Boris Would Have Been Suspended...

[choux]

for 90 days had he not resigned. tbh, I am not surprised but it is a mucky game in politics and there will be more dirt-throwing, no doubt. The world still spins ;)

[choux]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65876914

[Zacs-Master]

Do you think someone might just have tipped him off?

[choux]

Do you reckon, Zacs? lol.

[Zacs-Master]

I think so. Eeeeek.

[naomi24]

Sitting before a committee, some of whom, including the chairperson, having already condemned him, he didn't need tipping off.

[retrocop]

It's even muckier when it has been disclosed today that Sir Bernard Jenkin MP ,is a member of the committee that came to the decision of suspension and was part of Harman's cabal of witch hunters, has been accused of breaking lock down rules himself. He attended his wife's birthday party with others where plenty of drink was imbibed and the 2 meter separation just went out the window. Dirty politics indeed. Dog eat dog it appears

[Zacs-Master]

Good point Naomi. Close the thread. It’s finished after this.

[Ellipsis]

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65863267
> Boris Johnson has stepped down as a Tory MP after claiming he was "forced out of Parliament" over Partygate.
>
> The ex-PM saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating if he misled the Commons over Downing Street lockdown parties.
>
> In an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a "kangaroo court" whose purpose "has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts".

That was all days ago. The Committee itself gave Boris the advance copy, and Boris resigned in a huff.

[retrocop]

Sorry. My link.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/boris-johnson-accuses-outspoken-tory-partygate-critic-bernard-jenkin-of-outrageous-hypocrisy/ar-AA1cyL4b

[choux]

Boris did delay the report's publication by a day, apparently. As others have stated previously here - Boris will survive quite nicely.

[retrocop]

I'll try again
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12195877/Boris-Johnson-accuses-outspoken-Tory-Partygate-critic-Bernard-Jenkin-outrageous-hypocrisy.html

[naomi24]

Sorry, cross posted. I'll remove my duplicate link.

[Gromit]

Didn’t the Privileges Committee show him an copy of their conclusion in advance, as a courtesy. When he realise the suspension was over 10 days and he faced a petition for a by election in his constituency, he then resigned.
He had been hunting for a safer seat anyway. Meanwhile he hatched a plan to boot Dorries into the Lords and get her seat. But Sunak scuppered that by removing her from Boris’ Resignation Honours List.

[choux]

Will this be a "good day to bury bad news"? Not likely.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course he would. That was the whole point of making a ridiculous fuss over something unimportant. Still, looks like his accusers may well have indulged in the same irrelevant activity that they used to bring him down. Perhaps some are destined to be hoisted by their own petard.

[Gromit]

Boris has issued a 1700 word statement and says…

// "The committee now says that I deliberately misled the House, and at the moment I spoke I was consciously concealing from the House my knowledge of illicit events. “This is rubbish. It is a lie. //

Johnson was at some of the events so of course he must have known his denial to parliament that no breaches of lockdown had taken place, was untrue. Yet he still protests his innocence.

[Gromit]

// looks like his accusers may well have indulged in the same irrelevant activity //

Well one. The Committee had 5 members with the Conservatives having a majority.

[Atheist]

Is it not odd that nothing came out about alleged bias or prejudice prior to the Committee's conclusions being passed to Johnson? He's doing a pale imitation of Trump; attacking the system, attacking the House of Commons, attacking those who were tasked with considering his case. When he 'lost' he started to play the victim game (as Dories is doing).

[Atheist]

His nanny would probably say "They're all scoundrels except for my little Feffel!"