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

[Springal]

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[Springal]

A former Conservative MP has been jailed for 18 months following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

At a trial last month, Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, who was elected as Wakefield MP in 2019, was found guilty of groping the boy at a party in 2008.

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Half the sentence for being caught at a festival with 9grams of drugs ! When will this government get tougher on paedophiles?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-taking-drugs-Creamfields-music-festival.html

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

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Now we are getting somewhere.

 

[essbee1]

Now we are getting somewhere.

How is that *****r going to explain his way out of this?

 

[clapham_gull]

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If there is a leak inquiry, they'll never trace that photograph back to ITV News.

 

[Mileoakman]

Apparently there was a leak in the ceiling and he was trying to catch the drops.

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[Bry Nylon]

Nice picture.

That would be around the time I attended my father's funeral and afterwards had to stand in a car park outside the crematorium with my sisters and our elderly mum as covid rules prohibited us from gathering indoors. Still, at least it didn't rain.

Johnson, you ****.

 

[Bob!]

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All the rules were followed at all times.

 

[TomandJerry]

No 10 plays down significance of pictures showing PM drinking at No 10 leaving do

The Cabinet Office and the Met police have had access to all information relevant to their investigations, including photographs. The Met have concluded their investigation and Sue Gray will publish her report in the coming days, at which point the prime minister will address parliament in full.

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[JBizzle]

How is that *****r going to explain his way out of this?

Same way he always does. Lies and obfuscation, his gormless cheerleaders in the cabinet playing it down and selling their souls to keep "Big Dog" on side, combined with questioning the integrity/motives of the person raising is as "playing politics" before manufacturing a new headline to deflect. Don't you know there's a war on (somewhere else)?

 

[JBizzle]

Same way he always does. Lies and obfuscation, his gormless cheerleaders in the cabinet playing it down and selling their souls to keep "Big Dog" on side, combined with questioning the integrity/motives of the person raising is as "playing politics" before manufacturing a new headline to deflect. Don't you know there's a war on (somewhere else)?

And here's one. That didn't take long:

No 10 plays down significance of pictures showing PM drinking at No 10 leaving do

The Cabinet Office and the Met police have had access to all information relevant to their investigations, including photographs. The Met have concluded their investigation and Sue Gray will publish her report in the coming days, at which point the prime minister will address parliament in full.

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[Thunder Bolt]

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13th November 2020 when my mother-in-law was dying. She passed at 06.30 on the 14th, and my husband wasn't allowed to visit her to say goodbye.

 

[Machiavelli]

It's bye, bye Boris surely but, if not, how's the greased piglet going to wiggle out of the now incontrovertible evidence that he lied to Parliament, thereby breaking the ministerial code.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Nice picture.

That would be around the time I attended my father's funeral and afterwards had to stand in a car park outside the crematorium with my sisters and our elderly mum as covid rules prohibited us from gathering indoors. Still, at least it didn't rain.

Johnson, you ****.

I know just how you feel. My MIL funeral was three weeks later, and it was icy cold with the wind blowing across the car park.

 

[Springal]

When Johnson was asked in the Commons if there was a Downing Street party on this date, he said:

“No. But I’m sure whatever happened the guidance & the rules were followed at all times.”

 

[Hugo Rune]

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"In Downing Street there is a sense of injustice and considerable upset that the 126 partygate fines have been levied disproportionately on women and junior officials.

One source said: “The majority of [those fined] are very junior diary managers etc on 24k-ish and these fines are really stacking up for them.

"Typically they are getting fined for events they were at with their males bosses who seem to have got away no problem.

"Pretty clear also that people who bothered lawyering up [like the PM] are fine. There is a lot of very angry and upset people."ITV

It's sad that those with power and money inside No.10 have seemingly avoided fines because of apparent threats to the Met from their lawyers. Has the PM got to Sue Gray too? We'll see.

 

[clapham_gull]

"In Downing Street there is a sense of injustice and considerable upset that the 126 partygate fines have been levied disproportionately on women and junior officials.

One source said: “The majority of [those fined] are very junior diary managers etc on 24k-ish and these fines are really stacking up for them.

"Typically they are getting fined for events they were at with their males bosses who seem to have got away no problem.

"Pretty clear also that people who bothered lawyering up [like the PM] are fine. There is a lot of very angry and upset people."ITV

It's sad that those with power and money inside No.10 have seemingly avoided fines because of apparent threats to the Met from their lawyers. Has the PM got to Sue Gray too? We'll see.

This side of things has been building for a few weeks. The younger staff (apparently) were encouraged to fess up.

Fines are one thing though and public opinion is another. It doesn't really speak to the British sense of fair play.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

"In Downing Street there is a sense of injustice and considerable upset that the 126 partygate fines have been levied disproportionately on women and junior officials.

One source said: “The majority of [those fined] are very junior diary managers etc on 24k-ish and these fines are really stacking up for them.

"Typically they are getting fined for events they were at with their males bosses who seem to have got away no problem.

"Pretty clear also that people who bothered lawyering up [like the PM] are fine. There is a lot of very angry and upset people."ITV

It's sad that those with power and money inside No.10 have seemingly avoided fines because of apparent threats to the Met from their lawyers. Has the PM got to Sue Gray too? We'll see.

126 fines to 83 people.

 

[clapham_gull]

It does appear an odd conclusion by the Police, albeit under incredible political pressure which they really don't like.

A more coherent conclusion (if morally wrong) would be that since the PM was in his "home" but unable to control others being there (because of the uniqueness of Number 10), he wouldn't get fined at all.

.. but he has been for one occasion.

What a complete mess.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

In a normal democratic country Johnson would be obliged to resign.

But here we are.