[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[A1X]

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[Audax]

So, does that mean 12 'parties' crossed the threshold to be investigated as breaking the law?

It means that 12 passed the threshold to be investigated retrospectively. The other 4 may or may not have broken the law - all we know from this is that the didn't meet the criteria for retrospective action that Dick outlined last week. Probably through a combination of not enough evidence, and just enough plausible defense. In the case of the 15 May gathering, I'm going to hazard a guess there's enough evidence that it was at least superficially "work related".

 

[A1X]

Worth noting that last week Starmer got Johnson to explicitly say at PMQs that any minister who lied to the house should resign.

In today's report we now have proof that Johnson lied to the house.

Starmer's done him up like a kipper once again.

 

[MJsGhost]

It's hard to see the Dick at the top of the Met Police surviving long after this. Unless, of course, some people in even higher places feel they owe her a favour...

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[MJsGhost]

Worth noting that last week Starmer got Johnson to explicitly say at PMQs that any minister who lied to the house should resign.

In today's report we now have proof that Johnson lied to the house.

Starmer's done him up like a kipper once again.

Yep, anyone with an ounce of dignity would resign.


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[Hugo Rune]

Worth noting that last week Starmer got Johnson to explicitly say at PMQs that any minister who lied to the house should resign.

In today's report we now have proof that Johnson lied to the house.

Starmer's done him up like a kipper once again.

Johnson is a master liar. He’ll maintain that he didn’t realise any of those ‘events’ were parties because none of his staff told him.

Never underestimate what a supreme liar the man is. That is his biggest talent.

 

[GM98]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's hard to see the Dick at the top of the Met Police surviving long after this. Unless, of course, some people in even higher places feel they owe her a favour...

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The problem is, if she does resign, the two Assistant deputies are her wife, and Savid Javid's brother Baz.
It needs someone completely neutral to take over.

 

[The Mole]

In defence of BoJo, there were so many parties, he can’t possibly to remember every one he attended!

 

[MJsGhost]

The problem is, if she does resign, the two Assistant deputies are her wife, and Savid Javid's brother Baz.
It needs someone completely neutral to take over.

I know just the fella needed…

 

[Blackadder]

I didn't realise that this report was about Brexit

 

[A1X]

So Johnson's argument is that "we must learn from these mistakes"

Most of us learnt that it's not a good thing to break the law pretty early in life, it's worrying he's still yet to learn this

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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[vegster]

Pretty silent benches behind Johnson, not good

 

[Audax]

Pretty silent benches behind Johnson, not good

And he moves pretty rapidly to changing the topic... He knows he's on thin ice.

 

[Insel affe]

He should walk....
He won't walk...
He will say sorry in his bumbling inadequate way, not obviously meaning it, and prey Russia invades the Ukraine pretty soon, so it deflects the news.

 

[rippleman]

She hasn't allowed anyone to decide what goes in her report. This isn't the report. It's merely an update. The report comes later, once the Met investigation are concluded. At that point, I fully expect Boris will receive a full report as Gray always intended it, with no omissions.

I'd like to see you explain why the update is as scathing as it is if Gray was bending over and taking one on behalf of Boris.

Edit: more to the point, if the police have told her that publishing the full report could jeopardise the issuing of penalties then she is very much well advised to not publish, because by publishing she could do the very thing you're accusing her of: giving Boris an "out".

Why has she even entertained being told by Dick that she can't publish her report? That is an "outside influence" and if you are "independent" then you should not be influenced or swayed by anybody.

And have the IPCC been called in to investigate why police officers who were at the parties or at least been present in and around the buildings where the parties were taking place took no action at the time? I think the answer is no!

What more evidence do you need? It's the establishment looking out for its own. Again.

 

[vegster]

Wow ! Very powerful speech from Starmer...... desperate stuff from Johnson , " voted 48 times to go back in to the EU.. "

 

[KZNSeagull]

Starmer didn't mention lying to parliament at all. It was a nice speech but missed it's target.

Theresa May sticking the boot in much more than Starmer did.

 

[Frutos]

Theresa May going in studs up there!