Boris Johnson, Carrie Johnson and Rishi Sunak Fined Over Partygate. Will They Go?
Boris Johnson, Carrie Johnson and Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed penalty notices for attending lockdown parties, having been found by police to have broken the law. Isabel Hardman at the Spectator has more.
The police fines for breaking Covid laws, which [Johnson and Sunak] created, throw everything around the Prime Minister and the Chancellor into the air. Previously, many Tory MPs had said this would be a resigning matter for a serving PM to be found to have broken the law.
A No. 10 spokesperson confirmed the fines, saying: “The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have today received notification that the Metropolitan police intend to issue them with fixed penalty notices.”
The Prime Minister’s wife Carrie Johnson has also been fined. A spokesperson for Mrs Johnson said: “In the interests of transparency, Mrs Johnson can confirm she has been notified that she will receive a Fixed Penalty Notice. She has not yet received any further details about the nature of the FPN.”
The Prime Minister has now not only been found by police to have broken the law, but he also misled Parliament about the matter, saying he had been assured that there was no party. Now we know the police have concluded that on at least one occasion there was a party and that Johnson attended it.
What will Tory MPs do now? Parliament is in recess at the moment, which makes it harder for them to organise an immediate response. But what it does mean is that MPs will face the reaction of their constituents. Remember that it was the fury within constituency parties and among local voters that tipped many Conservatives into calling for Johnson to resign when the row reached its height.
Keir Starmer has of course called on Johnson and Sunak to resign: “Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have broken the law and repeatedly lied to the British public. They must both resign.”
On the matter of misleading Parliament, Boris may try to argue that just because the police have concluded what he attended was a party, doesn’t mean he was told it was a party or understood it as such at the time. It seems unlikely to wash though.
It makes Boris Johnson the first Prime Minister in history to have been found to have broken the law. Which is probably because no other Prime Minister faced laws banning private gatherings and parties. But as many have pointed out, he has only himself to blame for creating such ludicrous, draconian laws.
For lockdown sceptics there’s a strong argument for keeping Johnson in office as he would find it politically very difficult in light of this to impose another lockdown, and he has committed to a ‘Living with Covid’ strategy. He and his colleagues who wrote the lockdown rules have also shown that they did not believe their own crap and had no fear of the virus which they were telling everyone else to cower in their homes over.
On the other hand, Boris recently said he would impose another lockdown if it “saved lives”. Would a replacement be better or worse? Sometimes it’s better to stick with the devil you know.
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Prophetic, sort of.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/harsh-reality-shocks-the-mollycoddled-west/?utm_content=buffer62845&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Brilliant article.
BBC News announces that a shed load of “Advice centres” are opening in locations all across Northern Ireland as I write.
Where is the money coming from to fund these? Why are existing advice services in these locations not good enough for the Ukrainians when that is all that is provided to native NI people?
I don’t mean to be xenophobic or unsympathetic to displaced Ukrainians, but just want to know in terms of policy making which services are going to have to suffer in order to fund this largesse?
Why for example did a woman die in Newry after she had collapsed in the street because there wasn’t an ambulance which could be sent to assist her? It is these kinds of every day things – little things – which won’t be funded.
BBC reported that a man died in the Wrexham area after being run over. Nobody would move him and the ambulance took four hours on a cold January night. Hypothermia set in.
A friend of mine’s father-in-law in Essex broke his hip and waited 27 hours fo the Ambulance.
My daughter in law, having waited and waited for an urgent Doctor’s appointment had it cancelled as the doctor was ‘ill’.
Absolutely unacceptable in a so-called civilised country.
Don’t forget you are not allowed to ask these ‘Ukrainian’ refugees if they’ve been jabbed or not because that is, for them, a “private matter”.
Whereas the Irish have had to show ‘proof of vaccination’ to get into pubs and restaurants…. with ‘the unvaxxed’ Irish having to sit and eat/drink outside.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/19/stranded-nigerians-accuse-uk-of-ignoring-pleas-of-black-refugees-fleeing-ukraine
It was hard for the Ambulance to respond in time Bojo had sent it to Ukraine
Was that the one the Azov Brigade used as a taxi to transport its people about without fear of being hit by missiles?
This is a disgraceful state of affairs. Absolute hypocrites the lot of them. Whilst the ‘normal people’ were being locked down and were expected to abide by tyrannical rules and edicts, these creatures were having fun and literally taking the pi$$ out of us. Plus, of course it reveals they never really thought Covid was the great killer they liked to make out i.e. judge them by their actions and not their words…
How can the people possibly have any respect for these individuals anymore?
Anymore?
True
I never respected them in the first place. Shysters all.
Shysters – indeed – but shysters with Emergency Powers over us who now threaten out whole way of life.
I expected them to be less
But the public have to shoulder some of the blame for this. After all the silly idiots allowed themselves to be duped by Johnson and Co.’s ridiculous claims. Remember the saying – those that would willingly sacrifice their freedom for the offer of short term safety deserve neither.
The British stupidly trust the BBC – that has been their greatest mortal folly.
