The fall of the Tory party

Surely sunak wants rid of Boris so he can run things without internal distraction? Get rid of BJ and there's no one to challenge him for the leadership?

Sunak's tax return dropped. £432k tax paid LY. That's erm...quite a lot.

36% tax rate on income, but just 20% on capital gains. Does that seem fair to you?

Lol. There are at least a dozen Tory MPs who think they could win a leadership election, probably more.

Johnson getting off is likely to be more damaging to the tories than getting shot of him, it’s genuine loss loss for them.

She's an imbecile.

If nothing else, today reminds us that Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak are both cunts.

ATAC.

So Sunak paid a tax rate of 22% on £2 million of income, the roughly the same rate as a nurse (21% on an income of £30k).

I got the impression he won't get off. Even the tories on the committee were taking him to task. Whatever the outcome you are right that it will only fuel him!

There are at least a dozen Tory MPs who think they could win a leadership election

That's because they can see what a bunch of cunts the rest of them are.

But can't see what cunts they are themselves?

I agree but none of them are the threat to sunak that pinnochio is.

What’s the score with proving he recklessly mislead Parliament. He’s pretty much agreed he mislead Parliament, so why take it any further.

threat

What's hilarious is that in the real world - away from the pages of the Mail and the tiny number of Tory member Johnson fanatics - Johnson is not a leadership contender.

The majority of voters hate him and think he's shit. He was booted out in the first place because MPs knew he was toxic and that they needed some room to reposition themselves before the next election.

Fuck knows why people are so loyal to this cretins who wouldn't just throw them under a bus if required, but would rent the fucking thing, paint it red, drive over them and back up just for good measure.

but would rent the fucking thing

Using someone else's money.

What’s the score with proving he recklessly mislead Parliament.

If you mislead and quickly correct Parliament isn't that bothered, it happens quite often (for example civil servants do their best to make sure answers to Parliamentary Questions are accurate, but often they have very little time to put an answer together for a Minister and struggle to get accurate info).

If you look at the terms of the motion passed by the Commons authorising the committee’s inquiry, the committee is investigating whether:

1. The Commons was misled
   
2. If the Commons was misled, whether that constituted a contempt of parliament (the definition of which being whether the functioning of the Commons was impeded)
   
3. If the Commons was misled, how serious the potential contempt was.
   
   

In the interim report published by the Privileges Committee earlier this month setting out the issues they wanted to raise with Johnson, the committee said that it is investigating whether, if a statement made by Johnson to the Commons is found to have been misleading, it was “inadvertent, reckless, or intentional.” This includes looking at “how quickly and comprehensively any misleading statement to the House was corrected.”

I think this is the key part really - if he'd quickly corrected instead of standing up at PMQs arguing black was white week after week he wouldn't be in so much trouble.

From what I heard yesterday the political correspondents seem to think the Committee will conclude that he recklessly mislead - the question is whether they'll conclude it was intentional.

Genius to release this on the same day as Boris shitshow.

tiny number of Tory member Johnson fanatics - Johnson is not a leadership contender.

Funnily enough, I was just listening to a podcast where a Tory MP said Johnson was electoral dynamite (in a good way). In fairness (once you park current public opinion and polling data) he has won all of his campaigns. So assuming past electoral performance is a predictor of future performance you can see where these people get their beliefs from.

Tories lose next election by 100 seats
Johnson's JCB arrives with "Boris can win" on the side
Boris wins leadership election
Party is further mired in sleaze and scandal
Mogg leads fractured party to 10 seats into 2029 election

Don't break my heart. It'll all be for nothing as soon as the opposition leader fails to eat a bacon sandwich again

Johnson's lawyer finding it as hard to take him seriously as anybody, apparently.

That is great

Fabulous advertising placement.

Does the ad sales team at Metro* come up with concepts like this based on their stories, then sell them?

*or any other paper for that matter