[Crabcakes]

Anyway, rejoice you unpatriotic bastards - Carrie has spawned.

Hope they're having a party to celebrate. Oh, wait...

[Andy McDandy]

No, but he is using it as an excuse to shut up shop early.

[Bones McCoy]

Yeah but ....


Conservative Party fined over PM's Downing Street flat refurbishment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59591917


I contemplate the Beeb's recent stream of unfavourable reportage.
I wonder whether Laura K is O.K. hun.

[Boiler]

Should have got the Met to look into it. Then they'd have got off.

[Cyclist]

Quote from Another Place

My parents kept the newspapers for each of the days their children were born. I wonder if the Johnsons will do the same?

[Crabcakes]

I'm sure Johnson will want to take time off to be with his new child. Which will be a refreshing (and, let's not be coy, remarkably conveniently timed) change from not being willing to admit how many children he actually has, and who with.

[The Weeping Angel]

[satnav]

I see Gove, Shapps and Raab are all now self-isolating after coming into contact with the Australian deputy Prime Minister. At least it will mean they now don't have to parade around the TV studios trying to defend Johnson. How convenient.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I like this. Per the New Statesman model, Labour would get 299, Tories 255. LD 18. Not much of a majority, but might be set up for a few months of low hanging fruit and then another election?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I see Gove, Shapps and Raab are all now self-isolating after coming into contact with the Australian deputy Prime Minister. At least it will mean they now don't have to parade around the TV studios trying to defend Johnson. How convenient.

Gove's Cabinet Office (as it was) may have some questions to answer.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Could be someone else resigning, even though he almost certainly told Johnson there was a party and that he was there.

[mattomac]

Thing is they are all up to their necks in something when the Dominos fall not one of them will avoid being flushed out with the turds.

As I said Javid and Truss have the best hopes. As for Labour they need to not concede a 80 seat majority, that’s why he has so much power.

[Bones McCoy]

And the soundtrack was Wham's Last Christmas.

[Boiler]

[Bones McCoy]

Latest reports confirm it was a 1960's themed party.

"If you can remember it, you were't there" (or vice versa).

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not generally a fan of "offering to resign"- it's meaningless. You do it or you don't. But I like this snippet.

The Guardian also understands that Jack Doyle, Johnson’s chief spin doctor, tried to quit his post after it emerged he attended the party to thank staff and handed out mock awards, including for the “best dressed”. The December event went on late into the night, with dozens of staff drinking, swapping secret Santa presents and playing party games, it is understood.

Doyle’s resignation was rejected by the prime minister, two sources said, contrasting with the approach taken earlier this week when the government’s Cop26 spokesperson, Allegra Stratton, was forced to stand down in a tearful address outside her home. “The PM wouldn’t have it,” a source said.

"Sorry, Jack. Need you to keep you up my sleeve so I can sack you when I come back from paternity leave and need you to take the heat!"

[satnav]

On BBC Breakfast news Charlie Stayt was interviewing a minister and asked him if it was true that Jack Doyle had spent the last two weeks briefing minister about what to say about the party allegations. The minister became very cagey which would suggest this was the case. So a person who played a key role at the party has spent the last fortnight telling ministers to deny that the party took place. Surely is credibility is now shot to pieces.

[davidjay]

In total contrast, this almost brought a tear to my eye:

[Tubby Isaacs]

On BBC Breakfast news Charlie Stayt was interviewing a minister and asked him if it was true that Jack Doyle had spent the last two weeks briefing minister about what to say about the party allegations. The minister became very cagey which would suggest this was the case. So a person who played a key role at the party has spent the last fortnight telling ministers to deny that the party took place. Surely is credibility is now shot to pieces.

He must be quite a guy if he can get the Cabinet to make idiots of themselves for two weeks to spare his blushes.

[Youngian]

Pleasantly surprised the Greens are picking up the dustbin vote instead of Brexit clown party allies of the Tories.