People still trust the BBC? Good grief! No wonder we’re in a mess…
Quite so. Just because something is ‘the law’ doesn’t mean it is lawful. That’s why we have judicial review, to determine what is passed into law is lawful. My contention is that much of this secondary legislation was unlawful, based on a wild interpretation of the 1984 Act. I’m not going to get worked up about people doing ordinary, normal things (e.g. having a slice of birthday cake) even if it is ‘against the law’ if that law is unlawful. Remember, the Scottish government was held (under judicial review) to have acted unlawfully in closing places of worship. It was no defence for the Scottish government to say that they had put that measure on the Statute Book: the courts can strike down unlawful legislation. They are supposed to be (and sometimes live up to it) a check on the legislature stripping the rights of citizens ‘just becuase they can’ by a parliamentary majority. The public are to blame for accepting these laws and not resisting them as tyrannical impositions on their liberty and carrying on living normally. Instead, the public not only sucked them up, they became little busybodies trying to enforce them with a zeal that was never… Read more »
Ignorant and thuggish: top 2 qualities looked for when recruiting the filth
The key word in your post is “supposed”.
“the courts can strike down unlawful legislation. They are supposed to be (and sometimes live up to it) a check on the legislature stripping the rights of citizens ‘just becuase they can’ by a parliamentary majority.”
Unfortunately everything you posit is undone by virtue of the fact that NO UK court was prepared to do precisely that important job during the “pandemic” (that never was), because none of the very well argued judicial review cases which were brought against the covid regulations was successful, precisely because the craven judiciary said themselves that they were not prepared to go against what the government had put in place because they did not feel competent to consider “The Science” which underlay it.
SHAME ON THEM – ALL OF THEM – particularly when other courts in other countries were prepared to do precisely that – I think of Spain’s constitutional court which declared the Spanish regulations to be unconstitutional and the Portugese courts which also overturned the rules in Portugal.
That is all true, but I can’t help feel there is another political element to this. They waited until Boris started endorsing nuclear power and saying men should not compete in women’s sports. Coincidence? Probably. But who even knows these days. Either way, if you think Boris was bad, just you wait and see what will replace him.
But surely it wouldn’t be women’s sports anymore if men were in it? Can’t they just play tennis or korfball or something?
And have they decided about boxing yet? It’s bad enough for men in with Mike Tyson.
Even worse are the MPs coming out and claiming that it was just an office event, so nothing to see here. Of course having the Mrs there is quite normal for an office event.
The MSM are making much of that, and the fact that apparently the cake didn’t even make it out of the tupperware box. What they don’t tell people is that this is just ONE event they have looked at and issued fines for. There are something like 17 separate parties all across Whitehall during the lockdowns which still have not been adjudicated upon. By the time the Met police have looked at all of those parties how many fines will the PM and other senior cabinet or other politicians amass? How many times do you have to be found to have broken the laws you enacted before it is considered that you are no longer fit to lead the government? An “international crisis” and the “war in Ukraine” are the other reasons they are trumping up as justification for why the PM who broke his own laws should remain in his position. It isn’t ‘our’ war, we should be at most remain neutral on it and leave it to NATO, and concentrate on the domestic issues which are more important, and which someone else could do a better job of handling than the current incumbent. Ukraine was only ever useful… Read more »
Hopefully no-one has any respect for them – perhaps we need a touch of “Regime Change”?
There’s a guy named Vlad who’s quote keen on regime change. Maybe he’ll come and help out once he’s finished with Ukraine…
Yes because Kim Jong-Johnson is insufficiently illiberal.
The hypocrisy is irrelevant, it their Branch Covidian doomsday cultism that is relevant
If anyone expected people to follow this crazy and ever-changing nonsense, they must be really really stupid.
Surely the argument should not be about outrage over the fact that they broke rules that they made and imposed on others, but rather they weren’t threatened by “the science™” and the “deadly pandemic™” like they were telling us to be very afraid of, hence the reason why they brought the covid rules in the first place.
BJ’s alleged near death experience may have made him want to live life to the full perhaps, or maybe the jabs protected him? 😅
How many politicians, broadcasters and “celebrities” have endorsed, instilled fear and compliance with regards to covid, only to be caught out?
They clearly weren’t scared of the virus, so why were they telling us to be?
This for me is a bigger issue than do as I say, not as I do.
Alleged near death experience wasn’t quite such a close call according to his inteview with Esther MvVey and hubby on GB News, last Saturday.
Can you elaborate on this? (I didn’t see the GB News interview with him – not sure I could have stomached it)
My recollection at the time when he was supposedly in hospital, was the MSM (particularly BBC and ITV) coverage of it was that it was really touch and go, there were suggestions that the UK’s dear leader might not make it, yada yada yada. After he was discharged from intensive care the MSM did TV interviews with the NZ ICU nurse who cared for him while in ICU etc.
So, in the interview is he saying that his “covid illness” was not as bad as MSM were portraying it to be at the time – in which case was that just more propaganda to scare the UK public into almost religious observance of regulations which he enacted but didn’t think it necessary for him to adhere to?
I know nothing about the GB news interview, but I do recollect the nurse quit not long after.
Did she?
I remember thinking at the time that surely she was breaking patient confidentiality to give those TV interviews
She did, even according to the press.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/nurse-who-cared-for-boris-johnson-resigns-over-lack-of-respect-for-nhs-workers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57162428
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-nurse-jenny-mcgee-b1849430.html
Just the top three results when I searched for it.
