[kreuzberger]

Implicitly. "My presence there as the boss implies that it was a working event."

Is that the interpretation we are looking for, and the caveat that he will try to rely upon when finally busted?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Oboogie]

Implicitly. "My presence there as the boss implies that it was a working event."

Is that the interpretation we are looking for, and the caveat that he will try to rely upon when finally busted?

Is that going to fool anybody?
We've all been at work 'dos' (Christmas parties etc) where senior management have been present; letting their hair down, dancing, wearing 'funny' hats, singing, showing their human side. But it's clear to even the doziest employee that, whilst these are certainly 'work events', they are not 'working events' as no 'work' is being carried out.

[Nigredo]

Is he actually sure an event even happened now? He seemed terribly uncertain what was even happening last week.

[kreuzberger]

... snip ... Is that going to fool anybody?

Well, the latest dogatemyhomeworkism is ignorance of the rules which he, himself, put in place. He's thrashing around like a mad drowning.

In truth, I really feel for anyone going through such a torturous time. Johnson is no exception. But, then the Schadenfreude impulse kicks in and I reach for the virtual popcorn.

[satnav]

Johnson looked pretty shocking in the interview this afternoon. I was also surprised that after isolating for 5 days he thought that the first place he should visit was a hospital. When describing the party that he actually admitted attending he talks about walking out into 'that garden' like it was a garden he was unfamiliar with. it was his own bloody garden. A few hundred yards from the podium where he frequently stood and told people that they couldn't socialise in groups.

[Nigredo]

... snip ... Is that going to fool anybody?

Well, the latest dogatemyhomeworkism is ignorance of the rules which he, himself, put in place.

And went onto national television multiple times to reiterate to us.

While my mother's funeral was sparsely attended owing to a reduced capacity chapel (and people reluctantly withdrawing attendance due to COVID), this shambolic self-absorbed arsewipe was probably having a raucous time, with a mixture of cheese and claret drooling down his slovenly jowls. No sympathy from me, I hope he hates every second of it from now to his last breath.

[Oboogie]

So, according to @Mike_Fabricant, Tory criminality is so rife it requires it's own, dedicated police force!

[Crabcakes]

Looks like The Telegraph has got the receipts…

[Bones McCoy]

Looks like The Telegraph has got the receipts…

If 1am, it's not the night before...

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Boiler]

There are some very serious allegations in that author's tweets.

[kreuzberger]

Interesting to see Gav-the-Twat trending just a week after bagging a K.

[Boiler]

Oh, here's a surprise.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... minic-raab

Dominic Raab has refused to confirm that the Sue Gray report on alleged Downing Street parties will be published in full next week, saying the amount of detail released publicly will be a matter for Boris Johnson.

In what appeared to be a scaling back of the government’s commitment to openness on the report, Raab, the justice secretary and deputy prime minister, promised there would be “full transparency”, but declined to give any specifics.

[zuriblue]

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[Boiler]

From the BBC:

Jacob Rees-Mogg describes the idea the police intervention today helped the prime minister as "parallel universe stuff".

The leader of the House of Commons tells BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson: "It would be a very eccentric conspiracy theorist who thought that the prime minister being investigated by the police was beneficial to the prime minister."

He adds he knows people get excited about "dead cat strategies" - where an issue is used to distract from another - but says this is a "sort of trophy hunted dead lion being found on the table - which I think is hard to find helpful".

Another one for whom an expensive education was wasted.

[Boiler]

BBC now suggesting that Johnson is going to receive the Gray report 'shortly'.

Yet another controlled briefing to the Press over the weekend rather than the House on Monday?

[kreuzberger]

Yep, re-spun by Dacre together with whatever he has found in Sue Gray's bins in your bumper edition of the MoS.

Who would be Sue Gray right now, eh?

[Bones McCoy]

BBC now suggesting that Johnson is going to receive the Gray report 'shortly'.

Yet another controlled briefing to the Press over the weekend rather than the House on Monday?

Maybe they pop it in the Telegraph - behind a paywall.

There'll be corks popping at the win of pushing it into the weekend.
A couple of days for loss in transit to/from chequers, or for Dilyn to chow down.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't think it helps them to spin this out. Johnson needs to be cleared quickly, or else the leaks keep on coming. The Telegraph of all places has got a leak tonight that not onlly drops Carrie in it, but also No.10.

Everything he does now looks like a deliberate distraction, even if it's standard PM photo op stuff. I think he's fucked.