Johnson & Sunak

Coronavirus data

Covid-19 in the UK  
73.9% with two vaccine doses and 58.2% with booster top-up
Daily cases*
35,926
-15,327  v last week
In hospital
19,770
-699  v last week
Daily deaths*
651
+418  v last week
Cases and deaths as published on 13 Apr, hospital numbers on 12 Apr. Vaccine % is of total population on 12 Apr. *From 26 Feb 2022: no data published on Saturdays or Sundays and figures published on Monday will include three days' data. Source: PHE.

This guy on twitter does a 'The week in Tory' thread each week.

It's funny, or at least it would be funny if it wasn't for the staggeringly inept, corrupt and dishonest excrement they shamelessly get away with each week.

Quoted from smokey111

Haha. I agree. Although it was once unthinkable that Great Grimsby could go blue!

But has Great Grimsby ever had someone with the calibre of Lia Nici to represent it before  

I just wish that Boris would comb his hair sometimes.  

Quoted from Les Brechin

I just wish that Boris would comb his hair sometimes.  

I'm confused as to what he actually does with it

One source said he brushes it with a toffee apple and another one says he uses a balloon on it.... who knows just how he manages to look so dapper?  

It's reported that he ruffles it before appearances/speeches and so forth. It's part of the 'Boris' persona. I suspect that he's been playing the role so long that he probably doesn't realise he's doing it any longer.

It has been reported that his siblings call him 'Al' which makes me wonder if there is still a little humanity left in him.

Nah, probably not.

Did the local two numpties comment on this?
They could take a lead from their fellow BS'ers.

Partygate penalties ‘like parking fines’
As Johnson prepared to argue he did not mislead parliament, the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, told Sky News on Tuesday morning:

I think we do see consistently, whether it is through parking fines or speeding fines, ministers of both parties over the years have been in that position.

‘It’s not as if he walked into a rave in Ibiza’
A senior government source told the Financial Times he had “no idea” what was guiding the Met police investigation after Johnson was given a fixed-penalty notice for attending a party for his birthday in No 10. He added:

It’s not as if [Johnson] walked into a rave in Ibiza.

He was there for ‘a very short time’ eating ‘a salad lunch’
Is another defence for Johnson, who was fined for breaching the rules by attending his 56th birthday party in June 2020. Sources told the Daily Mail Johnson was only there “for 10 minutes” and the cake “did not even leave the Tupperware box”.

The prime minister was there for a very short time. He was eating a salad lunch in the Cabinet room with people he worked with all day. People kept popping in.

It’s not as if “pole dancers” were present
Tory MP Michael Fabricant dismissed the fines on BBC Radio 5 Live, saying lots of people, ranging from civil servants to nurses and others, “did at the end of the day have a quiet drink”. He also said:

The ways it’s been characterised, you would think there were pole dancers.

An exemption for ‘people working in close proximity’
A source told The Times there was an exemption for those working in No 10, in close proximity and for long hours.

There was always an exemption around work but the prime minister accepted mistakes were made. If you’re going from meeting to meeting and it’s something at 2pm in the afternoon, people wouldn’t particularly call that a party. You don’t tend to call that a party.

Johnson was ‘ambushed with cake’
This was the line that came from a Tory MP in January on Channel 4 News in January. Conor Burns said it was not a “premeditated” party and that Johnson was working in the room before staff came in and presented him with a birthday cake.

He was, in a sense, ambushed with a cake.

He has ‘not robbed a bank’
Those were the words of the Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell in January, saying there are ministers who get parking tickets and speed fines. “Lots of people break the law in small ways, sometimes unintentionally” he said, adding:

He’s not robbed a bank. This is getting out of control.

Boris Johnson doesn’t ‘own his own diary’
Stepping to Johnson’s defence January, the Conservative MP James Heappey told the BBC no prime minister can possibly own all that is put into their diary, adding they rely entirely on those around them for briefs and support for what goes into diaries in the first place. He said:

My take as someone who has worked in Downing Street is that the prime minister doesn’t really own his own diary.

‘I don’t recognise this as a party’
In January, the Conservative MP Peter Bone described the party for Johnson to BBC Newsnight as “a very funny party” with colleagues for less than 10 minutes. He added that “political people alike” likely spoke about work while eating their “bit of cake”. He added:

Well, I just don’t recognise that as a party. And if that’s the sort of parties you go to they’re not much fun, are they?

Johnson’s a disgrace, always has been, always will be, way before he was the most incompetent PM.

Sunak is just a girl private, a girl private that likes flipping over everyone except himself, like it’s a hobby or something…

I see Brexit hard man Steve Baker has called on Boris to resign. Obviously it’s because Steve Baker is a decent man and nothing to do with an opinion poll showing his safe seat in Wycombe is likely to go to Labour for the first time since 1951 if there was a general election called. Nothing like self preservation is there?

It is fascinating what Brexit has done to UK politics. The promise of it turned safe red seats blue in the north. And the consequences of it are turning blue seats that even Blair didn’t win red in the south-east.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

I see Brexit hard man Steve Baker has called on Boris to resign. Obviously it’s because Steve Baker is a decent man and nothing to do with an opinion poll showing his safe seat in Wycombe is likely to go to Labour for the first time since 1951 if there was a general election called. Nothing like self preservation is there?

It is fascinating what Brexit has done to UK politics. The promise of it turned safe red seats blue in the north. And the consequences of it are turning blue seats that even Blair didn’t win red in the south-east.

Seems like the local election results fit perfectly into this narrative.

Labour making modest progress in traditional Labour voting areas whilst simultaneously turning seemingly un-winnable places like Westminster & Wandsworth red and making superb progress overall in London & the south-east commuter areas.