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I have a niece that I raised that is a award winning marksman ..she weighs 100 pounds soaking wet ..so petite and such a badass with a bow and a gun

 

Well such I am bragging about my niece/daughter who I raised on my own ..she can also Throw down in the kitchen and is absolutely a superb cook a critical care nurse in the icu and a fantastic mom.

 

The first cracks in the scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' are beginning to show and Boris will soon be 'toast' !!!

Boris Johnson’s position as Prime Minister untenable, says Tory MP

Martina Bet and Amy Gibbons
13 April 2022, 10:39 amThe idea that Boris Johnson can survive as Prime Minister after receiving a fixed penalty notice for attending a birthday party in breach of Covid rules is “just impossible”, a Tory MP has said.

Nigel Mills is thought to be the first Tory backbencher to call for Mr Johnson to fall on his sword since the Prime Minister and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak were hit with criminal sanctions for attending a gathering in the Cabinet Room in June 2020.

The MP for Amber Valley told the PA news agency “we have every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws”.


Both Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak apologised on Tuesday and confirmed they had paid the fines imposed by the Metropolitan Police.

But they resisted calls for their resignations – insisting they were keen to now get on with the job.

However, when asked if he thought Mr Johnson’s position was untenable, Mr Mills said: “Yeah, I think for a Prime Minister in office to be given a fine and accept it and pay it for breaking the laws that he introduced… is just an impossible position.

“We have every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws… so the idea that he can survive having broken one and accepted he has broken (it), I just think is impossible.”

On whether Parliament should be recalled to enable a change of leadership as soon as possible, Mr Mills conceded “it would be almost impossible to recall Parliament before Tuesday when we’re back anyway”.

He added: “There’s almost zero chance that a motion of confidence in the House of Commons would be lost.

“So, we can all send our letters to Sir Graham Brady… to be honest though, I’d be very surprised if he either resigns or there’s 180 of us that want rid of him. So I think he will carry on for now.”

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended the Prime Minister on Wednesday morning, saying he is “human” and did not knowingly break the law.

Asked on Sky News how Mr Johnson can “possibly remain in office”, Mr Shapps said: “Everyone is human, people sometimes make mistakes.”

On whether Mr Johnson misled Parliament, Mr Shapps told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “I don’t think he knowingly broke the laws when he came to Parliament. We now know that the Metropolitan Police have said that he shouldn’t have stepped into the Cabinet Room when staff had organised a surprise.

“I don’t think he came to Parliament thinking that that breached the rules.”

For the time being, Mr Mills’ comments come in stark contrast to the ones made by many other Tory MPs, who have shown their support for the Prime Minister on social media, with Cabinet ministers praising his leadership during Covid and Brexit and pointing to the war in Ukraine.

A Home Office source said Mr Johnson has Home Secretary Priti Patel’s “full support” and that it was difficult for Home Office ministers to comment on ongoing police investigations.


This is a government in crisis neglecting a country in crisis. Parliament must be recalled for a vote of No Confidence in the Prime Minister.

— Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) April 12, 2022

Conservative former Cabinet minister Lord David Frost told LBC he does not think a fixed penalty notice is “in itself grounds for resignation”.

However, he added: “I think it’s very important in our constitutional system that correct information is given to Parliament, so I hope the Prime Minister comes to the House on Tuesday and makes it clear what the actual position is.”

Meanwhile, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP have continued to back calls for the Commons to be recalled from its two-week Easter break to allow the Prime Minister to “tender his resignation” in person to MPs.


This is the first time in our country’s history that a Prime Minister has been found guilty of breaking the law – at a time when Britain made unimaginable sacrifices.

And then lied about it.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have dishonored their office.

They must resign. pic.twitter.com/4N1d4wWIWm

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 12, 2022

Mr Shapps dismissed those calls, saying on BBC Breakfast “there will be plenty time to discuss this next week and Parliament will come back and do that as well as the issues of the war crimes we see in front of our eyes in Europe, and many other important issues”.

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak do not seem to understand how “deeply offensive” their lockdown breaches are.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “People have never made, collectively or personally, the sacrifices that were made during the pandemic outside of wartime and the Prime Minister and the Chancellor still don’t seem to understand how deeply offensive it is, especially to those who lost loved ones, or who were not there for the birth of their child, or for the death of a loved one.”

Tuesday’s fines came in a further tranche of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) announced by Scotland Yard in relation to Operation Hillman, which is probing possible Covid breaches in Downing Street and Whitehall.
More than 50 fines have been referred to the Acro Criminal Records Office since the inquiry started.

