Should there be a Parliamentary Inquiry into Johnson's handling of covid?

[BillyStubbsTears]

So it's out. Lord Brownlow paid £60k towards the refurb that Johnson's missus demanded. And Johnson didn't declare it. And Brownlow's company was awarded COVID contracts.

In previous times that was a stone cold resigning issue. Mandelson resigned from Blair's Cabinet when he was LOANED, not GIVEN funds to buy a house and didn't declare it.

[SydneyRover]

Modus Operandi: deny-lie-obfuscate-lie-blame others.

It's astonishing that the man who is supposed to be beyond reproach, cannot be trusted with the simplest of truths, rich as all get out but wants others to pay for his lavish lifestyle where in the country he governs food banks are the norm for thousands and thousands of people.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Max Hastings (Johnson's old boss who sacked him for making up a story in The Telegraph) on Johnson here at 21:08.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000vghm

"People don't seem to care if the leader of the country is a moral, decent man. They know that he's a serial liar. They know that we're not allowed to ask him how many children he's got. Again and again we hear people say 'we know what Johnson is but hasn't he done wonderfully with the vaccine'".

Have Godwin's Law on me. In the 1930s, there were people in Berlin saying "Yeah we know what the Fuehrer is like, but hasn't he done wonderful things with the autobahns?"

[SydneyRover]

Funny-not, that johnson sacked twice for lying to the nation via newspapers he worked for but plenty that want to be taken seriously make excuses and obfuscate rather than admit johnson is no better than a used wet wipe.

[belton rover]

I know what you mean, Sydney: used wet wipes are right lying bas**rds.

[SydneyRover]

slimy and covered in shit too

[belton rover]

You shouldn’t be wiping your arse with wet wipes.

[SydneyRover]

I certainly wouldn't do that with boris johnson

[SydneyRover]

We may get to the truth after all

''Electoral Commission to investigate Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat renovations

The Electoral Commission has launched a formal investigation into the funding of Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat refurbishments.

The watchdog has been in contact with the Conservative Party since March over works the PM carried out to No 11.

But it has now announced it is "satisfied that there are reasonable''

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56915307

[wilts rover]

Nicked from twitter:

It is not surprising Boris Johnson is angry.

He can see the writing on the wall, and he’s just spent nine grand having it papered...

[BillyStubbsTears]

Ex-Tory Communication Manager Craig Oliver on R4 just now saying he thinks the most damaging part of all this for Johnson is his missus's disgust at inheriting a flat furnished with stuff from John Lewis.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Arlene Foster's gone.

That's what you get for believing what Boris tells you.

[ravenrover]

Just a wild thought, what's the possibility that Carrie might come forward as the person to whom a loan was made, if there was one in the 1st place? Takes the heat off the clown and nothing to declare in his financial report which puts him in the clear, which I hear from the stooges put forward is an annual account, thought it was supposed to be every 6 months!

[Glyn_Wigley]

Just a wild thought, what's the possibility that Carrie might come forward as the person to whom a loan was made, if there was one in the 1st place? Takes the heat off the clown and nothing to declare in his financial report which puts him in the clear, which I hear from the stooges put forward is an annual account, thought it was supposed to be every 6 months!

It wouldn't take the heat off at all. She has NO official position, if the money comes through her it's still a donation and Boris still has to declare it. It'd just look even dodgier when audited.

[albie]

So Tory donor Lord Brownose has a finger in the Covid pie carve up;
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/04/28/firm-owned-lord-brownlow-boris-johnsons-downing-street-donor-allowed-to-bid-for-130-million-public-contracts/
What a coincidence eh!

Still, Bozo and Carrie Antoinette can't be expected to live in a skip with John Lewis curtains can they?

[SydneyRover]

It may be Carrie the Can soon, johnson doesn't care who he blames.

[BillyStubbsTears]

So Johnson has just appointed a new Advisor for Standards. And he's asked him to investigate the flat payments. But Johnson has today refused to say whether he will publish the report.

Good, that, int it?

Some background. The reason he's had to appoint a new Standards Advisor is that the old one resigned in protest. He produced s report into bullying by Priti Patel, that said Priti Patel was a bully. In response, Johnson said, no she wasn't. So the adviser resigned in protest.

[Bentley Bullet]

Advisors advise, ministers decide.

[Not Now Kato]

[BillyStubbsTears]

Advisors advise, ministers decide.

