Lest we forget that CCHQ was also on the list of locales permitted to host parties, vis a vis the December 14th, 2020 Christmas Party hosted by the Shaun Bailey mayoral campaign.
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dudalb
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Question, of course is how long until the Tory Party leadership decides that Boris has become deadwright and decides to dump him.
They have decided.
I guess the question is whether they think he can soak up any more blame or whether he will contaminate the rest.
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Can’t help but feel a bit irked at all the people who voted for Boris Johnson despite having been warned that he was Boris Johnson suddenly reacting with outrage and indignation upon belatedly discovering that Boris Johnson is in fact Boris Johnson
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Can’t help but feel a bit irked at all the people who voted for Boris Johnson despite having been warned that he was Boris Johnson suddenly reacting with outrage and indignation upon belatedly discovering that Boris Johnson is in fact Boris Johnson
The UK government is facing an internal rebellion over plans to increase National Insurance payments. These payments are supposed to fund the NHS (though at first they will just pay down some of the Covid debt) - indeed Jacob Rees Mogg has already crowed about the NHS receiving the £350m a week promised six years ago on the side of a bus despite neither the tax nor the funding being in place.
Now the government is facing another squeeze on funding. Inflation has increased the cost of servicing the government's enormous debt. A "fiscally responsible" party would raise taxes - ideally on those most able to pay, the rich - but of course the Conservatives are entirely wedded to the voodoo economic view that the path to national prosperity lies in making sure that wealth and income inequality is as high as possible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60117150
Now the government is facing another squeeze on funding. Inflation has increased the cost of servicing the government's enormous debt. A "fiscally responsible" party would raise taxes - ideally on those most able to pay, the rich - but of course the Conservatives are entirely wedded to the voodoo economic view that the path to national prosperity lies in making sure that wealth and income inequality is as high as possible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60117150
Give it 24 hours before calling it. IMO other cabinet members are just waiting to be presented with the right form of wording before stepping in front of the cameras.
I note from Grant Shapps' performance this morning that they seem to be going with the "It was a nice, but misjudged move from his staff but Boris Johnson knew nothing about it" defence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efad9be0f9ce3d8e6522bb&pinned_post_type=share
Whether they'll make the same defence when it turns out that the evening event wasn't just six close family members adhering to social distancing and instead it was, say, a dozen friends and family meeting indoors/outdoors.
P.J. Denyer
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That was what came to my mind too! Appropriate for the Tories. "This is a local country for local people. There's nothing for you here"
It's got so bad that even the Met have decided that they have to be seen to be doing something:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efccff0a22d424c588ae5e&pinned_post_type=share
I'm sure that they'll look in a way that they're guaranteed not to find anything "inconvenient" to either the government or senior police officers. Imagine the furore if it turns out that plod were at one or more of the gatherings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efccff0a22d424c588ae5e&pinned_post_type=share
I'm sure that they'll look in a way that they're guaranteed not to find anything "inconvenient" to either the government or senior police officers. Imagine the furore if it turns out that plod were at one or more of the gatherings.
P.J. Denyer
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It's got so bad that even the Met have decided that they have to be seen to be doing something:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efccff0a22d424c588ae5e&pinned_post_type=share
I'm sure that they'll look in a way that they're guaranteed not to find anything "inconvenient" to either the government or senior police officers. Imagine the furore if it turns out that plod were at one or more of the gatherings.
"We asked the officers concerned for their notebooks covering the period but unfortunately they were all destroyed in mystery fire started by a stray birthday cake candle"
Carrot Flower King
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I already thought just that.
But I have a long-standing reputation for cynicism (ask a couple of botany lecturers at Sheffield in 1977...).
And another thing: WTAF is Carrie doing at all those "work events"? Carrot Flower Queen and I were never at each other's work things, even though it might have been helpful at times, what with both working in different bits of the NHS. And if your robbing git interior designer is there it definitely isn't work...
And the Met investigation delayed while the Sue Gray report is pending - because Sue Gray will provide the evidence which will form the basis for the Met investigation - and vice versa
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Carrot Flower King
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And the Met investigation delayed while the Sue Gray report is pending - because Sue Gray will provide the evidence which will form the basis for the Met investigation - and vice versa
They've got some combination of Kafka and Joseph Heller in to write the script, haven't they? With Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan/Myles Na gCopaleen in as script consultant.
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