Reading between the lines she wasn’t happy about being used as a doormat (like all the other NHS staff) or being used in a propaganda photo op.
Or do you mean, did she quit or make her an offer she couldn’t refuse?
Would make sense
ITU (Intensive Therapy Unit), used to be ICU (Intensive Care Unit) until it was changed couple of decades ago. It still is ICU in the US.
The assumption by some is everyone on ITU is on a ventilator, in a coma, at death’s door. Whilst that is true of some, for others it is a place where high concentration oxygen therapy (which is what BoJo the hut got) can be given safely in a controlled environment, or patients kept on continuous observation and vital signs monitoring, not possible on general wards or high dependency beds.
I had no belief at the time he was seriously ill. It was a serious charade.and thus constitutes a fraud on the British public. He should submit to a publicly administered and independently performed antibody test to check his levels which given the number of jabs he has had, plus being “at deaths door” should be high.
I thought his “illness” was mighty convenient. He vanished from view for a while. Maybe “covid” was a cover for something, who knows what, else?
Well he’s certainly the type (for “who knows what”)!
Johnson is just One big Fraud!
I haven’t quite trusted him since he rather surprisingly took up cycling.
He was taiking about being on oxygen to boost his oxgen level, saying it dropped briefly but improved overnight.
It is increasingly looking like Bozo’s near death “covid” experience was actually caused by a gross abuse of marching powder and booze, combined with good make-up.
Marching powder, never heard it called that before!
Marcus, sometimes also referred to as Bolivian Marching Powder.
I’ve heard it called “Colombian Marching Powder”, but not for years.
Boris Johnson snorted coke and the fizzy bubbles went right up his nose.
I think that the booze certainly, after the pictures emerged of the “wine fridge”, is undeniable.
Good make-up? I’d hate to see the bad. Maybe he was snorting it off Rishi’s chequebook and using his Green Card to cut the lines.
Almost all bank notes are supposed to have traces (though that may have been pre-plastic).
No wonder they want rid of cash
All propaganda hype and lies – from start to finish!
Yet another good reason to watch GBN!
Or perhaps they were all suicidal?
Near death experience? IF ONLY! Knowing what I now know, I’m sure it was a staged event. Bozo loves acting there is nothing he likes more than to be centre stage!
He is an overweight man known to have a drink problem. Prime candidate. So it was probably real.
So is my Dad and he’s 78 and got through two bouts of the Quack Death before the jabs even got to him.
And he is fighting off cancer.
Yes, he’s in his fifties, woefully unfit and grossly overweight so I believe it was real
Despite the cycling?! (Or does he take a drinks free ride on the Tube these days?).
100% agree with you. I’ve said it from the start, I don’t give a flying f*** that they had a party in breach of the rules. What sticks in my throat is that they were telling the public to behave in ways that they had no intention of doing….because they knew all along that the whole covid thing was a fraud.
They knew it wasn’t dangerous, but they wanted people to think it was. So why was that, exactly?
There was panicking from at least a section of the public and Kim Jong-Johnson was terrified he’d be unpopular for not locking down
Peking Piffle. Did the misleading daily BBC data have anything to do with it perchance?
No, not Peking piffle but mass hysteria, in part stoked by the media.
My only problem is that they are punishing anyone for parties (eg a few lads in a Swansea flat watching the rugby) when so many of the politicians and discredited computer modelers pushing this nonsense fail to follow their own guidance (actually to be fair, I’d still have a problem even if they were all following the guidance).
Absolutely right!
I don’t believe it. Neither do I believe that he had the jab.
Shouldn’t Johnson, Sunak and Mrs Johnson all be dead by now? They and their medical advisors told me that Covid was so bad that if I dared to meet anyone for anything other than an essential work purpose then it was a near certainty that I and my granny would die a horrible Covid death.
But they were vaccinated, so their deaths were less serious.
Not when they were having their lockdowns parties.
And, if they were having those lockdown parties with the supposed ‘deadly virus’ in circulation, at a time when the vaccine “saviour” being touted by MSM as “the way out of the pandemic” was not even available, then a) was it ever really needed, and b) were the mandates for NHS staff and the jab passports ever justified???
I think the answer to the questions is simple. “I don’t think so”
Exactly. That is the heart of the issue, they know all along that the extremely damaging measures they had inflicted on the country where unnecessary.
It was clearly political theatre at the time, Johnson would look up and then tell you the sky is yellow if he thought he’d win some popularity or secure a deal for his mates.
And the British public would believe him
That’s the major problem, isn’t it? So many members of the public, all over the world it seems, believed things that were demonstrably false – because the media they rely upon didn’t question it. To the contrary, they supported governments with amplified falsehoods. What other falsehoods and distortions are believed? Are we surrounded by them? I suspect that most of the public (not just in the UK) go along with whatever they’re told. They don’t necessarily believe it in an active sense; they just don’t question it. I think the purveyors of these lies have made a mistake. A good proportion of the people here (and many more who don’t post and don’t visit) are society’s sceptics: the ones who instinctively ask, “Who says?”, “How do you know?”, “Why should I believe you?” Most of the time, people like that just mutter to themselves or roll their eyes. But they made the mistake of pissing on our lives in a major way. When they did that, they activated a part of the public they should have wanted quietly (and sceptically) going about their business and their private lives. Many of us can’t do that now – not the way we… Read more »
“Look, a dead bird!”.
