Boris Johnson’s birthday party

[Cheekypeach]

Here we go again…

[quote echt]Unwelcome as this latest revelation is for Johnson, it takes attention away from the government's writing off of £4.3b in Covid business loans fraud, and the resignation of Lord Agnew in frustration over the whole affair:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/24/minister-resigns-in-protest-at-handling-of-fraudulent-covid-loans[/quote]
100% distraction from other more serious news. Who gives a flying fuck im so over it, people were breaking rules or bending them esp on my street!

The fraud is appalling we should be more outraged over this cos after all we are all going to have to pay more taxes to pay this back.

Then there is a potential war about to break out that will have impacts on us and most countries who rely on natural resources from Russia.

I mean what next another thing they want to distract us from so whip up another so called party he attended its so ridiculous

@AutumnAlmanack

You people will do anything to get Boris out. Who do you think you would get next? Your darling Labour people? Get real - the conservatives will always be the party of the sensible.

Why would Labour come next after Boris? There won’t be a general election, just a new Tory leader. And probably one far more likely to win a GE than Boris. I doubt Labour will relish a shiny new PM who can claim that all the fuck ups were Johnson’s fault and it’s now a new time etc.

But I don’t believe anyone can really think the Tories are the party of the sensible given their current leader. He wouldn’t know sensible if it slapped him in the face.

Does anyone else think he only joined the Conservatives because the word Party was in the name.

Who gives a flying fuck im so over it, people were breaking rules or bending them esp on my street!

Were the people on your street responsible for setting the laws in the first place? No, didn't think so.

@VelvetChairGirl

@Livelovebehappy

TBH, I’m beyond caring at this point. Seems more people broke the rules that kept to them. My niece told me that the teachers at her school had a leaving party for one of the staff during lock down rules last year. There’s an enquiry going on about it. I bet if we did even the minimum investigations, we could probably find something on most people.

Well you wouldn't find anything on me, or my husband, or my DD and her husband, or my son and his partner or pretty well everyone I know (except my neighbours who had people staying at Christmas 2020)

Does anyone else think he only joined the Conservatives because the word Party was in the name.

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I guess for a guy who built his whole “political career” not on ideology or sense of public duty or substance, but on being Boris the Fun, Popular, Entertainer - it’s fitting that such a guy should be kicked out in a few days as one of the most despised and least respected public figures in the entire country. BoJo The Clown has played his last show and the British public are no longer laughing. :-(

'Party of the sensible'

Party of the immoral, maybe.

In what workplace do people have birthday parties? I've only ever known it being the turn of the birthday boy/girl to go and buy pastries.

@CorrBlimeyGG

Waiting for M&S to rename their Party Food section to Office Food.

😂

So instead of biting the bullet weeks ago and saying “yes I am sorry, I went to the Garden party, and the byob party, and I would also like my 50 th birthday party to be taken into consideration” he has sat on this and hoped no one would find out.

Sorry Boris. Your dirty little secret is out. Belated birthday wishes loser.

Someone, somewhere is playing the long game. They haven't given out all their evidence at once, allowing Johnson to make a statement "I had no knowledge of any parties" before releasing information that shows him to be an out-and-out liar. I'd put good money on it being Cummings either directly or working in conjunction with those who saw Boris as a useful tool (in both senses of the word) who has now served his purpose.

I agree. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if someone is waiting for Sue Gray’s report to say not much, waiting for Johnson to say “see, it’s all fine, nothing to see here, no rules were broken” and then playing a trump card.

@Dreamstate
I don’t think it’s distraction. Sure, there are no macro economic ramifications of a few piss ups. But people are genuinely horrified at this moral sewer of a Government when the vast majority were respecting and following the rules set by same government. Corruption of character and public trust is news as well.

Yes, this is very carefully planned series of leaks.

I reckon the coup de grâce will be photos and / or video, dropped just after the publication of the Gray report.

@Dreamstate

In some ways, you are right, far bigger fish to fry but do you really want someone taking us to war, dealing with fraud (which they created) when they themselves lie, twist, scheme to save their sorry arses?

Johnsons judgement so bad and he is so corrupt that he is the last person on earth you want dealing with these issues.

If he had any love for this country he would step aside.

I cannot claim to be surprised. Just waiting for this thread to be hijacked by a couple of posters who are either mentally ill or Mr Johnson's current mistresses. I wrote a long post about being a frontline worker during covid and not being able to see my mother with dementia 150 miles away. However I realised this was not needed because this was just how it was for most people and they just got on with it and followed guidance. Because contrary to most sensationalised news reports, people are generally good and look out for each other. The fact those elected to look after us think the rules do not apply to them and partied whilst people could not sit beside their loved ones whilst they died or hold proper funeral speaks for itself.

@pussycatunpickingcrossesagain

Where's Clav? And that Janii person?

Maybe they're organising a leaving party?

Ahahhhahahahahahahahahahaha amazing 👏

Get real~the conservatives will always be the party of the sensible

Erm, no.

The party that voted to stop poor children getting fed during pandemic holidays. The party that voted to spew sewage in the sea. The party that made rules that they repeatedly broke. The party that lies and lies and lies again.

Sensible? I don’t think so.

Boris Johnson is a person who leads by running to the front of a crowd. And he's quite good at getting a crowd in it seems.

The only good thing is that at least I really don't have to give the idea that Conservatives are competent or morally authoritative any house room. I mean look at them, they've destroyed themselves to support this fat fool who just makes more and more mess. Talk about sunk costs - he's driven out any half competent Tories who might challenge him and its all a bunch of third raters, while he keeps throwing parties to entertain his wife and her much younger, much more attractive associates.

One of the most unbearable things about old Conservatives is their claim to competence - at least that's been replaced. You can laugh at their little pronouncements now - none of it is true.

It’s most likely Cummings revenge still

Good talk today on how he’s pretty much focussed on ousting him and will do whatever

@supermoonrising

I guess for a guy who built his whole “political career” not on ideology or sense of public duty or substance, but on being Boris the Fun, Popular, Entertainer - it’s fitting that such a guy should be kicked out in a few days as one of the most despised and least respected public figures in the entire country. BoJo The Clown has played his last show and the British public are no longer laughing. :-(

A guy I know used to work for him, won't say how, and he says that every time Johnson had an interview or TV appearance to do, without fail 5 seconds before the camera started rolling he would purposefully mess up his own hair so it looked disheveled.

@Hospedia

Know what one my friends did for her birthday that year? Died of covid at the age of 38.

That is so awful x

@AutumnAlmanack

You people will do anything to get Boris out. Who do you think you would get next? Your darling Labour people? Get real - the conservatives will always be the party of the sensible.

Love it

party of the insensible (with drink) more like!

It really is absolutely unbelievable how little the politicians and their staff think of us muggles/normal people. No wonder they were all backing Dominic Cummings when he broke the rules. They were all breaking the rules too!

My biggest fear with all this is the damage it will do to sticking to the rules/law abiding in the general population. Police can only police by consent and I worry with the cuts that people will just start doing what they damn well like and there won't be enough police to do anything about it.

The British population has a reputation for being law abiding and this worries me that the respect for rules will be diminished.