Cable Forum - Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

Geidt says he quit because PM put him in 'odious' position asking him to approve 'deliberate' breach of code

Geidt says the final straw was a request to consider a proposal that he said would be a “deliberate and purposeful” breach of the ministerial code.

He implies that Boris Johnson asked him to approve of this breach.

Letter and relevant paragraph: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...olitics-latest

papa smurf

16-06-2022 13:25

Re: Partygate & Beergate discussion

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36125469)

Letter published

Letter and relevant paragraph: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...olitics-latest

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

1andrew1

16-06-2022 13:34

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125474)

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Talk it's all about steel tariffs and Party donations from steel tycoons. We'll see.

TheDaddy

16-06-2022 14:16

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125474)

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Exactly, why have an ethics advisor or an anti fraud tsar when you have none of one and love encouraging your chums to do the other, there will always be some useful idiot that comes along to defend your behaviour no matter how odious

1andrew1

16-06-2022 14:30

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36125480)

Yes, how long till someone plays the false equivalence card and says Starmer's expenses are being investigated. :D

Dave42

16-06-2022 17:00

Re: Partygate & Beergate discussion

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125474)

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

Sephiroth

16-06-2022 17:11

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Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 36125488)

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

... Blue rinsed rather?

1andrew1

16-06-2022 17:18

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Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 36125488)

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

Poor old Boris can't do anything right in the eyes of you lefty remainiacs. When hard-working households are struggling with Putin-generated inflation, he's simply saving tax-payers' money by not replacing the role. :D

Besides, Boris is perfectly capable of managing his own ethics thank you very much, he doesn't need a highly-paid, unelected civil servant to do it for him. :D

GrimUpNorth

16-06-2022 21:58

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36125492)

When you don't have an ethical bone in your body why would you employ someone to look after them?

1andrew1

16-06-2022 22:24

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 36125506)

When you don't have an ethical bone in your body why would you employ someone to look after them?

To take the blame for poor guidance if you get found out for crossing the line.

Hugh	16-06-2022 23:04

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125474)

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Except this isn’t about those two things - it’s about a proposed deliberate breach of the Ministerial Code.

papa smurf

17-06-2022 08:33

Re: Partygate & Beergate discussion

Robert Peston was forced into a grovelling apology after he falsely claimed Boris Johnson's ethics adviser quit over a plan to help firms linked to the Tories

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ked-firms.html

daveeb

17-06-2022 13:11

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125522)

The fact that Johnson won't comment on why he has lost his second ethics adviser speaks volumes. Seems he has even lost his ability to attempt plausible lies these days.

Hugh	17-06-2022 15:05

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36125522)

Quote:

'I apologise for my inaccurate language and getting it wrong in the tweet below. I should have said 'a possible conclusion to be drawn...', not 'the only conclusion to be drawn...'

'I made a mistake, not for the first or last time. I am sorry (not for the first or last time).'

"grovelling - acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour."

Strange - I would have thought you, of all people, would have understood what ‘obsequious’ meant, especially in relation to the Conservative Party…

papa smurf

17-06-2022 18:46

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For the hard of understanding
1 I do not work for the daily mail
2 I posted an article from the daily mail online i did not write it
3 it is considered rude in polite society to shoot the messenger
4 ffs get a life

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Starmer returns questionnaire to police investigating 'beergate' episode

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has returned a questionnaire to police investigating the so-called "beergate" episode.

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-...isode-12635823

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