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From Politico email this morning. 

 

“Our Churchill.”

 

 

 

DIALING UP THE PRESSURE: A Home Office minister will this morning be asked whether Boris Johnson will finally change his phone number after it turned out to be sitting on the internet for 15 years. The astonishing revelation was delivered in the Popbitch newsletter last night, leaving senior figures at Westminster shocked and the U.K. embarrassed on the world stage. Popbitch reported Johnson’s personal mobile number is available from a 2006 press release during his second stint on the opposition frontbench. Playbook can confirm it’s true, but whether the number still belongs to the prime minister this morning is another matter. A female voice now answers its calls: “This person’s phone is switched off. Please try later or send a text.” Safeguarding Minister Victoria Atkins is touring broadcast studios and will be answering questions about it right now.

Call for access: The news is not just embarrassing for Britain (imagine if Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin had their mobile number sitting online for more than a decade) but poses a national security risk. “This is extremely worrying with massive security implications,” Labour MP Kevan Jones, a member of the intelligence and security committee and a former defense minister, told Playbook. “It needs to be investigated as a matter of urgency why this has not been addressed before now. It leaves the prime minister very vulnerable.” Indeed, it’s madness that spooks hadn’t checked and found whether the number was in the public domain before. Downing Street declined to comment.

 

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When you see just some of the awful shit he's done you really have to question the collective insanity of the English, how the fuck was this allowed to happen?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/30/scandal-charge-sheet-johnson-wallpaper-lying

 

'Yes, it’s a real scandal. Despite the apparent absurdity of a Westminster village obsessing over soft furnishings and the precise class connotations of the John Lewis brand, there is a hard offence underneath all those cushions and throws. By refusing to tell us who first paid for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat, Boris Johnson is denying us – his boss – the right to know who he owes and what hold they might have on him.

 

Offence is the right word because, even before the Electoral Commission determines whether the law on political funding was broken, Johnson’s failure to come clean may well be, by itself, a breach of the ministerial code. That bars not only actual conflicts of interest between ministers’ “public duties and their private interests” but even the perception of such conflicts. In refusing to tell us who first paid that bill for overpriced wallpaper, or to give full details of who paid for his December 2019 holiday in Mustique, Johnson has offended the public trust. So yes, this is a scandal. But do you know what else is a scandal? That while Johnson was racking up an estimated £200,000 on home decor, his government was pushing through a post-Grenfell fire safety bill that threatens ordinary leaseholders with financial ruin, saddling them with the cost of ridding their homes of potentially lethal cladding and other hazards: one woman is facing a bill of £70,000 to make her one-bedroom flat in Bristol safe. That is a scandal.

 

Or that by breaking his 2019 manifesto pledge and slashing the UK’s aid budget, Johnson has cut our contribution to the UN effort on HIV/Aids and to lifesaving water projects by 80%, and to the UN family planning programme by even more – money that could have prevented maternal and child deaths in the world’s poorest countries. That, too, is a scandal.

 

A coronavirus death toll of 127,500 that remains the highest in Europe, alongside the deepest economic slump in the G7. The mistake Johnson made three times over in 2020, delaying lockdowns in March, September and the following winter. The seeding of Covid in nursing homes. The decision to keep the borders open even during the height of lockdown, as smart as putting a double bolt and extra chain on the front door while leaving the back door swinging wide open. Johnson’s absence from the first five Cobra meetings on Covid, preferring to flick through swatches at his weekend home at Chequers. They’re all scandals.

 

The VIP lane for ministers’ pals when the PPE contracts were being doled out, when so many politicians’ chums looked at Covid and saw a commercial opportunity. The £276m contract that went to P14 Medical, run by a Tory donor, or the £160m deal with Meller Designs, also run by a Tory donor, both revealed just this week. The staggering sum of £37bn committed to a test-and-trace programme that never really worked. Johnson’s support for Dominic Cummings, even as he torched the most important public health policy in a century and insulted the country’s intelligence with a tall story about an eye test on wheels. Every one a scandal.

 

The failure to sack Robert Jenrick, even after he rushed through an “unlawful” planning decision that would save Richard Desmond, yet another Tory donor, £45m in local taxes. The failure to sack Priti Patel, even after she’d been found to have broken the ministerial code. The failure to sack Gavin Williamson, even after he’d presided over an exams fiasco that threatened to damage the life chances of tens of thousands of young people. The appointment of Gavin Williamson, not two months after he’d been fired by Theresa May for leaking sensitive information from the national security council. That, too, is a scandal.

 

Johnson’s Brexit protocol that put a border down the Irish sea, even after he’d vowed never to put a border down the Irish sea, thereby imperilling a union he swore blind he would protect. His proposal of an internal market bill that proudly declared its intention to break international law, prompting the UK’s top legal civil servant to quit – one of a disturbing number of mandarins driven to resignation on Johnson’s watch.

 

His illegal suspension of parliament, overturned as a violation of fundamental democratic practice by unanimous verdict of the supreme court. The lies that led to that moment: the £350m on the side of the bus or the scare story that Turkey was poised to join the EU and that Britain would be powerless to stop it. Siding with Vladimir Putin to suggest that the EU had provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Scandals, all.

