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"The prime minister told the truth to the best of his ability"

Well, that is true, he is (and always has been) a lying cunt

Is there any event, global or domestic, that you don't have first hand direct information on from your vast network of informants and confidantes?

We should all sign a Change petition.

Maybe Sunak will bite the bullet for flying too close to the sun, otherwise it'll be tomorrow's chip paper and they'll be some new headline-grabbing Russian sanctions.

Its the fucking denials and cover ups that are the resigning offence.

+100

If on day one they'd held their hands up and said it was a fuck up and they were going to have an investigation / call the police then it would have blown over.

The sliding scale of the lying is breathtaking, at every stage of investigation the story changed. I'm sure there's a cool infographic in there somewhere.

Do you have the skinny on all the other nefarious goings on as this seems like the tip of a whopping iceberg

Time to draw a line under the whole affair and concentrate on more important matters.
What the public are telling me is that they care about our levelling up agenda.
No more significant than a parking fine.
Can't possibly change leadership while ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Drink!

When I contacted my MP about all the lying, using the parties as a recent example, he condescendingly said that I shouldn’t listen to all the “low quality information out there” and “reserve judgement until the outcome of the investigation.”

Well the investigation isn’t finished yet but will be interested in how said MP will try to move everything on (smart money is that he won’t even respond)

What are the odds on Sunak resigning based on the FPN and saying "it's the only ethical thing to do, as a cabinet minister who has been found guilty of blah blah"?

Draws a line under the non-dom thing, and puts Johnson in a spot.

That would be fucking brilliant.

In response to all the passive aggressive dicks up thread who call me out on the regular for mentioning personal contacts or information, its actually really tiring and hurtful. Why not just ignore me? I don't understand why this winds people up so much. Whats the skinny? You think I make stuff up? Is it really that unbelievable that I know two people who were working in Downing Street during the first lockdown? I literally used to work for the NHS as an emergency planner for respiratatory pandemics ffs!

This would be great. Really great.

I imagine the spineless tory MPs will decide that losing both Sunak & Johnson would be more damaging to the party than trying to brazen it out and we won't get a VoNC. Truss must be popping open the bubbly.

Sorry if it came across as calling you out/thinking you made stuff up, it was a genuine query as there must be a lot more than goes unreported and I’m interested

Whats the skinny?

Does that not just mean, what do you know that we don't?
Didn't see Ted as calling you out, but more wanting to know if you have other "secret" knowledge.

(Not piling on)

Thats ok. I know I regularly say stuff that comes across in not the way I intend.

No, my super secret downing street sources are two university friends who didn't tell me about massive scandals in Downing St, more that there were beers had and birthday cakes eaten. In fact, they were encouraged to bring cakes in on their birthdays. This was at the time and in passing, no sense of drama or illegality. It was just the culture there at the time rather than a inside scoop that the PM had been breaking the law.

Yes, thanks, that was what I was inarticulacy asking

Thanks

What are their options for cynically shifting the news cycle along...

1. Masks mandatory once more?
   
2. Brexity shenanigans?
   
3. Big city Terror attack? (I really hope not)
   
4. Announce new floating pontoon walkway to connect IoW to Guernsey?
   
5. Invade Argentina?
   
   

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Garden Bridge funded by Rishi's wife

Yes, thanks, that was what I was inarticulacy asking

Actually, the more I think about it, I remember when my friend mentioned the fact they were having birthday cakes and were "letting off steam" during the first lockdown I remember the rest of the people in this particular friend's whatsapp group being quite pissy about it...the sense that it was clearly unacceptable conduct.

That does feel pretty important in terms of understanding what it was like at the time. Downing St person was all "its no big deal, we just have a glass of wine and slice of cake now and then" and everybody else was all "er, thats not allowed...what are you doing?"

Totally!

Carrie Johnson has her own spokesperson - why?

Carrie Johnson has her own spokesperson - why?

And who pays them?

Lol, could work.

My money is on something food or fuel shortage related.

At this point I think giving Falklands to Argentina might be the distraction they need.

It's just her putting on a funny voice.