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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Stranger Mouse » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:19 pm

I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list if that’s still in the works

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Stranger Mouse » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:22 pm

Nobody told him it wasn’t allowed https://twitter.com/adamwagner1/status/ ... 86212?s=21
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by monkey » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:28 pm

Opti wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:51 pm
He did know it was against the rules = Lied to Parliament - Resignation.

He didn't know it was against his own rules = Terminally thick - Resignation.

I can't see an alternative ... but I expect he has one.
Think he's doing the only thing he can do, which is to try and ride it out and hope it goes away. But it won't. Even if Gray's report says he did no wrong, no one will believe it and will see it as a stich up.

He won't resign, he'll be no-confidenced, and Tory MPs seem to be arguing about when to give him the boot, rather than whether they should.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by headshot » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:34 pm

Ignorantia juris non excusat.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by TopBadger » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:44 pm

Little waster wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:54 pm
LBD and AC-12 smashing it out the park again.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Little waster » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:46 pm

headshot wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:34 pm
Ignorantia juris non excusat.
Or as Johnson would put it:-
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by WFJ » Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:09 pm

Opti wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:51 pm
He did know it was against the rules = Lied to Parliament - Resignation.

He didn't know it was against his own rules = Terminally thick - Resignation.

I can't see an alternative ... but I expect he has one.
This is the same PM whose argument with the EU over NI boils down to them tricking him into signing a WA that he either hadn't read or hadn't realised to consequences of. Terminally thick does not seem to be a resignation issue for him.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Chris Preston » Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:51 pm

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:47 pm
I'm kind of lost for words.

It's just...

how can he think that this makes him look better?

The fact that he thinks that answer helps him is mind-blowing to me.
This is the Donald Trump approach.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by jimbob » Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:53 pm

Stranger Mouse wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:35 pm
TopBadger wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:25 pm
Just heard on the Radio that Boris is denying being advised (by Dom and others) in advance of the party that it was a bad idea... (which would really be some pretty barefaced lying to parliament). I'm really hoping this is another trap and the evidence email of "Hey BoJo, this party next week is a bad idea" comes out any day now...
Plenty of wriggle room for the gullible though. I was told there was a gathering. I saw the tables with cheese and wine. But nobody told me that it was against the rules.
The thing is, this actually is inline with his brand. So he's spent a lot of effort reinforcing the image that with just a little tweak now looks like this to his disgruntled former fans.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Bird on a Fire » Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:32 pm

I mean, we've all been pissed and gone to a party we shouldn't have.
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Bird on a Fire » Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:32 pm

Might take wine and cheese to tomorrow's PhD seminar.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by lpm » Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:02 am

Windmills of your Mind:

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Little waster » Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:09 am

lpm wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:02 am
Windmills of your Mind:

https://youtu.be/M_gojozdxok
20 Nov 2019
That's aged rather too well! :shock:


Yet still people will insist that there was no possible way of predicting that a Johnson administration would play out exactly as it did with mind-numbing inevitability.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by El Pollo Diablo » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:43 am

PMQs in fifteen minutes. What do we reckon the chances are that Johnson or some simpering tw.t in his party will call for Starmer to apologise for having a beer during an actual work meeting?
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by El Pollo Diablo » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:51 am

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Little waster » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:43 am
PMQs in fifteen minutes. What do we reckon the chances are that Johnson or some simpering tw.t in his party will call for Starmer to apologise for having a beer during an actual work meeting?
The tragic thing is ... I'm all out of popcorn.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by lpm » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am

I've reached the stage where if Johnson doesn't cry during PMQs I'll feel let down.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by nezumi » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:02 pm

Little waster wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:43 am
PMQs in fifteen minutes. What do we reckon the chances are that Johnson or some simpering tw.t in his party will call for Starmer to apologise for having a beer during an actual work meeting?
The tragic thing is ... I'm all out of popcorn.
I know, right, let's have a few more defections over the next few days - anything that chips away at that majority will help.

Anyone know what the precendent for this is? Don't think I've ever paid attention to MP defections before.

Yeah lpm, those delicious Tory tears! If only they were capable of basic human emotion.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Grumble » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:08 pm

Keir is enjoying this. Boris is a laughing stock.
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Stephanie » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:11 pm

lpm wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
I've reached the stage where if Johnson doesn't cry during PMQs I'll feel let down.
i know right? just a couple of tears
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by Rich Scopie » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:13 pm

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:43 am
PMQs in fifteen minutes. What do we reckon the chances are that Johnson or some simpering tw.t in his party will call for Starmer to apologise for having a beer during an actual work meeting?
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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by TimW » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:18 pm

Stephanie wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:11 pm
lpm wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
I've reached the stage where if Johnson doesn't cry during PMQs I'll feel let down.
i know right? just a couple of tears
He can't do that until Sue Gray tells him to.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by lpm » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:27 pm

Another visit to Erskine May, like it's 2019 again.

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Re: 2020 No. 10 Christmas Party!

Post by lpm » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:44 pm

Surprised Johnson didn't recognise the famous Leo Amery quote, which in turn was a quote of Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing."

Johnson "wrote" a book on Churchill ffs.

Perhaps he was just pretending not to recognise the quote,
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