The fact that this is broadly true is a matter for utter despair. After all, the main cause of the financial crisis was the deregulation of the banks - promoted by the political right. No doubt the Tories will try the same trick over leaving the EU when even the most hardline Quitters are forced to admit it was a terrible idea.

 

But the Tories saved the country from those greedy bankers by slashing and slashing! And then spending and spending! On their mates! And Tories personally invented cures for Covid which has been defeated like the evil EU has been defeated! Our good friends in Russia and China will save us, invest, invest! Buy us up, come on in, give us your money! Tory Party coffers obv! We can become the new tax-dodging world-leader! So rich! Everyone will be so well-off booting out those spongeing Poles taking jobs that no-one wants to do! get the benefit-claimants to work in the fields! Paradise can only be round the corner, after all it's been 6 years since the Brexit vote and we are free to do whatever we want now!

 

Free to slap the wrist of a handful of Putin mega-billionaires, and not a penny more....

 

Sorry don't know what came over me there...I was possessed by the ghost of Christmases Past :o :teresa:

Guess with the invasion in Ukraine being as it is, Johnson is untouchable as Partygate will be deprioritised.

Yup most likely but if he is cautioned he will have further questions about his ability to be a leader in a situation like this!

Agreed plus much more will come out about Putin supporting donors links to Conservative funding and Brexit….

Guess with the invasion in Ukraine being as it is, Johnson is untouchable as Partygate will be deprioritised.

 

Well notice how there has been no further media coverage about partygate since the Ukraine crisis. It will be interesting to see what happens if Johnson is fined as expected. I think the public are still angry and the cost of living crisis is set to spiral with further rises in petrol and energy so his problems haven’t gone away.

Know more important things going on but GAVIN WILLIAMSON has been made a Knight. There are no words... :manson:

Reward a failure again, really the British system is so bloody corrupt. I mean what has he achieved in office apart from failure?

I don't have the bandwith to go deep into the ins and outs of it but excellent journalist Carole Cawadallar has this to say about the useless oaf's knighthood and the timing of it https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1...482812889681921

I can only assume Gavin Williamson must have some serious dirt on the PM to be given a knighthood (for services to ineptitude)

The dirt is all to do with Russian help for Brexit campaigns, and Johnson's willingness to take any help no matter where it came from. Much more serious than Covid-breaking. Funny how the Tories have been unwilling to look into facts that are widely known already about oligarchs, cash for politics, and photos showing Johnson with people linked to Putin. Funny that. Funny Trump worships the ground that Putin walks on. Still does. Funny he tried to overturn democracy to basically install himself as King Of America. Funny Farage loves so many people involved in a lot of these comings and goings and acted as errand boy for Trump by meeting a man wanted by the US government.

 

These have all been swept under the carpet because winning was more important to Republicans and Tories and anyone that didn't toe the party line got the boot. Now that the Labour Party doesn't have someone leading them who was prepared to give Putin the benefit of the not-much-doubt (unlike Teresa May, who to her credit had no doubt at all) they might even be in with a shot now the economic shit has hit the fan as chickens come home to roost in their billions.....

 

I’m furious that Gavin Williamson is getting a knighthood. He wasn’t my education secretary since I’m in Wales but he was so bad it’s not even funny. Highlights include deciding and algorithm knows exam students better than teachers and then telling parents to complain to ofsted about schools during a pandemic. There’s literally no recognition for how hard those in education are working and this is such a slap in the face.

I can only assume Gavin Williamson must have some serious dirt on the PM to be given a knighthood (for services to ineptitude)

 

Yeah, pretty much.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...n-putin-cronies

 

says it all.

^I was gonna link to that! Wonderfully written as always from her.

 

Williamson obviously has dirt on Johnson and his cabinet and is given this to keep quiet, this is an insult to the many unrecognised workers (humanitarian, environmental and charity workers for one) who work tirelessly to do good for the world.

Has anyone mentioned Priti Patel complaining to to the irish Government about welcoming Ukrainian refugees because they will be able to enter the UK via the back-door?

 

No?

 

I wish we'd had more stringent immigration in the 1960's. Specifically, just for her parents.

Has anyone mentioned Priti Patel complaining to to the irish Government about welcoming Ukrainian refugees because they will be able to enter the UK via the back-door?

 

No?

 

I wish we'd had more stringent immigration in the 1960's. Specifically, just for her parents.

Nadhim Zahawi came here as a child when his family fled Saddam's Iraq. Dominic Raab's father came here as a child when his Jewish family fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. It's the Tory way - having taken advantage of something, make sure that other people don't get the same opportunity.

Nadhim Zahawi came here as a child when his family fled Saddam's Iraq. Dominic Raab's father came here as a child when his Jewish family fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. It's the Tory way - having taken advantage of something, make sure that other people don't get the same opportunity.

 

Some might call it hypocrisy of the wealthy, which it is, but sadly it's all part of the human nature thing where people identify as "our gang" and don't support "other gangs" even when coming from persecuted backgrounds where one might imagine that sympathy for others in the same boat would be the empathic and right response. Not everyone, thankfully, but a sizeable portion of the human race.

I wonder when it will be made public about how many MPs got fines for breaching lockdown. Partygate has gone very quiet but I don’t think people have forgotten and many are still angry. Johnston staying could be a blessing in disguise in the longer run and with the cost of living rise set to spiral with little support from the Tories, hopefully they will be out of office at the next election.

Yesterday was the 26th anniversary of the Dunblane school shooting in which sixteen primary school children and one teacher were murdered by a gunman. The following year, Labour won the general election and one of their first acts was to tighten gun legislation. A Telegraph journalist, commenting on this move, wrote "Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy". That journalist, in case you hadn't guessed, was Boris Johnson.

He is utterly VILE.