Yet more Tory sleaze….

[winjim]

I've eaten yoghurts with more culture than Nadine Dorries. Better for your bowels and all.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Who's that woman sleeping it off on the front bench?

 

[winjim]

Maitlis playing an absolute blinder.


View: https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1488512467667980294?t=fkRsO61JE4aVJPJ98XFoRQ&s=19

 

[Ian H]

It's like a slow-motion car crash which keeps getting slower and slower to the point that you think you'll never see the end.

 

[Hitchington]

I'm going to have a job not thinking of her as Secretary of State for Drinking Culture and Media Sport.

Minister of the Drinks Cabinet

 

[Fab Foodie]

Thing is, I don't want to say that Dorries was definitely pissed. I don't know that she was, although a lot of people seem to think that.

However, regardless of anything else that's going on, if I was a senior manager and had just had an investigation report published that concluded that there was an unacceptable culture of drinking at my workplace, and I had promised that I would learn my lesson and implement the recommendations of the report, and then one of the heads of department under me appeared drunk on television, that very evening, in the actual workplace no less... by five past nine the next morning that person would be gone.

To be fair, she's selling the Tories to me....

 

[mudsticks]

I've eaten yoghurts with more culture than Nadine Dorries. Better for your bowels and all.

Oh don't drag 'properly' cultural things like yoghurt into a discussion about the Tories Jim

I really like yoghurt ...

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh don't drag 'properly' cultural things like yoghurt into a discussion about the Tories Jim

I really like yoghurt ...

I really don;t like yoghurt - well not the proper stuff

rather acidic and makes my mouth curl up and I just can;t cope with it without lots of sugar or garlic

not sure how much sugar and garlic it would take for me to like this government - probably the total output of France garlic and the total output of the Caribbean sugar industry

My favourite member of the government is Boris
and I really really don't like him and his attitude and pretty much everything about him

 

[Milzy]

Celebrities make mistakes & face cancel culture. Governments make many huge mistakes & break all kinds of their own rules but are bomb proof. We are living in strange times.

 

[mjr]

And another one. What now, Boris? No one told you a prosecco party was a party?
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ded-leaving-do-during-strict-january-lockdown

 

[newfhouse]

It's like a slow-motion car crash which keeps getting slower and slower to the point that you think you'll never see the end.

Zeno’s Paradox, innit?

Coincidentally, like Dorries, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Is this really about who was pissed or not...or who bought the booze in suitcases.Its a shitty story that I'm sure the Tories would like us to concentrate on where as the real scandal and corruption is right there in plain sight.
Even the Saville slur ffs....it's like a playground insult.
We should be calling for the lot of them to be fecked off,there isn't a decent one amongst them.

 

[FishFright]

Do you think the police should investigate any and every allegation of retrospective covid regulation breaches that is made?
Do you think they should apply the law differently to politicians as to non-politicians?

My own answer to the first is clearly "no". There should be criteria as to when to investigate retrospectively and when not.
My own answer to the second is I honestly don't know. Seems to me you can make arguments both ways and they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

0/2
Not a great score there.

 

[icowden]

Do you think the police should investigate any and every allegation of retrospective covid regulation breaches that is made?
Do you think they should apply the law differently to politicians as to non-politicians?

My own answer to the first is clearly "no". There should be criteria as to when to investigate retrospectively and when not.
My own answer to the second is I honestly don't know. Seems to me you can make arguments both ways and they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

My answer to the first is that where clear evidence is presented to the Police that an offence has occurred then it should be investigated. This was not hearsay or "I saw my neighbour having a party" - this is documented parties with e-mail trails, security trails etc. It is reasonable therefore for the Police to investigate whether the law was broken and refer to the CPS for prosecution or issue fines as appropriate.

My answer to the second is "No". We have a clear separation of the legal system from the political system (unlike say the USA where Judges have political allegiance). The laws of the UK apply equally to all citizens regardless of rank or wealth and should thusly be applied without fear or favour regardless of who the person is that committed an offence.

Whilst the end result of any Police prosecution may just be fines, there are much greater ramifications to the offences including the Prime Minister lying to Parliament just as he lied to the Crown during Brexit. Boris is a convicted liar.

 

[mjr]

Cummings likens Boris to a fat berg stuck blocking the drains: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...he-man-trying-to-take-down-boris-johnson.html