>Mr Johnson is understood to be drawing up a list of officials who can offer their resignation after the publication of Sue Gray’s findings on the various gatherings at No10.
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>It comes as an exclusive survey for The Independent indicates that 70% of voters want the prime minister to quit and a staggering 68% did not consider his apology over a No10 party as “genuine”.
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>The dire survey numbers were revealed on the same day as Downing Street has been forced to apologise to Buckingham Palace following reports of two No 10 parties held on the eve of Prince Philip’s socially-distanced funeral – but officials will not say if Boris Johnson knew about them.
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>The PM’s spokesman is also refusing to clarify whether it was acknowledged to the Palace that the gatherings were “social events”, which would have been in breach of Covid rules at the time.
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>It is understood the apology was made by a government official, in a telephone call – rather than in a conversation involving Mr Johnson.
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>(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-party-resign-b1992977.html)
I’m sorry there’s a global “trumpism” effect, not the proudest cultural export.
Which is worse, the Left wanting to slowly phase out monarchy or the Tories not able to respect the monarch in her days of grief? I am getting confused.
I’m sure Johno can get lower than thus if he tries. Ceilidh at the queen’s funeral?
How can this be a “new low” when he’s already lied to her previously and got clean away with it?
From The Spectator
It’s hard to think of something that could offend Conservative England more than parties which broke lockdown rules the night before the funeral of the Queen’s husband. And therein lies the particular risk to Boris Johnson of these two parties which he didn’t personally attend. They still took place in the building that he runs, involving staff who he leads. And this will not be lost on the members of local Conservative associations who will be speaking to his MPs over the weekend. Last night, Sutton Coldfield Conservatives became the first association to call for the Prime Minister to step down, and many other Conservative MPs are privately reporting utter fury in their own local parties. As James says on Coffee House, the associations are putting their MPs under huge pressure to speak out in some way. James says that if other associations follow Sutton Coldfield and hold votes of no confidence in Johnson, then things are going to get very serious indeed. He also explains a device by which 65 associations could force a special conference to vote on the party leader’s future. Though the vote is non-binding, it would make the position of any leader who lost it untenable.
Every single week…
Everyone: “This is a new low for Boris! He can’t sink any lower than this!”
Boris: “Hold my ~~beer~~ wine and cheese.”
Yeah imagine having to apologise to the paedophile protector.
The colossal irony of Johnson’s masturbatory worship of Winston Churchill (he even wrote a biography of him) and his fantasy that he too can steer the nation through another Finest Hour while, in reality, he’s not competent enough to clean out the bins round the back of a Greggs, never mind lead the country through its greatest post-war crisis (much of which has been directly caused by his utter ineptness and dishonesty).
Does the PM still have weekly (?) meetings with the Queen at Buckingham Palace? I’d like to be a fly on the wall for the next one.
Why is the funeral of this man any more important than the funeral of other people? They had parties on several occasions – there would have been several funerals every day.
Well, he did lie to her two years ago when requested that she prorouge Parliament.
Wow! Genuinely, this makes the “queen” and the monarch look feeble! (I honestly don’t say that lightly!)..she has zero power at all?!
See I know the Queen likes corgies, but she should have a few giant arse biting dogs for occasions like this.
So…helping get a journalist’s ribs broken, illegally shutting down parliament, getting sacked twice for lying, having multiple affairs – one whilst his wife was undergoing cancer treatment, having untold illegitimate kids, having the police attend your flat because you and your pregnant girlfriend are thrown laptops at each other, being so incompetent as to kill hundreds of thousands, completely destroy the NHS by design, lie about selling off the profitable bits to the yanks….all this is fine.
…but telling a bit of a porkie to an old dear in a gold hat…?
That’s a step too far?
This country is fucked.
What about the rest of us? Did he apologise when it was our loved ones dead or dying while he had his parties?
Incidentally, doesn’t this now mean he admits he knew they were parties, and not “business meetings” or whatever? If not, what does he have to apologise for?
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Brings back to memory that time [she was pointing out Hancock’s political career was finished](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57584417).
