It is and it's increasingly one that doesn't engage the public any more.Quote:
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It is and it's increasingly one that doesn't engage the public any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Yup. After no doubt extensive legal and political advice he decided to go with the version that protects him the most and throws everyone else under the bus. He is the worst of the worst. No moral compass and integrity of a snake.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
LBC correspondent Matthew Thompson:
Every so often, you remember that in April 2020, Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned because she visited her own second home, with her own immediate family.
The main fear I have if Johnson goes is the total bampots who could succeed him. That Britannia Unchanged mob are evil
:tsk tsk: Unhinged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scorrie
I totally forgot about that. I was raging at her at the time but in hindsight this is nothing compared with some of stuff going on at Downing Street.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Remember that time NS took her mask off briefly at a funeral?Quote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55419564
THE SCANDAL!!!
Fixed it for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
There was an attempt to brazen that one out, but it lasted about 36 hours I think before it was accepted she had to goQuote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
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By her herself, I don't recall anyone trying to condone her actions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skol
Not by herself. She was asked to resign by the FM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...icer-to-resign
Dross calling in the PM to resign.
Interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...ustom2=twitter
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Profile of Sue Gray:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33431580
Having read that, attempted whitewash definitely incoming. :rolleyes:
From that article, Sturgeon did change her mind after initially supporting Calderwood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santa Cruz
The first minister told reporters on Monday she reversed her earlier decision to publicly defend Catherine Calderwood after it became clear later on Sunday that the CMO’s position was untenable
And Bryant. https://twitter.com/i/status/1481247637340884995Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
He knows any inroads with the Scottish electorate has gone while Johnson remains.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
Bozo couldn't even get Murray Ross's name right so he really should have been calling for his head earlier than this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
He'll be in trouble when Bozo finds out that the assistant office manager of Nasty Party (Scotland) is calling for his head.
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And Karl Turner (Lab) https://twitter.com/TheBishF1/status...216216581?s=20Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/s...337838601?s=20
Statement by leader of Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, calling for PM's resignation. Also confirmed to Sky he'll be sending a letter of no-confidence to 1922 Committee "in due course".Incredibly, when Ross called Johnson to tell him PM insisted "he did nothing wrong."
She tried to brazen it out by herself is what I was saying. I can't remember her getting any support from elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santa Cruz
I think Ruthie could be lined up for a role in government should bojo bugger off. Or have the far right got a full grip on the parliamentary party?
I'm guessing he's not been running the line very often recently, he's got more chins that the Hong-Kong phone book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
Bit of a popcorn day today- both Boris Johnson and Prince Andrew in deep *****
She'll be the one who's told them all to clean their phones.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
For those who want the Tories out, it'd be fantastic if it ends up being an absolute whitewash. The feeling of "one rule for them and one for us" has gotten the polls turning against them and the more that Johnson stays in power, the more that feeling will prevail.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Very significant and knocked too far down the news pages by other events today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59968037
What's the likely consequences of this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
The way I read it, the companies who got the contracts would have got them anyway.
It’s days like this which playing the national anthem on tv late at night are for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scorrie
Loving the fact D Ross seems to have rallied all the Scottish Tories out against the UK prime minister. The threads of the union get a little bit thinner.
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Offshore bank balance will be looking good.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
From the Good Law Project (who brought the case)Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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Over a year of hard work has paid off today. The High Court has ruled that the Government’s operation of a fast-track VIP lane for awarding lucrative PPE contracts to those with political connections was unlawful. In a challenge brought by Good Law Project and EveryDoctor to the behind closed door VIP lane worth billions of pounds, the Court found:
“the Claimants have established that operation of the High Priority Lane was in breach of the obligation of equal treatment… the illegality is marked by this judgment.”
The Judge agreed the VIP lane conferred preferential treatment on bids: it sped up the process, which meant offers were considered sooner in a process where timing was critical, and VIPs’ hands were held through the process. She said:
“offers that were introduced through the Senior Referrers received earlier consideration at the outset of the process. The High Priority Lane Team was better resourced and able to respond to such offers on the same day that they arrived”.
The Court found the Government allocated offers to the VIP lane on a “flawed basis” and did not properly prioritise bids:
“there is evidence that opportunities were treated as high priority even where there were no objectively justifiable grounds for expediting the offer.”
The Court noted that the overwhelming majority by value of the product supplied by Pestfix and Ayanda could not be used in the NHS. An independent investigation by the BBC has also revealed issues with the product supplied by Clandeboye which were not disclosed to the High Court. Good Law Project believes that the Government misled the Court and is in correspondence with lawyers for the Secretary of State.
The Judge found that, even though Pestfix and Ayanda received unlawful preferential treatment via the VIP lane, they would likely have been awarded contracts anyway. The Judge also refused to allow publication of how much money was wasted by the Government’s failure to carry out technical assurance on the PPE supplied by Pestfix and Ayanda. Good Law Project is considering the wider implications of these aspects of the ruling and next steps.
