The Dubious World of Boris Johnson

thats why got to wait for Sue Gray im sure she will come out with some incendiary stuff and they will all go for it

I reckon Boris himself will read it before anybody else, rip it up and and tell her to tone it down to make him look good

Sue Gray would be the type of person who would resign and then give the real report to the media

That would be the shock headline of the week!!

Wow he cant just help himself can he

https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1484106724768428035

Boris hasn't got the balls to bully anyone. A lot of other people in No 10 will lose their jobs if he goes, though...

the tory Mp that defected saying he was threatened with removal of funding for a new high school if he voted the wrong way

https://twitter.com/BBCNWT/status/1484149149700341770

(20-01-2022 00:51 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  

(19-01-2022 21:04 )southsidestu Wrote:  The problem is if they get rid now and replace him, there are still difficult months ahead for any PM with the rise of the cost of living, energy crisis & an upcoming budget that may be all doom and gloom would be an unwanted baptism of fire.

The bigger problem is, if they force a vote of no confidence and he manages to survive it, they can't touch him again for a whole year.

Not necessarily they can change the rules, that was why May resigned they were looking to shorten the time period so she left & they abandoned it. There has been talk that The 1922 committee are again looking to reduce it from 1 year to 6 months.

Absolutely superb forensic dissection of Boris Johnson’s character and his credibility in respect of partygate on tonight's episode of Question Time by prize-winning crime novelist Christopher Brookmyre: "As a crime writer, one of the things you think about is criminal behaviour and the psychology of it. Boris Johnson is someone who, because he has not faced adverse consequences [throughout his career], I think he has reached the stage where he starts to forget that what he’s doing is wrong. And certainly the lies he has told over this (partygate) are so laughably unconvincing, that I don’t think he is someone who is talented in constructing his fables, I think he says what he needs to, to get out of the next 5 minutes. And that’s why it’s not convincing. That’s why even his own party are not convinced and see him as a liability and is why they are preparing to have a leadership contest because they know he is a liability”


This was the whole quote by Christopher Brookmyre in his response to the panel's question on BJ and partygate:
“He’s someone who has never faced adverse consequences for bad behaviour in his entire career, he’s never faced adverse consequences for his dishonesty” [Fiona Bruce interjects: “well he’s been sacked 4 times”], to which Brookmyre immediately responds in recontinuing> “he has been sacked and failed upwards. He was sacked for making up quotes at The Times and then he becomes Bureau Chief in Brussels for the Telegraph where he proceeds to make up lies about the EU, and that’s not my spin on it, that was his take – he boasted that he would make up lies about what was going on in the EU and he was delighted to see that EuroSceptic MPs would be repeating these lies in Parliament a couple of days later and it was those lies that were actually part of the popularist Eurosceptic mythology that drove us to leave the EU. Now his lies have had a toll on us for 25 years. But, as a crime writer, one of the things you think about is criminal behaviour and the psychology of it. Boris Johnson is someone who, because he has not faced adverse consequences, I think he has reached the stage where he starts to forget that what he’s doing is wrong. And certainly the lies he has told over this are so laughably unconvincing, that I don’t think he is someone who is talented in constructing his fables, I think he says what he needs to, to get out of the next 5 minutes. And that’s why it’s not convincing. That’s why even his own party are not convinced and see him as a liability and is why they are preparing to have a leadership contest because they know he is a liability”

great dissection