 

The blame he bears for wrongly saying, when foreign secretary, that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been training journalists in Iran, further condemning a woman who this week was sentenced to yet another year as a prisoner in that country. His quip about clearing away “dead bodies” in Sirte, Libya, a phrase that makes all too plausible the multiply-sourced claim that he told a Downing Street meeting on Covid he was happy to let the virus rip and “let the bodies pile high” rather than impose another lockdown.

 

His record as mayor, spaffing Londoners’ money up the wall on failed vanity projects that were either unused or unworkable, yet somehow managing to boost the entrepreneurial efforts of his lover, Jennifer Arcuri, cosy in her very own VIP lane with Johnson as the recipient of £126,000 in public money. That, too, is a scandal.

 

His racist musings about a “half-Kenyan” Barack Obama, his casting of Muslim women as “bank robbers” and “letterboxes”, and Africans as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”. His running of a Spectator editorial that falsely accused “drunken fans” of causing the Hillsborough calamity, and suggesting that the people of Liverpool wallow in “vicarious victimhood”. His firings from the Tory frontbench and the Times newspaper, both times for lying.

 

They’re all scandals. So is a system that makes the prime minister the ultimate arbiter of the very code that he has broken, so that Johnson decides when and whether to investigate himself, making him judge and jury in his own case. Not much better is an opposition party that was walloped by him in 2019 and struggles to lay a glove on him now.

 

Or maybe the real scandal lies with us, the electorate, still seduced by a tousled-hair rebel shtick and faux bonhomie that should have palled years ago. Americans got rid of their lying, self-serving, scandal-plagued charlatan 100 days ago. They did it at the first possible opportunity. Next week, polls suggest we’re poised to give ours a partial thumbs-up at the ballot box. For allowing this shameless man to keep riding high, some of the shame is on us.'

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11 minutes ago, Kepler-186 said:

Equal parts fascinating and disturbing. 

 

Seem highly doubtful however to imagine Cummings rising to the occasion. 

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28 minutes ago, Kepler-186 said:


Im fucked if I’m going to give any credence to Cummings being on the right side of history, he’s done equal, if not more, damage than anyone in this country.

 

Rats in a fucking sack and cunts to a man. 
 

In fact this quote ‘Cummings is one of the few in Johnson’s circle who was scientifically literate enough’ blows the whole article. Cummings is a history graduate who has been puffing his chest and professing before all before him his genius. He’s not,  he’s a chancer with a massive chip in his shoulder  and a dodgy reading list. He knows fuck all about science apart from what the aforementioned reading list he’s regurgitating and claiming to be an expert in is saying, so much so he was the first to proffer herd immunity as an option and ‘if some old cunts die, so be it’ to paraphrase. There are numerous stories of him talking over SAGE and then being embarrassed by his lack of real knowledge.
 

He’s Toby Young with better contacts.
 

A gobshite who talks over those he knows know more than him.

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Just now, halewood pete said:

It's an absolute scandal and he MUST be brought to account somehow 

 

An eighty seat majority, a complicit media, a bunch of spivs changing the rules to suit them, money being freely moved around.

 

We haven't got a chance of changing this, it's on infighting and mistakes.

 

We can make inroads, but the odds are stacked  and very knowingly so.

 

You have people cheeing their own hardship, it's amazing how they have stitched this country up.

 

I fucking hate where we are in history.

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24 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:


Im fucked if I’m going to give any credence to Cummings being on the right side of history, he’s done equal, if not more, damage than anyone in this country.

 

Rats in a fucking sack and cunts to a man. 
 

In fact this quote ‘Cummings is one of the few in Johnson’s circle who was scientifically literate enough’ blows the whole article. Cummings is a history graduate who has been puffing his chest and professing before all before him his genius. He’s not,  he’s a chancer with a massive chip in his shoulder  and a dodgy reading list. He knows fuck all about science apart from what the aforementioned reading list he’s regurgitating and claiming to be an expert in is saying, so much so he was the first to proffer herd immunity as an option and ‘if some old cunts die, so be it’ to paraphrase. There are numerous stories of him talking over SAGE and then being embarrassed by his lack of real knowledge.
 

He’s Toby Young with better contacts.
 

A gobshite who talks over those he knows know more than him.

Totally agree, it was a weird take to even remotely praise Cummings. They’ve used Johnson as the front man, now the real forces behind Brexit have got their men and women in position it’ll be a free for all wrapped up in the Union Jack.

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1 minute ago, Kepler-186 said:

Totally agree, it was a weird take to even remotely praise Cummings. They’ve used Johnson as the front man, now the real forces behind Brexit have got their men and women in position it’ll be a free for all wrapped up in the Union Jack.

 

I think the problem with knowing he can bring down the house of cards is that it plays in to his hands as he'd love to fuck 'us' over as much as 'them'.

 

Someone has the goods to bring it all down, but how it plays out I'm not sure.

