“PM’s fury at Downing Street staff as he launches string of ‘red meat’ policies
January 16 2022, The Sunday Times
Boris Johnson is planning a mass clearout of No 10 and a series of populist announcements to save his tottering premiership.
Despite issuing a humiliating apology to MPs over the Downing Street parties on Wednesday, the prime minister is refusing to take responsibility for the crisis and in meetings last week questioned why his team had not protected him.
He complained to aides: “How has all this been allowed to happen? How has it come to this? How haven’t you sorted this out?”
A senior government source said: “He made it clear he thought they had let him down. Boris’s view is that he is not to blame. That everyone else is to blame.”
Johnson’s view is supported by members of the cabinet. One blasted: “No 10 is a f***ing mess … it’s a f***ing disgrace, heads have to roll.”
The effort to blame his staff has been named Operation Save Big Dog, while his plans to make policy announcements to woo disillusioned MPs and voters is being dubbed Operation Red Meat. Under the proposals Johnson will:
•Announce a No 10 workplace “booze ban” in an effort to end the drinking culture in “Club Downing Street”.
•Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.
•Hand to the military control of the battle to stop illegal immigrants in the Channel.
•Unveil new plans to tackle the backlog of operations in the NHS.
•Unveil extra money for skills and job training for the 1.5 million people who are out of work and on universal credit.
•Lift the remaining coronavirus restrictions on January 26.
•Publish Michael Gove’s levelling-up white paper the following week. It aims to improve lives in neglected towns in the north.
Johnson is plotting his fightback as previously loyal donors turned on him and threatened to stop funding.
He is consulting his former aide Lord Udny-Lister about how to reshape his No 10 team.
Martin Reynolds, Johnson’s principal private secretary, who sent an email inviting staff to “bring your own booze” to a No 10 lockdown-busting party, is expected to leave, along with his deputy, Stuart Glassborow.
Dan Rosenfield — the chief of staff — and some members of the communications team are also living on borrowed time. Rosenfield is accused of approving the claim that there were “no parties” in No 10. “Boris is preparing to lay down the lives of his staff to save his own,” said one MP close to No 10. “It will be the Night of the Long Scapegoats.”
An official edict has been issued to loyal ministers and MPs have who have been urged to mount a tearoom charm offensive to stave off a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.
A senior Westminster figure has said the number of letters of no confidence submitted to the backbench 1922 Committee had risen to 35 — leaving the prime minister perilously close to the 54 required to trigger a vote.
At least seven of those submitted are understood to have come from Tory MPs in red wall seats. It is understood that Gary Sambrook, the Birmingham Northfield MP and secretary of the 1922 Committee, is among them. He would not comment last night.
Last night, Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield, said he had not decided whether to submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.
Anderson, a former Labour councillor and miner, said he would instead await the outcome of Sue Gray’s inquiry into the Downing Street parties, but had contacted constituents to ask for their views.
The red wall MP, 55, said: “I await the findings of the inquiry. I think that’s a fair and reasonable thing to do. But in the meantime I have contacted . .. over 4,000 residents on my mailing list to ask their views and I have been in touch with my association chairman to gauge the views of the membership, to get their thoughts. I’m not just going to make a rash decision.
“I want to speak to as many people as I possibly can and then I’ll decide what my course of action is.”
Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire who has sent in a letter, said he has received more than 1,000 emails in a day, 80 per cent of which were demanding the prime minister quit.
Peter Hargreaves, the billionaire who gave £1 million to the Tories for the 2019 general elections campaign, has said he is “very reluctant” to continue supporting the party financially.
The Brexit-backing co-founder of the investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown said of Johnson: “The guy has no patriotism. He doesn’t want to do good; he just wants to be prime minister. That’s his only agenda. He changed from a remainer to Brexit specifically because it would give him a chance to be prime minister … As the Conservatives look now, I would be very reluctant to support them financially.”
Michael Spencer, the Tory-supporting founder of the ICAP trading business, said:
“I can’t see how Boris can last, I really can’t. He just hasn’t changed and he won’t change.”
Practically unreadable there so will include mirror link (https://archive.is/jjq3w) because it is too good an article to be put off.
Someone’s always shooting down the big dawg. Woof! Heads must roll. Who will he choose. “Shark Music” 🎵
Cheap talk. Johnson needs to just fuck the fuck off
>He complained to aides: “How has all this been allowed to happen? How has it come to this? How haven’t you sorted this out?” A senior government source said: “He made it clear he thought they had let him down. Boris’s view is that he is not to blame. That everyone else is to blame.”
You know you’re an entitled little scrote when you make other entitled little scrotes pale in comparison of their assumed entitlement
>•Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.
I imagine that will really help energy bills going through the roof and everything else being more expensive.
Oh wait, I don’t have a licence…guess I’m screwed
A sign of a stable and successful government is pulling policies out of the air depending on the direction of the wind…
>The effort to blame his staff has been named Operation Save Big Dog
What a sad, weak little man, trying to make himself look big and tough while wetting himself in panic and shirking all responsibility.