Mr Johnson did not rule out the prospect he could be fined again for further events.

He is reported to have attended six of the 12 under investigation.

It also emerged on Tuesday that Carrie Johnson, Mr Johnson’s wife, had received and paid a fine linked to the event on June 19 2020, at which, according to Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns, the Prime Minister was “ambushed with a cake”.

Speaking to broadcasters at his country residence, Chequers, on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said it “did not occur” to him at the time that the party for which he was fined might be breaching Covid rules.

Mr Sunak offered an “unreserved apology”, saying he understood that “for figures in public office, the rules must be applied stringently in order to maintain public confidence”.

A spokesperson for Mrs Johnson said: “Whilst she believed that she was acting in accordance with the rules at the time, Mrs Johnson accepts the Metropolitan Police’s findings and apologises unreservedly.”

 

—-—-> everyday is an adventure <——I am going to explore what today can bring as I sing my way through in a tone of good day to you

 

Yet another stupid idea from this scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' government !!!


Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Sam Blewett
13 April 2022, 10:10 pm
The Government will announce multimillion-pound plans for asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats to be flown for processing to Rwanda.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is expected to sign a deal with the East African nation during a visit on Thursday, with people seeking sanctuary in the UK to be sent more than 4,000 miles.

Some of those who make the perilous crossing of the Channel, as well as by other means deemed “illegal” by the Government, would be sent to Rwanda while their claims are assessed “offshore”.
An initial £120 million is expected to be given to the Rwandan government under a trial scheme, which is being criticised by refugee charities as a “cruel and nasty decision” that will fail to address the issue and “lead to more human suffering and chaos”.

Asylum seekers who remain in the UK while their claims are considered could be housed in stricter reception centres under the plans. The first will reportedly open in the village of Linton-on-Ouse, in North Yorkshire.

News of the scheme quickly drew derision from the Opposition as well as refugee advocates, including the Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, who told the BBC it would not work.

“I really worry that this is not the right way to treat asylum seekers. We have an international duty under the Refugee Convention to look after asylum seekers well. They are big issues. They’ve got to tackled and I don’t think this is the way to do it,” he said.

“I remain to be convinced that it’s going to be deterrent in any way.”

Labour accused Boris Johnson of trying to distract from being fined for breaching coronavirus laws with “unworkable, unethical and extortionate” plans.

Human rights campaigners have described the Government’s plan as “barbaric”, “cowardly” “shockingly ill-conceived”.

Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s refugee and migrant rights director, said that the African nation had a “dismal human rights record”.

In a statement to the PA news agency, Mr Valdez-Symonds said: “Sending people to another country – let alone one with such a dismal human rights record – for asylum ‘processing’ is the very height of irresponsibility and shows how far removed from humanity and reality the Government now is on asylum issues.
“The Government is already wrecking our asylum system at huge cost to the taxpayer while causing terrible anxiety to the people stuck in the backlogs it has created.”

“But this shockingly ill-conceived idea will go far further in inflicting suffering while wasting huge amounts of public money.”

Another refugee advocacy group issued a withering assessment of the scheme, calling it a “grubby cash-for-people plan” that was “cowardly” and “barbaric”.

The chief executive of Refugee Action Tim Naor Hilton accused the Government of “offshoring its responsibilities onto Europe’s former colonies instead of doing our fair share to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet”.

He added that the UK should have learnt from “Australia’s horrific experiment” of sending refugees “thousands of miles away” to camps where they experienced “rampant abuse” as well as “rape, murder and suicide”.

“This grubby cash-for-people plan would be a cowardly, barbaric and inhumane way to treat people fleeing persecution and war,” Mr Naor Hilton said.

“Ministers seem too keen to ignore the reality that most people who cross the Channel in flimsy boats are refugees from countries where persecution and war are rife and who just want to live in safety.”

Detention Action said that the men sent to Rwanda would “likely face indefinite detention under a government notorious for violent persecution of dissent”.

The advocacy group added: “At the same time, the UK currently gives asylum to Rwandan refugees fleeing political persecution.”

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The Prime Minister is set to argue in a speech on Thursday that action is needed to combat the “vile people smugglers” turning the ocean into a “watery graveyard”.

Ms Patel is then expected to set out further details of a “migration and economic development partnership” with Rwanda, during a visit to the capital of Kigali.

It is thought the asylum seekers will be encouraged to relocate and rebuild their lives in Rwanda, rather than the UK, with more information on how the arrangement will work anticipated in the coming days.

Mr Johnson will say that the number of people making the perilous crossing of the Channel could reach 1,000 a day within weeks, after around 600 arrived on Wednesday.