So Johnson needs an adviser to advise him whether he paid a bill himself?

Who does he have to help him wipe his arse?

[belton rover]

As a lover of English literature, that, Not, has made my day.
Brilliant!

[Bentley Bullet]

Advisors advise, ministers decide.

So Johnson needs an adviser to advise him whether he paid a bill himself?

Who does he have to help him wipe his arse?

No, Johnson has declared he paid the bill himself.

All governments have had special advisers since Harold Wilson introduced them for LABOUR in 1964.

Perhaps Johnson has to rely on them more now to assist in the constant accusations of sleaze from a lame opposition while he spends an unprecedented time on much more important issues like The pandemic and Brexit etc.

[Metalmicky]

The person running the country and directing policy needs to get a grip on the costs scandal engulfing Downing Street.

Then when Carrie Symonds has done with that she must tell the Prime Minister what to say next.

[albie]

We may get to the truth after all

''Electoral Commission to investigate Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat renovations

The Electoral Commission has launched a formal investigation into the funding of Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat refurbishments.

The watchdog has been in contact with the Conservative Party since March over works the PM carried out to No 11.

But it has now announced it is "satisfied that there are reasonable''

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56915307

My understanding is that the Electoral Commission are investigating the activities of the Conservative Party, not Coco himself.

If the Party are found to be in breach of the rules, they can be fined up to £20k.

BB,

The issue is NOT whether Johnson eventually paid the bill himself...it is whether funds were directed to the project over and above the £30k allowed as an undeclared loan.

Failure to declare is the breach of rules as per the ministerial code.

[Not Now Kato]

Advisors advise, ministers decide.

So Johnson needs an adviser to advise him whether he paid a bill himself?

Who does he have to help him wipe his arse?

No, Johnson has declared he paid the bill himself.

All governments have had special advisers since Harold Wilson introduced them for LABOUR in 1964.

Perhaps Johnson has to rely on them more now to assist in the constant accusations of sleaze from a lame opposition while he spends an unprecedented time on much more important issues like The pandemic and Brexit etc.

Are you talking about the same person who didn't attend the first five Cobra meetings on the Pandemic?

[Bentley Bullet]

That old chestnut! I'm more up to date than that and looking at now, seeing as it is now that the sleaze accusations are coming in thick and fast from an opposition that is desperate to discredit the government not least because of the vaccine success.

[Not Now Kato]

That old chestnut! I'm more up to date than that and looking at now, seeing as it is now that the sleaze accusations are coming in thick and fast from an opposition that is desperate to discredit the government not least because of the vaccine success.

Ah, so in your view it is quite unimportant that he deliberately avoided the first five Cobra meetings on such an important matter for the country when such important decisions needed to be agreed on, yes?
 
But if you are looking at the now, what is your darling PM actually doing in respect of Covid 19?  Yes, he very successfully ordered masses of vaccine, but apart from that excellent success the remainder has been passed over, (quite correctly), to the NHS for them to roll out.  If, as he says, he's being driven by the science then it's his scientists who are providing all the direction for Johnson to simply sign off on.  Wow, that really does look like a taxing amount of work, no wonder it takes up an unprecedented amount of his time!  And if Johnson really is 'handling it all' then why do we need a Secretary of State for Health?  Shouldn't that be his job?

[Bentley Bullet]

NNK, Had the vaccine output not gone well, the handful of lefties on here would have absolutely, definitely, unquestionably and certainly blamed Boris Johnson, and it is undoubtedly and indubitably obvious that you would have been one of them.

[Not Now Kato]

NNK, Had the vaccine output not gone well, the handful of lefties on here would have absolutely, definitely, unquestionably and certainly blamed Boris Johnson, and it is undoubtedly and indubitably obvious that you would have been one of them.

Nope, if the rollout of the vaccine had gone badly then that would have been the fault of the NHS as they are the ones managing that bit.  The government are only responsible for its acquisition, something they did very well indeed.
 
Praise where it's due, criticism where it's due.  Pity some of you right wingers don't get that!
 
Oh, and I see you didn't answer my question about Johnson not attending the first five Cobra meetings - I wonder why?    Spoiler Alert:  See the sentence above this.

[Bentley Bullet]

Nah, you would have unashamedly blamed Boris. I say unashamedly because that is historically how you have acted in your extreme bias against everything Tory over the last half a decade.