Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[honeybee13]

Another scandal. Maybe the Tories having 'seller's remorse' will remember why they wanted Johnson to go now.

 

Sexual misconduct allegations revealed against cabinet minister and top No 10 aide

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It comes in the wake of the Chris Pincher scandal, when following the deputy chief whip's resignation amid sexual misconduct allegations, questions...

 

[tobyjugg2]

and more lying in Parliament evidenced - still no 'corrections' or consequences

 

- but no claims of harassment and beatings recently ..

.. as she  allegedly turned her attentions to 'oxbridge MP's and they love it - especially as its free,  given the closer scrutiny on leaked expense claims recently

..... Which leaves her rather unsatisfied its rumored.

 

Priti Patel ‘misled parliament’ on Channel asylum seekers

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Exclusive: Home secretary refuses to correct record after claiming most boat migrants are ‘economic migrants’ when 94 per cent are asylum...

 

 

 Although just following Johnson 'The Liars' lead, however 'naturally and enthusiastically

 

Revealed: Johnson and ministers made dozens of false statements to parliament

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Exclusive investigation : Labour accuses government of ‘litany of lies and falsehoods’ as calls for corrections are ignored

 

 

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[tobyjugg2]

I see Johnsons pals are squealing that the wording of the remit of the investigation into whether Johnson Mislead Parliament and did not correct that misleading statement at the earliest opportunity - has been worded in a way such as to guarantee finding him guilty.

 

The wording they are objecting to is:

Did the Prime minister mislead parliament and not correct the misleading statement at the earliest opportunity.

 

 

Other pals are claiming he can't be found guilty when he hasn't yet corrected the misleading statements, as it would be removing his opportunity to correct them at some time in the coming months and years.

[honeybee13]

Journos and lawyers are puzzling over the current PM's 'legal opinion' on the privileges committee. Here's David Allen Green.

 

The not-at-all-devastating “devastating” Johnson opinion on contempt of parliament – The Law and Policy Blog

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2nd September 2022 The “opinion”, we were told, would be “devastating”. To quote the Daily Mail: “An insider said of the QC’s legal advice: ‘It is absolute…

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Whether or not its a legal opinion of some populist shill, the populist shills seem to be ignoring the straightforward, frankly basically decent, and VERY simple remedy to avoid any penalties on lying in parliament, and it is VERY simple :

 

It only requires that the dishonest statement is corrected in Parliament at the earliest opportunity

.. even if its the Parliamentary equivalent of a shill newspapers bottom of page seven one line, small print retraction of a prior dishonest and deceiving headline.

 

 

Hardly arduous or unreasonable - in fact any even half way honest or honorable person would go out of their way to do it tout suite, with sincere apologies.

 

That Boris 'The Corrupt Liar' Johnson and his government repeatedly wont is defining.

[honeybee13]

It's a glaring omission, isn't it? All he had to do was to say there was a misunderstanding, apologise and correct the record. I believe it's happened about 200 times in the last year for ministers, etc.

 

And this advice has cost £130k of public money.

[tobyjugg2]

We got the big calls right, says Johnson and co,

- Just look at the record breaking inflation and record food price increases, let alone the record dividends and astounding profits for foreign owned 'British' water and energy companies. Now thats what we call success.

 

.. and we have managed this no matter the cost to the environment or the British public.

What other government can say the same?

[tobyjugg2]

"In August the pound suffered its worst monthly performance against the U.S. currency since October 2016 and some analysts are predicting it could test its all-time low of around $1.05 hit in 1985."

 

Think what that will do to the dollar based chunk of the UK debt Mountain

 

Will British bonds be classed as little better than Junk? Not long to wait and see

 

Sterling steadies after bruising week, markets await new PM

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The pound steadied on Friday as some calm returned at the end of a bruising week in which concerns about the UK's deteriorating economic...

 

 

Analysis: Market mayhem awaits Britain's new leader

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Liz Truss, on course to become Britain's prime minister on Monday, looks set to walk straight into a financial market firestorm that she will have to...

 

 

But at least the Energy companies are raking it in eh?

[tobyjugg2]

Whats awaiting Truss that she maybe should fear EVEN more than the financial fallout - which latter she can dump on the future

 

Pack cabinet with Johnson loyalists at your peril, Liz Truss is warned | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Senior Tories tell likely leadership winner that she needs to appoint an inclusive team as row looms over Partygate report

 

 

Tory MPs ‘plotting leadership vote before Christmas’ to bring back Boris Johnson

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Unhappy MPs said to want a leadership vote by end of year

 

 

All the decent people AND Truss need Johnson prosecuted and banned from office.

Then the decent people need Truss, Patel, Frost, Kwazi, etc all kicked out and prosecuted for abuses of office.

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Truss/Knuesburger this morning

Osbourne lowered corporation Tax and we've had stagnation and low investment since

So I'll lower corporation tax to generate investment and growth

 

Knuesburger:

but if that does what it did before and growth and investment reduce, wheres all the money coming from, other than the taxpayer who wont have jobs?

 

Truss (avoiding the question)

I want the UK to grow more of its own food that it cant pick, and I want to grow hydrogen wind and solar by enabling and growing fracking.

