Dead man walking ???

Anyone want to guess how long it will be before the ;men in grey suits' come a calling at 10 Downing Street ???


‘Serial liar’ Boris Johnson should go, former Tory attorney general says

Tom Eden
11 January 2022, 5:12 am
Boris Johnson is a “serial liar” and should be ousted from office after the latest revelation about a bring-your-own-booze drinks party at Downing Street, a former Conservative attorney general has said.

Dominic Grieve accused the Prime Minister of a pattern of behaviour that is undermining trust, including by lying about potential rule-breaking gatherings at Number 10 during the first coronavirus lockdown.

An email from Mr Johnson’s principal private secretary invited more than 100 Downing Street staff to an evening gathering on May 20 2020 when rules meant the public could only meet one other person outside.

Multiple reports – including from his former adviser Dominic Cummings – have suggested Mr Johnson attended the event with his wife Carrie.

Mr Grieve, a barrister who served as David Cameron’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014, said that Tory MPs who are “very unhappy” with the current Prime Minister’s behaviour should move to replace him.

Asked about the latest allegation of the Prime Minister and Downing Street staff flouting Covid-19 rules, Mr Grieve said: “He ought to be in a lot of trouble because he’s told a series of untruths about these issues over a period of time and the latest evidence clearly suggests that the rules were broken.

“There may be mitigating circumstances for that, I don’t know. But it’s part of a pattern of behaviour by him which undermines trust. And because trust is undermined, it then becomes very difficult to accept anything he says on any topic whatsoever.”

Mr Grieve said he thinks the public now has “very little” trust in Mr Johnson and added: “The difficulty we have here is that we have a Prime Minister who’s effectively a serial liar.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: “My impression is that there are many MPs who are deeply unhappy about him, but the difficulty is that replacing a prime minister requires courage, it requires the upheaval that goes with it, and it requires the coordination necessary to get him removed.

“I think it’d be very desirable if he were removed.

“I think the Conservative Party would find that it has a much better future without him than it has with him at present.

“But whether that’s going to happen in the short-term future, I think is open to doubt. In the longer term, I think that he is going to have great difficulty recovering from these events.”

Boris Johnson, your deflections and distractions are absurd.

Not only did you know about the parties in Downing Street, you attended them.

Stop lying to the British public. It’s time to finally come clean.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 11, 2022

Mr Johnson has refused to answer questions about the latest allegation of Downing Street rule-breaking, instead claiming the public should wait for the conclusions of an investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray – a line repeated on Tuesday morning by health minister Edward Agar.

But Mr Grieve said: “I think that ultimately you have to make a judgment about whether somebody is suitable to be a political leader and the prime minister in a democracy.

“I don’t think the current Prime Minister passes that test and I don’t think it requires conclusions from Sue Gray to tell one that.

“Even if he were to escape Sue Gray’s censure, I don’t think it said to make any difference to his long-term behaviour.”

This line won't survive 48 hrs. Nobody needs an official to tell them if they were at a boozy shindig in their own garden. People are (rightly) furious. They sacrificed so much – visiting sick or grieving relatives, funerals. What tf were any of these people thinking? https://t.co/bsxJzdvp6N

— Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonPC) January 11, 2022

He added: “The conclusion about the Prime Minister’s understanding of propriety and truth doesn’t require Sue Gray to report, because the pattern of his misbehaviour is now so consistent on a large range of issues over quite a long period of time.”

Meanwhile, former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the public were rightly furious after more evidence of alleged rule-breaking by Downing Street was revealed by ITV, writing on Twitter: “What tf (the f***) were any of these people thinking?”

Referencing Mr Agar’s argument that people should wait until the conclusion of the investigation, Baroness Davidson said: “This line won’t survive 48 hrs.

“Nobody needs an official to tell them if they were at a boozy shindig in their own garden. People are (rightly) furious. They sacrificed so much – visiting sick or grieving relatives, funerals.

“What tf were any of these people thinking?”

 

It has disturbed most of our country.
Off with his head!

 

I'll volunteer as the executioner !!!

 

A bit severe from you

Or should that be sever

 

Music to cheer Boris on his way !!!

 

Its taken a little over two years, but finally, the so-called 'red wall' scumbags have lost their faith in that stupid bastard Johnson and are calling for his resignation.

‘He has to go’: Northern Tories turn on Boris Johnson over Downing Street party
‘This is such an atrocity. I can’t see how he can survive,’ says one local leader

Colin Drury
North of England Correspondent
10 hours ago

How has Boris Johnson responded to party claims so far?
Leading Conservatives in northern England say Boris Johnson must resign if he attended a Downing Street garden party at the height of the 2020 lockdown.

Senior Red Wall Tories voiced anger on Tuesday at finding themselves once again having to placate voters furious about allegations the prime minister broke his own coronavirus rules.

They fear that Mr Johnson may now be so toxic it will lose the party both parliamentary and council seats at future elections.

“If he is found to have attended this gathering, as they call it, he has no option but to resign,” Alan Marshall, a cabinet member with Darlington council, told The Independent. “I stress that caveat: ‘if’. But if he went [to the party], absolutely he has to go. Being prime minister does not put you above the rules or the law.”

Mr Johnson has refused to say whether he attended a drinks event in the garden of 10 Downing Street on 20 May 2020, a time when Britons were only allowed to meet one other person outdoors.

An email inviting roughly 100 staff to the “BYOB” event was sent out by the PM’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds.

Mr Johnson has refused to comment until an inquiry into several alleged parties said to have been held in Downing Street has been concluded by senior civil servant Sue Gray, but witnesses have said he attended the event.

Antony Mullen, the Conservative leader on Sunderland City Council, said: “Martin Reynolds should have been sacked, and I think Boris Johnson will inevitably have to follow him”.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme, he added: “I think this is such an atrocity, I can’t see how he can survive… It is now a question of the scale of the wrongdoing rather than whether there has been any.”
The criticism from within the PM’s own party came as a poll showed two-thirds of voters believe he should resign in the wake of the latest No 10 party allegations, which follow claims of other Downing Street gatherings during strict Covid restrictions in the winter of 2020.

Councillor Marshall, who sits on the first Tory council in Darlington for 40 years, told The Independent: “I’ll reserve my full judgement until the investigation comes out but, if the s*** hits the fan, we [in the north] will have to deal with that.”

Darlington is widely considered one of the jewels in the Conservatives’ take-over of the north’s old Labour heartlands, and the Tory council victory in May 2019 foretold that year’s general election landslide.

“At a local level, we are making good progress and people are recognising that,” Councillor Marshall said. “But these constant controversies from Westminster – it makes the job harder and it will certainly make winning elections harder.”

Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, has also called on the PM to resign, and other northern Tory leaders have voiced fears Mr Johnson’s comments will hurt them locally.

Adrian De La Mare, the leader of the Conservative group on Lancaster city council, told The Independent: “Put it like this: there is a feeling among people here that there has been a dual standard, and that doesn’t sit well with them.”

Although he declined to comment on the PM’s future, he said: “I believe that anyone who goes into public service has to abide by the rules and the laws in place and, if they don’t … there needs to be a way of moving forward.”

He pointedly added that he would not have attended an invitation to drinks on that date “because the rules were very clear”.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, other Conservatives were less diplomatic.

“The crucial thing about Boris was that he could win elections by appealing to voters who weren’t traditionally Conservative,” said one council cabinet member. “That’s gone now. So you have to ask: what does he bring to the table as leader?”

 

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This ignorant, arrogant barstard Johnson, hasn't even got cojones to actually resign, so step forward the 'men in grey suits' to go calling on him in DOWNING STREET !!!