(Looking up) – “Where?”.
A clear proof that lockdown works: Their deaths were delayed until they could be saved by vaccination.
🙂
Don’t joke – that is the next marketing line from Pfizer. You can’t still catch ot and pass it on, but your death will be less severe.
Frostrup radio ad voice “and remember you need two doses for MAXIMUM protection”.
Well, that’s a comfort.
You really believe they had the actual jab? They knew the virus wasn’t scary, they knew they didn’t need the jabs, it was probably saline shots. And Johnson didn’t really have Covid, all part of the theatre.
Maybe they are dead, but now exist as the re-animated dead ?
No, they didn’t.
Jo Churchill MP in answer to a question in Parliament, gave the case fatality rate, which she said was the government’s figure based on the best sources, as 0.096%
That question was asked and answered in Parliament but never reported in the media. Why wasn’t that question asked by journalists of the chief medical twats in their regular ‘briefings’?
The journalists were in on the scam.
No Long Covid either. Strange that……
Don’t forget he cheated death as well at the G7 ‘Jolly’ up as well, when all those cretins masked and social distanced for the cameras, and ignored the pointless bo$$ocks for the party!!
No he should go!
Not that there is anyone better, but with him gone, and his ghastly Ecoharpy wife, there is some hope Net Zero and the bonkers energy not-a-policy will leave No 10 with him.
Anyway: isn’t he needed to fight alongside Plucky™️ Ukrainians fending off the dastardly Rus hordes?
First Lady – Lord Ashcroft
This is what is governing the UK.
100%!
And of course, normal people are up in arms that they broke the rules (which they created). Of course this is bad.
But so few normal people are up in arms about the rules themselves, and that the rule makers obviously weren’t scared by the “deadly virus”.
Normal people frighten me.
I had that conversation with a few people when Cummings was caught nipping up to Durham, plus a few other revelations at the time.
I couldn’t get a single person to accept that glaring observation; the people pushing for lockdowns clearly don’t believe they are needed.
Ferguson with his mistress being an example.
People are beginning to frighten me too.
At the least, enormous numbers of “normal people” can be persuaded of all manner of untruths. Can they be as easily persuaded to believe things that are true? It ought to be possible.
I’m more concerned by the nature of media ownership and control; all those journalists who failed to question governments and ignored experts who gave the “wrong” opinions.
The lack of controversy in the media led people to believe that there was no controversy: that it was “settled”.
Sometimes I believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Of course rthe media are dodgy, just look at how Oliver Wright has been shackled by the Times muppets.
Let’s not forget Wancock and his mistress
These people are far from normal.
They’re not really normal, just majority, thanks to half a century of liberal politics screwing over the working class.
What about Durham Dominic and his eye sight test? This is a story from 2020 which started making waves when Johnson refused to lock down over Christmas. That the metropolitan police even investigates this is a waste of public resources which would be better spent on fighting real crimes, eg, shop lifting, burglaries and street robbery (yes, that exists and police routinely ignores it) and not COVID rule violations from two years ago. The proper way to deal with this would be an amnesty on the grounds that these laws should never have existed and that their legality was always questionable, to say the least.
I absolutely do believe that Johnsons should step down as prime minister after sorting out the COVID rules mess he got us into. But certainly not because some vengeful insider from the Lock them down harder, earlier and for longer! establishment is leaking old photos to the press, as this would implicitly validate the Corona policies of the time and pave the way for a future (and probably not in a much distant future) comeback.
If you’re a lockdown sceptic, Boris’s fine for breaking lockdown laws is a strong reason to keep him in office. Why? Because it makes it politically impossible for him to impose another lockdown. After all, how could he ask us to obey laws – again! – that we now know he broke?
I can’t believe Toby would be so naive as to think Boris would never impose another lockdown just because he and his crowd have been outed as lockdown lawbreakers. Of course they would impose another lockdown (Boris has even recently suggested he would do it again to save lives) and the reason why they would do it all again is because they see themselves as a born-to-rule privileged elite who are above the laws they impose on the little people of this country – think, stinking rich wealthy French aristocrats before the revolution or more recently the privileged soviet elite (nomenclatura) before the fall of communism – you then have a pretty good idea of the kind of narcissistic ‘rules don’t apply to me‘ mindset we are dealing with here.
Indeed.
And having broken the laws he enacted and expected everyone else to adhere to – and we aren’t talking minor laws, we are talking the biggest peacetime restriction on human freedom the UK has seen since WWII, how can he have any moral authority to remain in his position.
As for stick with nurse, for fear of worse, how much worse could it be? He’d lock us down again, and worse, in a heartbeat if it suited him.
And having broken the laws he enacted and expected everyone else to adhere to – and we aren’t talking minor laws, we are talking the biggest peacetime restriction on human freedom the UK has seen since WWII, how can he have any moral authority to remain in his position.
The crime (or what should be the crime) was imposing this policy, not violating it. Such violations also magically don’t matter when lockdown proponents are guilty of them (or rather, the police acts differently then), eg, Cummings or Ferguson. I bet the latter is still busy with Corona cosplaying and planning to make a comeback at the earliest opportunity.
