Westminstenders: Magical Thinking

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This week has seen reports of the government editing footage of Johnson to avoid embarrassing questions about the early government response.

We've been asked to accept that the rules were different to what we were told to excuse the law breaking behaviour of a senior government advisor. As Johnson said he was being a responsible father (as if Johnson knows what this is) and it wasn't as if he was visiting a lover (this Johnson would know all about). Let's be honest Johnson is the master of brazening out controversy.

We also have the ERG complaining they were lied to by Gove about the new Withdrawal Agreement and the border in the Irish Sea which surprises precisely no one else.

They appear to be a little upset by the Cummings debarkable too.

😂😂😂😂 Guess who gets the first question

"no regrets" - how predictable

The story about his little boy and hospital, although distressing for all of them , is completely irrelevant (expect obviously one of the reported sightings fits in to this)

Does he think he's the first person to have had a child?

So he spoke to Boris about what he’d done, but neither of them can remember the conversation properly. How convenient.

Piggy yy 100% definitely written in the sightings

Prettybird
National broadcaster always gets first question.

No regrets

I smell toast

This from Frankie Boyle :

Often the best way to get the public onside is a quick description of your parents' sprawling estate

It must be hell living in a four story Islington pile when you're being targetted.

I'm a member of the elite from a Brixton council estate. Not allowed out to play at all, ever, what with the drugs and the murders.

It wasn't a complicated situation at all if. you. followed. the. rules

My London home is a target.

That's why he walked down the street on his way home last night. So people could film him being heckled and post it on social média. Therefore enabling his narrative.

I bet there is no heckling video on social media other than from yesterday.

Laura K gave him 3 chances to say sorry but he didn’t take them.

I am confused : does his wife not drive??

He felt unsafe to drive so tested it out with a quick trip to Barney... could Mary not have driven???

Is it responsible parenting to put your small child in the back of a car and drive them 30miles when you can’t see properly?

Is it responsible parenting to drive when you can’t see properly?

Message to DC: I don't care how far away from your parents you were, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GONE!

Is it responsible parenting to drive when you can’t see properly?

Almost 600 miles (including trips to bc and Woods) in a gas guzzler without stopping for fuel?

I believe squid about hospital admission policies
not Cummings

Do we think Peston knows something??

He is asking questions that suggest he does.

We're getting bogged down in detail... It's a distraction folks!

As a couple of coppers have just noted. When a suspects story is that detailed ... they are lying.

Is no fucking journalists going to ask him why he didn’t stay at home, given that his wife clearly recovered quite quickly & why he couldn’t WFH

So apparently it's the coverage over the last few days that might cause other people to breach the guidelines.

And not his example actions

Actually if you drive 30miles and feel sick and have to get out and sit down for a bit, most people would take that as a sign they weren’t fit to drive all the way back to London.