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Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 3

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DuncinToffee · 18/06/2023 16:56

Tomorrow is the Commons vote on the Privileges Committee's findings that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Downing Street parties during lockdown

The vote is a free vote rather than being whipped either way. Tories have been told that the vote will be a one-line whip, meaning they will not be obliged to participate.

Boris Johnson is believed to have advised his backers to not vote against it.

Michael Gove confirmed on live tv that he will abstain

Tobias Elwood has u-turned on abstaining after hearing stories from voters

Rishi Sunak, who knows

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Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:41

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 08:27

Do you have a degree?

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Why would you like to know? Would you like to know where I live too. A signed photo perhaps? 😘

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 08:42

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:40

Why are you ignoring zonder's request to ignore those with opposing views?

You need a group meeting tbh to agree on strategy, all this 'ignore her!' from Zonder and claud then constant quoting me is as shambolic as Labour's front bench.

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The nice thing is that you @Janiie ignore any attempt at debate.

But if you would like to join in, feel free to answer why you think it acceptable to lie in parliament about illegal parties.

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 08:42

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:41

Why would you like to know? Would you like to know where I live too. A signed photo perhaps? 😘

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Apparently degrees don't give common sense.

How many degrees do you have?

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Cornettoninja · 03/07/2023 08:43

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:40

Why are you ignoring zonder's request to ignore those with opposing views?

You need a group meeting tbh to agree on strategy, all this 'ignore her!' from Zonder and claud then constant quoting me is as shambolic as Labour's front bench.

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Why do you think advice is the same thing as instruction?

Are you here to engage in a discussion or not?

IClaudine · 03/07/2023 08:43

Who is claud? 🙄

Cornettoninja · 03/07/2023 08:44

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:41

Why would you like to know? Would you like to know where I live too. A signed photo perhaps? 😘

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Thats not creepy at all

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:46

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 08:42

The nice thing is that you @Janiie ignore any attempt at debate.

But if you would like to join in, feel free to answer why you think it acceptable to lie in parliament about illegal parties.

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I debate all the time, granted with a bit of sarcasm and labour mockery chucked in, but as i keep on saying if you tolerate 'Mad Nads' and 'bints' on here you really shouldn't be so upright about 'Keith'.

You just cannot handle opposing views. At all.

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:47

Cornettoninja · 03/07/2023 08:44

Thats not creepy at all

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I know! 'Have I got a degree'. Wtaf. It's so nosey isn't it Confused

SerendipityJane · 03/07/2023 08:51

Anyone having anything nice for dinner tonight ? Turned a bit breezy over the weekend. Hopefully it'll settle down again.

Blossomtoes · 03/07/2023 08:51

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:47

I know! 'Have I got a degree'. Wtaf. It's so nosey isn't it Confused

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Is it? It seems a perfectly legitimate question to someone who’s just poo pooed degrees. I’m happy to divulge that I’ve got two. Anyone else?

IClaudine · 03/07/2023 08:54

SerendipityJane · 03/07/2023 08:51

Anyone having anything nice for dinner tonight ? Turned a bit breezy over the weekend. Hopefully it'll settle down again.

Bit showery here today, but still warm. Might be lazy for dinner and just have an omelette.

Kiwano · 03/07/2023 08:54

I think we'd all like to see some genuine debate from @Janiie. The problem is that she just doesn't engage with awkward questions like whether it's OK to appoint known child molesters to positions of responsibility within the party, and whether she seriously believes Johnson's excuses about his repeated lies both in and out of the House of Commons.

pointythings · 03/07/2023 08:55

I've got one.

SerendipityJane · 03/07/2023 08:56

Ooo ... I like the idea of an omelette ! For some reason gets overlooked when I'm thinking quick and easy.

pointythings · 03/07/2023 08:57

@SerendipityJane we're having jacket potatoes. Tuna mayo for me, cheese and bacon for DS. Indonesian spicy chicken tomorrow.

SirCharlesRainier · 03/07/2023 08:58

Quiverer · 02/07/2023 18:21

I've been having an instructive listen to Rory Stewart talking about what it was like being Junior Foreign Minister when Johnson was Foreign Secretary. Unsurprisingly, it was excruciating. He was capable of destroying months of careful diplomacy with one stupid phone call, or alternatively could waste ages working up a policy that was predicated on our embassy in a particular country taking specified action, only to have to be reminded for the hundredth time that we had no embassy in that country. They gave him easily digestible briefings before meetings but he still didn't understand them and would just bluster on, then blame the civil servants for his own inability to master a brief.

When the invitation to Lebedev's shindig came, it also came to Stewart who unhesitatingly refused because it seemed to him an absolute no-brainer that a minister in the Foreign Office couldn't be seen to be accepting Lebedev's hospitality - but of course, as we now know, not only did Johnson accept the invitation, but he went without any FO minders and subsequently insisted, against repeated advice, on making Lebedev a lord.

None of that is surprising, of course, but given that it was all pretty well-known within the Conservative party it makes it all the more despicable that they ignored it all and voted the idiot into power.,

Sorry @Quiverer , could you tell me where I can listen to this please?

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 09:04

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:46

I debate all the time, granted with a bit of sarcasm and labour mockery chucked in, but as i keep on saying if you tolerate 'Mad Nads' and 'bints' on here you really shouldn't be so upright about 'Keith'.

You just cannot handle opposing views. At all.

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Ah, so its just why you @Janiie think it acceptable for the Prime Minister to lie in parliament about his illegal parties that you refuse to debate.
Fair enough, although it is odd that you keep turning up on threads where that law breaking is the topic of discussion.

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 09:04

Blossomtoes · 03/07/2023 08:51

Is it? It seems a perfectly legitimate question to someone who’s just poo pooed degrees. I’m happy to divulge that I’ve got two. Anyone else?

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Two also.

Zonder · 03/07/2023 09:09

SirCharlesRainier · 03/07/2023 08:58

Sorry @Quiverer , could you tell me where I can listen to this please?

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I'd love to hear this too. RS is such an interesting man with a few more morals than some of his peers.

Cornettoninja · 03/07/2023 09:13

Rhondaa · 03/07/2023 08:46

I debate all the time, granted with a bit of sarcasm and labour mockery chucked in, but as i keep on saying if you tolerate 'Mad Nads' and 'bints' on here you really shouldn't be so upright about 'Keith'.

You just cannot handle opposing views. At all.

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Top notch ‘debating’.

Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 3
Quiverer · 03/07/2023 09:15

The Rory Stewart stuff is on the podcast "The Rest is Politics". I've been having rather an enjoyable time going back to the broadcasts from round about June 2022 onwards.

L1ttledrummergirl · 03/07/2023 09:17

I have GCSEs, my school careers officer laughed when I said wanted to be a barrister and said "not from this school".
They gave us a taster session at the local technical college, I was entered into hairdressing and flooded the salon (not my area of interest).

I left to work in a shop.

BestIsWest · 03/07/2023 09:18

The Rest Is Politics podcast is a great listen. Their interviews are great too. Particularly liked the John Major one.

IClaudine · 03/07/2023 09:31

L1ttledrummergirl · 03/07/2023 09:17

I have GCSEs, my school careers officer laughed when I said wanted to be a barrister and said "not from this school".
They gave us a taster session at the local technical college, I was entered into hairdressing and flooded the salon (not my area of interest).

I left to work in a shop.

I am sorry that happened to you. Similar at my school, unless you were one of the kids from the posh area. Expectations were low for the rest of us.

jgw1 · 03/07/2023 09:32

Just had another look at the latest predictions. The low end of the predictions gives a Labour majority!

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

General Election Prediction

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

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