Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Oh, so Bullshitting Boris “may have misled” parliament?

In other news bear “may’ s**t in the woods and the Pope “may”’be Catholic.

Honestly BB has normalised lying so much that allot of people’s attitude is now “so what”.

The fat **** needs to be booted out of politics for good. Yep most (if not all) politicians will lie but he’s no longer even bothering pretending to be telling the truth.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

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Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

If there is the potential of a Commons vote on whether Johnson misled the House, I suspect he may dial down his his whingeing on Sunak's NI Brexit deal and quietly vote for it. Now is not the time for him to lose favour with MPs, it's a time to be winning their hearts and minds.

We'll see.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

"Boris Johnson: I misled MPs, but not intentionally or recklessly" = "I'm just really stupid".... What a plank.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

That was his original defence, that no one told him it was against the rules.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

How can that wash, when he was probably the most informed person in the country and the most responsible at the time. Unless he think we're all far far more stupid than he is.. But comes down to do what I say not as I do.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Quite a few posts after mine today suggest this is not the case.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

No it doesnt, a few posts from anti tory posters means nothing.

I actually talk to (lots) of people outside of this forum, they care about inflation, energy costs and other things that directly affect them, not some party two+ years ago.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

So his Partygate defence seems to be that even though he was on TV every night repeatedly telling the country what the rules were and how important it was that those rules should be followed, he himself was unaware of what those rules were, because he wasn't listening to what he himself was actually saying all the times he said them?

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

It was not me Guv, honestly...

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Johnson’s case for the defence…

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...te-allegations

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Peanut, Damien, Hugh and Denphone are not anti-Tory last time I checked.

It's also possible for people to care both about the cost of living and whether they feel a recent PM has operated one rule for him, one rule for everyone else.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

Its also possible, and considerably more common, for them not to care.

This story is only news because the press (and of course, other politicians who love to attack Boris or the Govt) want to keep making a fuss about it, not becasue Joe public suddenly decided to care. (Yes, Im sure the usual twit crowd will be "outraged" as they are about ... well everything).

Even this topic is pretty low in the forum activity list, in 3 weeks, just 27 posts, and aside from you, only 5 other people have cared to post more than once, and one of those (me) has only posted more than once to keep replying to you - something I dont intend to keep doing as I also have far bigger things to care about.

Boris is a total plonker, we all know that already, its a surprise to no one, people have moved on. You should try it.

Re: Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs
 

As a rule, the media avoids topics that won't be of interest to their readers and viewers. Knowing your readers' interests is what made editors like Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail and Kelvin MacKenzie of The Sun highly successful.

In terms of what's happening, I think it's less about looking backwards and more about looking forwards to tomorrow's hearing. That's when Johnson faces potential suspension from Parliament. It's political history in the making and knowing Johnson's speaking skills, will make for a good show as well.

Regarding today's coverage, it's being more driven by Johnson sharing his defence in advance. And less by the media and anti-Tory politicians trying to dredge an old story up.

So, why not pull up a pew tomorrow and watch British history in the making? But I'll understand if you don't. We're all different and life would be less interesting if we weren't. ;)