“I accept that these people – whether 600 or one thousand – are in search of a better life; the opportunities that the United Kingdom provides and the hope of a fresh start,” he is expected to say.

“But it is these hopes – these dreams – that have been exploited. These vile people smugglers are abusing the vulnerable and turning the Channel into a watery graveyard, with men, women and children drowning in unseaworthy boats and suffocating in refrigerated lorries.”

Mr Johnson will argue that the “long-term plan for asylum in this country” will be “world-leading” and will settle thousands of people every year through safe routes.

While not anticipated to be an easy task or without challenges, officials and ministers are said to believe the plan will allow the UK to better support those fleeing oppression, persecution and tyranny through safe and legal routes while also controlling the border.

But British Red Cross executive director Zoe Abrams said the humanitarian network was “profoundly concerned” about the plans to “send traumatised people halfway round the world to Rwanda”.

“The financial and human cost will be considerable; evidence from where offshoring has been implemented elsewhere shows it leads to profound human suffering, plus the bill that taxpayers will be asked to foot is likely to be huge,” she added.

Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, urged the Government to “immediately rethink its plans”.

“We are appalled by the Government’s cruel and nasty decision to send those seeking sanctuary in our country to Rwanda,” he said.

“Offshoring the UK’s asylum system will do absolutely nothing to address the reasons why people take perilous journeys to find safety in the UK.

“It will do little to deter them from coming to this country, but only lead to more human suffering and chaos – at a huge expense of an estimated £1.4 billion a year.”

But the Home Office questioned the figure, with a source saying it was “ludicrous to suggest costs would be more than the current system”.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing is “unworkable, unethical and extortionate”.

The expected deal with Rwanda comes after other locations touted – including Ascension Island, Albania and Gibraltar – were rejected, at times angrily by the nations suggested.

Peers could mount fresh resistance to the measure, having already inflicted a series of defeats to the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill.

The legislation is currently in a tussle between the Commons and the Lords after peers defeated ministers, including with a demand that offshore asylum claims should be subject to approval by both Houses of Parliament.

 

Let’s get political political let me hear your body talk body talk ..lalala

doing aerobics to Olivia Newton John

 

It just seems that everything is going through a transformation and leaders are changing positions

 

The British Conservative Party (phth, phth,phth) were scumbags when they were first formed more than 300 years ago, have been scumbags all through those 300 odd years and are still scumbags even now !!!

 

Sounds like self righteous hypocrites

 

That's putting it mildly !!!

 

Nice shot!

 

eternity

The ancient of days
Speaks in the simplest ways
On complex matters
As the hour glass shatters

 

Boris, the stupid bastard, has managed to dig himself an even deeper hole !!!


Fresh allegations emerge about Johnson’s involvement in partygate

Geraldine Scott
16 April 2022, 10:06 pmLabour has called Boris Johnson’s involvement in the partygate saga “indefensible” as fresh allegations emerged about the Prime Minister’s conduct.

The Sunday Times said Mr Johnson is expected to deliver a statement when MPs return to the Commons on Tuesday, where he will not deny wrongdoing but will point towards the wider context, including the war in Ukraine.

But the newspaper also revealed fresh claims that Mr Johnson was not only present at a leaving do for his former press chief but that he led the celebrations.
It comes after Mr Johnson, his wife Carrie, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were all issued with – and paid – fines for attending a birthday bash held for the Prime Minister in June 2020.

The Sunday Times reported the Prime Minister’s official photographer had captured photographs of Mr Johnson holding a beer at the gathering, and Mr Sunak with a soft drink.

But Mr Johnson is understood to have been present at at least six of the 12 events being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for breaking Covid rules, and is braced for more fines potentially to come.

One of those included in Operation Hillman is a leaving do for the former director of communications at No 10, Lee Cain, on November 13 2020.
A source suggested to the Sunday Times this had started as the press office having drinks to finish off the week, but turned into a party once the Prime Minister arrived, poured drinks and made a speech.

The newspaper said a No 10 source did not deny the characterisation of the gathering, but denied Mr Johnson was the instigator.

The Sunday Mirror said No 10 had refused to answer questions about the birthday gathering submitted through a freedom of information request, because of national security reasons.

Downing Street declined to comment when approached by the PA news agency and has repeatedly said it would not comment until the police investigation concludes.

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “While the British public was making huge sacrifices, Boris Johnson was breaking the law.

“If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the Prime Minister attend parties, but he had a hand in instigating at least one of them. He has deliberately misled the British people at every turn.

