Yet more Tory sleaze….

[Beebo]

Theresa May has just given Boris both barrels in the Commons.
Ian Blackford has been thrown out.
It’s all very exciting.

 

[Hitchington]

I wouldn't be surprised if they string the shameless daffodil up.

 

[newfhouse]

I expected Johnson to divert attention with Brexit and vaccine gaslighting but confess I didn’t predict Jimmy Savile featuring this afternoon. Desperate stuff.

 

[Beebo]

I expected Johnson to divert attention with Brexit and vaccine gaslighting but confess I didn’t predict Jimmy Savile featuring this afternoon. Desperate stuff.

Come on. Everyone knows it’s Kier Starmer’s fault for not prosecuting Jimmy Savile.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And the overoptimistic post of the year goes to....

I wouldn't be surprised if they string the shameless daffodil up.

 

[stowie]

Theresa May has just given Boris both barrels in the Commons.
Ian Blackford has been thrown out.
It’s all very exciting.

May showing that revenge is best served cold.

Ian Blackford might be accused of showboating with his speech and getting thrown out, but watching it just now - he appeared genuinely angry and furious at the response of Johnson who laughed during the speech.

 

[mudsticks]

Apologies if already posted..

Worth a watch , if only for the body language from the front bench.


View: https://youtu.be/JWzLZ-UZ4AY

 

[Fab Foodie]

May showing that revenge is best served cold.

Ian Blackford might be accused of showboating with his speech and getting thrown out, but watching it just now - he appeared genuinely angry and furious at the response of Johnson who laughed during the speech.

The convention that MP's cannot be called-out for lying must go.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Johnson kept dodging questions about the parties and his presence at whatever number of them, hid behind the ongoing police investigation into whether he and/or his staff breached covid laws, refused to concede the observations of Sue Gray’s minor update that numerous events took place at Downing St but kept saying he has apologised.

What exactly is he apologising for then?

 

[stowie]

The convention that MP's cannot be called-out for lying must go.

Seems slightly bizarre that the PM can lie his bits off in the HoC but you cannot point it out without getting ejected from the chamber.

 

[mjr]

Seems slightly bizarre that the PM can lie his bits off in the HoC but you cannot point it out without getting ejected from the chamber.

Isn't the UK a country founded on "the victor writes history"? Or, less charitably, an actual implementation of parts of Orwell's 1984.

 

[Ian H]

Isn't the UK a country founded on "the victor writes history"? ...

That's pretty much a universal truth

 

[mjr]

Come on. Everyone knows it’s Kier Starmer’s fault for not prosecuting Jimmy Savile.

Yes, everyone except those who actually checked: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-prosecute-jimmy-savile/

Starmer was head of the CPS when the case was last considered, but not the case reviewer and the CPS has rules that stop its head interfering directly in cases. You know, like government has rules that stops the PM handing out contracts and ministries to those he fancies with little regard to their competence or Parliament's wishes... oh wait no, it doesn't, does it? Yeah, I can see why Boris has difficulty with the concept of the head of an organisation not being able to pervert the course of justice however they like.

Anyway, he's not really thick enough to believe the far-right lie. Instead, like his previous bus-painting outburst, this little trick is trying to make search engines forget that Johnson previously called the cost of investigating Savile money "spaffed up a wall": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ion-comments-police-knife-crime-a8820631.html

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Come on. Everyone knows it’s Kier Starmer’s fault for not prosecuting Jimmy Savile.

Oh come on - check before you post
Johnson was just desperately dragged up something he half remembered and came up with something that was debunked ages ago
basically either a desperate lie or incompetent use of old conspiracy theories

what next - accuse Obama of not being American??

BTW - link posted above by someone else

 

[Beebo]

Oh come on - check before you post
Johnson was just desperately dragged up something he half remembered and came up with something that was debunked ages ago
basically either a desperate lie or incompetent use of old conspiracy theories

what next - accuse Obama of not being American??

BTW - link posted above by someone else

I was joking. But admit it wasn’t obvious.