Is Boris Johnson revealing who he really is?

Niobe - exactly. Leaders. Relate team cultures. The team around Johnson appears to follow his lead. Do as I say, not as I do

Greta

I almost felt sorry for Paymaster General Michael Ellis today in the HoC. He just repeated the same answer, i.e. we mustn't speculate about the party, we have to wait for the investigation. It sounds as if our PM can't recall if he was present at this drinks party withhout an inquiry confirming or denying he was. It's all just getting too ridiculous. Also, can we take it that the 30 or so persons attending the party will be fined? I think it's Sue Gray who is conducting the inquiry, let's hope she wasn't at the party...

You know what it reminded me of. Those natural history programmes where lots of penguins are shuffling around in a group pushing other penguins forward because they don’t want to be the first penguin to jump into the sea because they know there are predators waiting there. Same thing with which MP has to do the breakfast tv interviews. I do sometimes feel a slight sympathy with them. But it doesn’t last long….

Gill your conscience is clear? Because you are a Labour voter??
The outcome if Johnson hadn’t got into number ten when he did would have allowed the numpty Corbyn in there.
Of course some posters will agree with you, and I would say that the smugness is on that side, not mine.
I have never read such ridiculousness such as ‘my conscience is clear’ because a poster voted for a different political party in a GE.

Niobe it looks as if a senior civil servant did take it upon himself to issue invitations to almost a hundred employees (although it appears that only around thirty accepted.) The Johnsons obviously were aware of it though as they attended, or so it is being said, so he must take the blame.

Would doubt that a civil servant would take it upon himself to arrange a party without his bosses say so, especially as it was to be held in said bosses garden, would have been rather presumptious and think the wording was ‘we’ implying mr and Mrs zjohnson who were both present apparently.

Well.....all depends on what powers the civil servant had doesn’t it? If he had the clout to issue invitations to all those junior to him ( employees at number ten) or if he had to run it past Johnson first.That will no doubt come out pretty soon.

Many years ago, Johnson was interviewed during the election process that brought in May after Cameron resigned and asked as to why he wasn't running for PM at that time He said that he didn't think he had the right attributes to be PM! Yet, he becomes the poster-boy for the Brexiteers and the leader of his Party.
He has always been a front man and you have to admit the Tories read the voters right in said voters desire for a populist leader to get Brexit done.
It is about time the voters recognised Gravitas as a virtue in leadership not Goonery.
I want a leader that is not sniggered at by other World leaders. Don't you?

lemongrove

Well.....all depends on what powers the civil servant had doesn’t it? If he had the clout to issue invitations to all those junior to him ( employees at number ten) or if he had to run it past Johnson first.That will no doubt come out pretty soon.

Irrelevant as Johnson attended, and his wife. If he disapproved, he would have cancelled, or at least NOT attended.

Johnson was sorry he'd been found out. Sorry for himself.

You would think that a successful social networker like him would recognise a party when he wandered into one, but apparently not.

Poor Boris.