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Suggests you think Johnson will be fighting the next election as leader?

I don't think even Johnson is arrogant or foolish enough to resurrect this debacle by giving him a peerage. After an election, who knows?

Five pages of articles in Sunday Times attacking a Tory government is an interesting development.

Listening to the news earlier they said the Sunday Times has a readership of a million which is more than I would of guessed, don't know if that households or individual subscribers however

Don’t forget domestic and foreign business accounts, embassies, universities…

Fucking hell the Daily Mail have a story insinuating Owen Paterson’s wife killed herself after these charges were brought last year and that she was being linked to it.

Don't think we have covered Richard Ratcliffe hunger strike
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/05/richard-ratcliffe-on-hunger-strike-theres-no-plan-to-get-nazazin-out

I've heard, (radio or podcast, cannot remember which),
she chose Paterson's birthday to do the act.

She was linked via the Jockey Club (Hancock & Dido Harding also in the loop on that corruption nexus)

I can't imagine the pain.

Nadine Dorries embarrassed again.

https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1456656898338525189?s=20

https://twitter.com/danmilmo/status/1456210061685141507

Before the vote some Tories including the PM and Rees Mogg emphasised Paterson's grief and mental health being at stake, but the next morning , after reading the papers, they didn't even bother to tell him they've changed their mind and left him to find out his career's over from a journalist after it's been announced. Doesn't sound like they hand his wellbeing in mind to me.

Yeh most people would hope for better duty of care from thier boss

Well he's still got Randox and Lynn's Country Foods to look after him. He can go full time with them now.

Reginald D Hunter tells a story about Dorries which tells you all you need to know about her

I missed this one.

Just saw the shotgun tweet though.

Yeah she sent her Daughter over to chat to him at some function, so she could manufacture some outrage about a Black man talking to a White girl

That's pretty fucked up if true.

That's his version of events in one of his stand up shows anyway

Well he's still got Randox and Lynn's Country Foods to look after him.

But her no longer an MP, why would they want to keep him now?

It will be interesting to see what happen with his 3 others jobs which will be very telling.

That was the joke yes

Because he’ll be Lord Nosh of Troughshire soon.

He will retain his Westminster pass. So they’ll have no reason to ditch him. Plus as a full-time lobbyist, he’ll be subject to even less scrutiny.

So what happened was undoubtedly tragic, but what sort of families would instruct a lawyer to pursue a legal action before they’ve even got the funerals arranged? Jesus wept

Astroworld: Travis Scott and Drake sued over deadly US festival crush https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59205570