Boris Johnson, FPN's, and Sue Gray report due. Thread 5

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www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4545092-boris-and-his-fines-part-4

Previous thread!

Will do that now

Who is Helen McNamara? She brought in the karaoke machine...

Oh, and someone was sick after too much booze, and there was a fight

Martin Reynolds is awful... he even boasts in a whatsapp 'better than them focussing on our drinks. I think we got away with it' shock

Interesting comment in the report:

"I was made aware of multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff. This was unacceptable."

How very Tory. It would be fascinating to have some names.

On Page 19, it says (re. Cakegate):
"The event lasted between 14.25 and 14.45, throughout which the Prime Minister was present."

So the 9 minute defence is looking a bit weaker there...

Was the karaoke machine at any of the parties Johnson was at?

Are we now going to see an argument that that was totally normal for work purposes?

From what I'm reading, it is very damning, and not good for the Met who responded to an alam going off, with Police entering and partying moving somewhere else to do the Secret Santa and an 'awards ceremony' and not stopping the partying.

I cannot get over the amount of booze they were consuming. As my DD has said (she works for a massive multi national co), she goes to leaving dos. No booze.

One party.... the last person left at 0420 hours and was told to leave through the back door by 'the custodian' whoever the hell that is

Reading between the lines on the 13 Nov event (the one with all the photos this week), BJ left his office at 19.17, went into the press office on his way back to his flat and gave a speech there. He arrived at his flat for the ABBA party at 20.00. That was quite a speech he gave then, at least half an hour (and that's with a generous allowance for slow walking across the building).

So the ABBA party has not been investigated?

They knew, they didn't care

I'm looking at Tory front bench on tv. It's impossible not to recall the last lines of Animal Farm.

No. SG noted CJ & 5 SpAds met in tne flat at 6. Johnson joined them at 8.

After Met investigation she didn't investigate further.

Fuck!
He's going to put his arms around the people the way they put their arms around the care homes in the pandemic.

We're all going to die We know how well that worked.

By jove, I've worked out why Boris was fined for the cake. He was there for 20minutes, which is longer than the 10 minutes one is allowed to commit a crime for without it counting.

The PM keeps saying "to the best of my knowledge "
He knows fuck all!

Ah well you see you are getting the hang of this. He is not there to know stuff, he is there to tend the pot plants.

Keir Starmer - "15 tax rises & he pretends they're a low tax government. It's 4 & 1/2 months since Labour 1st called for a windfall tax... & surprise, surprise HE'S now backing it.. I'm told that hindsight is a wonderful thing"

PMQ’s - we got brexit done (finished is it? Northern Ireland still seems to be having bit of an issue and immigration isn’t quite what was promised), fastest vaccine rollout in Europe (well done, but it’s not a unique feat to roll out a vaccine programme. Lots of countries did it. Bit much to still be falling back on that one success over a year later), unemployment at its lowest (errr, he keeps getting pulled up on this. The parameters have been redefined so the comparison with the 70’s is redundant. Much like when they redefined ‘crime’ to not include fraud (14% of all crime previously) and the crime figures fell….. by 14%.

yes I think he should resign over partygate/the Sue Gray report, but let’s not pretend that we’re ‘losing’ anyone important here.

Really wish he wouldn’t. It’s a Lenny hug at best.
(Mice and Men reference - Lenny hugs/pets a mouse to death)

Oh and let’s not ignore BJ’s ‘Vladimir Corbyn’ zinger. He’s a fucking child.

@jgw1
That's true. I forget that I need to reread the job description.
Perhaps you guys can remind me.
Things I have so far:
Stand up in Parliament and lie to everyone there.
Drink alcohol in every office you enter.
Tend the pot plants.
Know nothing about everything

There must be more?

Also one of the reasons employment is being made to look lower is zero hours contracts. They may have zero hours but they are still employed.

Don't insult children, Cornetto