National News Boris Johnson - Ousted Former PM

[OUFCGav]

A brief explainer.
The area I reside in, sadly, has a covenant that it can`t have a pub.
That makes the nearest one a healthy step into town.
The petanque club has a bar & a licence as they are located in the local park that is exempt from the covenant.
£20 a year subs and cheap beer and lobbing metal balls about.


Back on track Hancock........... punching....... bet the folk on the CCTV couldn`t believe their luck. £££££`s.

Will he go? Doubt it. Politico`s have been "dallying" for centuries because they are human & fallible.

I suppose the difference is not just dallying, but doing it breaking Covid regulations after previously having forced an official to resign, and suggested that the police deal with their transgression. But then hypocrisy is also a regular political thing too.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

But then hypocrisy is also a regular political thing too.

It’s been getting more and more brazen for years as they’ve realised British people just stand and tut, and it’s become so tribal on top that a lot of people will actually back them for their behaviour. That’s the main issue for me. It isn’t just the people behaving badly to begin with, but the people who actively defend and excuse it.

Don’t understand it at all. Everybody should condemn anybody who behaves in a genuinely unacceptable way, regardless of political leanings. Especially in times of crisis. I want the people who represent my beliefs to have standards - my tolerance of their unaccountability is a reflection of my own values. It’s one thing to turn a blind eye, it’s quite another to actively campaign for a cover up.

That’s what I don’t like about this country anymore. Not the level of disagreements, but the absolute vacuum of morality. We should have more about us as a nation. You can have views that are polar opposites to another but still share the same core beliefs in terms of ethics and principles. We should all expect a basic level of decency and fair play.

We wouldn’t appear so fiercely and bitterly different from one another had we not lost that.

 

[Marked Ox]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408347854830252032

I so hope this is genuine but I doubt it.

 

[Berliner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408347854830252032

I so hope this is genuine but I doubt it.

Read the rest of the thread...hilarious stuff!

 

[RyanioBirdio]

 

[Essexyellows]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408453493053067268

 

[QR]

The list is long and goes on for centuries................ Major & Currie?

5 years ago people "weren`t shocked".... so why now? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36468511

But he shot me in the head and raped my sister. 300 years ago that was perfectly acceptable. What's your problem? Troublemaker.

 

[Essexyellows]

But he shot me in the head and raped my sister. 300 years ago that was perfectly acceptable. What's your problem? Troublemaker.

Society has improved for the serious stuff.
Shooting someone in the head - Bad.
Raping their sister - Bad.
Boffing the aide - meh.

This will just be another "trial by media" as they keep churning it until the desired result is reached.

I feel desperately sorry for the respective partners and the 6 children enduring this.

 

[Marked Ox]

Society has improved for the serious stuff.
Shooting someone in the head - Bad.
Raping their sister - Bad.
Boffing the aide - meh.

This will just be another "trial by media" as they keep churning it until the desired result is reached.

I feel desperately sorry for the respective partners and the 6 children enduring this.

For me it is the hypocrisy with his wanting the Police involved in the Prof Ferguson situation and saying it is right that he resign whilst he was doing the same thing in boffing his Aide at the time. That is why he should go, not for boffing the Aide as such. He has already publically said what the appropriate course of action is for somebody doing what he has done so he needs to grow a pair and actually follow it. It isn't trial by media, this is trial by Matt Hancock's own hypocrisy.

It would as per Matt Hancock's own advice be appropriate also for the Police to take action*.


*Albeit they won't.

 

[Marked Ox]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408482921225277448

 

[LowerSouth]

Hancock resigns

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Hancock resigns

The right thing - though bit late

 

[Sarge]

Hes gone ....

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[Peterdev]

The right decision.
Jeremy Hunt might well be brought back

 

[Eaststanding]

Having seen the CCTV clip of Hancock and the aide the situation looks so staged, especially as they are directly under a camera. Has Cummings hit back with a sting in the tail after all?

 

[Followtheox1]

The right thing - though bit late

Right thing would have been to sack him.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Right thing would have been to sack him.

And never bring the idiot back.

 

[LowerSouth]

Sajid Javid appointed

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Right thing would have been to sack him.

Johnson could never do that - especially given his own lack of moral fibre

 

[mooro]

Having seen the CCTV clip of Hancock and the aide the situation looks so staged, especially as they are directly under a camera. Has Cummings hit back with a sting in the tail after all?

Course he has