Brexit mega thread part 5 : new year new PM? Partygate continues...

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Morning

New thread

Has anyone got toothache yet ?

Hunt is however busy rewriting history or suffering from memory loss

@DGRossetti

Mark Francois, I give you Michael Fabricant

Is it too late for a refund ?

It's alright, Rosie Holt has claimed him

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Ben Kentish
I was told by Tory MPs, at the height of the Rashford row, that members of the govt were threatening to withhold money from schools in their (deprived) constituencies if they voted to extend free school meals. These practices aren’t new but Will Wragg has shone a light on them.

And the same tactics were allegedly used during the Paterson fiasco

@DuncinToffee

Ben Kentish I was told by Tory MPs, at the height of the Rashford row, that members of the govt were threatening to withhold money from schools in their (deprived) constituencies if they voted to extend free school meals. These practices aren’t new but Will Wragg has shone a light on them.

And the same tactics were allegedly used during the Paterson fiasco

Is this the latest part of operation Save Big Dog to distract us from his parties?

Nadine is saying that Will is just attention seeking, so yes.

@DuncinToffee

Nadine is saying that Will is just attention seeking, so yes.

Nadine "I saw a black man so got my shotgun" Dorries ?

Or another one ?

That one yes, although she was wearing a high viS vest and hard hat when saying it so who really knows.

Nadine 'I ate an ostrich anus on TV' Dorries accuses Wragg of attention seeking.
Just when you thought you'd heard it all...

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@DGRossetti

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Has Fabricant been a Labour mole all of this time?

It looks like the traffic cameras on the M20 Dover have been switched off

twitter.com/everycountry/status/1484086964303417346?s=21

[quote DuncinToffee]It looks like the traffic cameras on the M20 Dover have been switched off

twitter.com/everycountry/status/1484086964303417346?s=21[/quote]
In the Twitter thread there’s a clip of Alexander getting upset yet again at being caught. No wonder he believes that he can get away with anything. Because he has his whole life…

news.sky.com/story/downing-street-parties-sue-grays-report-could-call-time-on-boris-johnsons-leadership-as-number-10-nervous-of-damaging-evidence-12521377

Well, well, well...

I hope they do release the recording.

It's a shame Wakefield didn't defect to labour after he was blackmailed into voting against free school meals, eh?

All the money in the world for cabinet cronies, but vulnerable kids?

It puts me in mind of that mitchell and webb sketch when 2 SS officers exclaim..

"Hang on. Are we the bad guys!?'...

I have no faith in the #graywash report that's coming but surely De Pfeffles days are numbered? Surely?

Has Fabricant been a Labour mole all of this time?

Indeed. Very deep. Playing the long game.

Why aren't folk marching on Downing street!?

Why??

Turning off road cameras that show clearly the folly of brexshit...

Wow

I have no faith in the #graywash report that's coming but surely De Pfeffles days are numbered?

Depends.

There is this window of opportunity now to dump everything on him, so his successor looks like "Mr* Clean". Presumably this is why some very senior Tories are remaining at arms length ?

With regard to these discussions, the question is how to deal with the Withdrawal Agreement situation. Whoever inherits it will have fantastic expectations from the Brexiteer contingent of the Tories, and absolutely no agency to change anything.

And obviously the EU seeing yet another Prime Minister turn up whinging about Brexit is simply going to correctly read the room and do fuck all.

There are other large bodies moving around - at distance, but gravity still works. The Ghislaine Maxwell situation and Boris proximity to that being one.

It's not quite the closing chapter of Watergate. But it certain feels a bit fin d'une époque

*Mrs, Ms, Miss, it's just an expression.

and...

Ugh

I'm off to the flicks with my 18 year old today.

We will enjoy spidermans adventures, stuff our faces with pasta and pretend our country isn't on fire.

So many scandals to choose from and yet the Tory party and Tory voters still love Johnson. It highlights how the whole party stinks of self serving corruption that they don’t really believe he’s done much wrong (other than getting caught)..

Actually, thinking about it. They really have the last laugh on us as it’s much closer to how communist or socialist politburos act than so called free marketeers or libertarians. When you consider the following, there is absolutely nothing free market about any of their actions.

• The £3.6bn “Towns Fund” where, in the first round of funding, in a process that the Public Accounts Committee criticised for its failure of transparency, 39 of the 45 areas to benefit were Conservative-held areas. 12 of these were marginals. Coincidence? Actually no. A statistical analysis by Chris Hanretty at the Royal Holloway University showed otherwise, with the conclusion questioning ministers’ commitment, under the Nolan principle, to take decisions ‘impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias’

• And then there was Rishi Sunak helping the Treasury to classify his rural Richmond constituency as a priority for infrastructure funds ahead of struggling former mining towns.

• And then there is the £4.3 billion in questionable furlough benefits written off. Ooops.

• And then there are the untendered and illegal fast-lane contracts for PPE.

I’m beginning to understand why Dom hates the civil service so much even if I think he’s cut from the same cloth.

From the Sky News story:

When questioned about partygate, Ms Truss said: "The prime minister has my 100% support. He is doing an excellent job. I want the prime minister to continue as long as possible and he is doing a fantastic job."

That could so easily have come from a Daily Mash story taking the piss. Followed by “she then shut the door and resumed plotting her leadership campaign”.

@borntobequiet

From the Sky News story:

When questioned about partygate, Ms Truss said: "The prime minister has my 100% support. He is doing an excellent job. I want the prime minister to continue as long as possible and he is doing a fantastic job."

That could so easily have come from a Daily Mash story taking the piss. Followed by “she then shut the door and resumed plotting her leadership campaign”.

She is being the cabinet minster she'd like to see in her cabinet ...