Is there a disgruntled Tory MP Whatsapp where they coordinate these announcements? Or do they just check the news to see if anyone else has done it that day before they try to get themselves a headline?
I’d be pissed off too if Nadine Doris was seen as a viable replacement for me.
While he gives Johnson enough weasel room on the question of *intentionally* misleading the Commons (of course it’s no longer open to doubt that he did mislead) he finds the PM culpably negligent:
> There is clear evidence he has been negligent. I believe he could and should have done more to satisfy himself that the assurances he had been given, and that he was in turn giving Parliament, were indeed correct. If at any point he discovered or concluded that they were not, he could and should have come to the House of Commons to correct the record, before public disclosures by others made that unavoidable.
> I also find it inconceivable that senior officials and advisers would have tolerated, facilitated and even encouraged the breaking of Covid rules if they believed that the Prime Minister would have been horrified and outraged by what was happening in Downing Street when he was not there. The official who probably comes off worst from Sue Gray’s report is Martin Reynolds who, as the Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary at the time, was with him most of every day and should have been most concerned to ensure Downing Street staff acted as the Prime Minister would wish. If leadership is in part about setting the right tone for the organisation you lead, the tone represented by the routine disregard for the spirit, and often the letter of the Covid rules which Sue Gray describes betrayed at best a casual and at worst a contemptuous attitude to the sacrifices made and distress felt by the many who observed rigorously both spirit and letter of those rules. I find it impossible to accept that the Prime Minister does not bear some personal responsibility for that tone.
There seems to be a deliberate strategy by Johnson sceptics of one or two trickling out a day. This keeps the story in the headlines, and avoids premature discharge of their resources – momentum is better built slowly and the critical threshold more likely to be reached with measured, persistent abrasion.
On one hand Johnson must go because his laziness and incompetence is screwing the country. On the other hand Tories don’t stand a chance in the next GE if hes still leader.
Disgusting doing this during Jubilee week.
Backstabber and a snake. These Tory MPs disgust me.
Remove them Boris. Kick them out.
Unless there is a formal vote of no confidence, Johnson will ignore every MP from every party that calls for him to do the honourable thing and resign. Johnson is the only person who tells Johnson what to do, Johnson also has no idea how to do the honourable thing in anything he does. MPs are just wasting their breath at this point.
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Is there a disgruntled Tory MP Whatsapp where they coordinate these announcements? Or do they just check the news to see if anyone else has done it that day before they try to get themselves a headline?
I’d be pissed off too if Nadine Doris was seen as a viable replacement for me.
This one has put out a [lengthy statement](https://www.jeremywright.org.uk/news/prime-minister-may-2022) on his website today.
While he gives Johnson enough weasel room on the question of *intentionally* misleading the Commons (of course it’s no longer open to doubt that he did mislead) he finds the PM culpably negligent:
> There is clear evidence he has been negligent. I believe he could and should have done more to satisfy himself that the assurances he had been given, and that he was in turn giving Parliament, were indeed correct. If at any point he discovered or concluded that they were not, he could and should have come to the House of Commons to correct the record, before public disclosures by others made that unavoidable.
> I also find it inconceivable that senior officials and advisers would have tolerated, facilitated and even encouraged the breaking of Covid rules if they believed that the Prime Minister would have been horrified and outraged by what was happening in Downing Street when he was not there. The official who probably comes off worst from Sue Gray’s report is Martin Reynolds who, as the Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary at the time, was with him most of every day and should have been most concerned to ensure Downing Street staff acted as the Prime Minister would wish. If leadership is in part about setting the right tone for the organisation you lead, the tone represented by the routine disregard for the spirit, and often the letter of the Covid rules which Sue Gray describes betrayed at best a casual and at worst a contemptuous attitude to the sacrifices made and distress felt by the many who observed rigorously both spirit and letter of those rules. I find it impossible to accept that the Prime Minister does not bear some personal responsibility for that tone.
There seems to be a deliberate strategy by Johnson sceptics of one or two trickling out a day. This keeps the story in the headlines, and avoids premature discharge of their resources – momentum is better built slowly and the critical threshold more likely to be reached with measured, persistent abrasion.
On one hand Johnson must go because his laziness and incompetence is screwing the country. On the other hand Tories don’t stand a chance in the next GE if hes still leader.
Disgusting doing this during Jubilee week.
Backstabber and a snake. These Tory MPs disgust me.
Remove them Boris. Kick them out.
Unless there is a formal vote of no confidence, Johnson will ignore every MP from every party that calls for him to do the honourable thing and resign. Johnson is the only person who tells Johnson what to do, Johnson also has no idea how to do the honourable thing in anything he does. MPs are just wasting their breath at this point.
Is this Jeremy C.. I meant Hunt?