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Boris forced to get rid of the person investigating whether Boris hosted an illegal Christmas party because the person investigating whether Boris had an illegal Christmas party had an illegal Christmas party!

This is a Two Ronnies sketch!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
There was plenty of sensible tactical voting from Labour and Green supporters.

Tories didn't help themselves by dropping in someone from Birmingham who had to be kept away from the press because of his lack of knowledge of the constituency.

Already heard someone say it's not important because by-elections always go against the party in power and it's just a 'protest vote', nothing to do with Boris or his popularity.
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I mean to say, there's mid-term blues and then there is one of the largest swings against the Tories ever seen and in one of the safest of safe seats.

And then there is what both Tory and Lib Dem canvassers (pacé various pieces in the Independent and Guardian) reported voters saying in the constituency about how annoyed they are with BlowJob...

But importing a Brummie to Oswestry was never going to down well and hints that Central Office know nothing and just looked at a map. Although that doesn't explain why the local Tories went along with it.
 
Nessie said:
"The civil servant tasked with investigating claims of a Christmas party at Downing Street last year held his own office party the day before.
Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, attended a Christmas party with a team of his officials on December 17 last year."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-question-aides-seen-at-tory-hq-lockdown-party-s3c9zxl0t
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Both Johnson and Tory chair Oliver Dowden have said they were sure Case’s investigation would find no wrongdoing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...080842de5fbf87#block-61bcc36c8f080842de5fbf87
 
Simon Case has 'stepped aside' from the investigation.
Senior civil servant Sue Gray has taken over.
Apparently No 10 staff have already been interviewed as part of the investigation
What does Sue Gray do now? Start again? Or use evidence which might now seem tainted by being gathered by Case?

Case didn't step aside from the investigation when he knew he was compromised, he stepped aside when we knew.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
Simon Case has 'stepped aside' from the investigation.
Senior civil servant Sue Gray has taken over.
Apparently No 10 staff have already been interviewed as part of the investigation
What does Sue Gray do now? Start again? Or use evidence which might now seem tainted by being gathered by Case?

Case didn't step aside from the investigation when he knew he was compromised, he stepped aside when we knew.
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We need to investigate Sue Gray first though, in case she had a party. MrsB and I would like to volunteer as we definitely didn't have a party at Xmas last year, though you might want to investigate that.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
Boris forced to get rid of the person investigating whether Boris hosted an illegal Christmas party because the person investigating whether Boris had an illegal Christmas party had an illegal Christmas party!

This is a Two Ronnies sketch!
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More like The Thick of It I think. It's becoming very hard to satirise Johnson and his clown car of a government.
 
When Boris Johnson announced that he, too, was 'furious' and that Simon Case would investigate, I think the whole length and breadth of the UK knew in that instance that Case was also 'making whoopee' at a Christmas party.

Nobody at all is surprised
there are pictures of Case doing a knees up Muvver Brown with Coffey and Gove and a Let's Limbo Together with Bill and Bob, not to mention dancing on the table smashing dinner plates
he has 'recused himself'.
 
Darat said:
How he must lament that he can longer pull out a straight banana!

Surely the perfidious French are up to something that he can point to whilst he runs away?
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Imposing travel restrictions which mean that this weekend's round of Heineken Cup matches are disrupted so none of the French teams can be beaten by plucky Brits or Irishies...

It's all so clear when you look.

Didn't save Cardiff from getting stuffed by Quins though.
 
Mail On Sunday tweeted
@MoS_Politics
EXCLUSIVE: Brexit Minister Lord Frost has resigned from Boris Johnson’s Cabinet over the ‘political direction of his Government’. Full details in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Mail On Sunday tweeted
@MoS_Politics
EXCLUSIVE: Brexit Minister Lord Frost has resigned from Boris Johnson’s Cabinet over the ‘political direction of his Government’. Full details in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday.
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Oh look, a swimming rat....
:rolleyes:
 
The Don said:
Only because Boris Johnson is insufficiently cavalier over Covid and won't allow multimillionaires to avoid any tax increases. :rolleyes:

Not a "good guy", more like an even worse guy.:mad:
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Can anyone with the UK conservative , except perhaps Ruth Davidson, be considered reasonably" good"?
 
catsmate said:
Can anyone with the UK conservative , except perhaps Ruth Davidson, be considered reasonably" good"?
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As I said upthread, any positive impression of Ruth Davidson, may just be down to a lack of scrutiny. :o

There may be one or two backbenchers who have slipped through the net.
 
So Frost claims to have quit because:

"Sources said that Lord Frost's bombshell has caused 'panic' inside No 10. The Government source said: 'Lord Frost has been among the strongest advocates inside the Cabinet for keeping the country open and for avoiding further legislative control measures to deal with the pandemic. He believes that vaccine passports are an inappropriate measure on principle."
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DM

Downloading a vaccine passport is an extremely simple measure, no difficulty to it at all.

IMV the real reason Frost has quit is because of the sheer stress of dealing with Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocols, not to mention the fishing rights.

Come the New Year: Chaos comes into effect.

He's got his knighthood, handsome pension. He's wants to put his feet up.
 
Vixen said:
So Frost claims to have quit because:

DM

Downloading a vaccine passport is an extremely simple measure, no difficulty to it at all.

IMV the real reason Frost has quit is because of the sheer stress of dealing with Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocols, not to mention the fishing rights.

Come the New Year: Chaos comes into effect.

He's got his knighthood, handsome pension. He's wants to put his feet up.
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I mean this the government action he finds unacceptable? Not corruption, second jobs, dumping sewage in our rivers, no trying to keep the NHS from being overwhelmed, that's his breaking point. :rolleyes:
 
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Garrison said:
I mean this the government action he finds unacceptable? Not corruption, second jobs, dumping sewage in out rivers, no trying to keep the NHS from being overwhelmed, that's his breaking point. :rolleyes:
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Not reading the agreement negotiated apparently by him.....
 
Brexit minister Lord Frost has resigned from the UK government over "concerns about the current direction of travel".
In a letter to Boris Johnson, the peer, who led Brexit negotiations, said he hoped the PM would "not be tempted" by "coercive measures" to tackle Covid.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Lord Frost was an "outstanding public servant", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that while he disagreed with his remarks, the minister had "resigned out of principle... and we have to respect that".

The Mail on Sunday, which first reported the news, said he handed in his resignation a week ago, partly in disagreement with Covid curbs.
But in his letter to the prime minister, Lord Frost said now the arrangement to exit in January had been made public, he would leave with "immediate effect".
He wrote that Mr Johnson had been "an outstanding leader" during turbulence over Brexit, and the pair had a "close common understanding" on their aims in that area.

But after saying "Brexit is now secure", he added: "You know my concerns about the current direction of travel.
"I hope we will move as fast as possible to where we need to get to: a lightly regulated, low-tax, entrepreneurial economy, at the cutting edge of modern science and economic change."

Lord Frost moved on to his concerns over the government's handling of the virus, saying the country needed to "learn to live with Covid".

"I know that is your instinct too, you took a brave decision in July, against considerable opposition, to open up the country again.
Sadly it did not prove to be irreversible, as I wished, and believe you did too.
I hope we can get back on track soon and not be tempted by the kind of coercive measures we have seen elsewhere."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59714241
 
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