Sue Gray report

Coastpath

"if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible."

Not if he's in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

Dick of the Yard would find a way to get him off if it suited her purpose.
Nothing will be investigated by the the met: too many officers implicated.
Having said that, the woman has no shame where her disgraced officers are concerned.

Sorry - Casdon not Coastpath!

GillT57

Coastpath

"if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible."

Not if he's in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

Or Death in Paradise

It means he is completely innocent, Coastpath
He's been framed. Let's gather everyone together and denounce the culprit.

Stand back - look at the bigger picture. BJ twice sacked for lying. Unfaithful and lied to many wives and partners. A disaster as foreign secretary. Offhand remarks of dubious taste / racist. Lied over the payment of his flat redecoration. Lied over Jennifer Arcuri. That is why his statements about these gatherings matter. It is about his character. How any woman can support him is beyond me, but then I remember Trump…

Oldnproud

Alegrias1

Personally, however tempting it is to reach conclusions before an investigation and report is concluded, my experience suggests to always wait until the full evidence is available …. And that’s still what I’m doing.

December 8th, Johnson tells us there were no parties and that all rules were followed.

January 31st, Sue Gray tells us there were 20 "gatherings" and that 16 of them were possibly so far outside the rules that they require police investigation.

He misled parliament. What exactly is it you are waiting for?

Becuase the only way he wasn't telling a direct lie was if the people who work for him are able to run rings around him and he believes every little lie they tell him. Either way, he's unfit to the leader of this country.

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Well said Alegrias.

(I couldn't resist using the emojies, but actually, is it just me that thinks of roast chicken every time I see them on a small screen? )

Alegrias1

AviaParva

I am fascinated by the confrontational response to any suggestion that judgments shouldn’t be made until final reports of investigations are issued.
So …. you will be happy if no final report is issued?

I can't wait for the final report. If I have to wait a year I'll be most pee'd off. However we already know that he's a lying, conniving, treacherous coward who tells lies in the Chamber of the HoC about the LOTO to try to take the heat off himself.

Hardly what we want in a Prime Minister, is it? What is the point in waiting?

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I’ve done jury service AviaParva - and I know for a fact that photographic evidence is used as part of the prosecution case. I don’t think we’re in Jonathan Creek territory here, it’s more Noddy and PC Plod.

Coastpath

"if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible."

Not if he's in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

Or Death in Paradise

Guilty!
Next!

Casdon

AviaParva if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible. That’s the situation we are in here in terms of the evidence which we all know is there - the police investigator said there are 500 photographs.

Hmm…jury service might be something you’d want to avoid!

Alegrias1

AviaParva

I am fascinated by the confrontational response to any suggestion that judgments shouldn’t be made until final reports of investigations are issued.
So …. you will be happy if no final report is issued?

I can't wait for the final report. If I have to wait a year I'll be most pee'd off. However we already know that he's a lying, conniving, treacherous coward who tells lies in the Chamber of the HoC about the LOTO to try to take the heat off himself.

Hardly what we want in a Prime Minister, is it? What is the point in waiting?

I’m just really curious about why you want to see the final report if you’ve already made up your mind. I would put the same question to you: what are you waiting for?
Like many here, I have formed opinions about the likely outcome …. But I think it’s a real disservice to Sue Gray who has done a remarkable job, to dismiss her final report in such a cavalier way.

"if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible."

Not if he's in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

Whoops sorry, got my evidence the wrong way round, 300 photos isn’t that many after all.

300 photographs, Casdon, don't exaggerate

300 photos and 500 pages of documentation.

And if they have been supplied by Cummings you can be pretty sure that they are spot on the point; not meandering off down byways or full of irrelevancies. He may be a strange guy but he has proved that he knows just what he's doing.

(I actually felt ashamed of voting against the devolution of powers to the NE when I found out he had run the anti campaign. I wasn't influenced by his campaign at all, but I feel soiled to think that I'd done his will...)

Reading between the lines of the reply from my Conservative MP on the subject of the parties, she is no longer defending the PM but saying now isn’t the right time for a leadership contest as there’s too much going on.

AviaParva if a man is in a locked room with a dead body, and has a knife in his hand which matches the wound, there’s pretty good chance that he is responsible. That’s the situation we are in here in terms of the evidence which we all know is there - the police investigator said there are 500 photographs.

Alergrias - yes indeed

AviaParva

I am fascinated by the confrontational response to any suggestion that judgments shouldn’t be made until final reports of investigations are issued.
So …. you will be happy if no final report is issued?

I can't wait for the final report. If I have to wait a year I'll be most pee'd off. However we already know that he's a lying, conniving, treacherous coward who tells lies in the Chamber of the HoC about the LOTO to try to take the heat off himself.

Hardly what we want in a Prime Minister, is it? What is the point in waiting?

I am fascinated by the confrontational response to any suggestion that judgments shouldn’t be made until final reports of investigations are issued.
So …. you will be happy if no final report is issued?

Alegrias1

^Personally, however tempting it is to reach conclusions before an investigation and report is concluded, my experience suggests to always wait until the full evidence is available …. And that’s still what I’m doing.^

December 8th, Johnson tells us there were no parties and that all rules were followed.

January 31st, Sue Gray tells us there were 20 "gatherings" and that 16 of them were possibly so far outside the rules that they require police investigation.

He misled parliament. What exactly is it you are waiting for?

Becuase the only way he wasn't telling a direct lie was if the people who work for him are able to run rings around him and he believes every little lie they tell him. Either way, he's unfit to the leader of this country.

?????

Well said Alegrias.

(I couldn't resist using the emojies, but actually, is it just me that thinks of roast chicken every time I see them on a small screen? )

Personally, however tempting it is to reach conclusions before an investigation and report is concluded, my experience suggests to always wait until the full evidence is available …. And that’s still what I’m doing.

December 8th, Johnson tells us there were no parties and that all rules were followed.

January 31st, Sue Gray tells us there were 20 "gatherings" and that 16 of them were possibly so far outside the rules that they require police investigation.

He misled parliament. What exactly is it you are waiting for?

Becuase the only way he wasn't telling a direct lie was if the people who work for him are able to run rings around him and he believes every little lie they tell him. Either way, he's unfit to the leader of this country.

While this debate has been interesting. I can’t see any reference to the actual report. Hopefully this link will work,

Probably because many of us had already downloaded it and read it.

StoneofDestiny

*I’ve just watched the cringeworthy interview Nadine Dorries gave yesterday afternoon. I actually felt embarrassed for the foolish woman. She’s completely out of her depth and shouldn’t be allowed in front of a camera*
www.channel4.com/news/the-prime-minister-tells-the-truth-says-nadine-dorries

Totally cringeworthy interview

From Matthew Stadlen, Channel 5 presenter:

We are the country of Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Chaucer, Constable, Turner, Hardy, Austen, Dickens, Orwell, the Brontës, Tolkien, Woolf, Ishiguro, McEwan, Lessing, Eliot, The Beatles, Milton, Dench and Bassey. How did we end up with Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary?

While this debate has been interesting. I can’t see any reference to the actual report. Hopefully this link will work,

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1051374/Investigation_into_alleged_gatherings_on_government_premises_during_Covid_restrictions_-_Update.pdf

Personally, however tempting it is to reach conclusions before an investigation and report is concluded, my experience suggests to always wait until the full evidence is available …. And that’s still what I’m doing.

Like many, I’ve formed some opinions, but am keeping them to myself since my one tentative suggestion (for debate only) was made the subject of confrontational response rather than reasoned debate.

Dominic Cummings was probably hidden inside it.