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Johnson launches another attack on Ian Blackford - the Westminster leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party in a snide 'fat shaming' comment. However isn't this yet another hypocritical remark ???

Boris Johnson mocks SNP MP’s weight for second time after being accused of ‘body-shaming’
Prime minister follows up ‘cake’ jibe by suggesting Ian Blackford should practice ‘moderation’

Jon Stone
Policy Correspondent
17 hours ago
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Boris Johnson has publicly mocked the weight of a Scottish National Party MP for a second time in two months – after having previously being accused of "body-shaming" the same politician.

Speaking at prime minister's questions Mr Johnson said Ian Blackford was "a living testament to the benefits of moderation in all things"


The prime minister's apparent reference to to Mr Blackford figure prompted laughter from his own MPs.


At a previous PMQs in January Mr Johnson also used the dispatch box to mock Mr Blackford's appearance, suggesting that his political rival had been "eating more cake" than he had.

Wednesday’s exchange at prime minister’s questions saw the prime minister invoke Mr Blackford’s size in response to the SNP’s Westminster chief’s criticism of the government’s Spring statement.

In the earlier comments at the end of January Mr Blackford had referred to the consumption of cake at a lockdown-breaking Downing Street birthday party for Mr Johnson.


But the prime minister fired back: “I don’t know who has been eating more cake?”

After Mr Johnson’s earlier comments Kirsten Oswald, the SNP’s equalities spokesperson, said the PM’s remarks were evidence he is “is completely unfit for office”.


Responding to the latest exchange on Wednesday, an SNP spokesperson said: "It's telling that Boris Johnson was more interested in making these snide remarks rather than being able to answer Ian Blackford's question on the Tory cost-of-living crisis hammering households and pushing people into poverty.


"Despite these personal insults, Ian Blackford and the SNP will keep our focus on what really matters to people right now - the cost-of-living emergency which the Prime Minister and his Chancellor are failing to fix."

 

Boris was also involved with partygate looking very suspicious and looking more and more like an elf that ran on stage all wild eyed saying Christmas has been canceled .. soon he will be off to candy land to get s’mores of gum drops when all is said and done

 

I'm not so sure our 'Candy' would be very pleased with Boris camping on her doorstep darlin' !!!

 

Munchkin land ...a field of poppies...

 

"Little Weed" !!!

 

You must be thinking of Alice in wonderland

 

I think a lot of 'pop' musicians have indulged including the member of the Phoo Fighters who has recently died.

 

Yea sad scenario his heart was double the size with all sorts of substances ...the fame lifestyle is hard on a person to cope
—-/most often I am matter of fact/—-

 

I saw Tom Petty’s second to last show before his heart burst too

 

I have never been a 'pop' music fan, I much prefer Classical music and in particular opera. Audiences for these events tend to very staid and are not likely to shout and scream when the performers appear on stage.

 

Cavalia has horses in their show and is spectacular the video above shows one of the scenes the music the horses are amazing
I couldn’t find to many videos on YouTube

 

Yes darlin' very nice, - now listen to some real opera - this is from Bellini's opera 'Norma'

 

Ect.

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Maria Caulfield MP - a member of the scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' - stupid woman !!!

Audience laugh at Tory MP defending PM over Partygate

1 April 2022, 10:15 am

Maria Caulfield, Tory MP, tried to defend Boris Johnson over Partygate on BBC Question Time (Photo: Twitter)

A Conservative MP was mocked by the BBC Question Time audience on Thursday when she attempted to defend Boris Johnson over partygate.

The string of parties held in Downing Street throughout lockdown has enraged the public ever since it was first reported late last year.

Now the Metropolitan Police have confirmed they have issued their first wave of fines – 20 fixed penalty notices – for people linked to the rule-breaking parties.

This has renewed calls for the prime minister to be punished over breaching the social distancing laws, too.


On BBC Question Time on Thursday, Tory MP for Lewes, jumped to Johnson’s defence after a member of the audience suggested he only apologised for the parties “because he was found out”.

Caulfield replied: “He has held his hands up to say there were wrongdoings, he’s apologised for that, he’s made changes.”

“The lady is suggesting that’s because he was found out,” host Victoria Derbyshire clarified.

Caulfield said: “He genuinely did not believe that there was wrongdoing at the time.”

The audience then broke out into laughter, with a few people even sarcastically applauding while others shook their heads.

Caulfield ignored the reaction and continued: “What we’ve said is that we will wait for the Sue Gray report, we don’t know the identity of the people who have got fixed penalty notices – he isn’t one of those people that has had a fixed penalty notice.”

“When people laugh when you say, ’he didn’t believe he was at a party’ what does that make you think?” Derbyshire cut in. “I’m asking you about their response.”

“As I’ve said, I fully understand the anger and frustration,” Caulfield replied.

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But, as Derbyshire pointed out: “That was laughter, that was ridicule – they don’t believe him.”

The MP just pointed out that the prime minister has said he will reveal if he is given a fixed penalty notice over partygate, and so far he has not.

Caulfield also claimed that as someone who worked on the NHS wards as a nurse during the pandemic, she understood the fury felt by the public: “No one is more angry about events that took place in No.10.”

Shadow justice secretary and Labour MP, Steve Reed, was on the panel with Caulfield and seemed to extend his sympathies to her as he said: “It’s really sad to see Tory MPs like Maria wheeled out to defend the indefensible on this.”

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The row comes as the government appears in two minds about its approach to partygate after the Met confirmed it was issuing fixed penalty notices.

International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan claimed this week that people who had been handed the fines had “broken the regulations that were set in the Covid Act”.

The day before, justice secretary and deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he believed those who had been fined had broken the law.

However, No.10′s official spokesman has not acknowledged that any Covid laws were breached by the government during partygate.

When asked by MPs on Wednesday if the fines meant “criminality” had occurred, Johnson said: “I have been, I hope, very frank with the House about where I think we have gone wrong and the things that I regret, that I apologise for.

“But there is an ongoing investigation...I am going to camp pretty firmly on my position.”



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