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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If MPs are doing their jobs, they will ask the Chair of the Conduct and Privileges Committee why they have not directly addressed the points that Boris Johnson made in his defence.
On the face of it, they’ve made their decision on the basis that this is Boris, and not on the evidence he has submitted in his defence.
I do recognise that some of you aren’t really interested in relevant information that might actually be helpful to BJ.
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They've looked at all the evidence, not just that submitted by Johnson. And that evidence includes his rather desperate attempts at intimidating the committee.
You need to read beyond Johnson's sound bites. You shouldn't just decide that because you like Johnson, he can't put a foot wrong and you loathe Starmer so the latter must be guilty. You need to take a more evidence-based approach. Fortunately for British democracy, in the democratically-constituted committee we have a bunch of grown-ups who're able to do exactly that. A majority of them are Conservative who have put country before party politics. I appreciate the decision may be harder to swallow than the populist, comforting sound bites from Johnson but like those parties and misleading Parliament, it's reality.
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Originally Posted by denphone
Nothing to do with people hating Boris Johnson but still you are quite a expert at whataboutery and deflection so l suppose your utterly predictable reaction comes as no surprise to many of us.
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I hope enough Conservative MPs can summon up the courage and vote to drain the swamp on Monday.
True Conservative supporters will want to learn the lessons from Johnson's assault on democracy whilst putting some space between the current regime and Johnson's. Until this is done, he will haunt the Party like the ghost of Banquo haunted Macbeth with journalists willing to remind the public that Sunak was fined too.