Thread 24, Sunak and the local elections aftermath

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How much delay will this incur?

SNAFU

Also from the Adam Bienkov thread

Despite Boris Johnson's claim yesterday to have suppled a "full and unredacted" archive of his Whatsapps, the Cabinet Office says what he sent only covers some of the pandemic.

They also say they have removed "unambiguously irrelevant" material from them

True to form

What a mess

“integrity, professionalism and accountability”

How’s that feeling now? Nearly 24hrs was good going.

I had to look that one up, but I will start using it now, thnaks.

While Boris Johnson has passed lots of WhatsApps to the Cabinet Office, they only date from May 2021 onwards - when he got a new phone.

None of the messages before then have been shared

Still waiting for the what happened to the phone excuse

All the definitions I've just looked up of messages tell me that other people receive them. So Boris Johnson "losing" his phone does not matter. Because a record will exist on the recipient's phone.

Yes but it is still dodgy as fuck to lose government business because you change your phone, alledgely

I am sure Chris Witty has a full record...

Dylan ate my phone. Lulu Lytle wallpapered it. Swapped it for a fridge. Etc etc.
what a hot mess they all are.

And to think this is costing UK citizens money!

May as well just burn £ on Number 10's lawn and have done with it.

They are delaying the inevitable. I suppose they are hoping to cut a deal.

Both nuts and fabulous all at once!

Yes

And I don't want to read "unambiguously irrelevant" one more time. ITS MEANINGLESS.

Very true from Jess Phillips

Funny this is not how they feel about rape victims giving away all of their data

Who set up the covid inquiry?

Chris Whitty will definitely have them. He was absolutely making sure in some of those press conferences that he wasn’t making the decision so Boris couldn’t pin blame on him.

The messages in the days around any press conference where he used the phrase ‘the scientists don’t make the decisions, politic a do’ would be interesting. I’m pretty sure it was code for this is a terrible course of action it’s only going to end one way. Oct to Dec 2020 would be interesting.

Sam Coates

May 2021:

The month Boris Johnson announced the Covid inquiry

AND

The month Boris Johnson got a new phone

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1664315701681700876

interesting the phone got lost the same month he announced the inquiry.

He still has the phone.
It's not lost.
He just hasn't handed it over.
Despite the fact he was conducting Government business on it (against policy?) he's claiming it's private.

twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1664312174548860948?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

PS 👀🚨

As @SkyNewsThompson also points out, it’s also politically helpful that the inquiry vaccine module is suddenly being moved up so it features as we go into the election next summer ….

… rather than the 🥶 hospital module which has been pushed back to next autumn, …

… or 😨 the care home module which has been kicked to 2025.

twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1664317228991361024?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Boris Johnson’s phone number ‘listed online for last 15 years’
Reported 30 April 21.
Hence phone swap.
He's probably still using the old one!

amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/29/boris-johnsons-phone-number-listed-online-for-last-15-years

That might be because they believe their own hype. They did phenomenally well with the initial procurement and the NHS did really well with the jabbing. But the wheels came off somewhere between May 21 and July 21 because they somehow cocked up procurement of further doses.

I can’t quite remember what it was they didn’t do that they should have done. The vaccine section may not be quite as positive as they hope for.

Obviously it isn’t going to be as bad as the investigation into how successful putting a protective ring around care homes was.

Agree. I remember a really good explainer (maybe from Phil Syrpris) that revealed that after a strong start we lagged behind in vaccinations and had to limit who we could offer them to.