Remember the police videos of the man out walking his dog in the countryside
The Police just loved every minute of their doubtfully legal Lockdown power!
It’s a shame they won’t persue pedios in Rotherham and burglars with the same enthusiasm they did innocent members of the public out for walks.
Don’t forget those little jobbed up CONvid marshalls either!!
I thought it was just guidance? (Well that’s my excuse anyway).
I am surprised TY wrote “politically impossible” – that seems like wishful thinking. But politically harder, I think he has a point.
It all depends who comes in his place, if he goes.
Johnson may try to enliven safes in whatever way he wants, for him to have any success of with that, the general public, ie, not just the rapid Covidians, need to take him serious. And each of these episodes make this less probable.
Very true looking at things purely from the point of view of preventing another lockdown. There is also the fact there is one near the top of government or in the opposition who I would like to see replace Johnson. The problem is though Johnson is too much of a liability in other areas e.g prolonging the war in Ukraine and ensuring we are at the top of Putin’s list of people to nuke if or when it comes to that, his green agenda which will impoverish the entire nation and destroy our freedoms, spaffing untold sums of money up the wall, allowing inflation to run out of control and promoting people to government who are not fit to run a tombola at a village fate.
I assume you meant there is no one near the top? If you meant what you wrote, who is that one? Personally I’d like to see Lord Frost take over if it should happen but no chance of that sadly.
Sorry typo – meant to say no one near the top.
I think David Davis is the most level headed of them all but I don’t think he would run again.
They are ALL useless, out of their depth pr*cks….doesn’t matter which low IQ person you put in to run the circus!!
The nonsense of nuking people is raised yet again.
All Putin has to do is switch off the gas to Europe and the continent would be on its knees in weeks.
Where is Putin going to nuke? Ukraine? And wast valuable ordnance on a 4th rate army that’s being starved into submission?
America and the UK? Why? for supplying small arms?
Give it a break. I can’t believe the fear narrative is being swallowed once again, hook line and sinker.
Hrrrm but why take the risk though? Please explain why it matters to us if Ukraine is taken over by Russia or not.
Why take what risk? That’s my point. Putin doesn’t need to deploy nuclear weapons. He could carpet bomb Kiev and reduce it to rubble which would not require nukes, but he’s not, he’s starving the Azof battalion out. He’s cutting supply lines of food and arms. He has the city encircled, there’s no need to march in.
In the unlikely event Russia has to withdraw from Ukraine, he still holds the ace card. Whereas a nuclear strike would provoke retaliation and escalation, he can simply withdraw to Moscow and flip the big red switch marked ‘Gas to Europe’.
Game over. Europe would literally be brought to a standstill within weeks as many reliant on Russia’s gas have no import facilities for LPG, including Germany.
That would not be a good enough reason for NATO or anyone else to launch a nuclear attack, which would likely destroy the gas infrastructure in Russia anyway.
Nuclear conflict is not an option, it’s yet another hysteria campaign concocted by our government and delivered by the MSM.
FFS, have you not learned anything from the covid scare campaign?
Ah yes, that’s why they are going for Mariupol.
To be fair, some people are still trying to work out what to make of the Ukrainian war, same as with the first couple of months of lockdown.
To be fair, I think people are mostly simply sickened by the civilian suffering. Same as in the Ethiopian civil war when all that charity money went to the wrong people.
Though admittedly they should be a bit more sickened by thersuffering caused in Madagascar and Kenya (for a start) by their lockdown shambles.
Of course people will swallow it, that’s why Putin implied he would do this.
Just a cock-up. Nothing to see here.
That is now the ‘official” view.
All he’ll need is lines to trot out:
“I’ve learnt from experience, as we all do. I underestimated the dangers of this dreadful virus that keeps on mutating and threatening us all. Of course I don’t want to impose a lockdown – I don’t like them either, as you know! (cue sheepish smile).
“But, with the greatest reluctance, I’m afraid that we’ll have to do so again – just for a few weeks. I think we’ll all approach this with a solemn sense of our responsibilities, a renewed sense of how important it is to accept reasonable restrictions.
“We’re making sure that the restrictions are reasonable, and we can assure you that they will be temporary. I can also assure you that I’ve learnt my lesson: don’t ever underestimate this virus – no matter how tired you are, no matter how much you just want to relax for a moment.”
Something on MSM last night about “Zika virus” and “deadly mutations” being researched by scientists.
Lockdown 4 or 5 in September?? (or sooner if they can manage it)
Nah, he said that ot cover his back. Apparently. He still should’ve ruled it out though, the fat toerag.
Actions speak louder than words, they knew there was no danger to life, we even saw the briefing room reporters don their muzzles when the briefing began and the cameras were on. Having a party is nothing to the propaganda inflicted on the country for over 2 years
Look at the links on the right hand side of this article.
There is one entitled Appendix 1 CPS Guidance on what constitutes a reasonable excuse for leaving your home.
Appendix 1: CPS Guidance on What Constitutes a “Reasonable Excuse” For Leaving Your Home – The Daily Sceptic
This included a detailed analysis from a barrister about how the guidance should apply in each UK region. People at the time were going to those lengths and going through the rules with a fine tooth comb to publish guidance so people knew whether what they were doing on a daily basis, trying to just live their lives, was breaking the law or not.