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3 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

I think the problem with knowing he can bring down the house of cards is that it plays in to his hands as he'd love to fuck 'us' over as much as 'them'.

 

Someone has the goods to bring it all down, but how it plays out I'm not sure.

That GB News starts soon, but Murdoch has backed off his version.

 

Malignant cunts. 

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I can’t believe how many people are pushing the “ as long as it’s not public money, it’s all ok” line or how many interviewers are letting them get away with that. 
 

This isn’t about curtains or decorations, it’s about a PM being up for sale and being in rich peoples pockets. They want us to think it’s about curtains etc so they can pass it off as not being important enough to care about. 
 

it’s about truth, honesty and integrity. He will get away with this again and it will just make him more brazen. 
 

Sickens me that people voted for, and cheer their own demise. Cunts 

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6 minutes ago, Kepler-186 said:

That GB News starts soon, but Murdoch has backed off his version.

 

Malignant cunts. 

 

My feeling is there is another release before polling, somthing that can't be brushed away.

 

There's enough evidence from the GLP, leaks and whatnot to get a scalp, but cut through is really proving an issue.

 

The fact Alex chooses if he's investigated and sanctioned isn't even an issue with the 'general public' and that's my biggest fear, voter apathy. We have been browbeaten in to accepting this disaster.

 

'We' are tuned in, but as soon as we escape our little bubble the cracks start to show.

 

Sweaty Steve's Russian inspired 'playbook' in full effect.

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4 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'm one of those old softies who gets nervous when an extremist clique seizes power and sets about trying to control the way people are allowed to think.

 

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Just a bunch of spivs with posh voices and nice suits fucking up everything that was ever any good so no one notices them robbing the country blind. 
 

That Dowden was on the snooker yesterday. Steve Davis thought he was a cunt, too. 
 

 

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Newswatch currently going to town on Johnson's "treatment" by the bbc, allowing all the cranks on to complain that you shouldn't be questioning politicians on politics, or ethics, or corruption or anything. Kuenssberg is getting it too. Can't remember them giving over a special episode to anyone questioning Corbyn's treatment.

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4 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

Newswatch currently going to town on Johnson's "treatment" by the bbc, allowing all the cranks on to complain that you shouldn't be questioning politicians on politics, or ethics, or corruption or anything. Kuenssberg is getting it too. Can't remember them giving over a special episode to anyone questioning Corbyn's treatment.

 

Just watching the same thing, it must be so easy to flood the BBC with complaints and get the narrative ammended/changed.

 

Who are these fucking imbeciles?

 

It's just a list of complaints given an airing and from memeory there was at least one on Corbyn, in relation to the 'commie' picture and representation, amongst others, though the damage is done at that point. You can check the log on line.

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9 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:


Im fucked if I’m going to give any credence to Cummings being on the right side of history, he’s done equal, if not more, damage than anyone in this country.

 

Rats in a fucking sack and cunts to a man. 
 

In fact this quote ‘Cummings is one of the few in Johnson’s circle who was scientifically literate enough’ blows the whole article. Cummings is a history graduate who has been puffing his chest and professing before all before him his genius. He’s not,  he’s a chancer with a massive chip in his shoulder  and a dodgy reading list. He knows fuck all about science apart from what the aforementioned reading list he’s regurgitating and claiming to be an expert in is saying, so much so he was the first to proffer herd immunity as an option and ‘if some old cunts die, so be it’ to paraphrase. There are numerous stories of him talking over SAGE and then being embarrassed by his lack of real knowledge.
 

He’s Toby Young with better contacts.
 

A gobshite who talks over those he knows know more than him.

Superb and spot on. Too many people like him 

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3 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Just watching the same thing, it must be so easy to flood the BBC with complaints and get the narrative ammended/changed.

 

Who are these fucking imbeciles?

 

It's just a list of complaints given an airing and from memeory there was at least one on Corbyn, in relation to the 'commie' picture and representation, amongst others, though the damage is done at that point. You can check the log on line.

I'll take your word for it mate. Just funny, now that the bbc dare question the government on anything, there are floods of complaints. Not so much about the truth about the allegations (though they did have one who suggested that Johnson has denied it and that should be enough for everyone) - more that questions were being asked in the first place! And apparently, having it in the news for more than one day is 'hounding'. Beggars belief. 

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5 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

I'll take your word for it mate. Just funny, now that the bbc dare question the government on anything, there are floods of complaints. Not so much about the truth about the allegations (though they did have one who suggested that Johnson has denied it and that should be enough for everyone) - more that questions were being asked in the first place! And apparently, having it in the news for more than one day is 'hounding'. Beggars belief. 

 

There were floods of complaints for Corbyn, it's just the right are better at moral outrage and false equvalency, so get a bigger hearing, there is of course confirmation bias linked in to this as well though so we'll only respond to that which emotionally resonates.

 

I think it was Putin who is on record as saying 'The truth doesn't matter, only the story about it you tell' or something of the sort.

 

Helps that the BBC has been gutted of Blairs people now and stuffed with ideologically corrupted Tory shills.

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