Thread 25, Sunak - Peerages, Privileges & the Covid Inquiry

[Notonthestairs]

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4806467-thread-24-sunak-and-the-local-elections-aftermath?page=1

The thing about them not checking the rules is too perfect. Always funnier when they do it to themselves.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-inquiry-to-begin-with-difficult-to-watch-film-of-family-testimonies-12901351

Will Johnson's resignation affect the inquiry?

A couple of noticeable absences from this thread. I do hope their heads don't explode during re-programming.

They left these threads long ago

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I don't know why your post made me laugh but it did! Yes, I agree.... she knows the ship has sailed. BJ promised her something. He lied. Normal.

She won't have another bite of the cherry, no one would be mad enough. Her political career is over. And quite possibly BJ will ditch her too, I imagine he moves on from people who can't boost his ego fairly quickly.

There's a degree of sniggering on Twitter about references to her working under Boris.

To be fair to Dorries, at least she has experience, especially compared to Charlotte Owen.

It must hurt that she has been replaced by a newer model.

They're busy trying to derail the other thread about the Privileges committee.

Johnson constantly claimed that leaving parties were essential for keeping up morale. Which doesn't say a lot for working conditions in no. 10.

I constantly wonder about these claims that he's so bright. Surely it doesn't take Einstein to work out that actually no, a leaving party is never going to be reasonably necessary for work purposes? Everyone else outside no. 10 managed it.

If anyone is interested, there is a live stream on the Covid-19 Inquiry on YouTube

Thanks@DuncinToffee, I'll try and catch this through today.

It's hearbreaking and very difficult to watch.

The whole thing is just Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM summed up but screwing themselves over instead of us. It’s amazing. The fact that they are so furious about it makes me smile every time I think about it.

So this is what those of us in the nhs were doing wrong. We should have been having leaving parties and it would all have been fine.

The rate staff are leaving we could have had loads.

It’s a festival of whataboutery. Quite amusing.

It is so pathetic and goes along with all these stupid nicknames he had for the ministers. He just wanted to be everyone's friend all the time and leaving parties going on when they shouldn't be just made him a cool dude I suppose

It's not easy to admit your hero is a corrupt liar, allegedly

Daily Mail's new approach

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1668489678813626369?s=20

So it turns out that everything that's gone wrong in the last 13 years is the fault of a future government that doesn't yet exist, rather than the current one which does

Shows the Mail is running scared. And arf at the sinister forces preventing Nads from entering the HOL.

Interest rates likely to hit 5.75% spelling misery for millions of home owners in a cost of living crisis. A "sign that markets think the UK has the worst inflation problem in the rich world."

https://www.cityam.com/bank-of-england-to-hoist-interest-rates-to-5-75-per-cent-as-experts-warn-uk-inflation-is-out-of-control/

This cannot be true.
Sunak pledged to halve inflation by the end of the year, and achieve it he will, much like he has stopped the boots and brought honesty integrity and lying to the centre of government.

This is brilliant

twitter.com/edwinhayward/status/1668569306940973057?s=20

Nadine Dorries, a tragedy in 4 acts.

The lights dim as our play begins...

The lights dim as our play begins...

Everything dims around mad Nad.

Ah, so Nadine is far smarter than the rest of us.
This whole performance has been to demonstrate to us the utter absurdity of the HoLs and to garner support for Labour's policy of abolishing it.

Infamy, infamy... they've all got it in for me!

It's a right carry-on, isn't it?