Part 6 A thread for the continued enjoyment of Boris' downfall, enjoyment being important

[jgw1]

What the title says.

This will be the one where he resigns, so if please keep the whatabout to a minimum.

Up in time to watch (still my MP, lucky me) Nadine Dorries on BBC.

@merrymouse

The Mirror report says Sunak wasn’t invited to the party and had gone to the cabinet office for a work meeting.

Wasn't that the original BJ explanation...Maybe Rich Rishi was ambushed by a soft drink?

Piggy Oh god, I'd have to move to get away from her! 😹 I've part name changed again

@merrymouse

The Mirror report says Sunak wasn’t invited to the party and had gone to the cabinet office for a work meeting.

I'm sure we were told that the Prime Minister birthday party was an essential work meeting?

Presumably because Big Baby is not capable of working without beer and cake.

Me too, Piggy.

Just caught the tail-end of some Tory on the Today programme solemnly warning about the forces of Socialism about to overwhelm this country.

Apparently we all need to rally round our beloved leader or else we'll find ourselves with tax rises

Thanks, Liam Fox (for it was he) for those great and penetrating insights.

Grawlix he's drivelling on Sky now...

This isn't smooth.

I wonder where she thought that opening question was going.

She's happier doing 'free-form' on 'mood'.
I do wonder where she thought that was going.

Noticed that Dorries keeps looking to her right...

"Many psychologists believe that when a person looks up to their right they are likely to be telling a lie."

🤔🤔

BJ does it too...

I see she is 150 miles away from her constituents, as ever.

Oh dear, the apologists. Watching them is like pulling the wings off flies - not that I've ever done that but I get the principle. A nation squirms.

Classic Dorries hostage to fortune: no 10 parties like a staff room in a school. Implication: many piss-ups at break-time/after school. Reality being no-one allowed to use staff-rooms at that point.

But I thought the standing by her 'does rhe PM tell the truth' was better handled this time. After the initial 'there probably are more people working than we know about' (which was poor), she rallied with the 'blame it on civil servants' defence.
And the ramble about parties was quite boring but not notably incoherent.

So low is the bar now, that probably counts as a win. 😁

I do wish one of the interviewing journalists would pick them up on staffroom/break room analogies as that's the whole fkin point, we weren't allowed them! Microwaves and kettles removed and chairs stacked at one end in ours...

@Wilkolampshade

I do wish one of the interviewing journalists would pick them up on staffroom/break room analogies as that's the whole fkin point, we weren't allowed them! Microwaves and kettles removed and chairs stacked at one end in ours...

But the beer and wine fridge was open in school classrooms across the land. Everyone knows that.

@jgw1 it just makes mes so cross 😠😠😠😠

I wonder why she was sob bizarrely defensive about the, 'Have you been in touch with the PM?' question?

@Blossomtoes

I remember that *@LakieLady*, we exchanged messages (I’ve changed my user name since). It was absolutely awful for you. This must be rubbing salt in the wound. 💐

Oddly, it doesn't feel like that.

It just galvanises my near-lifelong hatred for the Tories, and makes me wonder how anyone can support Johnson when he is clearly callous to the point of psychopathy.

Rage can be a powerful thing. When the council election campaigns start, I'll be out canvassing for the first time in more than 25 years.

Apparently we all need to rally round our beloved leader or else we'll find ourselves with tax rises

But because National Insurance isn't called a tax, it can't therefore be a tax. Nice try, but we will still be worse off.

He may have half a point though. By the time this bunch of charlatans and chancers have their grasping fingers prised away from the free-flowing river of public money they've been swimming in, the bill will be enormous. Taxpayers will foot the bill for it and Labour will get the blame for it. I don't think he mentioned that.

Anyone listening to Nadine on radio 4 now? Car crash. Started saying we can't get age verification online because that would stop kids from shopping, then moved on to countering the argument that lots of MPs are speaking out against Johnson by naming ONE MP who has said something positive!

LakieLady I thought about what you wrote a lot of last night. I don't really have any words but just want you to know that what you said didn't go into the void, unregistered.
All love to you. May love flow towards you.

Nadine Dorries is basically the intern handling the social media account during a Twitter free-fall at this point, while everyone senior is miles away.

The lack of capability is exactly what's putting her there. 🤷‍♀️