

 

Aye, not that I'm watching it or owt - in other news Johnson and Truss were amongst a mere 29 rebels voting against Sunak's Northern Ireland deal meaning it went through with a majority of 486. He's 59 in June, out of the front bench, "flailing about" and still thinks he's the future. 

 

Another one who'll be buried in reality television offers anyday now, then.

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

Another one bending to Boris's needs not that long ago now pays the price - Richard Sharp's departure leaves the Beeb looking for a new chairman. The army of people who formerly supported and actively assisted Bojo, likely many doing so in the hope of favour and reward does have the look of a cast of Agatha Christie characters. Anyway, here's the rapidly updating BBC report of the end of their current chairman: 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65338490

[TQR 8,146]

Opposite Midas strikes again. And yet some absolute balloons still worship the ground he walks on.

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

As the Bojo-Covid-Shitshow stages a brief reprise here are details of the man's current whereabouts "Where Capital, Innovation and Purpose Collide" (In Vegas) - he's #9 on the list of attractions, way above most of the acts but it may dmage his sense of celebrity that Mark Wahlberg is billed above him: 

 

https://scaleglobalsummit.com/speakers/

[prussianblue 512]

31 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

As the Bojo-Covid-Shitshow stages a brief reprise here are details of the man's current whereabouts "Where Capital, Innovation and Purpose Collide" (In Vegas) - he's #9 on the list of attractions, way above most of the acts but it may dmage his sense of celebrity that Mark Wahlberg is billed above him: 

 

https://scaleglobalsummit.com/speakers/

 

It's a human  zoo! Everyone from Hillary Clinton to 3/4 of the Black Eyed Peas.

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

2 hours ago, prussianblue said:

 

It's a human  zoo! Everyone from Hillary Clinton to 3/4 of the Black Eyed Peas.

 

 

Aye, and doubtless the top acts are being paid well - in the meantime the lawyers working with Bojo on his lockdown breaches are being funded by us! Dunno whether that reality is relevant to the fact that it's the lawyers who've dobbed him in the current shit by sharing details they found in his prime ministerial diary of the comings and goings at Number 10 and Chequers!

[gcreptile 8,375]

What a terrible group of people. Kind of makes you happy that Hillary lost the election.

[DCI Frank Burnside 1,834]

Hoisted by his own petard it would seem because he didn't want to pay his own legal bill

 

 

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

31 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Hoisted by his own petard it would seem because he didn't want to pay his own legal bill

 

 

 

 

A situation you might describe as a very Boris Johnson state of affairs.

[maryportfuncity 8,876]

So, it'll doubtless leave Bojo grumbling that so many others of more importance at the moment are making the headlines today but he's decided he's done with the government lawyers and he's also lacking enthusiasm for releasing the entirity of his WhatsApp action during Covid, oh aye, and all this is being communicated by "allies" which is useful to know because it suggests he has at least two friends left. Put me right if I'm misunderstanding here but...it's typical Bojo behaviour to get what he can funded by others whilst earning and trousering a tonnage of cash himself, so it didn't occur to him that government lawyers might rate the law (i.e. truth) over protecting a former PM with dwindling power, until they actually did so. The "decision" he's made, then, is half truculance and half desperate survival bid. He and the cabinet office are spot on that much of his WhatsApp content is irrelevant but nobody's disputing that. The issue is whether there's evidence of more of the same in terms of breaking the lockdown rules he was central to making in there so Baroness Hallett is right that this isn't a promising start and further witholding is likely criminal. 

 

Once we've grieved Tina, quit enjoying the Rolf memes and realised Cardiff is done rioting there's likely entertainment to be had, again, on this thread!

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65698305