Carrie wont let him, Pritti is a mate of hers allegedly
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To be fair, that is a tricky one!
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Johnsonās new spokesperson Allegra Stratton has started to earn her 30 pieces of silver. Has she no self respect?
āForm a square around the Pritsterā!! The Pritster? FFS, pass the sick bag. It sounds a bit Masonic to me.
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Allegra. Thereās a name in all the comprehensive schools.
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Ah but she didnāt apologize did she. What she said was,āIām sorry if my behaviour upset some peopleā, thatās not an apology. An apology would be,āIām sorry for my behaviourā, not how people responded to it. This crew couldnāt lie straight in bed.
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And it now appears that she was told about her behaviour at the time, so yet another lie. Still, the rules donāt apply to a Johnson and his cohorts, just the little people like us.
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Tbf, I donāt think the rules apply to us either, judging by society now.
No-one gives a shit about anyone else anymore, and the British peoples attitude to life is just being reflected by the Government.
If people actually cared, weāll see Boris and the Tories voted out at the next election.
My bet is we probably wonāt.
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And when you consider the alternatives, thatās quite understandable.
Johnson tried to pressure Sir Alex Allen to water down his report and Allen refused, telling Johnson he would resign if Johnson refused to accept his conclusions, which he duly did. Itās time to face facts, we have a corrupt government and no constitutional means of stopping it. Our existing parliamentary system depends on people playing the game, behaving honourably, once the government in power refuse to do this it fails. We need a written constitution with built in checks and balances, with the power to remove those who fail to measure up to the standards required. I am starting to come round to the idea of PR and an elected second chamber which would give some measure of accountability to these rogues.
Johnson has urged Tory MPs to āform a squareā around Gripper Stebson, protect the bully at all costs after he refused to dismiss her. All her Tory friends lining up to say what a nice, gentle polite person Gripper is. Fucking morons, bullies donāt bully peers, just their subordinates. Iām sure Hitlerās senior officers were lining up to say what a nice chap he was. I see Ian Duncan Smith, who stood down as Tory leader after using taxpayers money to pay his wife a fat salary for a non existent job, is now calling the civil servants complaining of Gripperās behaviour liars.
Vile scum the lot of them.
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It is sickening that they get away with shit like this week after week. Still, we have seen Trump act atrociously for the last 4 years and still over 70m people voted for him. Itās hard to see decency and honour returning to politics. But these people really do need to be voted out.
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They really are behaving like fascists. I really hope Rutnam holds firm and doesnāt fold in his law suit against the government for constructive dismissal. No question that he will be offered inducements to drop it, a large payoff maybe, or a peerage. Letās hope heās strong and principled enough to stand firm.
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It would be surprising if he did
The risk of fighting a legal case is high - lose and you bill is in the 10ās of thousands
With that on the line - how strong are your principles
All right for some. This guys business made a loss of 500,000 quid last year.
Is this whatās known as disaster capitalism?
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Doing the whatsapp roundsā¦ 
Priti Patel is touring the countryside in a chauffeur-driven car. Suddenly, a cow jumps out into the road, they hit it full on and the car comes to a stop.
Priti, in her usual bullying manner, says to the chauffeur: āYou get out and check - you were driving.ā
The chauffeur gets out, checks and reports that the animal is dead.
'You were driving; go and tell the farmer, ā says Priti.
Five hours later, the chauffeur returns totally plastered, hair ruffled, with a big grin on his face.
āMy goodness, what happened to you?ā asks Priti.
The chauffeur replies: ā When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of malt whisky, the wife gave me a slap-up meal and the daughter married me ā
āWhat on earth did you say?ā asks Priti.
āI knocked on the door, and when it was answered, I said to them: Iām Priti Patelās chauffeur and Iāve just killed the cow.ā
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Jeez 
Itās ok. She deleted the tweet 
From the parallel universe of Lie Lie Land Priti Patel gave an interview today in which she claimed that the government has been āconsistently ahead of the curveā in itās response to coronavirus.
Presumably thatās why we have taken the hardest economic hit and have some of the highest death rates in the world.
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How is it possible to hate someone so much and think she is an utter bitch when you have never met herā¦
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You just need to look at her background and her record.
Sheās Hindu. Her family moved here from Uganda. They would have had a decent standard of life there and the Hindus are big into their caste system.
In 2013, she voted against making it to discriminate on the basis of caste, so I think you can reasonably argue her background informs her politics, which is fair enough.
Patel is not a āchoc iceā, to use the pejorative that is invoked against politicians of colour. Sheās not the compliant lapdog of the establishment. Sheās worked out a way to accommodate her own prejudices within the Conservative Party and do very well out of it. I doubt what she believes has changed one iota over the past three decades.
I think sheās always believed she had been better than everybody else and I donāt think sheās had to do a great deal of changinā to get integrated into the Conservative Party.
Caste system and class system really arenāt that different when you think about it. At the centre of each is the idea that youāre better than someone just by virtue of birth. She fits right in.
