[Andy McDandy]

You know that scene in The Thick of It at the inquiry when Emma Messenger has her text messages read back to her?

Yeah, that.

As the old saying goes, jokes don't sound very funny when read out by a barrister in court.

[Bones McCoy]

Bear in mind that the Tory heartland regard Carrie like Beatles diehards regarded Yoko Ono.
For them Johnson is the great leader, denied only by his fondness for skirt.

It's not his fault, she's making him do all this.

My amateur Freud detects a small element of "How dare she, I should have been his fifteenth mistress!" from the horsey set.

But it's never Boris' fault.

[Crabcakes]

It’ll be a new low for him if he now throws his wife under a bus.

[Watchman]

I don’t know, I think he’s got previous on that score

[Crabcakes]

True. Though doing it to save his job will be a new one.

[Boiler]

I don’t know, I think he’s got previous on that score

Ask Marina Wheeler (whom I didn't know was the veteran BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler's daughter).

[Boiler]

According to several sources, a report of sorts has now turned up in Downing Street.

[Boiler]

[Boiler]

Which one's Judas?

[Boiler]

No 10 parties: PM's lockdown fine constitutional crisis, says historian

cross-bench peer Lord Hennessy said: "I think we're in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember."

He added when Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined on Tuesday, he wrote in his diary that "Tuesday 12 April 2022 will be forever remembered as a dark bleak day for public and political life" and the prime minister had become "the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions".

"The prime minister sealed his place in British history as the first lawbreaker to have occupied the premiership," Lord Hennessy wrote.

He said Mr Johnson had turned his position into "an adventure playground for his narcissistic vanity".

One No 10 aide, who witnessed many of the events under investigation, told the BBC the birthday party was the least serious gathering, in terms of potential rule-breaking, that the PM attended.

[davidjay]

It's only a crisis if he gives a shit.