Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect

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Just breaking now on BBC.

Same day as Nadine.

there is a photo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10478301/Photo-Boris-Johnson-beer-No-10-lockdown-birthday-party-given-Met-sources-claim.html

I wonder if more MPs will have resigned by then.

When 2 groups are fighting, just let them get on with it and destroy themselves.

DuncinToffee
there is a photo

Why does the photo have the word 'SIMULATION' stamped on it?

Meanwhile

Rishi Sunak would block Boris Johnson comeback as Tory MP, sources say | Conservatives | The Guardian

Another senior Tory insider added: “It’s the leader who is in charge of the party. Why would Rishi let Boris on to the candidate list? It’s pretty obvious to me that he won’t. The party needs to move forward from this clown show. The vast majority of MPs agree.”
A poll by YouGov found there was little appetite among the public for Johnson to return to parliament, with just 25% wanting this to happen at some point in the future. A majority of Britons (56%) do not want Johnson to come back as an MP.

Because the actual photo is in the police's possession and the Mail needed a photo to show their readers?

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1668369969317281795?s=20

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Privileges Committee has found Boris Johnson knowingly misled Commons after rejecting central defence

MPs found no evidence to back his claim he was assured by officials that Covid guidance had not been breached - in fact they found opposite

Merrymouse
I find it interesting that because the Johnsons lived above the shop it was impossible for Carrie to avoid ‘work place gatherings’ but that as soon as these gatherings became raucous, the Johnsons were nowhere to be seen and completely oblivious

How many 'raucous' gatherings were there? As far as I can make out - 'the suitcase of wine', the so-called 'DJ' (not a real DJ) and the 'broken swing' all relate to one evening - the evening before Prince Philip's funeral. Sue Gray's report confirms - "The Prime Minister was not in residence".

The gathering where a member of staff was sick, actually took place at 70 Whitehall, an adjoining building.

Not clear where the Abba party fits into all of this

Indeed - I wonder what they did with 6 month old baby Wilfred when there was supposed to be a 'raucous' party going on?

I take it you therefore agree that all the Downing Street and Chequers gatherings were equally inappropriate nonsense?

To: Boris Johnson
Subject: Downing Street parties

This is to make you aware that there are parties taking place in Downing Street which don't follow the guidance.

From

An official

Maybe he just didn't read it. Fine detail and all that.

But there's always an email record.

(It could have been something else)

I am reminded of Yes Prime Minister

If it were my relative in hospital, I suspect I would have no issue with nurses getting a tiny bit of light relief, and indeed I don't remember any patient or relative complaining about these. On the other hand, if you're looking for "appalling" and "utterly tone deaf" you don't have to look far beyond a merry leaving do in Downing Street the night before Prince Philip's funeral

And all those pictures are in relation to food being delivered for NHS workers. Guess what, we were allowed to take masks off in order to eat.

Michael Howard today pointing out more lies from Johnson.
Remembering when Michael Howard sacked Johnson for lying about an affair.

Once a liar - always a liar.

Surely even you have noticed that Gordon Brown was not PM during lockdown?

And after work drinks did not break laws that Brown was telling the general public they must not break.

It is indeed. Boris must be furious about the fact that there is little or no chance that anyone other than his madder supporters will believe a word he says given his track record. And Sunak must be relishing the fact that he can say whatever he wants and no-one will ever believe Boris's denials.

So he also lied about what his officials told him? Now, there's a surprise.

Kiwano
Surely even you have noticed that Gordon Brown was not PM during lockdown?
I also heard Alastair Campbell claim that there was no drinking culture in Downing Street before Johnson - clearly nonsense.

Anyone would think he was a liar.

Did he not think it would come out?
Or did he not believe he could be challenged?

He was talking about drinking in meetings, not after work:

twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1491438534355746816?s=20

Indeed - I wonder what they did with 6 month old baby Wilfred when there was supposed to be a 'raucous' party going on?

Probably told the nanny to bugger off and take him illegally round to Grandpa's or Aunty Rachel's.

Here's what Alastair Campbell said.

In the several years I worked in Downing Street, I never once saw anyone worse for wear through drink. Not once. The only occasions on which I even saw alcohol were official receptions, and official dinners for visiting heads of state and government.
Civil servants would no more have thought of setting out trestle tables in the garden, groaning with food and booze brought in by the suitcase, than they would have thought of going up to the private flat used by the prime minister and his family, and running themselves a bath.
I can only vouch personally for the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown eras, when I know for a certain fact there was no drinking culture, but I am fairly confident in saying that Margaret Thatcher and John Major, whose governments I covered as a journalist, and David Cameron and Theresa May, did not allow Downing Street to become some kind of drinking den.
If there is a drinking culture in Downing Street, it started when Boris Johnson arrived.
To tar his predecessors with the same boozy brush, and to try to portray civil servants as being responsible for it, is typical of the man. Accept no responsibility, shift all blame, never admit you’re wrong.

And that justifies breaking the law and lying to Parliament precisely how?

cakeorwine
Anyone would think he was a liar

Starmer is a liar?

Owen Jones
Keir Starmer lied to become Labour leader: it’s really that simple. It’s not about changing circumstances. He just knew Labour members were left-wing so he had to say things he didn’t really believe to become Labour leader.

Starmer also told at least four lies about his evening in Durham - whether he broke the law or not, he still lied.

I think he really has reached a point where he believes he has a God-given right to have his lies accepted implicitly. That's why he's so utterly outraged to discover that that is not always going to be the case, and that lies can have bad consequences for him.

Do pack in the derailing attempts, @Clavinova, they're so blatant that it's really rather sad, and makes it ever more obvious that you can't actually think of a way to defend your hero's conduct.