Politics Thread 6

[Tomous]

Everyone is pretty caught up on the covid breaking aspect of this-and rightfully so.

But strip away covid completely from it and this is still a pretty big problem. There seems to be a huge drinking problem at Downing Street.

No wonder they're so strawberry floating useless. They're hammered all the time.

[KK]

I can’t be the only one thinking doughnuts and wine is a bizarre combination.

[Rex Kramer]

Also, if we accept the ridiculous notion of Johnson acting saintly amongst all this, just how many people have been fired from No. 10 over this? Wasn't he supposed to be cracking down on the culture months ago?

[Lagamorph]

twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1529201878910771208

[Knoyleo]

"fallen"

[Skarjo]

In lighter news....

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61572266

[Moggy]

twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1529201878910771208

He's such a charmer.

[Sprouty]

In lighter news....

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61572266

To be fair no need to apologise, it was pretty accurate reporting.

[Stugene]

twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1529201878910771208

He's such a charmer.

Nooo!! You're being greedy wrong!!

[Garth]

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1529377212251508736

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Happy Sue Gray day to all.

We can all guess exactly how this is likely to go. It will be severely damning, but the power of the criticism will be equalled by the obstinate bluster of the Tory banana split Brigade, who will have to drop their old pretences around waiting for everything to come out, not interfering with an ongoing investigation etc and simply move to a basic "it happened, there are more important things to worry about, get over it".

[Nibble]

He's such a charmer.

A party of banana splits, for banana splits.

twitter.com/lbc/status/908334935097868289

[Tomous]

twitter.com/Bren4Bassetlaw/status/1529206704835018758

Idiot.

[Sprouty]

Happy Sue Gray day to all.

We can all guess exactly how this is likely to go. It will be severely damning, but the power of the criticism will be equalled by the obstinate bluster of the Tory banana split Brigade, who will have to drop their old pretences around waiting for everything to come out, not interfering with an ongoing investigation etc and simply move to a basic "it happened, there are more important things to worry about, get over it".

Pretty much nailed it, I suspect. Maybe a Tory MP will speak against the PM, but the majority will support him(/their own job).

Will be interesting to see when the report is made public. Every minute it is delayed, the harder it is for the opposition to attack, because they'll have had less time to read it and pick their attack lines. Therefore I suspect the report will be made public at around 11.30. What would be the best opposition attack line? Aim at Boris and try to take him down, or widen the focus to the Tory party as a whole, taint them all with the same brush.

No doubt the photos which came out before will feature, simply because at this moment, only Boris and his team have a copy of the report, so much easier to prepare this attack line using what id already known. As always, I expect SNP to be harder in their attacks than Labour. 50/50 on their leader being kicked out for calling Boris a liar!

[Cuttooth]

twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1529393666606911489

Should have put the photos in the middle, like most best selling biographies.

[Garth]

9 photos in the report.

[Rex Kramer]

The gist of his response seems to be "Sorry, not sorry". I'm strawberry floating done on this. I'm sorely tempted to save all my leave for whenever there is an election and then spend at least a day campaigning for whoever in every local seat of the shitbags who are defending him. Starting in Bassetlaw.

[Garth]

It's here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... strictions

[Oblomov Boblomov]

No new juicy photos those birthday snaps aren't going to get any pulses racing.

Edit - actually, he's been caught raising a can of beer. At first glance I thought it was just a can of Coke. Still, a bit meh.

[Tomous]

I've skimmed and I don't think that there's anything that makes things worse for him than they already are.