> PM’s fury at Downing Street staff as he launches string of ‘red meat’ policies
— Mandatory daily recital of the National Anthem
— Launch of Patel’s Rubber Dinghy Rapid Response Search & Destroy Strike Group
— Woakes to be banned from representing England ~~and Wales~~ cricket
— Statues of Colston to be placed in every town square so radical Marxist vegans can have a think about just exactly what they’ve done (juries also to be outlawed btw, any legal decisions to be referred to the editor of the Daily Mail)
— BBC outlawed and replaced with ToryTV. Programming includes (is limited to) Nadine Dorries glaring down the camera listing all the ways you’ve disappointed her
Funny how it’s always the most disloyal and self-centred types like Johnson and Trump who most expect unquestioning loyalty from everyone else around them.
Who think it’s the job of others to fall on (or be pushed onto) *their* swords in order to protect their lord and master from the consequences of something he’s responsible for but must never suffer the consequences of himself.
Then again, anyone who willingly worked for Boris Johnson knew the type of person they were supporting and deserves everything they get.
Let’s just hope they have some nice dirt on Johnson and the Tories and are bitter enough to use it after being thrown under the bus.
There is no way the Tory party are going to allow him to still be in charge by the next election. He’s a liability. He might be able to cling on for another year or so if he’s lucky, but the ship is sinking and he isn’t going to stop it.
Someone better look out for Larry because that is an awful lot of dead cats to throw out there. The problem was not the drinking culture in politics, it is the fact that those in No 10 do not give a shit about the people, drunk or sober. He would have to clear out most of the Tories, including himself, to stem the rot, then he would need to hire people who want to go into politics for altruistic reasons and leave them to run the country. It’s the only real way we will see change.
DON’T NOBODY INTERRUPT HIM! Never ever ever ever interrupt your enemy as they’re doing a mistake.
He’s going to destroy the tory party to save his own skin and stay in power another month or two. EVERYONE SHUT UP AND NOD
Johnson must not be allowed to put blame on scurrilous rabidly rancid staff he employed, Johnson and the vast majority of his Ministers must be removed from government.
He stinks of desperation. He can’t try and love bomb the country with new policies to get our forgiveness. Just fuck off and call a general election would be an ideal resolution.
I wonder if people factor the leader into their retirement plans. If I’d been in more than 2 meetings with bojo, I’d assume early retirement was coming soon. He needs a constant supply of fall guys (Cummings, Gove, Mogg, Javid {now reborne}, Rabb, Davis and Barclay, Hancock, and those are just the ministers).
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“PM’s fury at Downing Street staff as he launches string of ‘red meat’ policies
January 16 2022, The Sunday Times
Boris Johnson is planning a mass clearout of No 10 and a series of populist announcements to save his tottering premiership.
Despite issuing a humiliating apology to MPs over the Downing Street parties on Wednesday, the prime minister is refusing to take responsibility for the crisis and in meetings last week questioned why his team had not protected him.
He complained to aides: “How has all this been allowed to happen? How has it come to this? How haven’t you sorted this out?”
A senior government source said: “He made it clear he thought they had let him down. Boris’s view is that he is not to blame. That everyone else is to blame.”
Johnson’s view is supported by members of the cabinet. One blasted: “No 10 is a f***ing mess … it’s a f***ing disgrace, heads have to roll.”
The effort to blame his staff has been named Operation Save Big Dog, while his plans to make policy announcements to woo disillusioned MPs and voters is being dubbed Operation Red Meat. Under the proposals Johnson will:
•Announce a No 10 workplace “booze ban” in an effort to end the drinking culture in “Club Downing Street”.
•Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.
•Hand to the military control of the battle to stop illegal immigrants in the Channel.
•Unveil new plans to tackle the backlog of operations in the NHS.
•Unveil extra money for skills and job training for the 1.5 million people who are out of work and on universal credit.
•Lift the remaining coronavirus restrictions on January 26.
•Publish Michael Gove’s levelling-up white paper the following week. It aims to improve lives in neglected towns in the north.
Johnson is plotting his fightback as previously loyal donors turned on him and threatened to stop funding.
He is consulting his former aide Lord Udny-Lister about how to reshape his No 10 team.
Martin Reynolds, Johnson’s principal private secretary, who sent an email inviting staff to “bring your own booze” to a No 10 lockdown-busting party, is expected to leave, along with his deputy, Stuart Glassborow.
Dan Rosenfield — the chief of staff — and some members of the communications team are also living on borrowed time. Rosenfield is accused of approving the claim that there were “no parties” in No 10. “Boris is preparing to lay down the lives of his staff to save his own,” said one MP close to No 10. “It will be the Night of the Long Scapegoats.”
An official edict has been issued to loyal ministers and MPs have who have been urged to mount a tearoom charm offensive to stave off a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.
A senior Westminster figure has said the number of letters of no confidence submitted to the backbench 1922 Committee had risen to 35 — leaving the prime minister perilously close to the 54 required to trigger a vote.
At least seven of those submitted are understood to have come from Tory MPs in red wall seats. It is understood that Gary Sambrook, the Birmingham Northfield MP and secretary of the 1922 Committee, is among them. He would not comment last night.
