Who would have thought eh?

I don’t think we need to take these reports seriously. I mean, a report last Autumn said that Priti Patel is a massive bully but we were told that wasn’t true.

The police report is quite interesting though once you get past the headlines. It does seem the police made mistakes, but there are a couple of accounts of people who got arrested that regret their behaviour too. The report says the fault lies with the law (which was decided by the politicians) in that nobody really knew the law and the original virgil could have gone ahead as planned and would have probably prevented the whole event. So while the Met are at fault for that, you'd probably point the finger at the Government for putting together a law which made no sense.

A government which likely has never been on the front line and had to deal with the issues a police officer finds themselves in.

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These types of stories seem to disappear just as quickly and as often as they happen these days.

 

I despise that vile party.

Yeh hateful so they are!

Hm, I just don't see this sort of story cutting through to the general public. The difference with this and the story about Cummings breaking Covid-19 restrictions is that was clearly very frustrating for the majority of the public who had made sacrifices for others in the national effort to 'flatten the curve' and clearly was going to become a massive story. This complicated story regarding 'Dodgy Dave' and influence and lobbying is very unlikely to capture the same anger and frustration, we've already seen this with government contracts given out to friends and the endless chumocracy revelations, with the public view being '...and?'. I mean, just pick up Private Eye, you'll see that this kind of thing is going on literally all the time and most of it is fairly legal through toothless watchdogs and a complete apathy about wanting to do anything about it. I can't see it unless further revelations continue to unravel about those who work at the top of the Civil Service and their links to corrupt/exploitative private companies. Something akin to the expenses scandal which just about did it for Gordon Brown, and the 'Tory Sleaze' that finished off Major in the mid-1990s.

Hm, I just don't see this sort of story cutting through to the general public. The difference with this and the story about Cummings breaking Covid-19 restrictions is that was clearly very frustrating for the majority of the public who had made sacrifices for others in the national effort to 'flatten the curve' and clearly was going to become a massive story. This complicated story regarding 'Dodgy Dave' and influence and lobbying is very unlikely to capture the same anger and frustration, we've already seen this with government contracts given out to friends and the endless chumocracy revelations, with the public view being '...and?'. I mean, just pick up Private Eye, you'll see that this kind of thing is going on literally all the time and most of it is fairly legal through toothless watchdogs and a complete apathy about wanting to do anything about it. I can't see it unless further revelations continue to unravel about those who work at the top of the Civil Service and their links to corrupt/exploitative private companies. Something akin to the expenses scandal which just about did it for Gordon Brown, and the 'Tory Sleaze' that finished off Major in the mid-1990s.

 

Of course it goes on all the time, but I feel this particular story is something to shift the narrative. Firstly the news is beginning to shift a little from covid, lots of these stories could easily be buried as they knew something would come out. And as far as the Tory Leadership was concerned, publicly at least, Cummings had his reasons however implausible they were. I'm not sure this is going to be like the expenses scandal but the Government are clearly worried and it's a really bad look for an ex-PM who the public know about rather than some no-mark Cabinet member.

After spaffing £2.6m on a briefing room for daily press conferences, Johnson has changed his mind and they won't be happening.

Not sure this Tory Sleaze piece is going to go away that quickly.

Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze as Starmer did in a Blairesque way at PMQs today!

Peston asks Andreya Jenkins and John McDonnell a question about the Johnny Mercer resignation McDonnell argues it’s a disgrace he was sacked by text as it was Johnson who made him a promise he didn’t keep in relation to soldiers being sanctioned for offences committed in the army and Jenkins only answer was to bleat on about the bogeymen in the IRA and not answer the question 🙄

More stuff coming out about David Cameron lobbying the Bank of England -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56843359

 

Labour need to ride with this and push the sleaze narrative.

Yup like the 90s again, always the case when the piggies have had control of the trough for a decade or more!

Gove & Cummings 100% plotting behind the scenes to get Gove into No 10...

 

https://dominiccummings.com/2021/04/23/stat...0-claims-today/

The press is framing it, not as a Tory scandal, but as a salacious gossip piece about WHO leaked the info. Basically, HOW DARE THEY leak embarrassing info - on stuff that we ALL KNEW WAS HAPPENING - Tory sleaze is RIGHT THERE FOR JOURNALISTS TO INVESTIGATE, BUT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO. They are reporting it as a quote about "chatting rat Cummings". You know they will be loving insulting an enemy of Blojo the Clown. Yes, Cummings IS a rat, he is a vile far right mendacious pos, but who cared about who leaked what? The story is Tory sleaze, not about the leaker!! It is like when the media rushed to criticise the neighbour who dared phone the police about the domestic in the Johnson house, and tip toed around the actual domestic.

Dominic Cummings accusing Boris Johnson of behaving in a “mad and totally unethical” way is a bit like a bank robber accusing a fellow bank robber of robbing a bank.

Gove & Cummings 100% plotting behind the scenes to get Gove into No 10...

 

https://dominiccummings.com/2021/04/23/stat...0-claims-today/

 

It does seem that way- looks like someone smells blood to get Johnson to resign. Either way, this stuff is really good for Labour and other parties.

I dont think this will have much effect on the elections coming up which the Tories will do well in due to vaccine bounce.

 

Maybe longer term though it will become a cumulative stench that will damage the Tory brand. That said I'm not sure if public rate honesty that highly sadly and Johnson will get away with it.