[Spoonman]

Yet another one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63177669

Conor Burns is expendable.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Conor Burns is expendable.

So should Owen Paterson and Chris Pincher been, but Johnson tried to keep hold of them.

[Oboogie]

Yet another one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63177669

Conor Burns is expendable.

Seems so. Is he a smokescreen to save Suella Braverman?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 31107.html

[Youngian]

No details as to why Connor Burns is suspended apart from it happened in the bar at party conference. Did he touch up Liz?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Why not, it appears everybody else has.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sub-Republican bollocks. The evidence that Sadiq Khan is failing on crime is... a short clip of him talking about something else, perhaps in response to a question on it.

[Oboogie]

No details as to why Connor Burns is suspended apart from it happened in the bar at party conference. Did he touch up Liz?

Seems unlikely as Burns is gay.
Twitter rumour is 'it' occurred at an LGBTQ fringe event and Burns' conduct has been compared to Chris Pincher. No source given and I've no idea if that's accurate.

[Watchman]

Maybe if Burns had been “touching up” Pincher, will they claim one cancels out the other therefore everything’s ok

[Youngian]

Apparently, Burns is known to his friends as carpet.

[kreuzberger]

The Burns scandal seems to be so toxic that the news seepage is as tight as a seventeen year-old researcher.

That would indicate, to me at least, that there is more than hanky-panky to be dealt with. Rather there is a victim and perhaps even very real concern for their well-being.

That might also suggest that there have been criminal actions, and it would come as no surprise that tories would want to rapidly wash their hands of the whole affair.

Am I being too cynical?

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Burns scandal seems to be so toxic that the news seepage is as tight as a seventeen year-old researcher.

That would indicate, to me at least, that there is more than hanky-panky to be dealt with. Rather there is a victim and perhaps even very real concern for their well-being.

That might also suggest that there have been criminal actions, and it would come as no surprise that tories would want to rapidly wash their hands of the whole affair.

Am I being too cynical?

I wonder if it's "that bad". You don't have to be a political genius to see that Johnson hanging on to Pincher didn't go well.

But it would also be on brand for it to be very bad, you I wouldn't bet against you.

[kreuzberger]

Anyway, the Spice Girls are getting involved so that will light the blue touch paper for the Sundays.

[Youngian]

I wonder if it's "that bad". You don't have to be a political genius to see that Johnson hanging on to Pincher didn't go well.

Sounds plausible. As Starmer puts a bit of stick about if MPs step out of line, he’s always in a position to castigate the Tories from on high. If Truss doesn’t take action Keir gets free punches; sleaze, indecision, not up to the job, weak, desperate to hold onto ministers.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from Greg. People did vote Conservative, 4 times since Ed Miliband was in Government. I think this one is on you.

[Youngian]

Welcome to the BlueKIP bunfight: Libertarian moonbeams Vs Culture war populists. Timothy you may recall was the strategist who wrote Theresa May’s poisonous ‘citizens of nowhere’ speech and lost seats to Jeremy Corbyn in a GE.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Just stringing words together that sound serious.

[Bones McCoy]

Connor "Third Degree" Burns (Cos he got a thid class degree Geddit!!).


Suspended for using HoC notepaper for intimidatory messages during a dispute involving family business.
The source of the "Ambushed by cake" quote.

Fekim!!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Zahawi does his best to show he'd have been even worse than Kwarteng.

[Samanfur]

Connor "Third Degree" Burns (Cos he got a thid class degree Geddit!!).


Suspended for using HoC notepaper for intimidatory messages during a dispute involving family business.
The source of the "Ambushed by cake" quote.

Fekim!!

The version of events I saw said that he'd touched up a male researcher. Given that he was listed on the Pestminster list back in the day for serially doing that, it seems plausible.

[Crabcakes]

This list of Tory MPs with some sort of corruption or crime against their name is just absolutely staggering. You think it must end soon, yet it keeps on going and going.