We first revealed the red carpet-to-riches VIP lane for those with political connections in October 2020. Since then, we have fought to reveal details of those who benefited, and at whose request - while the Government fought to conceal them.
Never again should any Government treat a public health crisis as an opportunity to enrich its associates and donors at public expense.
Don't do it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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He'll only be gone when his MPs want him gone.
I don't think that is yet. The biggest worry for conservative MPs will be losing their seat at the next GE. There are still a few months of covid issues and probably leaks about goings on in number 10 and they'll want Boris to suck up as much as that bad publicity as he can. They won't want the new PM to have to carry that baggage into the next election and potentially lose them their seats.
My prediction is that Boris will limp on to the end of the year when he'll either be removed or resign. Sunak will be appointed and a GE held at some point in Spring 2023.
I think he means Ross' opinions don't count.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Which is hardly news :greengrin
It’s the fact he uses distance from London as a measure of worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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He was my favourite today, the way he delivered his speech was poetic.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
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Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
If this was Pulp Fiction she's clearly in the Harvey Keitel role. Boris is Marcellus.
Maybe and maybe not. The only likely consequence is if those who didn’t get the opportunity challenge the decision under the procurement regs.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
It doesn’t happen much as any challenge might make it tricky to get selected for future bidding but it does happen.
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Tories going all England v Scotland. [emoji106]
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Biggest Scottish Tory rebellion since 1745 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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Originally Posted by Since90+2
i said the same earlier to a colleague, they’ll use Boris as a mule for as much bad news/screw ups/cover ups/negativity as possible, then shove him off a cliff, clearing the slate for his replacement
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Rees Mogg giving an absolutely surreal performance on Newsnight.
His 'Ross is a lightweight' produced a rare 'ooft' from Kirsty Wark.
Feral.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Union Jack, the weasel in the Scotland office, supports Johnson 100% according to Rees Mogg, and is far superior than Douglas Ross. I thought Dross was in charge of the Tories in Scotland
Not the ones that never existed before this "opportunity" to fill certain selective boots arose?Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
I'm thinking Matt Hancock's pub landlord for example.......
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I wonder how the VIP lane being found unlawful will change the plans for Johnson within the Tory party. The longer he's in charge, can't take responsibility for anything and is toxic to them it may spread through the party and take down quite a few careers. Or maybe he's seen in such a bad light that he'll absorb it up and they'll be able to hide behind him.
I still think Johnson is too vain to do the right thing for his party, absorb all of that and move on.
two repugnant compulsive liars....
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Feel the "precious union" love: https://twitter.com/BrugesGroup/stat...14392411152389
Johnson is only a very small part of the moral problem at the top of the Tory party, and the wider establishment though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I was talking about this to friends last night. The shocking element to this was 'about 100' people were in attendance at this party. This happened in May 2020. Thats twenty months ago. in all that time, all of those attendees kept quiet about something which many of them will have known to be wrong at the time. Plain Wrong, not just Bad Politics. Some of those who didnt attend have said that they thought the email was wrong when they got it. But they still supported their leader, they still kept quiet, they still tolerated this obvious culture of 'One Rule for Them, Another For Us', for over a year and a half. But over a hundred people were there, breaking the rules. How do you keep a secret that long among that many people, most of whom will be senior politicians, civil servants, policy people from think tanks, friends and family, journalists. The Met police clearly knew. On the same day when they were tweeting threats to the public about the consequences of rule breaking. Obviously its of a different magnitude but the Omerta culture actually reminds me of recent abuse cases. And surprise surprise the BBC don't really want to talk about this wider element.
Making this all about The Clown is letting the rest of the absolute pondlife that operate in Whitehall and #10 off the hook.
If Carlsberg done front pages....Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Correct. I'm not convinced the collective attack from all parties at PMQs at the PM is the right move, the questions need to now move on to "Who else was there?" and "who else knew about it?".Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Opposition parties and even Tory backbenchers have no real power to dig deep and make real change, even if they wanted to. And we know Sue Gray is about the most establishmenty establishment figure you could think of to head this joke of 'an inquiry'. And even if she does find against him, it appears BJ has the power to veto the findings anyway;
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...civil-servants
All she's doing is setting out the facts, it will be up to < drum roll > ... the Prime Minister to interpret them. You honestly couldn't make this pish up. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
poor wee murray ross :hilarious
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If a Tory becomes FM then the Scotland Office will have more power than SG. Confirmed.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
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Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
“The prime minister himself gets to decide if he needs to be investigated under the ministerial code. No one else can make that decision and he has so far refused to give up this veto despite the recommendations from the committee for standards in public life to do so,” he said.
