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If he was a honourable man like some on here keep telling us then he would have respected the referendum and not tried in all his powers to stop it and these people tried.

He didn’t respect or honour the will of the people did he but you just keep up with the insults pal.

 

I give up. You will go to any lengths to justify what is clearly and obviously, to everyone else, persistent and systematic law-breaking at the heart of government. These were regular Friday afternoon post work piss-ups which Johnson not only knew about but encouraged, to allow his staff to 'let off steam'. It's not just whether he was always there that matters, it's the fact that he positively encouraged a culture of persistent illegality, knowing full well that such socialising was against the law that he himself was preaching to the rest of us.

But we now know that he also participated for twenty minutes in a gathering where the (non-socially distanced) room was so packed that some people had to sit on others laps to fit them all in. And there's photographic evidence of him doing it. This was clearly and obviously (except to you, apparently) against the law.

There was nothing whatsoever 'essential for work purposes' about any of this - it was socialising, pure and simple, while the rest of the country was prevented from doing so. It's beyond me that you don't understand this and constantly seek to minimise it.

Equating the meal in Durham with months of routine law-breaking is perverse and absurd

 

When the pandemic started vast swathes of the Civil service were told to work from home where you could- especially those staff with existing underlying health conditions.

Canteens were immediately closed. Staff remaining in offices had to eat at their own desk and at least 1 desk was set between staff for social distancing. No sharing of food/making drinks/stopping to chat in the corridors, plastic screens were put up-I could go on.

Except it seems Downing Street-and what irks me as a civil servant is that BJ in no 10 just completely stuck 2 fingers up and said feck the rules lets have drinky poos and whether the gathering was a party or not gatherings were expressly forbidden throughout the civil service. The semantics over what constitutes a party is irrelevant-no gatherings were allowed inside Government buildings per se. That came from the cabinet. Social distancing was the mantra in all areas at all times-no ifs or buts.

All meetings were to be conducted by MS Teams and some still are.

Except it seems no10.

The only reason BJ is sorry is that he has been caught out shoving his own guidance down the throats of the population.

 

Honestly mate I think its time to drop it.

My lasses grandad was an ex firefighter and served in ww2. He died at home with only my lasses mum there and no other family allowed. In the days leading up to his death we were allowed to see him through his window and with the front door open. He knew he was dying, half unconscious he rose in his seat a weakened and emaciated man and shouted 'im going to die'. This was in May 2020, we couldnt have his funeral until September 2020.

If you said what you are saying here to my lasses face. She would plant the nut on you mate. Its time to keep your opinions to yourself. I doubt very much you would say this to someone in person. If you would then you are what can only be described as a gobshite.

Ive said it before, you defend the indefensible all the time by squirming around with technicalities and generally talk bollocks. You think you are clever and instead its just arrogance. Its really time to shut up.

If you want we can go to the other thread and you can argue until the cows come home about brexit. Maybe that will satiate your need to be contrarian.

 

Bring back Blair,

 

Country has never needed Sir Farage more that it does now....
( That'll upset our resident Guardian readers no doubt )..

 

The reason he will win the vote is because of the number of MPs who are getting a nice six figure salary by being ministers and junior ministers. They are hardly likely to vote against the status quo. Then you have those in safe seats for whom no matter who is in charge they will be returned to the commons at the next election. We have seen over 100 vote against the PM for the "Vaccine Passport" scheme and I would expect the number of MPs to vote against him today will be in the same ball park meaning Boris will win the vote by about 2 to 1. Which is the same margin of victory Theresa May had in her no confidence vote that did her no favours.

 

Last time Tory MPs voted for their leader Boris got 51%, so his popularity has increased

 

Oh dear

 

You make it sound like something was actually being done at some point.

 

End is nigh for lyin' BJ, as Sajid Javid is 1st to resign.

 

Rats deserting a sinking ship has never been so apt. All of them absolute sewer rats

 

So Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid did the right thing by resigning, as I say he can't beat this situation, although the Tory party cant have another no confidence vote for a while I'm given to believe.

 

Remember the 'at least it's not Corbyn' cries?

Perhaps Corbyn would be in a similar position, but there's no way it would be worse.

Boris and Corbyn are equally unpopular.

It's amazing that Boris has performed so badly that he's on equal footing with a man that couldn't achieve votes even in Labour heartlands.

 

Boris’ little bum chums in the MSM did a right hatchet job on him - I’m no Corbyn fan, but he was destroyed by the lying media.

 

This is the cabinet of the talentless. They're only in the cabinet because they backed Bunter over Brexit. Most of them know they don't have a cat in hell's chance of retaining their cabinet posts under a different leader, which is why they've hung onto Johnson's coat-tails for so long. They'll hang on for grim death rather than be shunted back to the back benches.

 

You'd have a government that actually did some work instead of endless political firefighting.

 

Yes, it’s that easy when sensible, caring adults take charge instead of some obese, self entitled fckwit who thinks he’s the reincarnation of Winston Churchill.