Not The Politics Thread.

[Ric Flair]

Just astonishing this is but is it real a surprise? The country is so grubby at the minute, sickening.

[Daggers]

 

[Foxdiamond]

Obviously I want Johnson to go. Don't think Truss would be much of a replacement though 

[LVFox]

Honestly think this is far more damaging to the Conservatives & the met than if the report was just published.

 

People are seeing this is a complete whitewash, and it's being reported as such by pretty much every major journalist.

Just further evidence of how broken this country has become.

[GingerrrFox]

If they are trying to protect him then this country is 1 step away from complete chaos. No one will follow law and order if this carries on. The precedent this would set is mental. 

[Daggers]

19 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Obviously I want Johnson to go. Don't think Truss would be much of a replacement though 

Given her love of an expense account, and being used to dealing with big numbers like £500,000 for a private jet, she seems like she’d fit right into the office - albeit with new wallpaper.

[ealingfox]

50 minutes ago, GingerrrFox said:

I take it that Boris might be under more heat than he previously thought with that statement from the Met. I’d bet that they are looking at a more serious charge like misconduct in a Public Office because of the Sue Gray report forcing their hand. 

 

It's not though, it's the opposite - a very obvious collaboration to cover it up. Takes the reference to the most serious offences out of the report thus massively watering it down, Conservatives then get to gaslight everyone saying what a fuss over nothing it was.

 

The remainder are then kept out of discussion because they are under Police investigation, and when they're out of the news they'll be quietly dropped.

[Dunge]

It feels at the moment like the Conservative Party strategy is that each day there must be a scandal even bigger that the previous day’s scandal, delaying the inevitable scandal report. This then goes on and on until around April, when it turns out that - while everyone else was in lockdown - Boris has literally shot an elephant with a blunderbuss in the middle of Hyde Park and Carrie has had a bracelet made out of its tusks.

[Fox in the North]

..removed as not real. Apologies for misleading! 

Edited 28 January 2022 by Fox in the North

[ealingfox]

2 minutes ago, Fox in the North said:

 

Obviously not real.

[Foxdiamond]

46 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

It's not though, it's the opposite - a very obvious collaboration to cover it up. Takes the reference to the most serious offences out of the report thus massively watering it down, Conservatives then get to gaslight everyone saying what a fuss over nothing it was.

 

The remainder are then kept out of discussion because they are under Police investigation, and when they're out of the news they'll be quietly dropped.

Good point

[Fox in the North]

5 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Obviously not real.

Sorry, my bad!!

[urban.spaceman]

[LiberalFox]

It does all seem a bit fishy. Originally the police weren't going to get involved because the alleged offences were historic and that was in line with their policy, now right before an embarrassing report is published, they have a change of mind. 

[urban.spaceman]

Susie and this Spurs fan win the day.

 

 

 

[SecretPro]

Absolute shitshow. Honestly. Can't trust anything or anybody anymore.

 

Get Ted Hastings on it pronto.

[Foxdiamond]

Not a legal expert but surely the Met should have got its finger out to investigate much sooner and or explained this would affect Gray report. 

[Mike Oxlong]

Boris and his cronies and the Met all belong in the reptile enclosure with the other lizards 

 

 

Edited 28 January 2022 by Mike Oxlong

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

Please note the hashtag #DickOut refers to Met Police Chief Cressida Dick, not to your Johnson

[nnfox]

18 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Not a legal expert but surely the Met should have got its finger out to investigate much sooner and or explained this would affect Gray report. 

I agree.  Police comms have been poor.

 

7 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Boris and his cronies and the Met all belong in the reptile enclosure with the other lizards 

 

Remarkable how Dick saw fit not too investigate these “historical” breaches when they first came to light but now does so in a way that may get Boris off the hook

I can only assume that they are potentially looking at other offences and won't want all the details out there prior to their investigation concluding.

[Mike Oxlong]

3 minutes ago, nnfox said:

I agree.  Police comms have been poor.

 

I can only assume that they are potentially looking at other offences and won't want all the details out there prior to their investigation concluding.

If they had done their job properly in the first place they could and should conducted an investigation on what was in the public domain before Christmas 

Edited 28 January 2022 by Mike Oxlong

[nnfox]

2 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said:

If they had done their job properly in the first place they could and should conducted an investigation on what was in the public domain before Christmas 

I agree.   When all this first surfaced, that's when they should have investigated.  They didn't, so now we are where we are.  It'll finish somewhere between a total whitewash and the trial of the century.  All us public can do is wait.

 

Boris has to go though, he can't remain with this hanging over his head, surely?

[kingfox]

The most unsurprising news story so far this year.

 

The level of corruption in this country is a joke.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Trump all over again this. The law breaking and wrongdoing is totally transparent, they know that everyone knows it's transparent, yet they are going to pretend wink wink nudge nudge that it was all kosher and you can't prove otherwise because all the people that matter are in on it too. Makes you sick. 

[FLAN]

What can we do to stop this?  The Brexit brigade basically handed this power to these utter criminals on a plate