[davidjay]

I guess that's what happens when you are so keen to get rid of the Saj that you don't do any due diligence on the gimpy kid with the nice teeth and a wi-fi enabled coffee mug.

Hell fucking mend them.

He was a rare Brexiter who looked and sounded forward looking.

Malcolm Tucker got Nicola Murray to take her daughter out of private school before she became a minister. You'd think the Tories had somebody like that in the back room for them.

They don't need to. They don't have to look like they do the right thing anymore - greed, corruption and sleaze has been normalised. They're all at it and we'd all do the same if we had the chance; that's what their people believe.

[Youngian]

He was a rare Brexiter who looked and sounded forward looking.

Laissez faire ‘citizen of the world’ bankers were around in the 19th century. I doubt 2019 Tory voters in Middlesborough are looking forward to Sunak’s free market zealotry. And of course that’s not even Rishi’s main problem in holding Johnson’s BlueKIP electoral alliance together if he became PM.

[Youngian]

Not a fan of dead cat theories but do we know for sure if Mr or Mrs Johnson were fined over the parties? The Sunak stories have drowned out PartyGate. That was a stroke of luck. Not many other leak suspects; Team Truss, Dominic Cummings or Steve Baker.

[davidjay]

You do have to hand it to the Ledge - fatally wound Sunak and enable a neat yeahbutwhatabout to the Kinnocks at the same time.

[Youngian]

Sunak’s bright enough to reveal the potential traps to Johnson when he was offered the chancellor gig (which the PM should have known about anyway). ‘Don’t worry Rish and carry on as normal, I’ve got your back.’

[The Weeping Angel]

Stephen Kinnock's case was a bit different- he was accused of illegal tax evasion by breaking a fairly straightforward law on how long you could spend out of Denmark without paying tax there. He worked in Switzerland and paid tax there and joined his wife in Denmark when he wasn't working. He was cleared by the Danish tax authorities. Must be fairly common for people to work in one country and live in another at weekends, I'd have thought.

Yeah but they're both the same.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The man himself has responded. I haven't looked BTL, but doubtless somebody will show up with "Welsh people are morons who voted for people like you because you've got a red rosette". Of course, nothing like that happens with Tory MPs. Mine had to earn every one of his 32,158 votes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good work, Lou Haigh. Rishi's been in the government for 4 years. Serious about making amends, they can pay up for that period, for starters. I'm being kind in not going back to when he became an MP. Actually, fuck being kind.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... xes-labour

[davidjay]

The man himself has responded. I haven't looked BTL, but doubtless somebody will show up with "Welsh people are morons who voted for people like you because you've got a red rosette". Of course, nothing like that happens with Tory MPs. Mine had to earn every one of his 32,158 votes.

The repleis I saw were surpringly supportive. Maybe that word 'libel' was enough to scare the vampires away.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Really?!

Do you fancy all this attention again, except this time as a court case?

[Youngian]

Really?!

Do you fancy all this attention again, except this time as a court case?

Has Rishi the PM’s full support in catching this scoundrel behind the leaks?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha.

Rishi's "fighting back" by getting in the guy who let Johnson off before.

[Watchman]

I’m sure there’s a few of m’lern’d friends who are chomping at the bit to get Dishy in front of a cross examination

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't know if that would be necessary. But it might not be too hard for the defence to argue that the prosecution was politically motivated? Leaking private tax information is a serious matter, but so is leaking the private advice of ambassadors. Not very much seemed to happen in that case.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[davidjay]

[Crabcakes]

Funny how they’re fine to go along with the relentless bullshit, low blows and backstabbing when it’s about other people or policies, but lose their rag when it’s about them.

Live by the Boris, die by the Boris.

[Watchman]

Given de Piffle’s loose tongue, it makes me wonder if, when in “selected company” he hasn’t made letterbox level comments about his former neighbours

[davidjay]

Given de Piffle’s loose tongue, it makes me wonder if, when in “selected company” he hasn’t made letterbox level comments about his former neighbours

I think you can take that as read.

[Crabcakes]

Given de Piffle’s loose tongue, it makes me wonder if, when in “selected company” he hasn’t made letterbox level comments about his former neighbours

You absolutely know Sunak and Javid will have had charwallah gags aimed their way.