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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Nail. On. Head. Well done, Itshim.

Blair lied about the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to get permission to go to war. That was a far bigger misdemeanour than anything Boris has done, and yet when did he get suspended from Parliament?

This is a Boris hate campaign, and Blair is a good example to demonstrate that fact.
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair#cite_note-100

As the casualties of the Iraq War mounted, Blair was accused of misleading Parliament,[99][100] and his popularity dropped as a result,[101][102] with Labour's overall majority at the 2005 election reduced from 167 to 66 seats. As a combined result of the Blair–Brown pact, the Iraq War and low approval ratings, pressure built up within the Labour Party for Blair to resign.[103] Over the summer of 2006, many MPs criticised Blair for not calling for a ceasefire in the Israel–Lebanon conflict.[104] On 7 September 2006, Blair publicly stated he would step down as leader by the time of the Trades Union Congress conference held from 10 to 13 September 2007,[105] despite promising to serve a full term during the previous general election campaign. On 10 May 2007, during a speech at the Trimdon Labour Club, Blair announced his intention to resign as both Labour leader and prime minister,[106] triggering a leadership election in which Brown was the only candidate.[107]

At a special party conference in Manchester on 24 June 2007, Blair formally handed over the leadership of the Labour Party to Brown, who had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in Blair's three ministries.[108] Blair tendered his resignation as prime minister on 27 June and Brown assumed office the same afternoon. Blair resigned from his Sedgefield seat in the traditional form of accepting the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, to which he was appointed by Brown in one of the latter's last acts as chancellor;[109] the resulting by-election was won by Labour candidate Phil Wilson. Blair decided not to issue a list of Resignation Honours, making him the first prime minister of the modern era not to do so.

I've provided the above material out because the events as between Blair & Boris differ.

BLAIR

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Blair lied but when the game was up he resigned before any misleading Parliament charges were formally brought against him. We'll never know whethlieder or not he was threatened with investigation.

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This was a different Parliament, different members and a different system for dealing with privileges.

3/
BLAIR did a runner before they could get to him.


BORIS

1/
Boris held parties in Downing Street that broke his own contact/lockdown rules. Photographs proved this.

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Boris tried to change the rules to get disgraced Owen Paterson off the hook.

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Then there was the Chapman Pincher affair, when Boris said he didn't know about allegations over Pincher's sexual behaviour before his appointment to Government. Boris had to retract this when it was proved that he knew in advance.

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Boris lied to Parliament when he said he'd been repeatedly told he was observing the rules. (He maintained those lies in evidence to the Privileges Committee).

5/
Privileges Committee proceedings were instigated against Boris in April 2022. He resigned in July 2022 after some 50 ministers resigned because of the continual ethics issues surrounding Boris.

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Had Boris also resigned from Parliament, the Privileges Committee might have stopped its proceedings because there was nobdy around they could have sanctioned.


Comparing liar Blair with liar Boris in the way that OB is doing cannot be justified.