Brexit mega thread 7 : global Britain is looking rather insignificant.....

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@DuncinToffee No we use Portsmouth to Ouistreham. We were delayed both ways by bad weather / boat problems / heavy loads of lorries. Lots of P and O routemaster lorries on Brittany Ferries!

PM and chancellor getting fined for breaking lockdowns

So quelle surprise that Johnson and Sunak will receive fixed penalty fines for breaking the law with parties during lockdown.

Will it be the straw breaking Johnson’s back? No, I don’t think so. Will cement Sunak’s lost aspirations to be PM though.

God. Who would there be to replace either/both of them. Scraping the bottom of the barrel doesn't begin to describe our current govt. 🙈

So we have a convicted criminal as PM ?

What's the fairy story about the Queen that devised a gruesome punishment for an offence it emerged she was guilty of ?

Gove has been keeping veeeeerrry quiet

@DGRossetti

So we have a convicted criminal as PM ?

What's the fairy story about the Queen that devised a gruesome punishment for an offence it emerged she was guilty of ?

Sorry to spoil your fun but no we don't.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_penalty_notice#:~:text=A%20fixed%20penalty%20notice%20is,in%20court%20instead%20of%20paying.

I suspect Boris is toast anyway regardless of the legal technicalities and Sunak probably is as well.

Louise it isn't the FPN that's the issue, it's the fact that he won't acknowledge he did anything wrong.

But of course Tory fans don't care.

He broke the law

Sorry to spoil your fun but no we don't.

If you think my reading of the British PM being fined for an offence that he was happy to over see thousands of others fined for at one of the most challenging times the UK - and the world - has seen for many generations can in anyway be characterised as giving me pleasure, let alone "fun", you are mistaken.

Not "fun" at all. Disgust. Embarrassment. Fear. Anger. Loathing. Yes. Sorrow for the people choosing food or heat having to raise their downturned eyes to see this shower of shits giggling it up. Yes.

Carrie got fined as well

@DuncinToffee

Carrie got fined as well

Surely Boris knows the quote about Caesars wife that Sunak and the rest of the supposed "educated" Tories forgot ?

Summarised by David Allen Green

To have been found by the Supreme Court to have given unlawful advice to the Queen

To have introduced legislation to break the law

And to have misled parliament about something he has now been fined

Is quite the constitutional treble-whammy

World-beating

I knew when he became PM that he was awful, and would be seen to be awful, both at home but more especially overseas. But this bad, in such a short space of time, no way. Mea culpa is not a Johnson strong point so I suspect nothing will happen.

@DuncinToffee

Summarised by David Allen Green

To have been found by the Supreme Court to have given unlawful advice to the Queen

To have introduced legislation to break the law

And to have misled parliament about something he has now been fined

Is quite the constitutional treble-whammy

World-beating

So bloody depressing, was wondering why he was trying to channel Churchill yesterday.

And Parliament is on recess, well timed by the Met?

@Jason118

I knew when he became PM that he was awful, and would be seen to be awful, both at home but more especially overseas. But this bad, in such a short space of time, no way. Mea culpa is not a Johnson strong point so I suspect nothing will happen.

I suspect you're right. Boris's next appearance in Parliament should be fun assuming (and I think it's a pretty safe bet) that he doesn't resign over this.

@DuncinToffee

And Parliament is on recess, well timed by the Met?

Certainly appears so.

Sam Coates

I understand there were discussions in government this week about bringing back Parliament asap because of potential chemical weapons use in Ukraine

Now not possible because they’d get questions about Partygate fines

Shocking if that is true.

How much are the fines? This is one detail I would also like to know.

I think he will attempt to stay in place and the 'Boris did his best' forgivers will want him to. I don't understand.

@DuncinToffee

Sam Coates

I understand there were discussions in government this week about bringing back Parliament asap because of potential chemical weapons use in Ukraine

Now not possible because they’d get questions about Partygate fines

Shocking if that is true.

Big dogs, big shits.

First reply to Sam Coates' tweet:

Gavin Wright
@tashaman
So the presence of Johnson as PM is actually destabilising the position of the U.K. in relation to the Ukraine invasion response ?

Susie Dent
Word of the day is 'maw-worm' (19th century): one who insists that they have done nothing wrong, despite evidence to the contrary.

I like to keep other language versions of MSN open

www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/monde/partygate-boris-johnson-sa-femme-et-un-ministre-mis-%c3%a0-l-amende/ar-AAW951Q

@DuncinToffee

He broke the law

And the law won. Perhaps.

@prettybird

Gove has been keeping veeeeerrry quiet

I can actually see Gove emerging and claiming Brexit was all a bad dream, and that even if it wasn’t, he had nothing to do with it, we’ll just talk to the EU, shake hands, make up, rejoin and everything will be hunky dory. That’s how mad I think he really is.