Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone

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  1. GCHQ has an annual budget of almost a billion quid. If they can hack into messages on Xi Jinping’s phone I’m sure they can get to the bottom of this.

  2. Very common occurrence for things to just vanish from your phone. Happens all the time.

  3. Deleting official correspondence should result in a prison term. It won’t.

  4. I can’t stand any of this shit anymore. Can we please organise a uprising? I can understand if you can’t do this if you’re struggling with grocery prices, energy bills, your council going bankrupt, you’re waiting for an ambulance, in an NHS queue for treatment, struggling to afford a house, getting underpaid for your work, struggle to get a doctors appointment, can’t bring your partner to live with you because you don’t earn enough even though you have a PhD, can’t get justice as a victim of a crime because of the court delays, your car suspension is fucked because of all the pot holes or can’t get a seat on a train you pay an extortionate amount for.

    So, who’s up for it?

  5. Messages vanishing from UK politicians phone are just as common as russian politicians suddenly dying by falling out of a building. Fucking disgrace of a political system

  6. There’s a line from *The Prisoner* that comes to mind. “The fact that you won’t explain, explains everything.”

  7. I’m losing count of all the senior Tories who have messages magically disappear when they’re needed.

  8. Do these people think nobody else uses Whatsapp? Messages don’t just disappear unless you lose your entire backup no?

  9. “New phone. Who dis?” Is understandable when it’s a 19-yr-old trying to dodge his boss at Pizza Hut. It’s a bit rich when these people try it.

  10. Since no one else has posted this – this implies Boris was deleting messages. It’s one thing for Boris to factory reset or lose his devices but the messages he sent to others would still be on their phones unless they were timed vanishing messages or someone was going through and using the “Delete for Everyone” option when you purge messages, this forces the sender and receivers device to delete the text strings when WhatsApp is running (it only needs to be running in the background too, users aren’t informed of messages being deleted)

    Given that disappearing messages was feature that had a gradual roll out in November 2020 it’s highly unlikely that Penny is referring to those and instead to someone manually deleting messages. Again, this does not happen as a result of the sender’s phone being wiped/lost/etc – it has to be done manually.

    Not that it’s of any surprise at this point, it’s obvious the lying scum has purged any evidence that implicates him in anyway as have all his cronies. It’s also why it’s of no surprise they were using WhatsApp instead of security approved government channels that are logged.

    This Tory government will go down in history as one of the most corrupt to ever be in power and we have bent over and let them, shame of them and shame on the people who voted for them.

  11. It’s pretty insane a series of happenstances wiped Boris and Sunak’s messages from Boris’ phone, Sunak’s phone and Mordaunt’s phone.

    So unlucky this govt to have technology fail and leave a gaping hole all at the same period of time. Like it’s not like they lost messages outside that period, just the crucial one where Boris is alleged to have said some pretty awful immoral things.

    Crazy how coincidences conspire like that. You have to feel sorry for them, they clearly want to help, they keep telling us as much.

  12. Of course they did deary, of course they did. <rolleyes>

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