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Boris Johnson - Time Running out?

Started by Alberon, December 09, 2021, 01:32:19 PM

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Fambo Number Mive

GB News presenters like Wooton still definding Johnson and going on about liberal elites.

I presume the wider plan is to blame "liberals" for Johnson going. Stir up resentment among his supporters.


buttgammon

Love that Sunak's already implicated in this.

Prime minister Liz Truss is going to be something else, even by Tory standards.

Alberon

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2022, 08:06:34 PMThought this was interesting from Peston:

So he can just ignore nything that relies on 'an understanding' or what is 'expected', right?  If Johnson just refuses to publish it, can she do it herself?

I don't think even Johnson has the balls to try and suppress any of this and I'm sure it would leak in five minutes if he did.

Video Game Fan 2000

Quote from: TrenterPercenter on January 25, 2022, 06:36:37 PM"Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker, it appears the prime minster, Mr speaker, it appears the prime minster, Mr Speaker, it appears the prime minster tried to have his cake, Mr Speaker, tried to have his cake and <looks at notes>, Mr Speaker, and <looks at notes> and eat it"

I'm going to be cheering like NASA mission control watching PMQs tomorrow when it inevitably plays out exactly like this, beat for beat.

Milo

I think this will be the third week in a row I've switched to Five Live at noon. It's not sustainable.

Cuellar

Quote from: Alberon on January 25, 2022, 08:12:07 PMI don't think even Johnson has the balls to try and suppress any of this and I'm sure it would leak in five minutes if he did.

I suppose not

Spode

He could just say everyone was in there washing their hands and the happy birthday singing was just to make sure they did it long enough.

If anyone asks about the cake and spread he could just say it's because he's a fat shed.

jobotic

Connor Burns says Johnson was "ambushed with a cake".

Cake. Ambushed with a cake.




Replies From View

"I am constantly eating cakes, and birthday cakes happen to be an easy and cheap cake to obtain."

Pink Gregory

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on January 25, 2022, 08:07:07 PMGB News presenters like Wooton still definding Johnson and going on about liberal elites.

I presume the wider plan is to blame "liberals" for Johnson going. Stir up resentment among his supporters.



Johnson's more of a liberal than a conservative, at least in the economic sense.  And there are plenty of supposed liberals that hold his views but don't share them in polite conversation.

He is the ruling class, he was born and raised to be part of that class.

I know that most people know this but I just wanted to say it out loud.

idunnosomename

As the kids say

HERE

WE

FUCKING

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

pigamus

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2022, 08:06:34 PMThought this was interesting from Peston:

So he can just ignore nything that relies on 'an understanding' or what is 'expected', right?  If Johnson just refuses to publish it, can she do it herself?

I don't think she can without permission - she's answerable to the prime minister after all. But it is very interesting they're going for full disclosure, if it happens. Up till now they've done everything they can to wriggle out of it. Maybe it's a scorched earth strategy? Better to explode the bomb than this dragging on?

fflip

Quote from: Replies From View on January 25, 2022, 07:53:21 PM"TRIED TO HAVE A CAKE OR SLICES OF CAKE ON HIS BIRTHDAY DAY....... AND DID!!!" *backbenches commence ho ho ho ho ho*

It's going to be the Big Train "selling like hot cakes" sketch. Starmer looking up to an approving nod from Margaret Hodge after delivering his watered down punchline. Boris Johnson replies, "Don't fire me, please! I'm committed to cakes".

Glebe

Partying with booze is one think but the fact they were taking cake as well...


Replies From View

Or maybe the report contains absolutely fuck all because Grey has decided to do an inadequate job.

Spode

Quote from: Glebe on January 25, 2022, 08:58:29 PMPartying with booze is one think but the fact they were taking cake as well...



Also, if everyone in the room was on cake, how can anyone be sure Johnson wasn't just there for a second, but it felt like half an hour?

amputeeporn

I don't see any way he can't publish the report - especially having made such a big deal about how we all 'just' need to wait for it. Would be leaked by someone in no time. Best he can do if it's dropping tmw is not publish until after PMQs (I guess?)

Praying the photos are in there - mainly for all the collateral damage potential. Boris is doomed, but let's see Dorries, Sunak and Truss get their ration of shit and eat it, too.

Glebe

Quote from: Spode on January 25, 2022, 08:59:30 PMAlso, if everyone in the room was on cake, how can anyone be sure Johnson wasn't just there for a second, but it felt like half an hour?

Laughing.

idunnosomename

People. Please. A man. A mess. A mat.

superthunderstingcar

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2022, 08:06:34 PMSo he can just ignore nything that relies on 'an understanding' or what is 'expected', right?  If Johnson just refuses to publish it, can she do it herself?
Maybe not, but I expect she could circulate copies to enough other MPs and civil servants that the 20-30 who go on to leak it to the press will never be identified for certain.

jobotic

If you're on CaB Sue, love, PM it me and I'll leak it.


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She hasn't written it yet, has she.  It's an all-nighter for her coming up.

BritishHobo

Part of me wants to laugh at the gall of the bullshit - a big surprise party that was planned as a surprise for the birthday boy, but also for Rishi Sunak - but it really does feel awful and futile. Shit leaked by cunts like Cummings who have no moral objection but are just playing the game of political maneuvering. Another fucking PMQs where Johnson spuffles through a load more questions throwing out his half-arsed, don't-give-a-fuck lies. And even if he goes, we're still a country with a voter base and media class who are quite happy with Tory ideology, but are just kind-of performatively angry about this, as if Johnson hasn't been an absolute fucking vacuum of truth and integrity his entire life.

As with Theresa May though, I'll still find a lovely comfort in it if he fails to last a full term. That would be lovely.

Buelligan


pigamus

Quote from: idunnosomename on January 25, 2022, 09:21:25 PMPeople. Please. A man. A mess. A mat.

Derek Griffiths gives emotional eulogy at Brian Cant's funeral, 2017

Mobius


mothman


gib

piece of cake
cakewalk
let them eat cake

Mr Speaker you could say this really takes the cake


Butchers Blind