Partygate

Jedi boro said:
Sadly that’s because he is.

Traditionally
you fk up you resign
You lie you resign
You bring scandal You resign
You Lose the party you resign
You break parliament rules you resign

Boris has done all of these multiple times and has no intention of resigning.

He has changed British politics forever as now ministerial accountability is all but dead.

That’s a very dangerous precedent.
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How about

You conduct an illicit affair with an American pole dancer and give her shed loads of public money - you resign in shame and don’t enter public life again.
 
I think people should have woken up a long time ago. Was it not obvious before the last General Election that B J is a serial liar and a liability? The Tory back benchers need to get rid of him now for the good of the country and indeed the good of their own party. Will they? I doubt it, and indeed lots of them will be on TV over the next few days making fools of themselves trying to defend this clown and telling the world that what happened does not matter.

Frankly the rubbish that this lot have got away with, this is trivial by comparison, but for goodness sake let this be the end of this shower of self serving corrupt liars in power.
 
The Tory MP Sir Roger Gale told Times Radio “there is one answer” when a prime minister misleads parliament from the despatch box.

He said:

It’s absolutely clear that there was a party, that he attended it, that he was raising a toast to glass one of his colleagues.
And therefore, he misled us from the despatch box. And, honourably, there is one answer.
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He also said:

We have to have somebody at the helm that we can really rely on, and whose word we can rely on. That doesn’t appear to me to be Mr Johnson.
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Paul Brand of ITV News has called Gale’s comments the “first demand for a resignation from Tory MPs over latest Partygate pics”.
 
Steer said:
I think people should have woken up a long time ago. Was it not obvious before the last General Election that B J is a serial liar and a liability?
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Blindingly obvious to many but Cummings did a very good job of playing too many voters like fiddles.

Can't remember who said it but I'll always remember someone drily observing something along the lines of "who on earth watched him run away from questioning by hiding in a fridge and then thought: that's him, that's the guy I want leading the country?".

It was mind boggling enough at the time, but even more so with hindsight.
 
Dan Hodges of the Mail on Sunday points out that Boris Johnson will have to explain how he could have not realised he was at a party when he was surrounded by people drinking alcohol.

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges
Can we just be clear. The issue is no longer whether Boris broke the law. Or if he thought he’d broken the law. It’s about whether he seriously stood in the middle of a leaving party, with booze cluttering every surface, raised a glass and thought “this is not a leaving party”.
9:18 PM · May 23, 2022

 
Caesium137 said:
The Tory MP Sir Roger Gale told Times Radio “there is one answer” when a prime minister misleads parliament from the despatch box.

He said:


He also said:


Paul Brand of ITV News has called Gale’s comments the “first demand for a resignation from Tory MPs over latest Partygate pics”.
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He's criticised Johnson quite a bit I think. One of a tiny handful of Tories who seem to actually give a **** about minimum standards of behaviour expected from a PM.
 
Caesium137 said:
Dan Hodges of the Mail on Sunday points out that Boris Johnson will have to explain how he could have not realised he was at a party when he was surrounded by people drinking alcohol.

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Can we just be clear. The issue is no longer whether Boris broke the law. Or if he thought he’d broken the law. It’s about whether he seriously stood in the middle of a leaving party, with booze cluttering every surface, raised a glass and thought “this is not a leaving party”.
9:18 PM · May 23, 2022
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You have to understand the sociopath's thought process. It would not cross his mind to think if it was a leaving party or not. All he would be thinking was 'By being here I can manipulate these people and further my own interests'. Consequences of being caught would not enter his mind either as he clearly is incapable of linking actions with consequences.
 
The Times are reporting that Johnson secretly met up with Sue Gray earlier this month to suggest not publishing her report 'as its all out there'.

If this is shown to be correct he must surely be deemed to be interfering with the 'independent' SG report?

The depths to which this abomination of a human will go are astonishing.
 
It used to be another day, another crisis but now they're coming around more frequently than a grazers mealtime, today alone, we have had lies about who organised a meeting with Sue Grey, an interview with a woman who was kept in prison for crimes she didn't commit because of the lies Johnson told about her in the press, we have photographic evidence of an illegal gathering (defined as illegal by some that were there were fined) that Johnson told Parliament didn't exist, we have Johnson pushing for a job for an old friend the ex-Police Officer whose investigation into a high profile Paedophilia ring which brought plenty of accusation but little in terms of successful prosecution, we have a story that Johnson tried to pressurise Sue Grey into suppressing her report, which after the inconsistencies of the Met Investigation, maybe the only document to put on the record what went on and who was to blame for it, and all this without any of the long term failings of understanding and executing Brexit, the ever deepening cost of living crisis, which appears beyond the ken of this government to manage or solve and the ongoing investigation into whether attending a Party at Downing Street and then denying it took place is lying to the House.

Johnson's contempt, dishonesty, ineptitude and greed are products of a juggernaut ego powered by a Reliant Robin engine of ability, there are no stories of Johnson helping someone out or going above and beyond to benefit anyone but himself, just more and more examples of how reckless, careless, self absorbed and totally incapable of fulfilling the standards of behaviour and protocol expected by someone of any position in public service, never mind someone who has somehow risen to the very top of the profession.
 
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I can't be bothered to dig out the exact wording of these items but anyway.

** People are getting hung up on the question 'how do you define a party? when trying to defend Johnson
In this case it's not relevant ... I don't think the law mentions 'parties' it just mentions 'gatherings' and from what I've seen there appeared to be a lot of illegal boozy gatherings in Downing Street.

** At the gathering where Johnson was today pictured with a glass of champers in his hand... other attendees were issued with fixed penalty notices but not Johnson. Why was this?

** At the recent meeting requested by Johnson / No. 10 with Sue Gray the word is that Johnson DID attempt to put pressure on her to tone down the report. It would be nice to see the minutes from that meeting
 
What irks me is these "it was a few socially distanced drinks" or other such attempts to downplay it.
If people weren't allowed to visit dieing loved ones in hospital or attend funerals then how can anyone try and say that these illegal gatherings were ok in any way shape or form?
Even of you've the morals of a sewer rats whore then you must see how bad it looks to those who lost loved ones, let alone any decent people still kicking about in this ever worsening society
 
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