It’s widely thought he’ll be gone before the week’s out. We’ll see.
Unfortunately we can’t shift responsibility for him that way, he is our very own home grown pillock.
I sincerely hope so.
God only knows who or what would replace him. The entire cabinet should be in jail really for aiding & abetting over the past couple of years.
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As we sprint to the bottom nothing would surprise me
The left think he’s to right wing, and the right wing think he’s to left wing .
I’d actually have some respect if the next leader told the erg to fuck right off and start a new party if they are not happy.
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His epitaph has been written too early, too many times.
I hope you’re right. I fear for the alternative.
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Are you saying that a garish cartoon figure spouting meaningless gibberish could ever top some sort of popularity contest?
I like that Cummings also refers to the Trolley as a Kunlangeta.
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I don’t think Boris has anything approaching the moral fibre to walk away. Whilst I think he does probably care what people think, he doesn’t care enough to actually sacrifice his position. He’ll just keep in trotting out the same “I think what the British people are really concerned about…” lines ad infinitum, until he is actually forced out. And it remains to be seen if there’s enough appetite within his party to do that. I’d love to think he’ll be gone by the end if the week, but it doesn’t feel like that to me, sadly.
There is an awful lot riding on a report from a Civil Servant.
From what Raab is saying the report will not be published in full, only the ‘findings’.
The findings summary will be about a page and a half, Sue Gray apparantly has Sir Humphrey like ability to manouever, her civil service nickname is ‘Sue Gray Areas’
I am not expecting her findings to bring down Johnson.
The aftermath might bring him down, but not the report itself.
Whereas I never wish harm on anyone, there’s a small, dark part of me that would have liked his time in hospital with Covid to have been a permanent one.
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There’s a fekkin’ big part in me…
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I’d settle for immolation at the despatch box, ignited by his burning underpants.
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“I am convinced that the Prime Minister knowingly misled the House” is just 11 words. That should be all it takes.
Isn’t going to happen, see ‘Sue Gray Areas’
The report will be facts not opinions
According to this page (my bold)
The terms of reference say that she will set out her evidence on the events held, ‘with reference to adherence to the guidance in place at the time.’ This implies that Gray might make judgements about whether these events breached government Covid guidance or law at the time. She might state whether she considers there is evidence of criminality – breaching Covid laws – and she has had access to lawyers to compare evidence against the regulations in place at the time.
However it does say that while she can make rulings, she probably won’t. The exact words are
Can she rule whether the prime minister broke the ministerial code?
She could, but she probably won’t … She could recommend that the prime minister’s adviser on ministerial interests, Lord Geidt, look into the prime minister’s behaviour, in which case the prime minister would be under pressure to allow Geidt to conduct his own inquiry. If Gray avoided this question entirely that would not necessarily mean she thinks there is no case to answer, but could simply mean she did not consider it part of her remit.
There could be several charges of breaches of the ministerial code levied against the prime minister … the most relevant question is likely to be whether he breached the code on misleading the House of Commons in the answers he has given about whether these gatherings took place and whether they breached covid guidance. Ministers who ‘knowingly mislead’ the Commons are, by convention, expected to resign, so this is a serious issue.
What a word, succinct and totally descriptive of our wonderful leader. I’d been selling him short, describing him as odious.
Kunlangeta
What does Kunlangeta mean?
The Yupik Eskimos use the term kunlangeta to describe a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, and takes sexual advantage of women , according to a 1976 study by Jane M. Murphy, an anthropologist then at Harvard University.10 Nov 2008
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