[Politics] Johnson resigns from parliament

[vegster]

Apparently the House of Lords Committee has rejected 8 nominations for peerages, Johnson put forward.
Mind you, they did that with Lebedev and Crudditch (sp) but Johnson overruled them.

He did manage to make a peer out of a 24 yr old blond, with no qualifications who worked as a SpAd.
I wonder if Carrie knows?

I'm pretty confident I could whittle down to one of 2 skillsets this young blonde girl was rewarded for.

 

[BBassic]

They have totally collapsed in on themselves. There’s not one trustworthy person in government.

They’ve left a trail of fallen and disgraced ministers and PM’s in their wake.

From Cameron, the man who flushed the U.K. down the shitter to save his bacon and then did a runner.

Theresa May, comparatively competent but completely un-fuckable and a throughly nasty piece of work.

Priti Patel, the racist immigrant who hates immigrants.

The man with the amazing jelly spine, Hancock. Who pretended to cry over tens of thousands of dead people but ended up laughing instead and somehow managed to persuade some Saturday girl to let him finger-blast her under a CCTV camera in Downing Street while the rest of us were having to make do with shaking our balls around to Jo Wicks in the morning.

Boris Johnson. The end-of-level Mega **** who gets told to f*** off out of it twice and still hopes to come back and be told to f*** off a third time. Partied through lockdown and then used our taxes to lie his way through an inquiry set up by himself to investigate his own lying. And was still shocked when it found out he was lying.

And we are left with Sunak. A man so removed from reality he has drifted into the realms of the delusional and who looks like a politically correct Postman Pat character.
It speaks volumes that if you looked around 10 Downing Street, a man who takes a f***ing RAF helicopter to Southampton isn’t the first corrupt thing you’ll come across.
I imagine he let the man whose car he pretended to fill up at the petrol station pay for the fuel.
The wealthiest PM in history who is happy to let schools try and feed children for £1.20 a day.
A PM whose wealth was created by his wife because I can’t imagine he’d survive the first morning in a proper workplace doing actual work. He’d have had his lunch money taken off him by 10 am and had his head flushed down the loo twice by coffee break.

Great Britain. We are a long, long f***ing way from Great.

You forgot (understandably so) whatshername. The lettuce. She did a thing.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If you thought about listening to Nicky Campbell on R5 this morning, doing a Boris phone in, don't bother. On the one hand he is a liar. On the other hand he gave us all the money unlike other countries during COVID and gave the vaccine to Europe and got no thanks. He was Churchillian and will be back. On the other hand . . . "Both my parents died within a week of one another...my dad died alone on a ventilator, and I couldn't go to their funerals because followed the rules, while they went to parties . . . . there are no words to describe how angry I am"

"Megan, are you still there? Do you think it was a kangaroo court?"

(long silence)....

"I suspect it could be in my opinion"

 

[Greg Bobkin]

There's literally no point trying to engage/educate/reason with people who think the polar opposite to you or – in this case – are merely believing whatever they want to believe.

I admire Sangita for having a go, but you just KNOW that that fella on the other end of the line will dismiss everything she says to him as 'fake news'.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I have to mention two more callers:

We voted "unanimously" for Brexit and the MPs will never forgive him for this and along with the BBC have conspired to get him out.

Sounded like a nice well spoken bloke.

Well.....it's a theory, of course.

Another caller (who thinks Johnson is like Churchill) explains his removal by his own MPs as pure jealousy: "tall poppy syndrome" - he was so successful that his own party thought this wasn't good so they got rid of him.





There are some f***ing weird people in this country, to be sure.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I'm pretty confident I could whittle down to one of 2 skillsets this young blonde girl was rewarded for.

Is this a subtle advert for the “A or B” thread?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Is this a subtle advert for the “A or B” thread?

I'm still sticking with D.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I'm pretty confident I could whittle down to one of 2 skillsets this young blonde girl was rewarded for.

Or even a C

 

[A1X]

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

He’s got a knighthood? He was on politics live and could barely string a coherent sentence together.
He was adamant he wasn’t calling the privileges committee’s judgment into question but kept pointing out that there was bias and ignoring the Tory majority. Struck me as a bit of a moron.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

I worry about the amendment to ban Boris Johnson from ever being an MP ever again.

The best people to stop that would be the public. Would be a worrying precedent.

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

I worry about the amendment to ban Boris Johnson from ever being an MP ever again.

The best people to stop that would be the public. Would be a worrying precedent.

It depends what’s the reason is. For example as a nurse if I was found to have been untruthful I would be held accountable to the NMC (annd rightly so) and in all likelihood be unable to practice. In my opinion MPs should be held accountable to similar standards, if you’re proven to lie then it should prohibit you from that position.
I’ve really struggled over the past few years with the blatant deceit from MPs particularly Boris and personally I would be happy for him to be held accountable for his actions.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I worry about the amendment to ban Boris Johnson from ever being an MP ever again.

The best people to stop that would be the public. Would be a worrying precedent.

I agree

It's up to the public to decide.

 

[Hugo Rune]

It depends what’s the reason is. For example as a nurse if I was found to have been untruthful I would be held accountable to the NMC (annd rightly so) and in all likelihood be unable to practice. In my opinion MPs should be held accountable to similar standards, if you’re proven to lie then it should prohibit you from that position.
I’ve really struggled over the past few years with the blatant deceit from MPs particularly Boris and personally I would be happy for him to be held accountable for his actions.

100% this.

Boris has tainted the reputation of all MPs. Those that are hard of thinking (previous and/or current Boris supporters) declare that absurd line now, “they are all the same”. They are not.

I’m sure that at least 80% of MPs (all sides) are genuinely good people doing the job for the right and honourable reasons but the cerebrally weakest in our society will now tell you they are all rotten having been taken in by Mr Johnson.

A message needs to be sent out that he is a lying exception. Ban the ****.

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

I agree

It's up to the public to decide.

Interesting opinion, can I ask why? Why should a politician be treated differently to someone who has been found to have been untrustworthy?
I would expect my fate to rest with my peers, experts in my field and legal experts, which it is. Why should politicians be treated any differently?
*Edit: I would expect this to be the case for any politician regardless of their party.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Interesting opinion, can I ask why? Why should a politician be treated differently to someone who has been found to have been untrustworthy?
I would expect my fate to rest with my peers, experts in my field and legal experts, which it is. Why should politicians be treated any differently?
*Edit: I would expect this to be the case for any politician regardless of their party.

Think the main difference is unlike the nurse in your example is that MPs are voted on, if the public don't like what they have done they will and can be voted out, nurses don't have that luxury.

The obvious exception is those that have served jail time, I believe they are banned anyway.

Just think it's a dangerous road to go down personally, making up rules as we go along is something Johnson would do.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I worry about the amendment to ban Boris Johnson from ever being an MP ever again.

The best people to stop that would be the public. Would be a worrying precedent.

Think of it as being like the fit and proper owner test that should have prevented Bill Archer buying The Albion.

A good precedent.

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

Think the main difference is unlike the nurse in your example is that MPs are voted on, if the public don't like what they have done they will and can be voted out, nurses don't have that luxury.

The obvious exception is those that have served jail time, I believe they are banned anyway.

Just think it's a dangerous road to go down personally, making up rules as we go along is something Johnson would do.

He’s been found guilty of misleading the house it appears, by a selection of his peers.
I personally think that once you’re proven to have lied when going about your work, you become untrustworthy and a liability and should not be able to perform that role. Regardless of if people voted to put you in that position or not.
What we need more than ever after years of lies is accountability and truth. Politicians carry massive responsibility we don’t need people we can’t trust to their word in powerful positions.