“The Prime Minister has demeaned his office. The British people deserve better. While Labour has a plan for tackling the cost-of-living crisis, Tory MPs are too busy defending the indefensible actions of Boris Johnson.”

 

A dead man walking !!!


Boris Johnson has 'shredded the ministerial code' over Partygate

17 April 2022, 5:42 pm

Boris Johnson has “shredded the ministerial code” by not resigning over partygate, according to a leading historian.

Lord Hennessy said the prime minister had “broken the law and misled parliament” after he was fined by the Metropolitan Police for breaking his own Covid rules.

Johnson, his wife Carrie and chancellor Rishi Sunak were all handed fixed penalty notices for attending a birthday party for the PM in No. 10 in June, 2020.

He has been accused of misleading parliament - a breach of the ministerial code - by telling MPs last December that Covid rules were followed in Downing Street at all times.

Although he has apologised, the prime minister is expected to mount a strong defence of his behaviour when he makes a statement to the Commons on Tuesday.

Speaking to the BBC’s Broadcasting House, Lord Hennessy, who is a crossbench peer, said “we’re in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember”.

He said he had written in his diary “Tuesday 12 April 2022 will be forever remembered as a dark bleak day for public and political life” and went on to describe Johnson as “the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions”.

“The Queen’s First Minister is now beyond doubt a rogue prime minister, unworthy of her, her Parliament, her people, and her kingdom,” he said.

“I cannot remember a day when I have been more fearful for the well-being of the constitution.

“It’s an assault on not just the decent state of mind which keeps our society open and clean but also on the institutions of the state.

“If he’s not prepared to do the decent thing... why should anybody else behave decently and properly? The whole decency of our public life turns on this question.”But the PM was defended by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who said he “spoke to Parliament in good faith” when he insisted no rules had been broken.The cabinet minister said: “I think that when you hear what happened on the party for which he has been fined, many people would think that they were in accordance with the rules, when they were meeting people they were with every day, who happened to wish them a happy birthday, because that was the day it was.“I think that was a perfectly rational thing to believe. Now the police have decided otherwise and the police have an authority. But he wasn’t thinking something irrational or unreasonable, that that was within the rules.”

 

Meanwhile —-

there is a Twitter war

—-possibly with hostile takeover

Tweeted to the tune of -Love Me Tender-

 

I love these jelly shoes —I had a pair in pink years ago they are wet/dry shoes ...they can totally go in water...just saw them in a window recently ..how funny are the Mannequins feet tho

 

Parliament reconvenes today after its Easter recess - now we'll see whether the 'lobby fodder' back- bench scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' members support Boris or seek his resignation.

 

This is intriguing - didn't Boris entertain the Sheik of UAE at Downing Street only a few weeks ago ???


Watchdog warns Boris Johnson of suspected spyware attack on No 10

Sophie Wingate
18 April 2022, 11:41 pm
The Prime Minister’s Downing Street office may have been the target of surveillance by powerful spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to a cyber watchdog group.

Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto on Monday said it “observed and notified” the Government of “multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections” within 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office in 2020 and 2021.

A Pegasus operator linked to the United Arab Emirates is suspected of being behind the infection at Boris Johnson’s office, Citizen Lab said.

The group also associated the suspected Foreign Office hacking with NSO clients linked to the UAE, as well as to India, Cyprus and Jordan.

Pegasus is a powerful tool that allows its operator to infiltrate a target’s phone and sweep up its contents, including messages, contacts and location history.

Ron Deibert, Citizen Lab’s director, said in a statement that most cases in which his group suspect that governments are using spyware to carry out international espionage are “outside of our scope and mission”.

However, he said the suspected attacks on official UK networks were some of the rare cases in which they decided to notify the affected governments, “especially if we believe that our actions can reduce harm”.


We also confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the UK Gov of multiple suspected instances of #Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks, including @10DowningStreet & @FCDOGovUK UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus - The Citizen Lab pic.twitter.com/qNgWKofluJ

— profdeibert (@RonDeibert) April 18, 2022

Prof Deibert said: “The United Kingdom is currently in the midst of several ongoing legislative and judicial efforts relating to regulatory questions surrounding cyber policy, as well as redress for spyware victims.

“We believe that it is critically important that such efforts are allowed to unfold free from the undue influence of spyware.

“Given that a UK-based lawyer involved in a lawsuit against NSO Group was hacked with Pegasus in 2019, we felt compelled to ensure that the UK Government was aware of the ongoing spyware threat and took appropriate action to mitigate it”.

The watchdog said Pegasus was suspected of having infected Foreign Office phones.

