Yep - It Is A Whitewash

[Gromit]

No one, not even Boris Johnson is named in the report.

Total waste of time.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1051374/Investigation_into_alleged_gatherings_on_government_premises_during_Covid_restrictions_-_Update.pdf

Give that woman a baronetcy.

[youngmafbog]

The big problem with Blackford is he is like the boy who cried wolf. He continually goes on, usually about nothing, with mots MPs (on all sides) drifting off. So if he does make a good point then no one has listened to it. Plus he is not a very likeable man anyway.

[davebro]

At least Sinn Fein have the decency to stay away!

[Togo]

// I am not sure that MPs' (well a fair few that haven't got their noses jammed up Johnsons backside) will accept this, and certainly the electorate wont.//
... and that is how it should be. Not a so shall me deah confected faux outrage, or a pre-emptive free hit from a cosseted set of manipulators at the beep who can see their cosy, "free from financiual responsibility", world coming to an end. The ballot box is the place, and then we get who we choose not who the Islington control freaks decide we need.

[weecalf]

Boris is sorry for summit he did not do what more can we ask of this gentleman ?

[youngmafbog]

We can ask hi, for the love of God, GO!

[Togo]

@17.48. In the absence of anything factual is that meant to be a badly disguised racial attack?

[jno]

surely it's Dick who'll get the baronetcy, for services rendered?

[mushroom25]

// Ian Blackford was brilliant in the commons today //

yeh, so brilliant he got his standing order 43 marching orders. does an MP have to behave in an unparliamentary fashion to be brilliant in your book?

[gulliver1]

No doubt about it, Ian Blackford was the star of the show Today, Well done Ian.

[gulliver1]

Moneill45 @ 17,48..... "Cressida dick is a pawn of No 10"
and so is Sue Gray unfortunately..

[JimF]

Blackford called Boris a liar, and said that he had deliberately misled parliament. Such words are indeed a breech of parliamentary protocol, but does anyone honestly disagree with him?

[mushroom25]

Jim, mr Blackford had a good point to make, and he could have made it using succinct and measured language; instead he practically fell over himself to be abusive and got thrown out, fatally holing his argument below the water line. me blackford is no statesman. god help Scotland if he ever becomes FM.

[Gromit]

The Police are investigating a sitting Prime Minister and he faces a fine.
Any other PM would have resigned by now.

Boris told Parliament that no parties took place. The report confirms that they did. Lying to Parliament is a resignation offence.

[jno]

his argument wasn't damaged in any way, mushroom.

[ichkeria]

Blackford couldn’t bring himself to deny the obvious in order to save himself being excluded.
Although I’m not his biggest friend I kind of respect him for that.
Meanwhile here’s Nadine Dorries desperately trying to defend the indefensible. She’s typical of the second-raters who know that but for Johnson they’d be nowhere near a cabinet post. So they stick up for him blindly.
Actually Dorries is a third-rater at best -

Johnson is finished.
It’s a question of time only.

[Peter Pedant]

// Boris is sorry for summit he did not do ...//
he was there ( ok what he did not do was - - go and he's still not doing that now! )

he drank - not meant to ( in public with his...cronies)

he partied whilst those who voted for him DDDIIIIIIIIEEEEEDD!

other than that, I suppose you are right

[Peter Pedant]

Dorries - - - future has-been, no worries!

[jno]

quite unusual to hire a culture secretary on the basis that's she's been on I'm a Celebrity (and forgotten to declare the income from it, of course).