Damian Green Goes

[Peter Pedant]

another Liar MP goes down the tube

altho he was in the news for possibly looking at porn
he fiddled Kate Maltby when he said he hadnt

Theresa May - 'I have therefore asked for your resignation'
I can't recollect a minister going with that reproof echoiong in his ears

[Jackdaw33]

Can you point out the lies in Green's letter and how you know them to be such? No doubt you're on a roll because you can have a dig at a Tory. Time you looked in your own back yard.

[mikey4444]

Jack...........I wouldn't believe the contents of Greens' laundry list tonight.

[jourdain2]

It seems to me to be a dignified, apologetic resignation. He has not been proved to have done any wrong. A sad affair.

[Jackdaw33]

He's a Tory. That in itself in Mikey's eyes is enough to condemn him to outer darkness.

[naomi24]

We have a first here tonight. Peter Pedant’s witterings are, for once, legible. One might be forgiven for suspecting there’s a method in this madness.

[New Judge]

"NJ....much opposition was expressed, on AB, and other places, when the retired Officer did come out and say what he knew about Green.

Given tonight's revelations, isn't it rather a good idea that he did,..."

No it isn't. The end does not justify the means. Commissioner Cressida Dick said a couple of weeks ago that police officers have an enduring duty to keep confidential all the information they gather in the course of their enquiries. That duty, she said, does not cease when they leave the job.

Constable Neil Lewis had no right to retain his official note book after he left the force. They are supposed to be retained as archives in case of any legal proceedings. He had no right to divulge the information contained in it. I have no particular feelings one way or the other about Mr Green. I assume that all politicians tell lies at some time in their career, some more than others. It's no big deal. I am more concerned about former police officers divulging confidential information which they gained during the course of their duties. That's far more serious than a lying politician and just because the unauthorised disclosure of this particular information suits some people does not make it OK.

[jno]

everyone seems very keen to acquit Green because apparently lying is okay.

I can just imagine what they'd say if it had been Dianne Abbot.

[Jackdaw33]

As NJ rightly points out, it is the police who should be on trial here, not Green.

[jno]

blame the messenger...

[Khandro]

I see Les tricoteuses are out in full glory tonight, and the sound of mikey's knitting needles are as usual, deafening.

[Jackdaw33]

Nice one, Khandro.

[goodgoalie]

Les tricoteurs, surely?

[anneasquith]

So is TM naive, stupid, or care not a bit what goes on in her cabinet. She won't have anyone to fight for the position as PM, no one wants the the fiasco that is brexit. As for Mr. Green do some abers actually feel he has been unfairly sacked. ? NB I do not believe Jeremy Corbin would be a suitable PM .

[EDDIE51]

I hear Corbyn is sitting in a furniture removal van around the corner from Downing Street.

[Jackdaw33]

He'll have a long wait then.

[anneasquith]

I think TM is so oblivious to the business of downing st. she may not notice if he moved in :-)

[EDDIE51]

Green was May's longest serving and most loyal colleague haveing been with her since they both were at the same University , and virtually the only person she could trust not to stab her in the back.
Let's hope the lying & incompetent Davis is next to get the boot.
Before you ask , just look at the fiasco over the reviews of the impact of a no deal Brexit that he swore had been made but not released. At least twice he said they had been completed but were not relevant, before being forced to admit that not only had they not been completed they had not even been started. He is a laughing stock and has to go.

[jno]

anne, I think she's in the same position as John Major, stuck with a bunch of fools and knaves from which she's supposed to form a government.

[Gromit]

His protestations of innocence were rather undermined by the technical evidence against him.

He didn’t have a leg to stand on but kept digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself.
Not a surprise. Just confirms the darth of ability and talent in what is a very weak Government.

Exactly what the country does not want when there is important and crucialstuff to do over brexit.

Johnson and Fox are still unsackable no matter how badly they perform or undermine the SemiPrime Minister.

So it doesn’t look good. They only person who ca save us is Corbyn. So it doesn’t look good.

[anneasquith]

Jno, in fairness I never did think she was PM material , she has from day one IMO appeared uneasy in the position.