So in that sense at least, we have no more ability to get rid of corrupt leaders than Putin's Russia or Xi's China:rolleyes::aok:
Think it was 100 invited, maybe 30 or 40 attended. I'd like to know why Kuenssberg and Peston never made any reference in the last 18 months to any of the rule breaking that was going on at Downing St.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I missed that, i thought it was 100 attended. Point still stands though, all those 100 who were invited knew about it and kept it a secret for all this time. I can't keep a secret for a day and a half:greengrin That sort of casts doubt on this idea that lots of ordinary Tory MPs hate Boris and want him out. If they did, why not shaft him earlier?Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Out of that 100, very few if any would be MPs or other politicians. Civil servants, spads etc. Which isn't to say lots of other pols didn't know it was going on, but most probably had their own parties to go to. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
btw, pretty sure most of these leaks are being coordinated by Cummings and chums. I saw something on twitter last night pointing out that Johnson's "loyalty" to DC over Barnard Castle etc makes much more sense when you realise how much kompromat there was in both directions!Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I emailed my MP, David Mundell, this morning as I was interested in his opinion, as a Tory MP. I can't be bothered posting the whole response but suffice to say, whilst he didn't say Johnson should go, it was far from a message of overwhelming support! The Scots Tories are revolting! :wink:
https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/...072846339?s=20
What an utterly despicable prick Rees Mogg is.
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Rees-Mogg makes a fair point for a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Snivelling, servile ***** like Murray Ross should know their place.
Maybe they didn't think it was that big a deal. They were probably attending media get-togethers themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
They've certainly gone overboard on taking the shillings, even if they are actually the tax payers shillings but does the odious little man say who the king he refers to is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
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This all reminds me of being a young teenager and trying to bluff my way out of bother when I was bang to rights.
I wasn't at the party became it was only a gathering became OK it was a party but I wasn't drinking then OK I had a few and finally the point where you admit defeat and tell the truth.
Deep down you know your parents know the score before the questions even start but you tough it out and go through the process anyway. Most of us grow out of that behaviour but it appear Johnson and his gang are still just overgrown schoolchildren at heart. As if that's a revelation to anyone.
Think Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwSd6lpGKA
Bobby D. obvs.
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...box=1642085502
He really is catastrophically thick, isn't he?
No, the majority of the English electorate are for being taken in by these crooks and con artists. He on the other hand has become a very wealthy individual by being the before mentioned crook and con manQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
....another mention of top cabinet members and the PM working on the vaccine roll-out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
What do they actually do on a day-to-day basis that is vital to the vaccination programme? My bet is nothing.
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Dont think they are it is just a pretence to separate themselves from Johnson and Westminster. There have been a few issues like that recently Cummings being one I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by MartinfaePorty
No, they're definitely revolting.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
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Met police not investigating May 20th unless Sue Gray finds criminality.
Sue Gray of course being the one who isn’t a police officer.
Can we all try that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
There's a few people I wouldn't mind giving a smack. If the Police turn up I'll just advise them my mate is looking into it and if he finds criminality I'll be sure to tell him to let them know.
The Met are a total gang.
:greengrin Very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
John Crace also made me laugh today.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...a-cunning-plan
What a brilliant read. Loved his take down of Rees-MoggQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
"reality he is a 12-year-old entitled brat in an oversized suit whose default setting is to be patronising and offensive. The very model of passive aggression."
Party At 10 Downing Street the night before the Royal funeral.
No suggestion that Johnson attended but I think this one might be the final nail for him all the same.
Reported where?Quote:
Originally Posted by mayo hibee
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Originally Posted by Colr
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And that’s a wrap, folks.
I will only believe there was dancing if and when Sue Gray tells me there was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radium
That could well be that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mayo hibee
The imagery of the Queen mourning alone publicly was powerful, regardless of what was going on behind closed doors, because it was something we could all relate to. Even your most dyed in the wool Tory isn't going to accept Johnson pissing it up 12 hours before.
It’s also important that it’s a Telegraph exclusive. They have been Johnsons biggest cheerleaders. They have clearly decided he is no longer any use to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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And the party was a leaving do for the now deputy editor of The Sun, James Slack.
Which of course explains their relative lack of coverage of all this up to now.
I wonder if downing street applied for furlough for all their nightclub workers.
I'd say they've been handed this story from fairly high up in the Tory party because the Tories have decided that he has to go now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
A lot of newspaper front pages getting rewritten right now I'd say.
They’ve been running negative stuff about him for a while now. It’s part of the coordinated nature of the takedown which makes me think it’s a bit stage managed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
To replace him with whom.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Their party’s a mess with the lame duck PM being manipulated by the extremist ERG loonies.
Sunak - not ready
Truss - thick
Raab - thick
My guess would be the pint-sized fascist Patel. She’s right piece of ****.
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FFS. These people are absolutely shameless. Johnson will be gone soon enough but the civil service really needs to be sacking up to 50 of the staff who work in Downing Street.
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Seriously, does any actual ****ing work get done by anyone in the UK government?! They all seem to have a better social life than a student on freshers weeks.
Probably Sunak. Or else someone from outside the cabinet like Jeremy Hunt if the current lot are all too damaged at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
Most of the rest of them are somehow even denser than Johnson.