Johnson today and PMQs! ⁉️

Or hides in a fridge

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Whitewavemark2

What’s a squib?

A firework yes. So if it’s damp it fizzles out.

You would expect a squid however to be damp living where it does…..

Ok I’m off back to pedants corner now before I get told off for correcting you !!

As opposed to a squab.
Which is a baby pigeon, I think, maybe. Off to look…

Oh I don’t mind - there are lighthearted corrections and unpleasant ones of superiority. The first is fine, the second needs a slapped ass.

Here's another defintion of squib, from Harry Potter :-

A Squib, also known as a wizard-born, was a non-magical person who was born to at least one magical parent. Squibs were, in essence, "wizard-born Muggles". They were rare and were looked upon with a degree of disdain by some witches and wizards, particularly pure-bloods.

Apologies for diverting from the main topic, I blame my HP mad daughter!

Take care xx

Whitewavemark2

Oh I don’t mind - there are lighthearted corrections and unpleasant ones of superiority. The first is fine, the second needs a slapped ass.

I hope my bum is not in danger then…

I'm getting so bored with it all. Thank goodness the weather looks ok for gardening today.

I rest my case

Lucca

I rest my case

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As said on t'other thread, not int betting- but I am tempted today! Will he, won't he?

I certainly hope the Speaker is ready and up to the job!

Second question is- will his backbenches (and front bench!) turn up or not? And will they either a) resort to shouting, etc, to drown the opposition (see Speaker comment above)- or just remain dead silent? Or some actually condemn!

Kali I think that they are ready to turn on him now. Definitely

Sad creature that I am, I too am excited but after two minutes listening to him, I shall have to get the BP machine out.

A squab is a baby pigeon FC as in squabbing, rattling the pigeon nests causing the babies to drop and die, used by farmers to protect their crops.
Possibly an analogy there.

According to one attendee at the party, Johnson was ‘wandering around gladhandling guests’

What does that mean?

vegansrock

Nick Ferrari says he’ll probably issue a statement beforehand saying it’s all under investigation and no rules were broken etc. Then won’t have to answer questions about it. Not that he answers any questions anyway.

? For once, I agree with you....or rather Nick Ferrari.

Gladhanding Fanny ...... shaking hands and being a very genial host/ guest.

This is really bad optics for Boris isn’t it? A case of ‘do as I say not as I do’.

“Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

All those who organised/attended this garden party should be heavily fined. Mind you Cressida Dick’s force provide 24/7 security in Downing Street so officers will have witnessed/known about this event. And did nothing. Meanwhile in the rest of the country, drones were circling overhead looking to see what Joe Public was doing.

The photo of The Queen, sitting alone at her husband's funeral- keeps coming to my mind.

I’m a Tory voter but never wanted Boris as PM. He’s a good salesman - getting the votes in - but woefully incapable of doing the job or, it seems, getting trustworthy staff. I’d like to see the back of him but I think the police are stretched enough without spending time investigating the lockdown parties.

What also bothers me is this thought.... The main thing it reveals is that they knew that Covid wasn't the danger to society that they were claiming. The 'risks" weren't as risky as they were saying on TV.

Interesting and very apt editorial in the ~Times .
"This is a crisis for Mr Johnson because it evinces an attitude rather than a discreet error. It is forgivable for a prime minister to find the responsibilities of of office hard. It is culpable for him to treat them with contempt. In a way that would be impossible to imagine in the case of, say,Theresa May, Mr Johnson has shown that he is a stranger to civic duty. His only option is to show contrition, yet his instinct as ever is to engage in casuistry. It is a shameful spectacle from a prime minister whose reputation is now very badly tarnished."
I dont think that Johnson can get it back no matter what he does. He will forever be known as a liar, as irresponsible, not to be trusted and one of the biggest mistakes ever made by those who put him in power,

I don’t agree with that Urms
I think that they were just being selfish, stupid and irresponsible; just like the hoi poloi who acted in the same way (like my bloody neighbour…)

Thank you Jacky and lemon
I won’t be gladhanding a squab any day soon…

Urmstongran

What also bothers me is this thought.... The main thing it reveals is that they knew that Covid wasn't the danger to society that they were claiming. The 'risks" weren't as risky as they were saying on TV.

I didn't start keeping the figures until June 2020. All through that months covid deaths were running at about 1,000 a day.

Not a danger to society? Tell that to the 1,000+ families who were losing their loved ones every day...