Boris at it again and the contest to replace the lying c***

[Paddingtonwolf]

Cummings says he sent the email. He will have kept it and the reply.

If it goes “Prime Minister - this is clearly a social event and in contravention of lockdown rules” and the reply is “Whatever, it’s happening”, that is the final nail.

 

[Sniffer]

Beth Rigby has been interviewing big dog and it appears that the man in charge of the country and making the rules is claiming as a defence that he didn't know what the rules were.



Beth Rigby, the Sky News political editor, is interviewing Boris Johnson.

Q: Have you lied about the No 10 party?

Johnson says he wants to start by repeating his apology.

No one told him this was against the rules, or not work event, he says.

He says we should wait to see what Sue Gray says. He will return to the Commons as soon as that report is out to say more.

Q: So you are saying Dominic Cummings is lying?

Johnson says he is sorry mistakes were made.

Q: He is saying you are lying?

Johnson says he can say categorically nobody told him this was against the rules, or not a work event.

His memory of this was going out into the garden for about 25 minutes, for what he thought was a work event. He says he humbly apologises for the misjudgments made.

 

[leedswolf]

Cummings says he sent the email. He will have kept it and the reply.

If it goes “Prime Minister - this is clearly a social event and in contravention of lockdown rules” and the reply is “Whatever, it’s happening”, that is the final nail.

Does it need a reply? Evidence that it has been received should be enough?

 

[Sniffer]

Cummings says he sent the email. He will have kept it and the reply.

If it goes “Prime Minister - this is clearly a social event and in contravention of lockdown rules” and the reply is “Whatever, it’s happening”, that is the final nail.

Did he? I only saw that he spoke to the PM about it.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I read his blog. He refers to an email.

 

[Tredman]

I read his blog. He refers to an email.

You deserve an award for that - its unreadable.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It was fucking hard work

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Beth Rigby skewered him just now. Words to the effect of "You're expecting people to believe that you went into your garden at 6pm, saw 40 people there, with food and alcohol laid out and thought it was a 'work event' - do you know how ridiculous that sounds" and he didn't have an answer.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You deserve an award for that - its unreadable.

It absolutely is, he's one of the worst communicators I've ever seen.

 

[WolfMan]

He's putting an awful lot of store on this Sue Gray report, he must know she can't explicitly say he was lying and is just hoping to spin his way out of it. Also, operation save big dog? Fucking children

 

[Del Woppio]

I think if dom had the smoking gun, he'd have handed it over by now. Last Wednesday afternoon would've been the perfect time

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think the story is that Megamind told him verbally not to do it. Well you can't prove that either way, nor can you prove what Johnson did or didn't think at the time (nor is that within the remit of the Suegrey <all one word> inquiry).

The optics look appalling though as it's a series of obvious lies and obfuscations that anyone can see through.

Semantics can't and won't save him here.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

"Nobody warned me this was against the rules" is an astonishingly poor "defence", in the league of Ian Huntley or Lee Hughes for sheer ridiculousness.

They were YOUR rules that YOU kept broadcasting to the entire nation, you corpulent mess.

 

[leedswolf]

Suegrey is infamous for advising government ministers to not leave a trail (see Gove's use of personal accounts to avoid FOI stuff). As I posted the other day, #bigdog is hoping she's his Winston Wolf.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Cummings refers to others who would be prepared to go on oath, so it looks like it's Johnson's word against that of a number of others. It will be interesting to know who the others are.

I'm sure Cummings has more and may be drip feeding it until job is done thereby minimising impact on others. It's almost like he sees it as a possible way back to influence...

 

[leedswolf]

"Nobody warned me this was against the rules" is an astonishingly poor "defence", in the league of Ian Huntley or Lee Hughes for sheer ridiculousness.

They were YOUR rules that YOU kept broadcasting to the entire nation, you corpulent mess.

It's like him saying that nobody warned him that a hot drink was in fact hot.

 

[Sniffer]

It's like him saying that nobody warned him that a hot drink that he had made himself, was in fact hot.

I've altered your post in my reply slightly.

As for the interview, I've just watched it back. The pre rehearsed bowing of the head and not looking up when asked about the night before Prince Philip's funeral is as cringeworthy as it gets. Maybe he was looking to the ground hoping that a hole would swallow him up.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

"Nobody warned me this was against the rules" is an astonishingly poor "defence", in the league of Ian Huntley or Lee Hughes for sheer ridiculousness.

They were YOUR rules that YOU kept broadcasting to the entire nation, you corpulent mess.

Whatever happened to ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law?

 

[Sniffer]

If Wombat is reading I think that this one may have been photoshopped!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1483418498944671746

 

[Tredman]

I think this would be more powerful if anyone knew what an #OODA was