[Cyclist]

It's the way this bollocks is being trumpeted as a success that gets me. Two of the things mentioned in that Grauniad article were never banned by the EU, the third is predicted to be devastating to British livestock farmers in the medium to long term.

But blue passports.


PS Does anyone have any recipes for sovereignty? When the supermarket shelves are empty we'll still have plenty of that, apparently.

[Tubby Isaacs]

My MP has been knighted.

[Andy McDandy]

I suspect the Guardian staff are trusting their readers to consider the "great successes" and reach their own conclusions.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lord Geidt's let Johnson off but said he might not have done if he'd had all the info. I think he was always going to let Johnson off- it's not really a process geared to deciding on the fate of the PM. But he's gone further than I thought he would, and it's set up nicely for Labour.

"Prime Minister, Lord Geidt said he didn't have all the info. Can you call him in again?"
"Er..."

[Andy McDandy]

I read Geidt's bio this afternoon. He's basically as establishment as they come, without being actually royal.

He's also no stranger to allegations of misconduct and skirting the truth.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's not been chosen for his terrier qualities, but he's gone further than I thought he would. Is anybody saying "case closed, move on"?

[Cyclist]

And another investigation is brewing

Boris Johnson has been accused of corruption after it emerged that he sought funds for his flat refurbishment from a Conservative donor while promising to consider plans for a mystery “great exhibition”.

The prime minister is facing fresh questions after newly published WhatsApp messages with the Tory peer David Brownlow show Johnson called parts of his Downing Street residence a “tip” and asked for “approvals” so his decor designer, Lulu Lytle, could “get on with it” in November 2020.

He signed off the message by saying: “Ps am on the great exhibition plan Will revert.” Lord Brownlow replied: “Of course, get Lulu to call me and we’ll get it sorted ASAP! Thanks for thinking about GE2.”...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... lat-refurb

Whatever it is, it doesn't look good.

[Bones McCoy]

And another investigation is brewing

Boris Johnson has been accused of corruption after it emerged that he sought funds for his flat refurbishment from a Conservative donor while promising to consider plans for a mystery “great exhibition”.

The prime minister is facing fresh questions after newly published WhatsApp messages with the Tory peer David Brownlow show Johnson called parts of his Downing Street residence a “tip” and asked for “approvals” so his decor designer, Lulu Lytle, could “get on with it” in November 2020.

He signed off the message by saying: “Ps am on the great exhibition plan Will revert.” Lord Brownlow replied: “Of course, get Lulu to call me and we’ll get it sorted ASAP! Thanks for thinking about GE2.”...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... lat-refurb

Whatever it is, it doesn't look good.

Great Exhibition: When he used to flash his privates at the Spectator's lady columnists.

[Andy McDandy]

Why am I picturing Johnson in a camel hair coat, stuffing a bag of readies into the back of a van, just out of sight of a crappy Winter Wonderland somewhere off the M25 full of crying kids, outraged and ripped off parents, sweary elves, a drunk Santa and a dog with antlers nailed to its head?

Or maybe this is what he has in mind:

[Tubby Isaacs]

Defending Johnson today, Paul Scully. Doubtless after a mass outbreak of toe nail cutting among senior ministers.

[Abernathy]

It is, quite plainly, rank and obvious venal corruption. No other way to put it.

He will probably get away with it though - which speaks volumes about what our society has become, and how inadequate or systems of regulation are.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He's a ledge.

[davidjay]

Does anyone mind if I repeat what I've said before?

When this bastard finally shambles out of Downing Street, his abiding legacy won't be Brexit, or incompetence in a crisis, or a basketcase economy. it will be that he was the man who normalised corruption and lying in public office, and made "They're all as bad as each other" into the nation's default position.

[Bones McCoy]

He's a ledge.

Like Del Boy, or Arfur Daley.

[Cyclist]

He's a ledge.

Like Del Boy, or Arfur Daley.

Nah. Like the bottom length of wood in a window frame - a plank.

[Crabcakes]

I wonder what single, awful occurrence that is the direct result of Johnson’s scheming, laziness and incompetence is to blame for the particularly severe spiralling cost of living that the U.K. is uniquely experiencing? Hmmmmmm.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ing-crisis

[mattomac]

Bbbbbbrrrrr… Global downturn.

[Crabcakes]

You have to feel for him - Johnson loves having someone to blame, and this time there’s tons of evidence of precisely who caused it. It’s just a shame for him that the prime suspect is one B. Johnson.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Email shows Boris Johnson aide invited No 10 staff to lockdown ‘BYOB’ party
Martin Reynolds invited just over 100 employees at time when social mixing was banned, according to ITV News

Mr Reynolds ought to be directing traffic in uniform by tmrw afternoon.

[Nigredo]

All getting a bit reminiscent of Brown's final days, where he could do absolutely no right in the eyes of the press. Though Brown gets a pass from me because few of the day-to-day disasters were borne of his own doing.