Talk Your Way Out Of This One Johnson

[Panda]

I see he's even getting headlines now talking about about his future on the Talks and book circuits

It is like drug dealers. If people are so stupid that they buy drugs then the drug dealers win.

If people are so stupid as to buy this cretinous man's book then he wins.

[ravenrover]

And then...... oh dear ..... and then he told everyone to go out.......... and buy.......... a f♤cking kettle.........

[SydneyRover]

It will be interesting to see what the spiv offers his local constituents in surgeries and help with their everyday problems.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Just a note for those who insist that all politicians are the same.

https://mobile.twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1623327222487556100

Boris Johnson has received a personal advance payment of £2.5m for speeches that he will make in the future. That brings his total earning since he was booted out to £5m in 6 months.

Meanwhile, you, I and everyone in the country are paying for the £200k+ that he has rung up in legal bills over the case that he should be slung out of Parliament for deliberately lying.

#allthesame

[normal rules]

Every ex PM coins it in after being in that office. It’s the main reason all MPs aspire to that position. Because it’s the financial golden ticket.

[drfchound]

I suppose that if Starmer netts £5m in the two years after him being PM it will be ok then.

[Hounslowrover]

Hardly two years since being PM and he’s still an MP, so not the same as others yet. How much has Gordon Brown coined in, I believe he gives a lot to charity.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Every ex PM coins it in after being in that office. It’s the main reason all MPs aspire to that position. Because it’s the financial golden ticket.

That is absolute nonsense. Criticise PMs as much as you like but absolutely none of them want to be PM because it could make them rich.

[normal rules]

Every ex PM coins it in after being in that office. It’s the main reason all MPs aspire to that position. Because it’s the financial golden ticket.

That is absolute nonsense. Criticise PMs as much as you like but absolutely none of them want to be PM because it could make them rich.

Ask Blair. He was reported to have netted millions in the five years after office. Do you honestly think they do it for all the grief and £150k a year? No. They do it because of the kudos it attracts post office. To have been the PM in this country opens very big social, business and financial doors.
With perhaps the exception of whopper Truss.

[normal rules]

Theresa mays net worth is now around double what it was when she was PM. And it isn’t because she has a good savings account.

[SydneyRover]

Ask May if she would rather have more money or rather still be PM

[BillyStubbsTears]

Every ex PM coins it in after being in that office. It’s the main reason all MPs aspire to that position. Because it’s the financial golden ticket.

That is absolute nonsense. Criticise PMs as much as you like but absolutely none of them want to be PM because it could make them rich.

Ask Blair. He was reported to have netted millions in the five years after office. Do you honestly think they do it for all the grief and £150k a year? No. They do it because of the kudos it attracts post office. To have been the PM in this country opens very big social, business and financial doors.
With perhaps the exception of whopper Truss.

With respect NR, you're getting cause and effect mixed up.

SOME PMs may make a lot of money after being PM (although Brown stands out as a counter example). NONE go into the job for that reason.

[ravenrover]

From the Select Committee investigations along with previously unseen photos of "parties"
"The report highlighted four occasions where Mr Johnson may have misled parliament:

When he told the Commons on 8 December 2021 no rules or guidance had been broken in Number 10, after Ms Gray and the Met Police had "already come to the conclusion that was not correct"
When, in the same statement, he relied upon statements from his advisers that the rules had not been broken instead of using other evidence available to him
When he failed to tell the Commons about his own "personal knowledge" of the gatherings where the rules or guidance had been broken
When he gave the impression that there needed to be an investigation by Ms Gray to establish whether any rules had been broken
The report says Mr Johnson "did not correct" misleading statements he made in the Commons at the "earliest opportunity", as would have been expected from an MP.

The report found "evidence strongly suggests that breaches of guidance would have been obvious to Mr Johnson at the time he was at the gatherings".

It also said there was "evidence that those who were advising Mr Johnson about what to say to the press and in the House were themselves struggling to contend that some gatherings were within the rules".

Yet he is now claiming there is no evidence against him

[danumdon]

Every ex PM coins it in after being in that office. It’s the main reason all MPs aspire to that position. Because it’s the financial golden ticket.

That is absolute nonsense. Criticise PMs as much as you like but absolutely none of them want to be PM because it could make them rich.

Ask Blair. He was reported to have netted millions in the five years after office. Do you honestly think they do it for all the grief and £150k a year? No. They do it because of the kudos it attracts post office. To have been the PM in this country opens very big social, business and financial doors.
With perhaps the exception of whopper Truss.

With respect NR, you're getting cause and effect mixed up.

SOME PMs may make a lot of money after being PM (although Brown stands out as a counter example). NONE go into the job for that reason.

Therefore, is it fair to say young Billy pushed himself through school, further education, vocational studies, exams to be a ray of sunlight in this ghastly world, and by the way don't bother paying me for my days labours i'll live off this intense rush of feeling great about how im helping the world today?

Yea, every politician who ever made it to the top job thought just exactly the same as you!!

[SydneyRover]

What a sap (no not whatsapp) raab is aye, when you need a friend johnson steps into the breach.