UK X: Who Wants To Live Forever

[MartyG]

I recommend reading this book: https://guardianbookshop.com/how-wes...-9781399602730

[wakka]

I will give it a look, thanks.

[QualityChimp]

So the report into the "conduct of Rt Hon Boris Johnson" and his misleading of Parliament has been published.

Johnson said "I have been found guilty, despite the evidence"
(I think he means because of the evidence...)

Some key points from it, as it's like a book in size:


Also, his re-writing of the rules to fit around him and his gatherings:


On the 9th June, Johnson started threatening the Committee (which I think he set up!) and saying some committee members also broke Lockdown rules and should be fired, and I think that just pissed them off more, suggesting if he hadn't stepped down, they'd have suggested he have a 90-day ban, so instead he should be denied a former member's pass.


Obviously, Johnson has been calling the whole thing a witch hunt, but the report lays out its agenda at the very start:


Also prepping for his inevitable "They didn't give me a fair chance to respond":


So far, the only person defending Johnson is Michael Fabricant, who was recently listed in Johnson's leaving honours list, coincidentally.

[Asura]

Great. So now, if Kier ever has to talk to him/about him in parliament again, he can justifiably omit terms like "the right honourable gentleman" and instead say "the lying sack of ****".

[Neon Ignition]

Turns out as well Nadine has lied and hadn't actually resigned, refusing to do so until she gets an outcome for being refused to be on the honours list.

They need to just bar him from returning and be done with him once and for all

[MartyG]

Great. So now, if Kier ever has to talk to him/about him in parliament again, he can justifiably omit terms like "the right honourable gentleman" and instead say "the lying sack of ****".

Not unless he wants to get sanctioned he can't.

[Asura]

Not unless he wants to get sanctioned he can't.

More's the pity.

[Lebowski]

He can cry and complain all he wants but for me its been pretty straight forward for a while, he said to the house that

guidance was followed completely in No 10, that the rules and guidance were followed at all times, that events in No 10 were within the rules and guidance, and that the rules and guidance had been followed at all times when he was present at gatherings.

When presented with evidence to the contrary showing him drinking at social gatherings not observing social distancing and breaking the rule of 6 he then says and these and are his own words

"I accept that perfect social distancing is not being observed but that does not mean that what we were doing is incompatible with the guidance,"

So it was followed completely until he was shown it wasn't then it was "non perfect" or you know him breaking the rules.

Apply the Johnson argument to something like say speeding and you see how stupid a defense it is when you've been caught out.

"Yes officer i was driving at the speed limits, oh you have me going 45 in a 40 ah well yes while my speed was not a perfect following of the rules of this road, i was well within what i though was reasonable though.

[QualityChimp]

Great. So now, if Kier ever has to talk to him/about him in parliament again, he can justifiably omit terms like "the right honourable gentleman" and instead say "the lying sack of ****".

Not quite your exact wording, but it's interesting that in the HoC they can now actually say "Boris Johnson lied"

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[MartyG]

yeah, they just can't call him a ****ing liar - but I'm waiting for the Johnson apologists to speak in the commons - mind, I don't think there will be many unhappy to see him go.

Now the report is out, they surely must be able to sanction him from being a party member and with it his ability to stand as a conservative MP.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Can they call him a mother****er?

[QualityChimp]

Can they call him a mother****er?

No, because technically, he's not.
He likes those pretty young fillies, what what.

So the Privileges Committee had released its findings and Parliament has to decide on how it will act upon it.
Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the House, has said there will be an amenable motion.

What this boils down to is that Parliament can decide what action it should take, including that 90 day ban if he stands again and the suggestion he should have his ex-MP pass denied.
Other suggesting he should pay back his legal fees that the tax payer provided and his honours list should be abandoned.

I'm concerned that too many MPs will support Johnson or abstain, rather than vote that he has some sort of punishment.
However, it's a miracle we've got to this point, so who knows?!

[Neon Ignition]

Reading the love feed on Guardian and all the Johnsonites are teeming out of the woodwork in his defense like woodlice. They literally can't figure out that it's over and they're only marking their own cards by speaking out

[QualityChimp]

Something related to this is that Johnson has put forward Charlotte Owens On his honours list, making her a life peer in the House of Lords.

At 29, this makes her the youngest life peer.

Now it's being heavily speculated on the reason why she's being offered this for several reasons, despite having only worked for Johnson for under 2 years:
- She's his daughter (Allegra Mostyn-Owen was Johnson's first wife and split the same year Charlotte was born)
- He had an affair with her, and promised her the role, which he's done before and he tried for Carrie too.
- She knows about his other illicit endeavours (the violinist, his hairdresser?)
- She know what the Russians have on him after his trip to Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev without officials present

Now, all of that is salacious tittle-tattle that cannot be proved, but it just goes to show the integrity of Johnson that none of those outlandish claims actually seem unbelievable.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Knowing Johnson, probably all 4