Government watch

Social media is alive with enormous criticism of Kuenssberg.

Not only did she “out” a distressed father, but she told everyone where to find him.

That woman needs demoting to tea girl.

Dr Philip Lee

Thanks Laura, next time any patient gets substandard care I'll make sure to check their political affiliation first before I listen to their concerns.

Yesterday Johnson told a distraught father “there is no press here”

Johnson was stood next to a man with a camera.

The No 10 crib sheet shows that the visit was to be done for the press coverage.

Johnson breaths. Johnson lies.

fleetstreetfox

Boris Johnson said proroguing Parliament was nothing to do with Brexit. Now the govt admits it was for political reasons. Judges are to decide whether it's legal, but basically - the PM has effectively admitted lying to the Queen, MPs, and voters.

Urmstongran, your post @-23:26 yesterday in regard to the actions of the father of that very sick child is nothing short of totally disgusting.

Oh do calm down dears.

I’m not mean or nasty. I just followed the story in the newspapers like the rest of the country!

Sheesh.

Not all of us "just take on board" what we read in the newspapers or any other media.

Perhaps you should be more discriminating about which newspapers to base your posts on, Ug.

Incidentally, the best Leaver's 'take' I've seen on this story is that it was a set up by Remainers on Johnson's staff who are plotting to make the PM look bad ?.
Don't we just love a conspiracy theory ....

And, Ug, the excuse that Johnson is 'new to the job' is absolutely pathetic and demeaning to the highest office in government. Our PM shouldn't be a rank amateur who has to learn on the job.

It certainly in no way excuses the fact that lying comes to him as easily as breathing. What is very frightening is that people like you just lap it up.

Sadly for those of us who have to read your cruel remarks you really do just read and regurgitate UG. No thinking involved in your world apparently. Even the TV news changed how they were reporting pretty quickly but your views stayed down in the gutter where they started. Reflection on your thinking is obviously a class in life you missed out on.

Calm down dears? The usual way of shutting people (and particularly women) up - to imply that their opinions are hysterical and thus irrational.

Boris Johnson may be new to this particular job but he has been a member of the Conservative Party for many years and has previously held a senior ministerial post, at which he failed miserably. Presumably he agrees with the policies of his party that have brought the NHS and other vital services to the brink of collapse - I certainly don't recall any dissension on his part.

His immaturity shines through when he's put on the spot. Like a naughty child, he just blurts out anything - true or not - in an effort to get himself out of an awkward situation.

His 30 days are up today.

Any plan??

No?

I thought not.

Lies lies lies

When I say Boris is new to the job I don’t for one moment propose that he is ‘learning on the job’. It’s not an internship!

But we are where we are when he took office. If the hospital boards haven’t employed enough staff or able to organise locum cover (very expensive way of tackling much needed vacancies) surely Boris who has only been in charge a mere few weeks cannot possibly be held to account?

Interesting debate on twitter

Andrew Neil (that strictly unbiased BBC interviewer)

Is arguing that the leaflets HMG sent out before the referendum, promised the voter that it would uphold their decision. It was therefore argues Neil factually untrue to say that Parliament would make that decision, as HMG had promised otherwise.

This is the reply

Jessica Simor QC
@JMPSimor
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Wrong. The tweet is factually correct - Parliament did not give the decision to the people. This is a matter of law. The fact that HMG made an assurance ‘to the public’ is nothing to the point. HMG is not Parliament and does not make the law.

The protester was complaining not only about BJ hjimself as PM but the legacy of the Tories' years in power.

Urmstongran, in regard to your post @-10:29 today, the reason that hospitals do not employ sufficient staff is for the simple reason that they have been underfunded by Tory successive governments for the last nine years, supported in that action for a time by the Liberal Democrats.

Johnson has been a senior member of that Tory party throughout that period and also a failed senior government minister in that time

Therefore to state that Johnson is "new to the job" and therefore all the underfunding that has gone before under Tory governments has nothing to do with him is simply rediculas.

Remember how proudly the Tories spoke of Austerity as "the means" of ending Britains deficit. Well, Johnson was very much part of that austerity, but that is something he now hopes we have all forgotten now, but sadly for him, not so.

He lied in his reasons for being at that hospital yesterday.

He has lied in regards to searching for a solution to Brexit.

He lied in regards to his reasons for suspending parliament.

And he lied to the Queen on the same.

Johnson is a product of inherited wealth that paid for an Eton education, and out of that, he has a sense of entitlement that is second to none.

When he cannot get that entitlement as he sees it, he will always lie in an attempt to accomplish that.

The man is simply sickening.

Turned over to Andrew Neil while the lawyers were having their lunch. I wish he would take a leaf out of John Humphrys book and retire. I really can live without these shouty people In my life.

Brace for a weekend of national humiliation with #LiarJohnson set to lecture the UN Assembly on "British Values". Liz Truss and Dominic Raab are on hand in case more embarrassment is required.

EU diplomats and MEPs were given a summary of talks with UK today

It basically says that the UK didn’t come with a real solution, only “concepts”... and the concepts don’t work anyway

I see Johnson was fond of taking a model along with him on overseas visits when he was Foreign Secretary according to The Times.

Shades of Fox. He was disgraced as a result I believe.

Brexit is going to be difficult if we leave with no deal

WTO on the brink of collapse.

Total free for all then.

White surely you mean ‘model’ not model? ?

suzi almost certainly

What I think about this would get deleted so I won’t comment

Lord Kerr says Johnson’s negotiators are asking for all environmental, social and health and safety standards to be removed from May’s Deal.
Don't they realise unless we meet the EU's standards then there is no chance of an FTA in the future ?

Didn't Leavers claim that standards wouldn't be affected by leaving the EU and, anyway, we wrote them all

Doesn't wanting them to be removed from the WA imply that the government wants to lower our standards?

WWMk2 and Maizie you are posting factual ,evidence that brexit is nonsense which if it was not stopped would leave the UK in a much worse position than we are now as full members of the EU.

Just don'y expect the blinkered leavers on GN or anywhere else to pay any attention to the facts,.They have been brainwashed to ignore facts.