And flying in the face of all of that the most senior politicians in the UK were partying up in the corridors of power
When they downgraded covid in March 2020, it should have stood. Everything after that was a lie
At first, I was ready to believe that governments had panicked and were automatically following one another in attempts to demonstrate vigilance.
At some point during the first lockdowns, they lost the right to the benefit of the doubt. It just didn’t add up.
Remember Merkel getting out of a car at some leaders gathering, donning the nappy, walking outside with nappy on, entering the building and taking it off. You couldnt make this sh1t up. Absolute tossers the lot. They have been trolling us since the start. The contempt i feel for the political class and elite is boundless.
As far as I recall, the Intelligence Services, Inland Revenue and your local councillor are now allowed to break the law if it’s for a government reason.
Get out of Jail Free card for Johnson?
The BBC are reporting on their website that some Conservative MP numpty who initially wanted the errant PM to resign over partygate, now wants him to stay because he has performed so superlatively well over Ukraine. So the more taxpayer’s money that the Blond Bozo spaffs up the wall on Covid, Net Zero, and now War matériel for his new mate Zelensky, the better, apparently. Not to mention the cost of living disaster being forced on the citizens of this country by his anti-Russia sanctions. Nice one PM, that’s what I would consider to be Bidenesque in its unmitigated folly.
Boris’ marvellous handling of Ukraine has seen him handing over £millions worth of weapons we can’t afford to spare to a group of people who have never given a flying f##k about us.
Almost as marvellous as fishy Rishi throwing furlough money around as if he was footing the bill.
Don’t forget the “spare” NHS ambulances that are being sent to Ukraine!
OK, so if you need an ambulance in the UK, and can’t get one for 4 hours or more…..or if you or someone you love dies while waiting…..that’s just tough. Don’t be selfish, think of the plucky Ukrainians, their need is greater than yours.
If he were footing the bill personally you can be sure that there would have not been a penny given away. To give him his due he pulled off an amazing con trick – he mortgaged our futures and then handed out our own money to us after his boss had banned people from earning a living and somehow people were grateful to him.
Will they go? No freakin’ hope of that happening! We have scraped the barrel regarding political integrity!
The worst prime minister ever breaks the worst law ever and is called out by the worst opposition leader ever, who wanted worse laws than the worst law ever.
To hell with the lot of them.
The marketing department of the Sirius Kybernetik Corporation would come to mind here.
What about Michael Foot?
Anyway, nice to see you back old girl. I feared we’d lost you for good.
The Tories are just a version of the mafia (as are Labour) they exist to secure power and then use that power to steal taxpayer money.
many Tory MPs had said this would be a resigning matter for a serving PM to be found to have broken the law.
Well, he hasn’t ‘been found’ to have broken the law as yet. Only a court can make that finding. A FPN, whether for a ‘road traffic offence’ or ‘Covid violation’ is only the opinion of the police, not a legal judgment.
Boris could refuse to pay it and then make his case to the court that he hasn’t broken any laws. Others have done that with FPNs and had them quashed. If the PM is adamant that he has not broken any laws (we’re not talking about ‘rules’) then he can make that case in court.
If on the other hand he pays the FPN, that still does not mean that he necessarily accepts that he has broken the law (paying the fine is a mere inconvenience), and if the fine is paid then no criminality is recorded.
Is it a ‘resigning matter’ if a serving prime minister gets a FPN for a road traffic offence? I think not. So why if it is a FPN for some Covid infraction, which was stupid anyway?
Thanks for the explanation.
So Boris initiated a psychological terror campaign against the British public claiming that to socialise was recklessly dangerous, an act that could see a deadly pathogen spread that would kill people and overwhelm the NHS yet he didn’t follow his own decree.
And you liken his actions to doing 35mph in a 30mph zone.
Do me a favour.
And you liken his actions to doing 35mph in a 30mph zone.
No, I don’t. Do me a favour and read what I wrote rather than jumping to conclusions.
My point was that a FPN is not a legal judgment, it is merely the opinion of the police, whether it is for a speeding offence or a Covid violation. I expect Cabinet ministers have received FPNs before – they may even have had them for Covid violations. But they are not made public, unlike judgments in court.
A fixed penalty notice is a legal instrument. The punishment may be just a slap on the wrist but the fact remains, if it’s contested a criminal charge can be imposed, however unlikely.
The point being is that he can’t be criticised for imposing appalling lockdown regulations as the emergency laws imposed gave him carte blanche to do almost what he wanted.
Being awarded those powers induces huge responsibilities on him, which he personally violated. It’s not just a case of him coughing up a few quid for an FPN, it’s the moral and social responsibilities he accepted, and violated, which are the questions that should be asked by Sue Gray.
And we wonder why the recording of ‘non crimes’ was suddenly dropped.
“Is it a ‘resigning matter’ if a serving prime minister gets a FPN for a road traffic offence? I think not. So why if it is a FPN for some Covid infraction, which was stupid anyway?”
Because he put these in place.
Which makes which difference?
Presumably, just about everybody who could broke these COVID rules, starting with Cummings’ cross-country run for hiding with his parents. That was the point when the mood in the streets (in Reading at least) visibly relaxed because it had become clear – to all but the COVID zealots – that not even the people vocally in favour of draconian restrictions took them seriously, ie, that there was very likely no great, unkown danger afoot.