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Drop this in:
>Mr Johnson is understood to be drawing up a list of officials who can offer their resignation after the publication of Sue Gray’s findings on the various gatherings at No10.
>
>It comes as an exclusive survey for The Independent indicates that 70% of voters want the prime minister to quit and a staggering 68% did not consider his apology over a No10 party as “genuine”.
>
>The dire survey numbers were revealed on the same day as Downing Street has been forced to apologise to Buckingham Palace following reports of two No 10 parties held on the eve of Prince Philip’s socially-distanced funeral – but officials will not say if Boris Johnson knew about them.
>
>The PM’s spokesman is also refusing to clarify whether it was acknowledged to the Palace that the gatherings were “social events”, which would have been in breach of Covid rules at the time.
>
>It is understood the apology was made by a government official, in a telephone call – rather than in a conversation involving Mr Johnson.
>
>(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-party-resign-b1992977.html)
I’m sorry there’s a global “trumpism” effect, not the proudest cultural export.
Which is worse, the Left wanting to slowly phase out monarchy or the Tories not able to respect the monarch in her days of grief? I am getting confused.
I’m sure Johno can get lower than thus if he tries. Ceilidh at the queen’s funeral?
How can this be a “new low” when he’s already lied to her previously and got clean away with it?
From The Spectator
It’s hard to think of something that could offend Conservative England more than parties which broke lockdown rules the night before the funeral of the Queen’s husband. And therein lies the particular risk to Boris Johnson of these two parties which he didn’t personally attend. They still took place in the building that he runs, involving staff who he leads. And this will not be lost on the members of local Conservative associations who will be speaking to his MPs over the weekend. Last night, Sutton Coldfield Conservatives became the first association to call for the Prime Minister to step down, and many other Conservative MPs are privately reporting utter fury in their own local parties. As James says on Coffee House, the associations are putting their MPs under huge pressure to speak out in some way. James says that if other associations follow Sutton Coldfield and hold votes of no confidence in Johnson, then things are going to get very serious indeed. He also explains a device by which 65 associations could force a special conference to vote on the party leader’s future. Though the vote is non-binding, it would make the position of any leader who lost it untenable.
Every single week…
Everyone: “This is a new low for Boris! He can’t sink any lower than this!”
Boris: “Hold my ~~beer~~ wine and cheese.”
Yeah imagine having to apologise to the paedophile protector.
The colossal irony of Johnson’s masturbatory worship of Winston Churchill (he even wrote a biography of him) and his fantasy that he too can steer the nation through another Finest Hour while, in reality, he’s not competent enough to clean out the bins round the back of a Greggs, never mind lead the country through its greatest post-war crisis (much of which has been directly caused by his utter ineptness and dishonesty).
Does the PM still have weekly (?) meetings with the Queen at Buckingham Palace? I’d like to be a fly on the wall for the next one.
Why is the funeral of this man any more important than the funeral of other people? They had parties on several occasions – there would have been several funerals every day.
Well, he did lie to her two years ago when requested that she prorouge Parliament.
Wow! Genuinely, this makes the “queen” and the monarch look feeble! (I honestly don’t say that lightly!)..she has zero power at all?!
See I know the Queen likes corgies, but she should have a few giant arse biting dogs for occasions like this.
So…helping get a journalist’s ribs broken, illegally shutting down parliament, getting sacked twice for lying, having multiple affairs – one whilst his wife was undergoing cancer treatment, having untold illegitimate kids, having the police attend your flat because you and your pregnant girlfriend are thrown laptops at each other, being so incompetent as to kill hundreds of thousands, completely destroy the NHS by design, lie about selling off the profitable bits to the yanks….all this is fine.
…but telling a bit of a porkie to an old dear in a gold hat…?
That’s a step too far?
This country is fucked.
What about the rest of us? Did he apologise when it was our loved ones dead or dying while he had his parties?
Incidentally, doesn’t this now mean he admits he knew they were parties, and not “business meetings” or whatever? If not, what does he have to apologise for?