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How does his bus keep going with the body parts of so many underlings gumming up the axles?

"I take full responsibility..." followed immediately by a 10-minute explanation of why he doesn't. His cowardice and duplicitousness in a nutshell.

Guys it was just a blowing out a candle. Get over it. Have you never blown out a candle before?

Even my kids have blown out candles and they're not getting harangued by the metropolitan elites in the media. Let me guess you think candles should be banned because of their emissions!

Don't you know there's a war on?

Anyway what about Starmer doing beer-bongs and Jagerbombs out of Mary Foy's cleavage? How come no one cares about that?

That and the announcement that number 10 received the report followed by reports 40 mins later that they hadn't.

That was the sound of Carrie's Abba party being erased from history

. (double post)

The amazing thing is he manages to see himself as the victim in this

"Sir Beer Korma" FFS

Seems it was decided to only include official photos

Would the government have copyright clearance to print other photos?

Gaslighting the nation. 35% of whom will be enough to secure another majority Tory government next time the ballots open.

If only people got off the internet and did some old fashioned protesting.

Dom has some quotes

“He doesn't think he did anything wrong, as he said repeatedly in 2020 'Everyone better remember I'm the fucking Fuhrer around here'
#RegimeChange”

Lost that as an option now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/24/the-guardian-view-on-public-order-criminalising-protest-is-bad-for-democracy

Beyond the lockdown breaking, how is it that everyone seems to be ok that they were even drinking at all ? In the middle of a pandemic, why was any booze being consumed in no 10?

We don't drink at my workplace, irrespective of the 'stress' we're under.

"I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” Boris Johnson’s school report

Yeh I find it wierd that drinking at the workplace seems so excepted but assume no MPs really go after it as it's seems to be integral to Westminster life and no doubt would get you kicked out the tea room

News Conference at 3.30pm.

Bets on whether he just continues to bluff his way through this.

(And then runs into the 1922 committee at the 5pm meeting later...)

I find it wierd that drinking at the workplace seems so excepted

This. But we've all seen various MPs very obviously wasted in the Chamber after getting tanked up with various lobbyists in the bars. So it can't come as that much of a surprise that their offices are full of the same attitude.

We don't drink at my workplace

I'm about to go into a 2 hour meeting. It finishes with beer and pizza.

Idk. I've worked in places where drinking at work has been lauded so Ymmv.

For me it's the 4 o'clock wine-time that is epic piss taking . Maybe it's totally illogical, but I can sort of accept cracking open some beers or whisky in your office with a few of your coworkers when you've been burning the midnight oil in a stressful job.

But basically having a summer/slow period end of the week organisational piss-up on in the middle of one of the biggest crisis this country has faced? Whilst your cohort is involved with making and communicating a set of rules that forbid exactly what you're doing?

You couldn't invent a more blatantly eg of one rule for us/them.

He lies. And he lies. And he lies. It's all he does. It's all he is.

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1529429190663184385

There's lots of quotes from WhatsApp conversations, etc so I assume they've managed OK somehow.

we've all seen various MPs very obviously wasted in the Chamber after getting tanked up

Don't forget coked up, Gove would feel left out.

I have no issue with workplace drinks. Every firm I’ve ever worked for has had a Friday afternoon drinks culture.

I don’t even have a problem with the lockdown breaches (can everyone on here swear that they didn’t stretch the rules a little? I know I did a couple of times).

What really gets my goat is that BJ is now caught out in (an unimportant, but) outright fucking lie to the house.

The ministerial code, governing standards of behaviour in office, says ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation.

Are we in Britain about to accept Trumpish ‘alternative facts’ leadership? I fear that we are.

His obfuscations and misdirections to date have ad far more serious impact on the country and its sphere of influence than a few glasses of wine and sitting on a lap singing karaoke. But he is 100% copper bottomed, four masted, ocean going caught out in a direct lie to the house. If he survives this then my last vestiges of pride in the Mother of All Parliaments and British civil systems is gone.

Don't forget coked up, Gove would feel left out.

https://vimeo.com/430725285?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=118028489

Without going into too much detail about my mispent youth, I recognise this sort of wobbliness.

If he survives this then my last vestiges of pride in the Mother of All Parliaments and British civil systems is gone.

A decades-long Tory project succeeds at last…