In hindsight, that’s a petty offence against some obviously nonsensical and both morally and legally questionable piece of government regulation cooked up by SAGE, ie, something Johnsons nodded through because he believed it was the right thing to nod through. That’s what he shouldn’t have done. His later transgressions didn’t hurt anything save the COVID purist’s feelings.
He put rules in place.
Then he ignored them.
I can’t see how that isn’t a reason to resign.
That’s your prerogative. But I don’t share this opinion, at least not for this particular reason, and think the comparison with a speeding ticket or a parking offence is apt: This was no crime and there are no victims.
The victims are those who obeyed the rules he put in place.
I’m astonished at people defending this worthless, utterly corrupt, hypocritical wretch
Other people breaking lockdown rules didn’t affect me at all. Lockdown rules affected me. I’m also not defending Johnson in general. I’m accusing his accusers in this particular case.
“Lockdown rules affected me”
He put those in place when his actions show he knew they weren’t needed.
How is that not a reason for resignation?
Sorry – the burden of proof is on you to convince us that a minor infraction of a stupid rule that was a disgrace to the statute book should be a resignation issue.
Moreover, on a point of law, I don’t believe that the law was broken. That’s a mere opinion of the police that I believe would be found wrong if tested in court – like so many other of their daft opinions.
“a minor infraction of a stupid rule that was a disgrace to the statute book”
Jesus.
HE put in place “a stupid rule that was a disgrace to the statute book”.
Then HE broke it.
But he shouldn’t resign?
Johnson isn’t just guilty of a fixed penalty offence, which is a legal instrument, he’s also guilty of lying to the public.
By paying the fine he’s admitted his guilt and avoided a court case. Wise of him as who knows what might have been revealed in an open court.
But the real test is yet to come with the Sue Gray report, an insiders investigation if you like.
The police can only go so far, especially with parliamentary privilege, but Sue Gray is able to take matters much further and put internal pressure on people to come forward.
The Covid ‘speeding’ fine is the least of Boris’ worries right now.
I think his biggest worry is that he has let the cat out of the bag for his WEF handlers, and his body language shows it. Am sure he doesn’t look forward to their retribution.
I broke my own rules which were never needed in the first place because there was nothing to be scared of.
Talk about the weakest link.
Again.
3 tiny children that we know of (how many others will emerge?) died directly because of these “lockdown rules” you think it doesn’t matter that the PM broke.
They died because they were locked down in homes with their abusers who starved them, harmed them and treated them as sub-human, and their extended families couldn’t visit them or remove them and the social work services staff couldn’t check on them.
Bit of context for you.
I’m not defending him. My point is that having paid the fine there is no legal finding. He could still, if he wanted, quite legitimately claim that he broke no laws because there has been no finding in law.
Correct. It’s just a copper’s opinion. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. That’s why there is no criminal record.
Ok – so why did he pay the fine then?
If he is THAT innocent why not defend that innocence in a British criminal court?
Speeding tickets and parking offences don’t involve mass deprivation of human liberty on the part of the whole UK population for a VERY extended period of time.
3 tiny children that we know of (how many others will emerge?) died directly because of these “lockdown rules” you think it doesn’t matter that the PM broke.
They died because they were locked down in homes with their abusers who starved them, harmed them and treated them as sub-human, and their extended families couldn’t visit them or remove them and the social work services staff couldn’t check on them
Bit of context for you.
Governments put ALL laws in place. There is nothing unusual about this.
Covid laws were not put in place. They were mandated with little to no parliamentary scrutiny. Most of them made on the hoof, changing almost day to day.
Scotch egg is a “substantial meal” LOL
I think it is clear by now that Proviterate is 77th.
Not doing a very good job of defending boss’s honour. Some very lame arguments being deployed.
The critical thing to recognise from this is that Boris et al all knew that covid wasn’t anything like as dangerous as they were making out.
Boris et al were lying in order to frighten people into compliance so they could justify stealing money from the taxpayer by way of vaccines, testing, track and trace etc
The Tories are thieves.
You say that as though labour would have done any different. Starmer was shagging Boris’ leg like an excited puppy over the covid restrictions.
Hmm,,, yes as expected they have shown criminal behaviour by organising and attending these parties.
Furthermore, BJ has followed up by repeatedly lying to the population and parliament on the subject.
Of course he should resign, the ministerial code says so and he has no defence.
But…should we be surprised? He has always been a liar. He’s lost jobs for lying in the past.
The majority of his Brexit campaign was a pack of lies. But it was what 52% of the people who voted wanted to hear, so he got away with it then.
All politicians lie, some lie often. But it’s of little consequence in comparison to the treasonous covid policies.
Quite so – all this huffing and puffing about ten minutes in the workplace, where meetings were possible within the law without restrictions of number or time – is all directed at the wrong place. It is the imposition of the Covid restrictions that the British public should be angry about. Instead, they only get angry over perceived hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is bad, of course, but it is nothing compared to the anger that should have been vented against the Covid restrictions, which many people lapped up and like to become little enforcing busybodies.
I would contend that the majority of the Remain campaign was a pack of lies too.
