What about... Still enjoying Boris' downfall Part 4. The one with the report released?

[jgw1]

Part 4

That's a very optimistic title. 😂
We'll be lucky to get lots of black "redacted" printing with Sue written on the front. 🎂🤦‍♀️

@pussycatunpickingcrossesagain

That's a very optimistic title. 😂 We'll be lucky to get lots of black "redacted" printing with Sue written on the front. 🎂🤦‍♀️

Well if there aren't any squirrels then this thread could take a while to fill up.

Thanks @jgw1

Starts a chorus of 'Why are we waiting?Why are we waiting....'

Thank you jgw.

Following up on the last thread - 1 in 10 covid related statutory instrument came in to effect before Parliament could even see them. The sheer volume of SI's was quite extraordinary.

Unpicking who had the chance to scrutinise & vote and what went through statutory instruments would require a fairly lengthy analysis I think.

Placemarking
Thanks for the new thread

Given you are already on thread 4...

Not a fucking chance of it being released in this thread...

The Met Police has refused to release details of its decision not to investigate the £3m ‘cash for peerages’ scandal in the House of Lords.
twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1487099024868061188
Johnson also pulled the Economic Crime Bill earlier this week - the one that was supposed to stop dodgy Russian cash being laundered through London (and was one of the reasons for Lord Agnew's resignation if I recall correctly).

Move on everyone nothing to see here....

Thanks jgw1

MP explains delay in Sue Gray report
twitter.com/RosieisaHolt/status/1487071435147333636?t=bwa405nt5ozLkfEU0jXRCg&s=19

"We need SG's report to be like an empty husk" 😂 Thenk you Duncin

[quote DuncinToffee]Thanks jgw1

MP explains delay in Sue Gray report
twitter.com/RosieisaHolt/status/1487071435147333636?t=bwa405nt5ozLkfEU0jXRCg&s=19[/quote]
Very good, but probably sadly true.

The Met Police has refused to release details of its decision not to investigate the £3m ‘cash for peerages’ scandal in the House of Lords.
twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1487099024868061188

Perhaps they remembered how they let Tony Blair off the hook in the 2007 "cash for peerages" scandal.

@Florianus

*The Met Police has refused to release details of its decision not to investigate the £3m ‘cash for peerages’ scandal in the House of Lords. twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1487099024868061188*

Perhaps they remembered how they let Tony Blair off the hook in the 2007 "cash for peerages" scandal.

Lol! ...but the Met did investigate, people were arrested, questioned under caution - they didn't let anyone off the hook.... the MET did their job, handed the CPS the very large file - it was the CPS who said no further action.

Yet again i have to pull you up for what very much looks like you are making stuff up.. again! or is it all Rhubarb?

I said in my opening post on the last thread would he still be PM this time tomorrow evening and my guess was Yes. I was proved right on that one.

For this thread - how long do we now think he will last?

Carrying over from the last thread, which filled up before I could post:

`I do know something of how they operate [Civil Service] - from undermining their ministers' decisions to ensuring that there are always ample supplied of wine at meetings.

I clearly worked in the wrong departments in my Civil Service Career - Inland Revenue and MoD. The teas and coffees and sausage rolls am and cakes pm were provided by the bun wagon going round but we had to pay for them.

@Peregrina Bozo will be there for the next GE, he is like his hero Trump, nothing will dent the hardcore voters who support him plus he has created a party in his image and they wont disown him.

I doubt the council elections will be too bad, will be put down to mid term protest vote - Cameron was way behind in the Polls in 2012/13.

He'll win again, maybe with a 20 or 30 seat majority, in my circle of mainly Tory voters, whilst they are pissed off with him, they all say they will still vote for him - in my case via an absolutely awful MP.

Things must've been so bad in Downing Street during lockdown they were using the Cabinet Room as a make do Cafeteria. With free food and cake. Its the blitz spirit.

However, back in the real world DH's work were doing a only one person in the kitchen at a time for those that had to go in.

I was a grade 7 civil Whitehall servant until a few years ago. I worked in various departments and in Private Offices and saw none of what she /he is describing. Perhaps it happened in the 70s and 80s or something, but not in recent decades. By the end of my career we were barely allowed to provide lunches at meetings because of cuts.

This from the previous thread with absolute knobs on.

I have no doubt there are colleagues lurking out there shaking their heads before collapsing in giggles at the allegations of hampers and claret in the modern civil service. I don't really have the words to express how far removed from reality that perception is of how things are.

This is why the whole Number Ten thing is so shameful and shocking to the rest of us.

A fish rots from the head and all that.

( reasonably senior, several decades' service across a number of departments)

I notice that the betting markets, who were pretty much waving Boris goodbye a few days ago, have swung back towards him staying.

Not that that means a great deal, but as a Labour voter, Boris staying would be a good result...

Ffs the idle, slippery sod is going to win this isn't he? Friday night and enough is enough. Off to a party to those with more stamina.

Thanks @jgw1. I see the deletions have started already. It’s really fucking tedious.

Anyone follow Susie Dent on Twitter? Her word of the day today is brilliant!

I wouldn’t rise to certain poster’s blatherings. They set up to Report. Always have, always will.

This is just one of so, so, many experiences that explains why Johnson’s flip-flopping and lies are unacceptable. Not because he’s a person in the public eye, not because what his family went through was somehow exceptional. There will be people in every community with similar experiences.
Don’t let their voices be buried under Well, anyone could bring a cake into work for their colleagues because that is an abomination against their memory and all the things we did because we were told the legislation/guidance would help us minimise the damage Covid would do.

He'll probably get off.
The many reports and numerous threads and tweets and discussions and so on and nothing much will happen.
It'll drop out the top news eventually and people will just roll their eyes at it all, bored , move on.
(Unless Dom has something up his sleeve again, but even that looks doubtful)