Tory Cabinet Thread

[Megadrive Man]

Something must have changed since yesterday? It seems a bit odd that he'd resign now after Johnson let him off the hook?

[Bruce Spanner]

4 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

Something must have changed since yesterday? It seems a bit odd that he'd resign now after Johnson let him off the hook?

Maybe Uncle Rupert has some tales in tomorrow’s rags that will now be kept off the front page.

 

We have highest totals for a long time, Dido wanting the NHS job, contracts being given out to family of Matt’s strumpet and 600m tests going AWOL any of those would be enough to bring down ministers in the past.

 

That’s off the top of my head.

[Megadrive Man]

 

 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, MegadriveMan said:

 

 

And there it is! 

[Bjornebye]

Let's hope more stuff comes out and the weasel gets prosecuted. 

 

 

 

Hahahahahahaha 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[magicrat]

53 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

Something must have changed since yesterday? It seems a bit odd that he'd resign now after Johnson let him off the hook?

Not really , he was allowed to fall on his sword rather than get the bullet. Javid lined up to replace him .

[Champ]

8 minutes ago, magicrat said:

Not really , he was allowed to fall on his sword rather than get the bullet. Javid lined up to replace him .

The same Sajid Javid who resigned himself on some matter of principle 

[magicrat]

1 minute ago, Champ said:

The same Sajid Javid who resigned himself on some matter of principle 

That's the fella 

[Elite]

[Bruce Spanner]

Where to start with this shit...

 

'The UK’s Coronavirus Act is a serious threat to our civil liberties. The Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill will undermine them further. Now, Boris Johnson’s government is taking us even more down a very dangerous slippery slope.

 

A largely unnoticed and unreported consultation paper on changes to Britain’s Official Secrets Acts drawn up by the Home Office shows that the government is preparing far-reaching threats to the media and the public’s right to know.

It intends to abandon the existing distinction between spying and leaking, and between leakers, whistleblowers and journalists. “Both primary and onward disclosures have the potential to cause equal amounts of harm”, the paper states. 

 

This makes it clear the government wants to claim a journalist responsible for an “onward disclosure” — a publication in a newspaper or website, for example — would be as liable and on a par in criminal law with a primary source, such as a whistleblower in a government agency.

 

The government is determined to make it easier to prosecute whistleblowers and make it harder to mount a defence for disclosing information the government claims is damaging to national security.  Journalists and others publishing information the government claims damages national security face the prospect of 14 years in jail rather than the current maximum of two years.'

 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-06-15-priti-patels-new-threat-to-british-journalists/

 

 

 

Details of calls and texts from the Home Secretary to a chief constable and an assistant chief constable during a blockade of a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper printing works by Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestors have been deleted, a judge was told today.

 

Priti Patel called Charlie Hall, Hertfordshire’s Chief Constable, last September when approximately 50 climate change activists began a demonstration at the Newsprinters site, a subsidiary of Murdoch’s News UK, stopping three-and-a-half million copies of national newspapers, including the Daily Mail, the Sun, The Times and the Telegraph, from being distributed. The court heard the blockade cost the newspaper printers £1 million.

 

After the police removed the XR demonstrators, the Gold Commander Assistant Chief Constable Matt Nicholls received a text from the Home Secretary thanking him for the force’s work, St Albans Magistrates’ court heard. However, Raj Chada, who is representing some of the six protestors on trial, told District Judge Sally Fudge that “two phones of two very senior officers have had their messages deleted”.

 

Mr Chada said: “The defence is concerned about what matters were taken into account in the decision to remove the demonstrators, the extent of political interference and what contact was made.”

 

He said that the defence had received a report that reviewed the police actions on 4 and 5 September last year: “The Chief Constable was heavily involved in receiving calls from the Home Secretary. The next morning, the Home Secretary asked why it had taken so long to be resolved… We are concerned about the extent of contact – does that amount to abuse of process?”

 

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/06/11/police-chiefs-phone-records-deleted-after-contact-with-priti-patel-over-extinction-rebellion-murdoch-blockade/

[Guest]

Sajid Javid incoming. 

 

Didn't he quit another post as he didn't like fire people when he was told to? 

[Bruce Spanner]

4 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Sajid Javid incoming. 

 

Didn't he quit another post as he didn't like fire people when he was told to? 

 

He quit because he was told who his advisors would be and not allowed to have his own, they would have been appointed and chosen by Cummings.

[Megadrive Man]

Cummings say on Javid;

 

 

[Anubis]

Classic Dom pushing for his mate, Gove. Unfortunately for Gove there is much speculation that he’s also been playing hide the sausage outside of his bubble.

[Bruce Spanner]

7 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Classic Dom pushing for his mate, Gove. Unfortunately for Gove there is much speculation that he’s also been playing hide the sausage outside of his bubble.

 

From DA?

 

She should be careful as it's common knowledge that her and JC had a bit of a fumble at one of the Unions christmas parties a couple of years back...

[Gnasher]

On 22/06/2021 at 18:29, Section_31 said:

We're not in Kansas anymore.

 

 

 

Not sure if this response was what the department of education had in mind...

 

 

 

Meanwhile in grown up world, go on the Drake...

 

 

https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2021-06-23/climate-change-campaigner-greta-thunberg-backs-welsh-government-plans-to-freeze-new-road-building-projects

[Anubis]

31 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

From DA?

 

She should be careful as it's common knowledge that her and JC had a bit of a fumble at one of the Unions christmas parties a couple of years back...

She slept with him years ago. It’s common knowledge they have history. But they weren’t in Covid bubbles so it wouldn’t matter. 

[Bruce Spanner]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

She slept with him years ago. It’s common knowledge they have history. But they weren’t in Covid bubbles so it wouldn’t matter. 

 

Be that as it may, glasshouses and whatnot.

 

Calling out Sarah Vine I thought was a bit shitty, unless they're swingers*

 

*I did a little sick in my mouth at the thought of that.

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Gnasher]

Javid is a massive upgrade on Hancock..This will work well for Johnson and the tories.

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Javid is a massive upgrade on Hancock..This will work well for Johnson and the tories.

An upgrade in what capacity?

[Megadrive Man]

23 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

An upgrade in what capacity?

 

He's not Matt Hancock?

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

An upgrade in what capacity?

He's competent.

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, MegadriveMan said:

 

He's not Matt Hancock?

And this