Boris Johnson’s birthday party

[Cheekypeach]

Here we go again…

I’m most aggrieved for the parents who couldn’t hold their dying children as Boris scoffed cake and got plastered with his mates. Depsicable

“Erm erm well mister erm speaker erm erm I appreciate what the right honourable gentleman is asking erm but erm he erm will have to erm await the erm results of the erm enquiry erm erm where did I erm put that erm balloon to brush my erm hair?? Oh erm shit, got to erm go. Callie no that’s not her erm name, Angie? Erm no that’s not it erm either oh yes carrie! Erm she says erm my ravioli is ready for lunch and erm if I’m erm good I can use the erm crayons again! Yippee!!!"

Speaking as someone who had to cancel my DS's birthday party this week due to Covid, am fucking livid....

I'm not Welsh so not going to profess great knowledge of Drakeford's approach but I read a piece which was all about how he slept apart form his wife for ages because of course he had to meet people for work and he wanted to not pass it to his MIL? He lived alone.

That picture of the Queen at the funeral, the fact she was offered an exemption and turned it down. I am no royalist but that is the only thing you can do in these circs - you have to do as the plebs are doing or the whole system breaks down.

Remember Sturgeon's profound apology for removing her mask for a couple of minutes at a funeral or something? I mean really, that was a big news story at the time.

Johnson is shameless and I think simply does not understand why we do not understand he is exempt from these trivial rules that little people must follow.

As for why it is coming out in leaks: we have a government that silences people and uses threats and intimidation against people who use official channels to raise concerns.

It's the only way people have to try and achieve some accountability.

That's why.

Why does anyone want him to resign??
If you voted Tory you should want him to stay as he is the architect of Brexit which you wanted, and a populist vote winner (apparently) and you knew what a lying incompetent egotistical scum bag he was when you voted for him!
If you didn’t vote Tory you should want him to stay as long as possible, as his continuing to lead the Tory Party is leading them into the 20%s in polling terms and is creating serious rifts within the Party and is demonstrating to the country and the world the reality of Conservative “competence” - AKA huge economic and social vandalism and incompetence, which is to the benefit of, at best, 5% of the country.

Christ that tweet!

I agree, it seems all they did was party

Nusrat Ghani had spent nearly two years trying to get her complaint dealt with through official channels before taking it public.

The Wealden MP said she had dropped the matter after being told that if she "persisted" in asking about it she "would be ostracised and her career and reputation would be destroyed".

I am sure it has been no different for people who may have wanted these parties dealt with - 'if you speak out we will destroy you'. Although I am sure plenty of the people involved are arrogant and immoral.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60108377

That school teacher's letter/report just seems so completely on the money:

Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. [He] sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the school for the next half).

I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation that binds everyone else.

@supermoonrising

Why does anyone want him to resign?? If you voted Tory you should want him to stay as he is the architect of Brexit which you wanted, and a populist vote winner (apparently) and you knew what a lying incompetent egotistical scum bag he was when you voted for him! If you didn’t vote Tory you should want him to stay as long as possible, as his continuing to lead the Tory Party is leading them into the 20%s in polling terms and is creating serious rifts within the Party and is demonstrating to the country and the world the reality of Conservative “competence” - AKA huge economic and social vandalism and incompetence, which is to the benefit of, at best, 5% of the country.

I agree with this, I want him to stay & suffer humiliation after humiliation until they are totally unelectable at the next election. I get the feeling Cummings has enough dirt to smear him with for the next couple of years.

@PaintYourDreams
Yes but that's exactly my point. There's a major campaign underway at the moment to get Boris Johnson out of office now. Not at the next election when we all vote on it, but now. Presumably because there is a concern that he will otherwise recover from this and go on to win the next election. If not so, then why all the aggressive campaigning to try and get him out now?

That’s a generous interpretation. More likely is that BJ has fulfilled his purpose - a popular populist buffoon to play out Brexit (which will over the coming years allow right wing British governments to, basically, make our social and economic landscape increasingly resemble America). But now he’s fulfilled that mission they want someone semi competent in charge ASAP who stands a decent chance of getting a Tory majority at the next election to play out the hard right wing British Tories American wet dream. Boris Johnson (and therefore the Tories) ain’t recovering from this in one year or two years of ten years, so they want him gone.

Got £10 on a secret lockdown Pancake Day gang bang being leaked next week

@DrManhattan

Cummings style - death by a thousand cuts. He's probably really enjoying this

I used to work with him and didnt warm to him Now I love him

In my head, it was a cake smash.

@PowerhouseOfTheCell

Got £10 on a secret lockdown Pancake Day gang bang being leaked next week

@pussycatunpickingcrossesagain

Where's Clav? And that Janii person?

Maybe they're organising a leaving party?

Well that shouldn't take all evening. Downing Street parties apparently last 10 minutes and only require a suitcase of booze dragged from the condo and a platter direct from M ands!

They're all so lazy. Did they do any work?
Are they so childish they constantly need little parties to keep them going?

Its just lie after lie how is this allowed to carry on

[quote supermoonrising]@PaintYourDreams
Yes but that's exactly my point. There's a major campaign underway at the moment to get Boris Johnson out of office now. Not at the next election when we all vote on it, but now. Presumably because there is a concern that he will otherwise recover from this and go on to win the next election. If not so, then why all the aggressive campaigning to try and get him out now?

That’s a generous interpretation. More likely is that BJ has fulfilled his purpose - a popular populist buffoon to play out Brexit (which will over the coming years allow right wing British governments to, basically, make our social and economic landscape increasingly resemble America). But now he’s fulfilled that mission they want someone semi competent in charge ASAP who stands a decent chance of getting a Tory majority at the next election to play out the hard right wing British Tories American wet dream. Boris Johnson (and therefore the Tories) ain’t recovering from this in one year or two years of ten years, so they want him gone.[/quote]
I think one issue is who to replace him with

David Davis on this morning couldn’t say even after the ‘just go’ bit

If they were all going for someone they wanted instead of this

I suppose we’re now going to get the usual routine.

It didn’t happen.

It did happen but I wasn’t there.

It did happen and I was there but only for ten minutes and it was somehow within the rules.

Theo Agnew has resigned as a minister today
A man who I believe has worked for free for the government/dfe/treasury since 2010

Was there ever a night they didn’t have a party or a bottle of wine on the desk?

While little children, some older children, had their birthday party plans RUINED!

Despicable prick!