“Because the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its successor office, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO), have personnel in many countries, the suspected FCO infections we observed could have related to FCO devices located abroad and using foreign SIM cards,” the statement read.

A Government spokesperson said: “We do not routinely comment on security matters”.

The Foreign Office is understood to be working with allies to tackle cyber threats, build resilience and raise concerns where they arise.

The Israeli tech company NSO has been linked to snooping on politicians, human rights activists and journalists in countries ranging from Saudi Arabia to Poland and Mexico to the United Arab Emirates.

Last November, the US Commerce Department blacklisted the company, saying its tools had been used to “conduct transnational repression”.

NSO has said it sells the product only to government entities to fight crime and terrorism, with all sales regulated by the Israeli government.

The company does not identify its clients and says it has no knowledge of who is targeted.

Although it says it has safeguards in place to prevent abuse, it notes it ultimately does not control how its clients use the software.

 

just how ignorant, incompetent is this stupid government ???

Bulb boss still being paid £250,000 a year despite collapse, MPs told
August Graham
19 April 2022, 2:55 pm
The boss of bailed-out energy supplier Bulb is still being paid the same £250,000 salary that he was collecting before the business went into administration.

Hayden Wood, who set up the company, was asked by administrators to stay on in his role as chief executive after it failed in November, and continues to receive nearly £21,000 a month.

Bulb was bailed out by the Government last year and ministers set aside £1.7 billion to cover the normal running of the firm until a buyer could be found.

Mr Wood refused to say whether that is imminent when he was quizzed by MPs on the future of the company.

Speaking to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, he said: “I don’t think it responsible for me to share details of an active sales process that is ongoing right now in a public forum.”

Mr Wood said he is still receiving his salary, but has never been able to get a bonus from Bulb.

“The energy crisis of last year was, I think everyone agrees, unprecedented and unfortunately led to the company failing,” he said.

“Up until the autumn of last year we had been running those models, we had not seen a significant risk.”

He added: “With the benefit of hindsight what we would have done is begin fundraising conversations sooner”, which would have let his company hedge for customer use.

In September, the chief executive tweeted his agreement with a statement that while there were real issues in the energy industry, the idea of a “crisis” was being pumped up by the former Big Six energy suppliers.

When Bulb collapsed it had around 1.6 million customers on its books, meaning it was too big for the Government to allow it to go through the normal process that suppliers enter when they fail.

Avro Energy, with 580,000 customers, was the largest supplier to fail which went through the normal process.

Its chief executive, Jake Brown, said the business paid a £250,000-a-month fee to a management company that he part-owns, and that was how Avro paid for his services and the work of six other senior managers.

However he admitted that he did not run Avro on a full-time basis, but worked for a number of firms through the management company.

When quizzed by MPs, Mr Brown repeatedly declined to name the other managers that worked for Avro, and gave little detail on their past experience before working for the company.

He eventually said that his father had been financial director, working for Avro through the management company that they owned together.

He said the business had not hedged as much as it could have because bosses believed the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia would come online and push down prices.

That would have left Avro with large costs if it had bought energy in advance.

The pipeline was completed in September last year, the same month that Avro collapsed, but has not yet come online due to the Russian war in Ukraine.

 

LYING BASTARD !!!

Boris Johnson apologises to MPs but says he didn’t know he was breaking the law

Sam Blewett and Patrick Daly
19 April 2022, 5:21 pmBoris Johnson insisted he did not know he was breaking his own coronavirus rules, as he offered MPs a “wholehearted apology” after being fined by police.

The Prime Minister repeated his apology in the Commons on Tuesday, after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle approved a vote on whether Mr Johnson lied to MPs with his earlier denials.

Mr Johnson is expected to be on a Government visit to India when the vote takes place on Thursday.

After the House returned from its Easter recess, Mr Johnson said he was speaking in “all humility” by acknowledging the fine police issued, over the gathering in No 10 for his birthday in June 2020.


“I paid the fine immediately and I offered the British people a full apology, and I take this opportunity on the first available sitting day to repeat my wholehearted apology to the House,” he said, as he faced shouts of “resign”.

“Let me also say, not by way of mitigation or excuse, but purely because it explains my previous words in this House, that it did not occur to me then or subsequently, that a gathering in the Cabinet Room just before a vital meeting on Covid strategy could amount to a breach of the rules.

“I repeat that was my mistake and I apologise for it unreservedly.

“I respect the outcome of the police investigation, which is still under way, and I can only say that I will respect their decision-making and always take the appropriate steps.”

Mr Johnson said he has taken “significant steps” to change No 10.