Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 2

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Potentially quite a dangerous story for the Tories, that one. I suspect that might be why it's not had more traction, actually. Any discussion of Partygate is bad for them, and Jenkins is a pretty true blue Conservative. The risk to the party is it comes off as another Tory rulebreaking story. They won't want that. I realise this relates to his wife, not Jenkins himself, but it won't take much to blur the two.

And more in the news about impartial Sue Gray and if her new job is appropriate. All these finger waving folk should have maybe stopped to think now and again.

@Janiie I believe everything I post

Boris Johnson is a liar

I don't need anything explaining. I just see all main party politics as different sides of the same coin. Also that theyre all a bunch of liers and always have been. My point is not about the behaviour of one politician, more the fact it just so happens bojo got singled out.

The country doesn't need Janiies approval or permission to accept the reports finding.

And things are moving on. I am suspecting that parties and drinks and the odd bit of lockdown levity will disappear into the rear view as Johnsons more serious crimes are investigated and prosecuted. Starting with the fact that he stole classified information for personal use in his notebooks and slipped his security detail when Foreign secretary to advise a Russian spy on how far the UK investigation into the Salisbury poisoning was progressing. Janiie may be happy to support a traitor. My principles don't go that far.

The stories about Jenkin and Gray don't change the fact that a serving PM repeatedly and deliberately lied to Parliament.

In your opinion and the opinion of a committee chaired by a vocal critic of Johnson, with a member who allegedly attended a drinks party when it was not allowed and the opinion of Sue Gray who is trying to insert herself into the Labour Party.

Credibility is all a bit shaky.

It's all very pound shop Trump, isn't it? Bet Johnson is hoping for the gammons to storm Parliament on Monday.

Far be it from be to stop my enemy from making a mistake, but the Tories really don't seem to have clocked that the Sue Grey stuff isn't helping them, do they? It's never in their interests for Partygate to be the focus of public attention, and it's not harming Labour because length of time between civil service and party political appointments is a pretty difficult story to get the public interested in.

No it isn't

Boris Johnson lied to Parliament and ran away.

That's yesterdays news. And accepted into the history now. Although I bet some people would love for it to stay "current", given what's down the line.

What was it people once said ? Oh yes, "You lost. Get over it.". Seems fitting really.

Oh, and another by-election coming up soon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65941710

Remember this?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-question-time-audience-deliver-29538533

Michael Gove will abstain on Monday

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1670347642524631041?s=20

It's never in their interests for Partygate to be the focus of public attention,

Unless there are worse things in the closet.

I'm a little annoyed with myself now. It should have been obvious why the Tories have desperate to supress partygate in a "not really" way. It's because it's conveniently keeping much more explosive stories from the public view.

The summer recess can't come soon enough for Rish! - much less chance of decent news coverage during the silly season.

'It's all very pound shop Trump, isn't it? Bet Johnson is hoping for the gammons to storm Parliament on Monday.'

Pound shop Trump. Oh how very original.

Gammon is a really offensive and racist term. I'm quite surprised you'd lower yourself. Mind I've seen the 'storm Parliament' 'jokes' on Twatter so perhaps you're just jumping on the bandwagon.

I guess he's toast then.

If the committees findings were not unanimous and Sunak etc coming out to defend Bojo, then you'd have a point.

funny how it becomes a "party" when it suits you lol!

Are you getting at the national security stuff here? Lebedev rumours etc.

“People have known that Boris Johnson lies for 30 years,” the writer and academic Rory Stewart, a former Conservative member of Parliament, “He’s probably the best liar we’ve ever had as a prime minister. He knows a hundred different ways to lie.”

When he was editor of the Spectator magazine, he lied to the owner, Conrad Black, promising not to serve in Parliament while working at the magazine. (He did.)

When he was first elected to Parliament, he lied to his constituents when he promised to quit his Spectator job. (He didn’t.)

As a legislator, he lied to the party leader, Michael Howard, and to the news media when he publicly declared that he had not had an affair with a writer for the magazine, nor gotten her pregnant and paid for her abortion. (He had done all of that.)

Janie may not realise how she feels about the events in Downing Street but plenty of people do know how they feel.

4 by elections coming up.

It's going to be an interesting few months.

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Another one covering his back, wonder if he is pointing to Sunak?

https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1670344007828865024?s=20

"I was aware of the parties in Downing Street. I didn't attend any of the parties. One of the reasons I chose to leaving Downing Street is because I didn't want to be a part of some of the things I was seeing."

Samuel Kasumu, former Boris Johnson advisor

Let's put it this way:

You are Rish!

Which story would you rather the country was talking about ?

And it's no fucking "rumour" that Boris Johnson deliberately slipped his police protection to meet a known Russian agent. That is a fact. So without officials present he could brief a known Russian agent on the UKs investigation into the murder on UK soil of a UK citizen by a Russian spy team.

And without officials present he can't say he didn't.

Well he can.

But he's a liar.

https://twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1670339635837296642?cxt=HHwWhICzhZHDnq4uAAAA

Says it all