I’m sure most of us who voted to leave the EU dictatorship did so regardless of Boris’s involvement.
Yep.
It was obvious that he was pretending to be a leaver because he expected Remain to win but knew that the majority of Conservative Party members were Leavers.
That’s why he looked so unhappy when the result was announced.
It was never Boris’ Brexit campaign. Without Nigel Farage it would never have happened. And amongst millions of others, I was on board with Brexit long before Nigel showed up.
Associated Press reports that Mr Johnson continues to have the full backing of Volodymyr Zelensky.
And the Azov battalion.
Boris won’t be going anywhere for the same reason Russia won’t be going anywhere.
He’s always followed Vladimir’s Motto: once you’ve Putin, never withdraw.
Boom, Boom……
“For lockdown sceptics there’s a strong argument for keeping Johnson in office as he would find it politically very difficult in light of this to impose another lockdown, and he has committed to a ‘Living with Covid’ strategy”
Are you barking mad!
He is an appalling PM in every way…. Competence, morals, honesty and execution.
Why would you want to protect this buffoon? He would have no difficulty in implementing a policy that contradicts himself, logic or the law. He’s proven this time and time again!
And your alternative is?
Would you similarly expect Boris to resign for a parking fine?
We all know what he’s done, and he’s still there. He’ll pay the fine and that will be that.
According to Boris we had to remain isolated from one another because to do otherwise risked spreading a deadly pathogen that could kill people.
Yes I do expect Boris to go for needlessly risking killing people.
But that’s a different point – craning down totalitarianism on the populace. Yes, sack him for that. But not for eating a slice of his birthday cake in the workplace. Get some perspective!
He can’t be prosecuted for being a dictatorial scumbag. He has, however, been prosecuted for breaking his own covid laws.
We can only use the weapons available to us, even if it is a piece of cake.
Who would be your choice for the top job?
Bobs latest- Fattaturk & partner in crime
‘Who do you think you are kidding Mr Johnson if you think old England’s done?’
Bob Moran has excellent draftsmanship, a marvellous eye, sharp and informed political instincts – and guts.
Boris is said to fully retain the confidence of the Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan, Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville.
Don’t be silly, the Bozzer is like sh×t on a blanket.
Impossible to remove, so I’m told.
The only reason to keep Bunter and his grass green young wife is the alternative is only likely to be worse and this is true. Rishy Washy is now a non-runner so we have the useless Raab, who wrongly extended the first shutdown, Louise Trash the foreign secretary without much idea of basic world geography, or Gove scared of a mild virus, or the ghastly Hunt. Benny the defence secretary with a vivid imagination might fancy a go. The cupboard really is bare and all but a handful of the Tory mp’s have shown themselves up as complete cowards.
Give me IDS over Bunter every day but it won’t happen. It will be somebody bad who gets the gig.
Or if there was a general election, we’d end up with Startmer possibly. No thanks!
Boris Johnson, Carrie Johnson and Rishi Sunak, Will They Go?
No, it’s in our interest they stay, (so we can give them a hard time) what’s the alternative? Labour and Starmer (they are Worst).
The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go (Live) – YouTube
I guess there is some kind of morbid fascination in watching a worm wriggling on a hook. That’s about all we have, because I doubt if he will resign; and if he does, we will only get saddled with some other corrupt, lying shytbag in his place. That is all there is on offer.
It might be some lying shytbag who won’t be quite as enthusiastic about NetZero though.
Bozo is under orders. If his gaffers tell him to reverse net Zero he’ll do it overnight.
The fact these people saw it was ok to do these things while telling everyone else to hide at home just shows what nonsense it all was.
The fact the chief civil servant effects person brought her karaoke machine in to a leaving do on the eve of Philip’s funeral should reinforce the fact it was all nonsense.
now we just need admittance that the jabs are did more harm than good.
look at the rise in the incidence in hepatitis in children – 74 cases that they are prepared to acknowledge – but of course put down to being caused by “covid”
Isn’t it interesting how this news broke out just after Boris started endorsing nuclear power and saying men should not compete in women’s sports?
No coincidence that it also came just after his ‘daring’ mission to Kiev…
Or that his “daring mission to Kiev” came just before…. That said, the back benchers have him exactly where they want him now and he and his dreadful wife might as well Carrie on.
“having been found by police to have broken the law“
Since when do the police decide? We are faced with the possibility of the police bringing down a prime minister without reference to a magistrate, judge or jury. That’s a marker of a police state.
It’s great to see these authoritarians hoist with their own petard but the manner does not bode well for the future of the UK as a free society.
Nonsense.
They broke their own law.
If you are concerned about a police state, consider that the WHO will shortly be able to force you to take any drug or experimental treatment they want, lock you down or lock you up, on the whim of their puppeteer paymasters. It might also concern you that you will not be able to vote them out of office, even though they are euthanasia advocates who view you as an inconvenient energy/food/oxygen consumer.
Yes, that does concern me. But that doesn’t make what I said nonsense. Please don’t be so bloody rude.
Yep – at that point you would be glad of police and something which might resemble a legal process
The police investigation is the least of Boris’ worries. There’s a report yet to be finished on the whole lot of them that will include the police report.
Don’t jump the gun. Wait until that’s published.
“Contempt” is the only word that comes to mine