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Big calls right... people's priorities...

Shows even the fabricator in chief and all his spin doctors have reached the end of the road in terms of ideas.

Its amazing that they keep making the same mistake over and over again, if in doubt lie, lie and lie again, this has total fallen apart inside of 5 days.

Lobby briefing was a shitshow.

First question: "Are you planning on telling us the truth today?"

PM's spox: "Yes, I will always seek to provide the information I have available to me at the time.""

All the cabinet and the No.10 crew are just going through the motions now. Eyes glazed, brain and gob on repeat, mumbling the same loop all day. All except Johnson, who thinks he's winning, like Churchill. He's taken the government into one of those nightmares which you can't wake up from.

Schapps trying to work out where he is. Dorries looks like a spurned lover. Mogg suddenly realising it's the 21st century. Braverman wants to ask what her actual job is. Gove's memory muscles going into overdrive imaging the next high. Truss waiting for her Thatcher moment.

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You know Patel & Raab will be leaning very heavily on Durham police and the CPS today.

You're not wrong...

https://twitter.com/Tony_Diver/status/1544312109189763073

Jeez. The desperation is so transparent. I was only semi-serious.

That tweet has been deleted.

Not sure I can think of a reason for Durham police to talk to the CPS over the issuing an FPN. Smells very fishy to me.

The journo who tweeted that has deleted it and issued a correction. Durham police did not meet with the CPS today.

https://twitter.com/Tony_Diver/status/1544328279930376195

They could get the CPS involved for a heavier fine though, as the organiser of said gathering, or am I mistaken? This is an academic question, obviously, as it didn't happen, in either sense.

Had to look up who Tony Diver was - Telegraph... Hmmm... OK then.

The journo who tweeted that has deleted it and issued a correction. Durham police did not meet with the CPS today.

He needs to go and practice his journalism, I'd suggest.

(Apparently serving) Civil Servant calls on Simon Case (Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service) to resign, and for colleagues in press office to stop enabling the lies.
https://youtu.be/-2fnsGGtPqA

If you read Boris' famous school report they knew back then what a shit he was and I doubt that view has changed.

I think @christianSpaceman has in mind the culture of privilege and entitlement that the school fosters generally. That headmaster may have seen Johnson for the shit he is, but he probably didn't see how the school's culture made him (and Cameron and the rest) even worse.

I don't feel like there are that many parallels between Johnson and Cameron despite their very similar backgrounds. Cameron quite bright but lazy / dropout, Johnson thick but carried by a flashy way with words?

I don't remember quite such contempt of standards in public life from Cameron and you got the sense that there was some kind of consistent ideology running through what he and Gideon were trying to do (like their idol Thatcher). Johnson appears to lurch from crisis to crisis with whatever sticking plaster stupid fucking policy he can think of.

Look at how they dealt with the EU as an example. We laughed at the time, but DC went over to meet key leaders, tried to renegotiate some things, then announced relatively accurately what he had got (not much). He didn't announce a load of things that would never happen then break international law or declare war as a distraction.

not sure whether blowjob in No.10 is better or worse than pig though

Cameron isn't the same kind of outright shit, but like Boris he did seem to become PM just because he felt it was his right, with little or no idea about what he would actually do in the job. Resigning directly after the Brexit vote was a craven abdication of responsibility.

like Boris he did seem to become PM just because he felt it was his right, with little or no idea about what he would actually do in the job. Resigning directly after the Brexit vote was a craven abdication of responsibility.

I think Cameron and Osborne were ideologically in favour of austerity and genuinely relished the opportunity to roll back the easier fiscal policy of the Blair / Brown years.

Once the Brexit gamble had gone wrong I don't think it was credible for him to stay on and implement a policy he had unambiguously campaigned against. Although it would have been nice if he'd delivered the softest of soft Brexits (BRINO?) by way of apology...

Yes, I suppose I'm curious about how comfortable they feel about their association with this particular generation of students.

The Head's a good example - the 2010-20's are an era of Etonian prime ministers, does he feel Johnson is a reflection on his leadership at all? Do the PPE-type subject teachers recognise the influence they've had on current events? Is the economics teacher happy about having taught those responsible for such economicaly illiterate policies?

There's presumably some professional pride for teachers at having a past student achieve any degree of greatness (right word?). I wonder how they celebrate this cohort.

I don't think it was credible for him to stay on and implement a policy he had unambiguously campaigned against

He couldn't have stayed on for very long, but he could have done a lot more to manage a transition .

Ah I missed your word "directly". Agree.

i think javid has resigned

I'd wondered the same about Oxford - whether the PPE tutors feel a sense of shame at how their alumni are showing their ignorance, making highly public unforced errors and exercising amazingly poor judgement at nearly every turn....
It seems from the outside, that all the learning and listening stops on graduation day...
Either that or the intake are just a bunch of fuckwits and there's nothing any tutors/lecturers can do about it

I wonder how they celebrate this cohort.

Given the age and likely social class of anyone that taught at Eton in the 1970s I suspect a lot of them were in the c.30% of the electorate that voted for Johnson in 2019. Who knows how many have changed their mind since.