PMQs is hillarious

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Watching live now.

Place marking for the links so that I can watch/listen later. Thank you!

Boris is really squirming in front of the Liason Committee. They're not letting him off the hook for anything and he's hating it.

Agreed, dorries is infatuated. She was right there next to him eye rolling so hard her eyes nearly got stuck facing backwards.

Bj having to wait for laughter (at him) to subside prior to continuing his points was very satisfying, however this was only brief before frustration at ehat he was saying resumed!

Quite a few of his own mps were very vocal, I particularly enjoyed someone from the tories asking him what he thought it would actually take for him to resign.

But I don't think he will, his arrogance won't allow it.

Right now he's about to have a hissy 🤣🤣

He's never looked so pink.

His hissy fits are brilliant because he has no idea what he's saying and he hates that nobody is letting him get away with his erms, in hindsight blah blah

Mauled in this last meeting. He’s embarrassing.

He is not being allowed to veer away from the answer, he is being made to answer.

Lots of ‘getting on with what the public voted me in to do’. Pity he isn’t - he’s too busy with all of this.

Resignations coming in even as he is speaking. He has to go.

Then he suddenly remembers his script and bangs the table in triumph as he gets his lines right.

He couldn't refused to deny that he wasn't aware of allegations of sexual impropriety against other serving members of Parliament.

Re Pincher, he said he acknowledges that some people can't handle their drink.

😡

Sorry, that should say he refused to deny

I’m equally angry at the MPs resigning tbh. They stuck by him during the covid deaths and economy wrecking, but only now are they choosing to be fed up. They (and the media) knew exactly what Johnson was but still pushed for him, I don’t believe any of them.

I want Boris to stay so long term damage is done to the Tories and their reputation.

I heard an interesting take on this on the radio earlier.

It was basically, yes everyone knew he had no personal morals, everyone knew he wasn't particularly competent, but that was OK if it got him (and them) elected, but despite all the sleaze, outright lying is actually really rare in politics. Questions are avoided, truths are distorted, but the straightforward lie is one thing that's still not accepted.

I agree. I am no anarchist but it feels like the whole political system is broken. I can't see how the public can recover faith and trust in politicians.

One of the MPs who resigned was interviews after the Liason Committee in the HoP lobby. He said in the interview that they all knew what Boris was like from the start, but it suited them to have him as Conservative Leader and PM.

It's utterly despicable - The Conservative Party is despicable.

He's sacked Gove 😁

hopefully he will go home to Carrie who will read him the riot act and make him see sense. He’s not behaving with any dignity or care for his party.

I'm surprised how much airtime the media are giving Johnson's ongoing "mandate of the people" shite – given how he himself first came to power, ie by usurping an elected Prime Minister mid-term.

I guess for the Daily Wail et al have quietly forgotten that. Or rather, they hope we have.

No missed it love those spats, did Boris mention Pippa by any chance, love when he starts to ramble and talks utter bollocks.. Bet his hair was all dishevelled also.

That's a good,point.

Seems to have conveniently been unmentioned as well.

Let's hope any journos reading this pick this up and ask that question.

TBF Teresa May didn't have a mandate, that will be how he justified that

The 2017 General Election with Theresa May as Prime Minister saw the Tory party getting the then largest share of the vote since 1983, ie 13,636,684 votes, which was 42.4% compared to Labour's 40.0%. It just didn't translate into seats.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election

The 2019 General Election with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister saw the Tory party slightly increasing that to 13,966,454 votes or 43.6% of the vote.

But the Labour Party crashed under the anti-Corbynism and the vote distribution translated into Tory seats (as it should, because that's what the Tory campaign was targetting).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election

So "I have a mandate and Theresa didn't" is mince.

It's all just words to Johnson.

A "reason" is needed for something, and he just pumps hot air out of his gob until his listeners have lost the will to pursue.

To be fair to him, it's a technique that's worked well through all his relationships. Crashes badly when he meets a questioner who doesn't give up, though, as he learned yesterday at the Liaison Committee.

TL;DR is that Johnson's "reasons" or "justifications" or "explanations" are almost always mince. Thrown out as distractions like real mince to a pack of guard dogs.

They only work if we agree to be bamboozled and accept them as real.

As soon as we stop accepting them, they stop working.

See also Laura Kuenssberg blathering recently that, "Any other politician would be toast, but Johnson is an exception."

No pal, he's not.

You and those like you who make exception for him, create an exceptional situation – temporarily.

But it only lasts as long as you do this. It's not real. You can just stop.

Sunak and Javid stopped this week. Look what happened: the curtain was pulled aside and reality crashed in.

Haha, and while I was writing all that, he resigned.

But my comments still pertain.

1. Never believe a single word he says. He'll be happy to play the victim and rouse a mob to soothe his ego.

2. Kuenssberg et al need to examine their own behaviour in keeping the illusion going.

Thanks for posting this. Very revealing indeed about Johnson's BS tactics. He is beyond appalling.