Cont: General UK politics [2]

[Worm]

'Unique'? How is it unique? Millions of people have been working from home, and managed to not have a party while doing it.

Even if you could argue that his situation is unique - that his home is also the workplace of lots of other people; which I think is stretching it - his home is really the upstairs flat, not the whole building complex; surely you would want to me MORE careful about social distancing and mixing, not LESS careful.

 

[The Don]

Boris Johnson will appoint his own private lawyer if he receives a questionnaire from the police over alleged breaches of lockdown rules

The lawyer will focus on his ‘unique’ legal situation - that No 10 is both his home and workplace
https://thetimes.co.uk/article/73633b18-8abc-11ec-8600-c48a9935f856

As parties were against the law both at home and at work, does he get fined twice?

...except that he lives at Number 11

I wonder who will pay for this lawyer, will it be the UK public or a Tory donor ? Obviously it won't be Boris Johnson who never pays for anything because he's so poor.

 

[GlennB]

"Detectives from the Met special enquiry team will start sending letters to those they believe attended parties and events under investigation, believed to include the prime minister.

Once the replies are received, police will write to the criminal records office who formally issue the fixed penalty notices."

Will start ... once replies are received ...

No hurry, then. And how will these written accounts be verified? What are the odds that recipients will get into a huddle and come up with a plausible-yet-false story?

ffs

 

[Andy_Ross]

we've reached the "Find me a lawyer that says it's legal' stage of the Johnson government.

Can't wait for the Press Conference next to a sex shop on a trading estate.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Johnson’s new comms chief just retweeted someone endorsing John Major’s diatribe against his boss, eventually unretweeted it, then changed his bio to tell people to dismiss any further tweets as not being sent by him

 

[jimbob]

@Captain_Swoop

Only the UK could take the old saw about history repeating itself as farce and apply that to Trump's attempts to cling on to power

 

[malbui]

Boris Johnson will appoint his own private lawyer if he receives a questionnaire from the police over alleged breaches of lockdown rules

The lawyer will focus on his ‘unique’ legal situation - that No 10 is both his home and workplace

https://thetimes.co.uk/article/73633b18-8abc-11ec-8600-c48a9935f856

As parties were against the law both at home and at work, does he get fined twice?

I do hope that it's not going to be one of those radical lefty lawyers who are clogging up the criminal justice system by presenting defences for their clients. That would be unfortunate.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

I do hope that it's not going to be one of those radical lefty lawyers who are clogging up the criminal justice system by presenting defences for their clients. That would be unfortunate.

Might it even be a - shudders - human rights lawyer?

I would laugh a lot. Even more than I already do.

 

[Darat]

I do hope that it's not going to be one of those radical lefty lawyers who are clogging up the criminal justice system by presenting defences for their clients. That would be unfortunate.

Nah - they died out after the great reform of 2012.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

'Unique'? How is it unique? Millions of people have been working from home, and managed to not have a party while doing it.

Even if you could argue that his situation is unique - that his home is also the workplace of lots of other people; which I think is stretching it - his home is really the upstairs flat, not the whole building complex; surely you would want to me MORE careful about social distancing and mixing, not LESS careful.

I think it's unique because no-one else charged was stood on live TV explaining the rules. Johnson thinks it's unique because "He's Boris Johnson, King of the World"

 

[P.J. Denyer]

@Captain_Swoop

Only the UK could take the old saw about history repeating itself as farce and apply that to Trump's attempts to cling on to power

We're already engaged in "1930's Germany - The Musical Comedy"

 

[GlennB]

Seems Johnson has received his partygate questionnaire from the Met :

"The Met say the questionnaires ask for an “account and explanation of the recipient’s participation in an event” and have “formal legal status and must be answered truthfully”."

Truthfully.

Haha. Hahahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Oh, stop. My poor aching ribs

 

[jimbob]

just cast your mind back to 9 weeks ago

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-is-bang-to-rights?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

“Let me get this straight,” he said. A sure sign he was about to start lying. There again, breathing is also a sure sign Johnson is about to start lying. He was absolutely furious. But only that the video had been leaked. It would have been far better if its existence had never come to light. But now that it had, he was very, very angry with Naughty Allegra Stratton and her mates for undermining lockdown guidelines by being caught practising their excuses for a hypothetical Christmas party.

Johnson had denied any party had taken place.

 

[Andy_Ross]

James Oh Brien tweeted
@mrjamesob
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Your dad’s Facebook is already telling him why Putin’s right to invade Ukraine. Just like it told him Brexit was good, vaccines were bad, Trump was great & Johnson could be trusted. And client journalists on the country’s biggest papers will back up at least three of these lies.

 

[Andy_Ross]

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[catsmate]

I'm waiting for the moment Rees-Mogg goes on Newsnight to explain that it's quite usual for a prime minister to run the country from a prison cell.

It is in XXXX.

 

[Garrison]

@Captain_Swoop

Only the UK could take the old saw about history repeating itself as farce and apply that to Trump's attempts to cling on to power

This is the country that took the French resistance and the occupation of Europe and turned it into 'Allo, Allo'.

Thread drift about Dad's Army and The Secret War split to here.

Posted By: zooterkin

 

[jimbob]

This is the country that took the French resistance and the occupation of Europe and turned it into 'Allo, Allo'.

Yes, I found that offensive even as a teenager in the 1980s.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Johnson employing a lawyer to help with the laughable Met questionnaire.
Like Trump, a man without a single decent quality.
Not one.
A desperate, lying, corrupt, idle, entitled, fraudulent coward.

 

[Mojo]

Boris Johnson will appoint his own private lawyer if he receives a questionnaire from the police over alleged breaches of lockdown rules

The lawyer will focus on his ‘unique’ legal situation - that No 10 is both his home and workplace

https://thetimes.co.uk/article/73633b18-8abc-11ec-8600-c48a9935f856

As parties were against the law both at home and at work, does he get fined twice?

The crucial word, as far as Boris is concerned, is not “home” or “workplace”, but “his”. That makes it special.