Last night, Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield, said he had not decided whether to submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.
Anderson, a former Labour councillor and miner, said he would instead await the outcome of Sue Gray’s inquiry into the Downing Street parties, but had contacted constituents to ask for their views.
The red wall MP, 55, said: “I await the findings of the inquiry. I think that’s a fair and reasonable thing to do. But in the meantime I have contacted . .. over 4,000 residents on my mailing list to ask their views and I have been in touch with my association chairman to gauge the views of the membership, to get their thoughts. I’m not just going to make a rash decision.
“I want to speak to as many people as I possibly can and then I’ll decide what my course of action is.”
Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire who has sent in a letter, said he has received more than 1,000 emails in a day, 80 per cent of which were demanding the prime minister quit.
Peter Hargreaves, the billionaire who gave £1 million to the Tories for the 2019 general elections campaign, has said he is “very reluctant” to continue supporting the party financially.
The Brexit-backing co-founder of the investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown said of Johnson: “The guy has no patriotism. He doesn’t want to do good; he just wants to be prime minister. That’s his only agenda. He changed from a remainer to Brexit specifically because it would give him a chance to be prime minister … As the Conservatives look now, I would be very reluctant to support them financially.”
Michael Spencer, the Tory-supporting founder of the ICAP trading business, said:
“I can’t see how Boris can last, I really can’t. He just hasn’t changed and he won’t change.”
Practically unreadable there so will include mirror link (https://archive.is/jjq3w) because it is too good an article to be put off.
Someone’s always shooting down the big dawg. Woof! Heads must roll. Who will he choose. “Shark Music” 🎵
Cheap talk. Johnson needs to just fuck the fuck off
>He complained to aides: “How has all this been allowed to happen? How has it come to this? How haven’t you sorted this out?” A senior government source said: “He made it clear he thought they had let him down. Boris’s view is that he is not to blame. That everyone else is to blame.”
You know you’re an entitled little scrote when you make other entitled little scrotes pale in comparison of their assumed entitlement
>•Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.
I imagine that will really help energy bills going through the roof and everything else being more expensive.
Oh wait, I don’t have a licence…guess I’m screwed
A sign of a stable and successful government is pulling policies out of the air depending on the direction of the wind…
In 1672 an angry Dutch mob killed and ate their Prime Minister. Just putting it out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt
>The effort to blame his staff has been named Operation Save Big Dog
What a sad, weak little man, trying to make himself look big and tough while wetting himself in panic and shirking all responsibility.
> PM’s fury at Downing Street staff as he launches string of ‘red meat’ policies
— Mandatory daily recital of the National Anthem
— Launch of Patel’s Rubber Dinghy Rapid Response Search & Destroy Strike Group
— Woakes to be banned from representing England ~~and Wales~~ cricket
— Statues of Colston to be placed in every town square so radical Marxist vegans can have a think about just exactly what they’ve done (juries also to be outlawed btw, any legal decisions to be referred to the editor of the Daily Mail)
— BBC outlawed and replaced with ToryTV. Programming includes (is limited to) Nadine Dorries glaring down the camera listing all the ways you’ve disappointed her
Funny how it’s always the most disloyal and self-centred types like Johnson and Trump who most expect unquestioning loyalty from everyone else around them.
Who think it’s the job of others to fall on (or be pushed onto) *their* swords in order to protect their lord and master from the consequences of something he’s responsible for but must never suffer the consequences of himself.
Then again, anyone who willingly worked for Boris Johnson knew the type of person they were supporting and deserves everything they get.
Let’s just hope they have some nice dirt on Johnson and the Tories and are bitter enough to use it after being thrown under the bus.
There is no way the Tory party are going to allow him to still be in charge by the next election. He’s a liability. He might be able to cling on for another year or so if he’s lucky, but the ship is sinking and he isn’t going to stop it.
Someone better look out for Larry because that is an awful lot of dead cats to throw out there. The problem was not the drinking culture in politics, it is the fact that those in No 10 do not give a shit about the people, drunk or sober. He would have to clear out most of the Tories, including himself, to stem the rot, then he would need to hire people who want to go into politics for altruistic reasons and leave them to run the country. It’s the only real way we will see change.
DON’T NOBODY INTERRUPT HIM! Never ever ever ever interrupt your enemy as they’re doing a mistake.
He’s going to destroy the tory party to save his own skin and stay in power another month or two. EVERYONE SHUT UP AND NOD
Johnson must not be allowed to put blame on scurrilous rabidly rancid staff he employed, Johnson and the vast majority of his Ministers must be removed from government.
He stinks of desperation. He can’t try and love bomb the country with new policies to get our forgiveness. Just fuck off and call a general election would be an ideal resolution.
I wonder if people factor the leader into their retirement plans. If I’d been in more than 2 meetings with bojo, I’d assume early retirement was coming soon. He needs a constant supply of fall guys (Cummings, Gove, Mogg, Javid {now reborne}, Rabb, Davis and Barclay, Hancock, and those are just the ministers).