To be really enjoying Boris Johnson's downfall Part 3 Cake ambush

[Notonthestairs]

To be really enjoying Boris Johnson's downfall Part 2 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4459992-To-be-really-enjoying-Boris-Johnsons-downfall-Part-2

And on it goes.

@Florianus

jgw1: Wow a £17,000 fine for parking outside the hairdressers in Bradford.

Eh? Sounds like you need better English comprehension skills. Start by considering whether the phrase "staying open despite being told it was illegal" refers to parking or breaking Covid laws. Either that or you should stop wasting time with nonsensical messages.

I quite agree that it is nonsensical to compare covid fines to parking fines. A poster was doing it earlier, no idea why, the point they were trying to make was most unclear.

Anyway, the squirrel is feeding from the seed bird feeder so is busy at work.

Mumsnet deleting away! Ffs what on earth has happened to this open forum

@merrymouse

Either that or you should stop wasting time with nonsensical messages.

Right back at you.

I think that the problem is that some posters need better English Comprehension skills.

@Flowertailbird

Can I just say that I love everyone on this thread who agrees that Boris is a lying narcissist twat. Everyone else, well what can I say.

to all of us, we need them. Maybe a couple of suitcases of too.

This whole thread is a fine example of the few attempting to gaslight the many. The government would be proud.

merrymouse:
There is no uniform scale that says that a speeding fine and a late self assessment form are equally important. Fines are set based on pragmatism...

But legislators lay down the rates for Fixed Penalty Fines. These are not arbitrary decisions. In so doing, they consider the seriousness of the misdemeanour. That's how it works.

@Flowertailbird

Mumsnet deleting away! Ffs what on earth has happened to this open forum

There’s a very assiduous reporter on this thread.

Can all those who are defending Boris GIVE YOUR FUCKING HEADS A WOBBLE (in the nicest mumsnet way)

Bit of a crybaby

If anything this thread has taught me who the people are who I would love to go for a drink with and those who I would avoid like the plague. If anyone who is normal and thinks Boris is an odious twat and who fancies a drink in York any time, let me know!

@Florianus

merrymouse: There is no uniform scale that says that a speeding fine and a late self assessment form are equally important. Fines are set based on pragmatism...

But legislators lay down the rates for Fixed Penalty Fines. These are not arbitrary decisions. In so doing, they consider the seriousness of the misdemeanour. That's how it works.

And parking outside a hairdressers in Bradford is very naughty so attracts a large fine.

Don't do it people.

No 10 said they could not comment on whether or not there was cake until Sue Gray's long-awaited report is published.

Is Sue Gray now to become a bake off judge?

Was Johnson ambushed by an invisible cake?

Why can’t No. 10 answer a straightforward question?

We look forward to finding out in 202??! By which point the odds are Johnson will have been ousted already as there’s only so much scandal rhubarb a Government can survive

@22itsallnew

No 10 said they could not comment on whether or not there was cake until Sue Gray's long-awaited report is published.

Is Sue Gray now to become a bake off judge?

Was Johnson ambushed by an invisible cake?

Why can’t No. 10 answer a straightforward question?

We look forward to finding out in 202??! By which point the odds are Johnson will have been ousted already as there’s only so much scandal rhubarb a Government can survive

There was rhubarb curd in this afternoon's cake.

Am I Boris?
Heck.

@Flowertailbird

Can all those who are defending Boris GIVE YOUR FUCKING HEADS A WOBBLE (in the nicest mumsnet way)

Who do you think is defending Boris? You do realise, I hope, that pointing out that the people attending Downing Street parties are believed to have been mainly civil servants, not members of the government, is not "defending Boris" ?

And parking outside a hairdressers in Bradford is very naughty so attracts a large fine. Don't do it people.

"Don't do it people" would be better directed at the deliberate time wasters on this thread.

@Florianus if you’re not defending Boris then you choose a very strange way to fill your time.

Have you got a particular axe to grind with the civil service? You seem very keen to point the finger at them about the wrongdoing going on at No 10?

@Florianus "Don't do it people" would be better directed at the deliberate time wasters on this thread

Oh the irony!

It's not light relief but it does both make me smile (cat fishing Nadine & the Government) & wonder at the mess we find ourselves in.

twitter.com/joelycett/status/1487076326196535308?s=21

People were going through hell whilst Johnson had "refreshments".

@liliainterfrutices

This isthe most moving account I’ve seen of why people are so angry. It’s heartbreaking.

This thread should end with this.

No excuses
No reason
No sorry we monumentally fucked up.

Never ever ever has there been a govt as corrupt as this lot.

Yes! It's you! Well done.

Directed at florfuckingornis or whatever he or she's called

[quote 22itsallnew]@Florianus if you’re not defending Boris then you choose a very strange way to fill your time.

Have you got a particular axe to grind with the civil service? You seem very keen to point the finger at them about the wrongdoing going on at No 10?[/quote]
Having worked alongside members of the Civil Service on three different QUANGOs in my career, I do know something of how they operate - from undermining their ministers' decisions to ensuring that there are always ample supplied of wine at meetings. Famously, when there was an attempt to cut down on the drinking culture, it was decreed that alcohol could not be provided at meetings unless a board member was present. Our Executive Officer immediately co-opted the most elderly and disabled member of the board, who could never get to meetings but was the pass for ensuring that ample supplies of good claret were always available - along with food from Fortnum & Masons (I think I mistakenly said Harrods in an earlier post).

I don't have an axe to grind - even though I had to ring my husband to drive me home from Notting Hill Gate after more than one meeting. But I think that many people have no idea that the country is run by the civil service - politicians simply don't have the time.

@22itsallnew We look forward to finding out in 202??! By which point the odds are Johnson will have been ousted already as there’s only so much scandal rhubarb a Government can survive

The Met have asked for a delay until after their investigation, not until after any prosecutions.

Given that they've presumably already been handed the basics of the information they need to look at, which itself took only 2(?) weeks to collect and evaluate, I can't imagine that the investigation will last that long. It'll presumably be mainly a matter of confirming statements.

Oddly enough, as it's the event which started all this, I suspect that the May 20th drinks in the lovely weather won't be something that anyone faces prosecution over. No crime seems to have been committed on that occasion, although the guidelines were obviously broken.

To all those defending the government HAVE SOME FUCKING COMPASSION!!!!!

Bloody hell. Someone send for Prue Leith. Her son is/was a Tory MP so she knows whereof she speaks. Line up all the miscreants and ask Prue to test them on the quality of the Birthday cake. She'll soon sort the wheat from the chaff. Sue Gray? The Met? Pfft. Blessed are the cake makers.

@Flowertailbird

If anything this thread has taught me who the people are who I would love to go for a drink with and those who I would avoid like the plague. If anyone who is normal and thinks Boris is an odious twat and who fancies a drink in York any time, let me know!

I love York and hate Boris and his cronies with a passion. I'd happily have a drink with you.