Off Topic Politics Thread

Interesting to note :

When you go on the bbc there is an image of Boris looking particularly scruffy for the live story on PMQs

Follow the link and you will see that is absolutely not what he currently looks like. It is neat by his standards

Is it supposed to a pic from close to the time of the event (albeit one in parliament). It is odd to me

 

So Boris insists that he thought the "bring your own booze" party was a work meeting. Boris mate, if I brought alcohol into a work meeting I'd be sacked for gross misconduct. Twat.

 

Tell you what, that was Churchillian as ****.

 

Starmer finally acts like a PM in waiting. Johnson was utterly pathetic.

 

Starmer really got after him today. Well played.

 

So who were guests this party ? - I would have the police interview them under oath, where they would either tell the truth((!) or perjure themselves. Also interview the staff (caterers etc) who attended, as corroboration.

 

Sounds like you're just jealous that you work in a such an uptight job, not a fun, relaxed atmosphere like...running the United Kingdom.

 

Oh Simon, I don't think you were supposed to say that...

 

A BBC article about Sue Gray, the woman “investigating” the party claims.
Looking at the extract I have highlighted, it looks like Johnson will be in the clear.

“Even when a document trail exists, Ms Gray is enthusiastic about keeping it a secret. We know that she advised special advisers on how to destroy email (by "double-deletion") to thwart FOIA requesters. She did not advise them on the requirements of the code on public record-keeping. We also know, via the Freedom of Information Act, that she kept no log of why, how or when she destroys documents (contrary to that guidance).”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33431580

 

If Starmer gets to PM then god help us all

 

I know you’re a Tory voter, but how can you possibly justify voting for a party led by the shambles of a lying fraud currently in office?

 

Erm....where did he say that?

 

It’s a binary choice. Starmer or Johnson. Who do you pick today?

I frame the question like that because that is exactly how the question was framed in December 2019, a straight choice between Johnson and Corbyn.

 

Why? Feel free to elucidate. Given partygate, the **** storm that is brexit and the inept corrupt handling of the covid pandemic it's difficult to see how anyone could have made a bigger ****up.

 

High Court ruled today that the VIP Lane for PPE contracts was unlawful. It goes on and on. Johnson has no regard for the law, or even for the rules he himself imposed during lockdown.

I just listened to an interview on LBC with a woman who is now furious with herself that she followed the rules and didn’t visit her mother who died alone. How does that scumbag in no.10 look that poor woman in the eye and justify his own behaviour?

 

This seems like it should be significant but given the way modern politics works I assume it won’t be

 

It’s quite simple for the people that vote Tory - when it benefits them it is presented as a binary choice in PMs

When it doesn’t (like now) it is framed in the way our system actually works - voting for MPs and Party and not the leader and they the leader to account etc etc

 

Prime Ministers lose their authority slowly… and then all at once. Let the floodgates open.