Beergate

[Baggybenny]

Not a good look for Starmar. Spent months criticising Boris for sitting outside with cheese and wine. While he's been inside with beer and curry. Should have just kept his gob shut.

Who is this Starmar?   any connection with Johnstone?

[Ossian]

You know, I fantasise over the (admittedly remote) possibility of a charismatic, centre-left, politician saying something along the lines of: "You know what, I couldn't give a flying fuck about The Mail, its Sunday sister, its proprietor, editor, 'journalists' - and I use that term in the loosest possible sense - and least of all about the kind of individual who would find its 'content' in any way formative. Fuck them, fuck them all, they will vote for somebody else anyway and I have bigger fish to fry. So - at the risk of repeating myself - fuck them".

It would remove any ambiguity on the way to the polling booth.

[Shabby Russian]

This is going to end up with Gurkha veterans being fined over a dinner with MPs, isn't it.

That said, if Starmer is fined he has to resign.

I agree on the resignation, not the Gurkha dinner.

If he did, where would that put Johnson and the Conservatives.

Probably laughing at the bloke who spent months making capital out of things like zoom call quizes and outdoor meetings having to resign for socialising indoors.
I'm still confused as to how Angela Rayner didn't know she was at the "work meeting" when she has spent months cricising Boris for not knowing he was at a party.

Well yes he probably would becayse he has no shame.

But in the real world, many would wonder why he hasn't resigned for far more egregious breaches of the lockdown rules. 

And in a win win situation for Labour it would give them the opportunity to offload a leader who is clearly not connecting with the electorate.

[Tom Joad]

This is going to end up with Gurkha veterans being fined over a dinner with MPs, isn't it.

That said, if Starmer is fined he has to resign.

I agree on the resignation, not the Gurkha dinner.

If he did, where would that put Johnson and the Conservatives.

Probably laughing at the bloke who spent months making capital out of things like zoom call quizes and outdoor meetings having to resign for socialising indoors.
I'm still confused as to how Angela Rayner didn't know she was at the "work meeting" when she has spent months cricising Boris for not knowing he was at a party.

Well yes he probably would becayse he has no shame.

But in the real world, many would wonder why he hasn't resigned for far more egregious breaches of the lockdown rules. 

And in a win win situation for Labour it would give them the opportunity to offload a leader who is clearly not connecting with the electorate.

But only if they had someone better lined up, Shirley?

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You know, I fantasise over the (admittedly remote) possibility of a charismatic, centre-left, politician saying something along the lines of: "You know what, I couldn't give a flying fuck about The Mail, its Sunday sister, its proprietor, editor, 'journalists' - and I use that term in the loosest possible sense - and least of all about the kind of individual who would find its 'content' in any way formative. Fuck them, fuck them all, they will vote for somebody else anyway and I have bigger fish to fry. So - at the risk of repeating myself - fuck them".

It would remove any ambiguity on the way to the polling booth.

Arf! True enough.

[bradesbaggie]

Emma Duncan from Wycombe Abbey school - £30k a year.
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[TTM2]

What’s good for the goose etc etc

Could he apologise in hindsight?

[baggy1]

What’s good for the goose etc etc

Could he apologise in hindsight?

Don't get this approach Rowls, Johnson was having parties in his flat when Cummings left. That's the one that is the problem, the cake and the beer whilst electioneering are both pretty lightweight issues.

And I'm not certain if you are being gaslighted or are gaslighting but Johnson is being called out for lying to parliament, which is the resignable offence. The commons would be pretty thin on the ground if we got all MPs who had been economical with the truth to journalists to resign.

And yeah I got the hindsight joke - brilliant, keep doing the Tory party work for them and keep the real politicians out of power whilst they take the piss out of all of us.

[Kit Kat Chunky]

Abbott wants him gone if he is fined.

Has she got a left wing Trotsky lined up to replace him?

[TTM2]

What’s good for the goose etc etc

Could he apologise in hindsight?

Don't get this approach Rowls, Johnson was having parties in his flat when Cummings left. That's the one that is the problem, the cake and the beer whilst electioneering are both pretty lightweight issues.

And I'm not certain if you are being gaslighted or are gaslighting but Johnson is being called out for lying to parliament, which is the resignable offence. The commons would be pretty thin on the ground if we got all MPs who had been economical with the truth to journalists to resign.

And yeah I got the hindsight joke - brilliant, keep doing the Tory party work for them and keep the real politicians out of power whilst they take the piss out of all of us.

1. Ive not mentioned Boris Johnson on this thread.

2. Ive never defended Boris Johnson on here re breaches of lockdown rules, quite the opposite 

3. I’m not a member of the party and I’ve not knocked a single door or dropped a single leaflet for over 12 months because I’m so pissed off with them. 

4. I didn’t even bother voting on Thursday 

Apart from that, spot on. If Kier wants to cry wolf whilst doing not much different himself then more fool him.

[baggy1]

Not much different, arf