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Boris is Teflon coated. There's too much cult of personality surrounding him for this to make much difference.
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He's recovered a bit in the polls but he's still on the low side, and those constituencies that went Blue from Red will no doubt be strong contenders for flipping back, plus those that haven't quite found the sunny uplands Brexit was offering.
I'm not sure Starmer represents a better choice for many voters, and I don't have any real intention of voting Labour myself, but the people really need to demonstrate they won't put up with the **** that the Tories have pulled.
I'll probably be swapping my vote anyway.
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Families of Covid victims heckle Tories walking to dinner
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove were among the ministers seen arriving at the Park Plaza hotel near Westminster Bridge shortly before 8pm last night.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Their timing couldn't be better
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And of course he opens the event with a trans joke:Families of Covid victims heckle Tories walking to dinner
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove were among the ministers seen arriving at the Park Plaza hotel near Westminster Bridge shortly before 8pm last night.www.dailymail.co.uk
Their timing couldn't be better
Boris Johnson faces backlash over 'appallingly bad taste' trans gag
The Prime Minister threw a dinner for MPs at the Park Plaza near Westminster Bridge last night and opened his speech with a gag about the issue
Meanwhile, a possible U-turn on a U-turn:
Trans people 'thrown under bus' in Johnson's chaotic conversion therapy U-turn
Chaos has erupted at the heart of government after a leaked memo said the PM would drop a four-year pledge to ban conversion therapy - before sources said it will be banned, but not for transgender people
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John Travolta poses for photos in Norfolk Morrisons and Wetherspoon
The Hollywood star is filming a short movie in Norfolk and is seen out and about in the local area.
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Did he find the food in Wetherspoons a bit grease-y?
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The tories are selling off Channel 4. It's publicly owned, but not publicly funded, so the only motivations can be controlling content in the interest of companies and politicians surely?
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An Englishman, and Indian and an American walk into a bar...
"What are you having, Mr Sunak?" said the barman.
"What are you having, Mr Sunak?" said the barman.
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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak reject calls to resign over lockdown fines
The PM and chancellor apologise for attending a party in lockdown, but pledge to stay in post.
www.bbc.co.uk
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed-penalty notices for breaching Covid laws over lockdown, Downing Street has said.
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Bets on Boris asking Rishi to pay his fine. Boris is always complaining he isn't paid enough and Rishi clearly has plenty.Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak reject calls to resign over lockdown fines
The PM and chancellor apologise for attending a party in lockdown, but pledge to stay in post.www.bbc.co.uk
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed-penalty notices for breaching Covid laws over lockdown, Downing Street has said.
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I can't wait for PMQs
EDIT: Just saw that parliament has broken up for Easter so there won't be PMQs tomorrow
EDIT: Just saw that parliament has broken up for Easter so there won't be PMQs tomorrow
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Is that the same Johnson that stood up in parliament and said no parties and no rules broken? I don't remember Sunak doing that so he could just resign. Johnson though? Let's see how good his teflon coating is.Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak reject calls to resign over lockdown fines
The PM and chancellor apologise for attending a party in lockdown, but pledge to stay in post.www.bbc.co.uk
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed-penalty notices for breaching Covid laws over lockdown, Downing Street has said.
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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak reject calls to resign over lockdown fines
The PM and chancellor apologise for attending a party in lockdown, but pledge to stay in post.www.bbc.co.uk
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed-penalty notices for breaching Covid laws over lockdown, Downing Street has said.
I wonder if it will come anywhere near the £10,000 lockdown fines that the peasantry had to pay...
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Can't wait to vote anything but tory if he's not gone by local election time
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Best Johnson defence I've seen so far:
The socialists trapped Big Dog!
The socialists trapped Big Dog!
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I'm not buying into him claiming he once poked his head into a small gathering for about 10 minutes. There wouldn't been nearly this much coverage and outrage over something as pathetic as that. He knows he's in the wrong, but he doesn't have the balls to own up to it or just be honest for once in his life. Instead, he just skirts around the problem by saying someone along the lines of, "The inquiry being conducted by one of my staff will determine several months down the line when everyone's hopefully forgotten about this whether I was at a party or not, since I apparently lack the intuition to recognise what a social gathering is.". Ukraine couldn't have come at a better time for him.
The list of politicians and other elites to have ignored their own rules is a not a short one, and it shows that they don't fear the virus, but they're apparently gonna go to the ends of the earth to make sure all the peasants do...
The list of politicians and other elites to have ignored their own rules is a not a short one, and it shows that they don't fear the virus, but they're apparently gonna go to the ends of the earth to make sure all the peasants do...
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Are we saying Boris has absolutely nailed his own ministerial code?
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Boris Johnson is flailing around like a punch-drunk boxer who should have quit years ago, stumbling from crisis to crisis and with little chance of making a meaningful recovery.
Johnson and far too many of his colleagues have proven beyond any doubt that they hold the British public - including a large swathe of their own voters - beneath contempt... they not only don't give a damn about what people think of them, they actively believe that they are and ought to be beyond sanction.
Johnson's defence that he didn't know that he was breaking any laws by holding illegal social events while legally compelling every person in the country to avoid seeing each other, even dying relatives, would be laughable if it were not so contemptable. Even a schoolchild could tell you that ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking it; but no-one is buying the idea that all of Johnson's transgressions were 'accidental' or somehow concocted just to make him look bad - he wilfully and repeatedly broke his own laws simply because he and many others don't believe such laws apply to them, and that they know better...
Johnson and far too many of his colleagues have proven beyond any doubt that they hold the British public - including a large swathe of their own voters - beneath contempt... they not only don't give a damn about what people think of them, they actively believe that they are and ought to be beyond sanction.
Johnson's defence that he didn't know that he was breaking any laws by holding illegal social events while legally compelling every person in the country to avoid seeing each other, even dying relatives, would be laughable if it were not so contemptable. Even a schoolchild could tell you that ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking it; but no-one is buying the idea that all of Johnson's transgressions were 'accidental' or somehow concocted just to make him look bad - he wilfully and repeatedly broke his own laws simply because he and many others don't believe such laws apply to them, and that they know better...
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“He has mastered the use of error, omission, exaggeration, diminution, equivocation and flat denial. He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy. He is equally adept at the ironic jest, the fib and the grand lie; the weasel word and the half-truth; the hyperbolic lie, the obvious lie, and the ******** lie – which may inadvertently be true.”
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To quote myself from January...
... but what else is going on in our government that this is drowning out?
I get the anger, but it is abundantly clear that the parties are not only not going to be the nail in the coffin but they're a clear and deliberate distraction from other news. I think we're on day... seven of the extra-angry "he was fined for it so clearly broke his own law" fury right now, and there was just enough space left over for "UK immigration concentration camps in Rwanda" - along with the obvious Ukraine coverage which makes a lot of news sites a lot harder to use right now...
... but what else is going on in our government that this is drowning out?
