Part 7.5

[jgw1]

AIBU to still be enjoying falls?

I have found it

You should look at the birthday cake thread

Mon 24-Jan-22 22:04:06

Happy

Sorry - the birthday party thread
Fascinating reading

But this is not a TAAT

Looks like MNHQ agree about ignoring the derail.

There's a whole interesting debate about why the women Johnson appoints to his cabinet are so utterly incompetent; and why competent women won't work with him.

Short debate, that one .

Yes indeed @DePfeffoff, she was completely out of her depth and made an absolute ARSE of herself in that case.

I would think that any competent woman would run a mile rather than work with Johnson - it is so obvious that the women are the first to be thrown under the bus when the going gets tough.

@cakeorwine

Remember all the furore over Professor Neil Ferguson because he had an affair during lockdown.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/neil-ferguson-right-to-resign-for-breaking-lockdown-rules-says-minister-coronavirus

The UK health secretary has said he would back the police in any action they wish to take over Prof Neil Ferguson breaking social distancing rules by having a woman visit him at his home.

Ferguson, an epidemiologist who has helped shape the government’s response to coronavirus and who advocated the lockdown, made the right decision to resign, Matt Hancock told Sky News.

Hancock said: “I back the police here. They will take their decisions independently from ministers, that’s quite right, it’s always been like that.

“Even though I have got a clear answer to what I think, as a minister the way we run the police is that they make decisions like this. So I give them their space to make that decision, but I think he took the right decision to resign.”

I wonder what Boris Johnson had to say over the matter?

I'm surprised he had so much to say on the matter considering his own actions at the time!

At least he also had the good grace to resign when caught.

AuldAlliance

Yes, thinking about it, you're right about that short debate, @AuldAlliance

Afternoon all,

Just letting you know that we've deleted a number of inflammatory posts. Unfortunately a previously banned poster had snuck back in...

I think you owe us an apology for pulling the other thread MNHQ.

Ah, I wondered wtf’s had happened while I was in the bath.

What I have said, repeatedly sorry some can't grasp it, is a cake in an office isn't a party. If it was then the nhs and many other workplaces were having non stop parties in their staff rooms all through lockdown

Cake in an office where people are sat in their usual workplace and with their usual employees - no I don't believe it's a party.

Cake in a cabinet room where your wife (not an employee) and your decorator (an employee of you and not government) is an office party imo. A party involves inviting people to join you and celebrate. This is what happened here.

Suella is my MP. She turns up to town from the actual place she lives to visit her mum and have photo opportunities frequently.

She ignores residents when they have real issues.

She also made a statement about D.C. at the time and the bar did pull her up on it.

noun, plural par·ties.
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
a cocktail party.
a group gathered for a special purpose or task:
a fishing party; a search party.

@ClaudineClare

I think you owe us an apology for pulling the other thread MNHQ.

Yes, she was the one who moaned about allegedly being made to feel unwelcome, which was the reason given for pulling the thread. And it turns out even MNHQ had already made her unwelcome.

Ah well, whoever it was has gone now. I have to confess that I was unwise with the title of that thread - I was being a bit too clever for my own good.

We called it right on the previous thread that it was not a new poster.

MN could easily have edited your thread title Blossomtoes rather than deleting it the way they did.

It seems Andrew Rawnsley might have been reading this thread..

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/13/britain-is-trapped-in-no-mans-land-while-tory-mps-dither-over-ditching-boris-johnson

Well you all seem to have been having fun whilst I was out.
I did fall over in the mud earlier it was most enjoyable.

I was going to suggest that since this is part 7.5 once we got to half way perhaps we should start part 8, but the opportunity seems to have passed.

Sharing because it made me smile
Happy to see that floridanus/boody is no longer derailing the thread

That is excellent crying.

I suppose it will all go quiet this week due to recess, unless DC has something new to lob.

The questionnaire needs to be completed this week so yes I don't expect anything too exciting this week either.

And for anyone praising the government because 'we have the most open country', Norway has just removed all their Covid travel and domestic restrictions. First country in Europe to do so.

@CryingAtTheDiscotheque

I also think Johnson will wriggle free like the greased pig he is However, if he is removed from office that will be enough for me, as that would stop any more damage to our country's reputation and democratic institutions.

I think he'll get away with it, too.

Tbh, I don't really mind. I think he's more of a liability than an asset now, and so the Tories are more likely to lose the next election with him in charge than with a nice, shiny, new leader.

I agree with pp he'll probably squirm out from a legal pov, but hopefully his political days are numbered.

The glorious drip drip of information has continued for weeks now like a long forgotten ancient outdoor tap, too rusty to fully tighten and never relenting.

I am gleefully looking forward to the next instalment with Truss and the Met Commissioner debate as interludes.