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Boris Johnson’s spokesman says he "can’t confirm" whether the parts of Sue Gray’s report taken out because of the Metropolitan Police’s intervention, will ever be published.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Boris Johnson’s spokesman says he "can’t confirm" whether the parts of Sue Gray’s report taken out because of the Metropolitan Police’s intervention, will ever be published.
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Presumably those are the bits which are critical of the government so the version to be released will exonerate them and then by the time the Met release the results of their investigation, we won't care any more.
 
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The report is published.

Conclusion
24.The gatherings within the scope of this investigation are spread over a 20-month
period – a period that has been unique in recent times in terms of the complexity
and breadth of the demands on public servants and indeed the general public. The
whole of the country rose to the challenge. Ministers, special advisers and the Civil
Service, of which I am proud to be a part, were a key and dedicated part of that
national effort. However, as I have noted, a number of these gatherings should
not have been allowed to take place or to develop in the way that they did. There
is significant learning to be drawn from these events which must be addressed
immediately across Government. This does not need to wait for the police
investigations to be concluded.
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At first read, it's a hamstrung report, but Sue Gray appears to have done her best to not pull too many punches. In particular I quite liked this section:

(21) ...Tight knit groups of officials and advisers worked long hours under difficult conditions in buildings that could not be easily adapted as Covid secure workplaces....
(22) Those challenges, however, also applied to key and frontline workers across the country who were working under equally, if not more, demanding conditions, often at risk to their own health.
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Yes, the most damning parts would have been those that she passed to the Police.

This is the part that's left in.

The police have confirmed that on the basis of the information available the
gatherings on these four dates are not considered to have reached the threshold
for criminal investigation.
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In respect of the gatherings that the Metropolitan Police has assessed as not
reaching the threshold for criminal investigation; they have not requested any
limitations be placed on the description of those events, however, I have decided
not to publish factual accounts in relation to those four dates. I do not feel that I am
able to do so without detriment to the overall balance of the findings.
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Worm said:
At first read, it's a hamstrung report, but Sue Gray appears to have done her best to not pull too many punches. In particular I quite liked this section:
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Load of rubbish - all hospitals had to do was to convert operating theatres to IC units, how anyone can compare that to civil servants and politicians having to move their desk over a bit to the left, to make room for the drinks' fridge is beyond me, we should be supporting out brave first responders*. Pure political posturing!

*First responder classified as - first to pop the cork
 
Totally Sir Humphreyed there. Well done.

Carrot Flower Queen says it reminds her of NHS audit reports (which she wrote for a time) in that the language has to be so veiled as to be opaque and criticism so coded that an Enigma machine is required.

And excellently played by the Met in ensuring that chunks are kicked even further into that very long grass.

What a load of old bollocks.
 
Oh FFS!

Blackford is suspended for telling the truth about BlowJob lying to the House, as he has done repeatedly, but "I am a waste of space! Look on my emptiness, ye mighty, and despair!" Hoyle does nothing about BlowJob.

WTAF is Hoyle for? He already has his "K", so he doesn't need that pay off. Is he after a peerage? Or is one of BlowJob's backers slipping him a few choice envelopes?
 
And Evan Davies on PM played a recording of BlowJob flat out lying to the House about one of the parties in Downing Street and challenged Brandon "I am such a useful idiot" Lewis to say that BlowJob was misleading the House and comment on whether it was intentional or not.

Useful Idiot just went into Farage Mode, repeating "Will you let me finish what I'm saying?" over and over without actually saying anything else...

Mebbe those questions would have been better addressed to Vast Emptiness Hoyle for him to explain why he has repeatedly allowed BlowJob to get away with lying to the House?
 
An expertly crafted, precisely calibrated, fully collaborated whitewash.
What’s different this time, is that everyone knows it Now, not in ten years time.
A ******* embarrassment of a Government.
 
Paul Waugh tweeted
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Extraordinary low blow at @Keir_Starmer from @BorisJohnson, giving Parliamentary credence to the false online smear about Starmer not prosecuting Jimmy Savile. It's just not true. And surely the PM knows it?
 
Why didn’t the Speaker ask Johnson to withdraw that outrageous slander immediately?

Also how does he get away with calling female opposition MPs 'She' or 'Her' and not 'Honourable Friend' like he is supposed to?
 
Ian Blackford tweets
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This is what truth to power looks like at Westminster. A liar is allowed to keep his place- I am forced to leave for telling the truth. He misled the house, he must go. Tories must look themselves in the mirror and ask if they can allow this to go on much longer? Remove him now.
 
Zahawi and Truss have declared they have covid today. How many more of the Cabinet will also get it now?
 
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Zahawi and Truss have declared they have covid today. How many more of the Cabinet will also get it now?
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With Truss having attended a packed (and maskless, I'm reading) meeting between Johnson and his MPs. I wonder if she tested positive before or after that meeting?

What a colossal bunch of *****.
 
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