Let's Get Political!

[Jimmy Quinn]

Another wanker who's name won't go away
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17082727/piers-corbyn-covid-rally-london-priti-patel/

[Bogus Dave]

Boris Johnson and staff pictured with wine in Downing Street garden in May 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/19/boris-johnson-and-staff-pictured-with-wine-in-downing-street-garden-in-may-2020?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

What a cunt

[Jimmy Quinn]

About the same time as Dominic Cummings grovelling speech so maybe a garden party after!

[Legends-Lounge]

Boris Johnson and staff pictured with wine in Downing Street garden in May 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/19/boris-johnson-and-staff-pictured-with-wine-in-downing-street-garden-in-may-2020?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

What a cunt

Yeah. What a cunt, he has out cunted by the cunts from the other side who have not been exposed as cunts, yet…

[Batch]

Yeah. What a cunt, he has out cunted by the cunts from the other side who have not been exposed as cunts, yet…

before blaming the Tories, whatabout them down the road at #44. I'm sure they had 7 under the rule of 6

[Bogus Dave]

Brilliant

Even if ‘the other side’ did act like cunts (which is complete conjecture on your part), they weren’t the people who made the rules

This gaggle of pricks made the rules, tough rules for millions, and thought they were above them. Zero legitimacy

[chalkies shorts]

If it was an isolated event, you could probably get away with the work excuse but not the series of events that are being uncovered. I would say it shows a general contempt for the public but that implies thought on their behalf. My guess is they didn't think they were above the law, they just didn't think like just about everything they do.
There is no doubt someone with a bit of clout has got it in for Boris. These leaks plus the leaking of the resignation letter by Frost. These leaking of pictures pre x mas is no coincidence.

[Audrey]

Good quote today

‘Let me put this politely: it is not *entirely clear* why the Prime Minister needs to wait for Sue Gray's report to find out if he went to a party in his own garden’

[Nemo]

I for one am shocked to find out that the line at Christmas that Boris didn't know what was going on in his own garden does not appear too be holding.

[Bob's Orange]

The guy is clearly taking the piss now isn't he?

[4D]

Was it another business meeting?

[Saxondale]

I know where I was on May 20th 2020.  My business had ground to a halt during the pandemic but I had found some work on the frontline running a temporary morgue.

At the start of 2020 I had seen no dead bodies.

By the end of April 2021 I had seen over a thousand.

On May 20th 2020 I was working a night shift at the morgue.  It may have been one of the nights I had to sleep in the crematorium.  It would certainly have been one of the days that the survivors of the dead were not allowed to attend the funerals of their loved ones.

This is inexcusable.

[Bob's Orange]

I know where I was on May 20th 2020.  My business had ground to a halt during the pandemic but I had found some work on the frontline running a temporary morgue.

At the start of 2020 I had seen no dead bodies.

By the end of April 2021 I had seen over a thousand.

On May 20th 2020 I was working a night shift at the morgue.  It may have been one of the nights I had to sleep in the crematorium.  It would certainly have been one of the days that the survivors of the dead were not allowed to attend the funerals of their loved ones.

This is inexcusable.

Fuck me that's a sobering post Sax. I can't even begin to imagine what you have seen/been through.

[donkey]

Vote Johnson, get Johnson.  I'm more surprised anyone is remotely shocked.

Saxondale, that's a real wake up post. I hope you have dealt with it ok.  Can't even imagine what that's like.

[Ardiles]

What's happening now is deeply sinister.  I'm not normally given over to hyperbole, but the normal rules of engagement are being wiped away as we look on.  In normal times - up to around 5 yrs ago maybe - Johnson would simply have to resign in these circumstances.  But instead of that, he smirks.  The press are basically in on it.  So long as he has Murdoch's backing and is able to appoint the man at the top of the BBC, he's fine.

Comes a point when you have to question whether the democracy is functioning as it should.  This feels like a slow slide towards authoritarianism, and a dismantling of the standards & apparatus that have held leaders to account up until now.  If ever we needed a fully functioning opposition, it's now.  But they're nowhere, focused instead on fighting themselves.  It's chilling, and it's happening right in front of us all.