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I think he was politely saying you sound like a pompous wanker - nothing ‘elite’ about that.

Priti Patel on the Ministerial Code: "we're all doing very difficult jobs actually"
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1396392341167087624?s=19

^ marr should be instantly dismissed for gross misconduct for allowing her response to go unchallenged

Jeez the responses above..

A lot of crazy news today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/belarus-blogger-roman-protasevich-minsk-ryanair

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/24/sasha-johnson-blm-activist-may-have-been-shot-by-mistake

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/24/horrific-cuts-in-pipeline-for-english-universities-and-students

The property around which there was the most police interest was a white stucco-fronted detached house, with a large drive and a garage to its right-hand side. An officer at the scene would not confirm whether that was the address where Johnson was shot.

What a weird fucking thing to put in a report about a shooting.

Man eaten by stegosaurus:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-inside-spanish-dinosaur-statue

Man crawls inside dinosaur statue, get's stuck, dies. The term "Darwin award" seems cruelly appropriate.

That is a grim way to die.

That's almost as grim as that boy that got stuck in a chimney in an abandoned house in the US over Christmas last year

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/06/how-missing-boy-died-in-empty-home-harley-dilly-report-issued

Report declares Conservative Party is not institutionally racist by effectively saying they treat all complaints with equal contempt...

It does suggest that there are a number of racists within the party though (including the PM). Well f*ck me sideways...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/tory-islamophobia-report-criticises-boris-johnson-over-burqa-remarks

I’m not surprise, they were so good in diverting attention to Labour’s antisemtism, that this get ignored.

Weirdly paralleled to the Israel illegal occupation of Palestine

Should be some spicy stuff from Cummings today.

Allegedly, last March - when he was still in No. 10 - Dominic Cummings ordered senior Cabinet ministers to deny that herd immunity had ever been government policy.

The WhatsApps clearly show that, at the beginning of the pandemic in March last year, Cummings directly told his colleagues to publicly deny herd immunity was the government’s policy, and instead agreed they should argue it was a secondary long-term effect of the “mitigation” policy pursued by the government at the start of the crisis.

None of it will make any difference whatsoever. They are immune.

You're probably right. It's odd that senior people in the Tory party are trying to discredit Cummings by confirming his basic allegation and just saying "But he did it too!", all the same.

it's almost funny, same Senior Tory MP's last year were sending out letters to their constituents saying Dom is a good guy of the upmost integrity and they back him and are now having to say he is an untrustworthy scoundrel

And for Dom, he spent years engineering that truth doesn't really matter, conventions don't matter and Boris is a likeable rogue that now he wants to play a straight game none of it will matter as he helped rig it against people like that

The only thing that Cummings could say that would damage Johnson is that he lied about his second trip to Durham and that Johnson lied about having seen the 'phone evidence'. Anything else will just be another distraction to fill column inches for a few days (obscure who-said-what-when No 10 tittle-tattle). As I've said before, I still don't think there has been any falling-out between Johnson and Cummings (or those horrible women in No 10, you just have to throw a dose of sex stereotyping in there), but that this is a soap opera aimed at diverting attention away from something or other. Cummings is the perfect COVID-19 pantomime villain and all he'll do is make Johnson look good in the way that it can all be spun by the rightwing press.

Anyway, I do hope this post will look completely ridiculous in a few hours, but this is a conspiracy and I can't prove it. :)

The Hillsborough cover-up trial has collapsed, meaning nobody no action against former police employees whatsoever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57172900

Suspect that with big daddy Cumdog taking up plenty of news space, this won’t get much coverage. It’s hard to cover collapsed trials anyway. Sad for the families.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57172900

Hancock getting thrown under the bus here but sadly the expected standards of behaviour in public office (see Chris Grayling) are so low that he’ll probably be fine.

the expected standards of behaviour in public office

There are no standards. Boris Johnson is Prime Minister

Says he didn't brief journalists, except Kuenssberg, due to her special status. Colour me shocked.

BBC News24 anchor spoke over a chunk of that bit, completely coincidentally...

"No case to answer" because although they lied in their testimony and altered documents, that isn't a crime in the context of an inquiry rather than a trial.