 

Knuesburger

My aren't you are the spitting image of Thatcher

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[unclebulgaria67]

Kent brewery hailed as Brexit ‘export champion’ has one EU customer left | Brexit | The Guardian

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The Old Dairy Brewery, named in a government video, has seen sales slump because of excessive paperwork

 

[unclebulgaria67]

It appears to me that the all of the options to stimulate the economy and also to help people financially, will be very very expensive.  We are probably talking about hundreds of billions being added to national debt.

 

The priority at the moment, should be freezing energy prices, to protect the economy from the damage that would be caused by the rises that are expected. 

 

If the new PM does not freeze energy prices, they will come to regret this, if the economic damage ends up costing much more to deal with later.

[tobyjugg2]

12 minutes ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

It appears to me that the all of the options to stimulate the economy and also to help people financially, will be very very expensive.  We are probably talking about hundreds of billions being added to national debt.

 

 

A VERY long term debt with VERY short term 'benefits', and who will they help?

( - apart from water company and energy company profits)

 

Liz Truss says it is fair to prioritise tax cuts that benefit high earners more | Liz Truss | The Guardian

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Prospective PM attacks ‘lens of redistribution’ after being told that national insurance cut will help rich 250 times more than poorest

 

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[unclebulgaria67]

@tobyjugg2

 

Schools that might have to open for fewer days due to heating costs over the winter.

 

Care Homes residents who may face huge increase in the fees they are paying, as the care home owners pass on the increase in energy bill costs.

 

Businesses that may have to reduce their hours of operation to reduce their energy bills to affordable levels.

 

I am not particularly comfortable with paying the energy companies money to increase their profits and would prefer natonalisation.  But as that appears very unlikely, then subsidising energy costs and applying a windfall tax may be the only viable option.

[tobyjugg2]

1 hour ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

@tobyjugg2

 

I am not particularly comfortable with paying the energy companies money to increase their profits and would prefer natonalisation.  But as that appears very unlikely, then subsidising energy costs and applying a windfall tax may be the only viable option.

 

Limiting the excess profits of the energy suppliers would go a long way to helping.

 

I'm against renationalising water companies until they have been FORCED to clear the debts and rebuild the infrastructure - via limiting the profits and legislating improvement.

Renationalising fossil fuel companies? Why? they are done - we just need to ensure they dont bleed us to death and take us down with them.

Edited September 4, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Larry the cat is standing for PM.

 

Larry4Leader: No 10’s Larry the cat ‘enters’ race to become next PM | Conservative leadership | The Guardian

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Downing Street’s ‘chief mouser’ has apparently thrown his collar in the ring to replace Boris Johnson

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

I think Joe Lycet has really nailed it and poured a liberal bucketload of onions on the mouthpiece Knewsborg

 

a bit:

Joe Lycett praised for trolling 'complicit' Laura Kunessberg on debut of her new show | indy100

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Joe Lycett praised for trolling 'complicit' Laura Kunessberg on debut of her new show

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

It's not looking great for Truss on the day she becomes PM, is it?

 

Less than 50% of eligible party members voted for her and if the Tories had the same voting system that she wants for a Scottish referendum and trade union strike votes, she wouldn't have been elected.

 

A section of the party wants Bozo back and is trying to get the rules changed at the party conference so there can be a leadership vote with him on the ballot paper. They're also feuding with Sunak and his supporters because they think it's all his fault that Johnson was ousted, not the dozens of ministers who refused to work with him in government.

 

And who knows what Johnson will do now he's outside the tent peeing in...

[tobyjugg2]

As Patel gets deported to the backbenches (she allegedly had a choice of the backbenches or Rwanda),

she says she is proud of her achievements, and will continue with her legacy of trying to deport those stubborn 7 asylum seekers to Rwanda from where she is, whatever the cost to the British taxpayer.

.. In addition to her rumored new policy objective of seeking a pay rise at least in line with projected inflation of 22%, better expenses and a higher fuel allowance (+500%) for government backbenchers.

 

in between writing her 'we're back' speech for when she and Boris return possibly next year, but they hope after Truss gets Trounced at the next GE.

(preferably the latter so it wont be Johnson gets ejected at the next GE)

Edited September 6, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Talk in the City seems to be that they give her six months and then expect a GE because it's all fallen apart.

[tobyjugg2]

That would require some basic respect for our democratic processes - so unlikely.

A general strike would probably struggle to force it. I don't doubt she'd use it as an excuse to call in the Army

 

Edited September 6, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Thread title altered to reflect the new situation.

 

I'm leaving this thread open because I suspect there will be a lot more to discuss about Johnson. There's a new thread for the new government, so perhaps we could keep this one just for issues about Johnson and his future please.

[unclebulgaria67]

Quorn's hilarious ambush of Boris Johnson as he leaves No. 10 with 'no more porkies' sign - MyLondon

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The truck handed out pork-free, ham sandwiches to passers-by

 

[unclebulgaria67]

 

[tobyjugg2]

johnson 'the Corrupt Liar' will see himself as the 'Once and Future King'

 

I see him as a particularly persistent and exceptionally obnoxious Herpes variant

 

 

(like the reshuffling cat doodoo especially among those clear and accurate definitions)

Edited September 8, 2022 by tobyjugg2