Chris Pincher has had whip removed

How about Chris Pincher for the next leader of the Conservative Party?

Oh the irony. Johnson brought down by a groping drunkard.

Sunak's tweet.

The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously.

I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.

I wonder who's next?!!!

Johnson is on TV now bumbling an apology and squirming

Oh, the funniest tweet I've seen all day?

david wardhaugh
@davidwardhaugh

I'm not sure boris should be talking about things being raised orally with him

Wow!
Really??!

Sunak

Sun Al has resigned as well.

*Rishi

Oh my goodness! The dominoes are really starting to tumble.

And Rushi Sunak too! At last, some Cabinet Ministers with a backbone.

Now Sunak has resigned

twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1544368406547382277

Sajid Javid
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I have spoken to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as Secretary of State for Health & Social Care.

It has been an enormous privilege to serve in this role, but I regret that I can no longer continue in good conscience.

Johnson is on TV now bumbling an apology and squirming I the interview and Sajid Javid has resigned
He thinks he can lie and apologise with impunity if caught out.

Letter in The Times
twitter.com/marrtoffee/status/1544006052450115587?s=12

Lie, deny, admit a bit, then when confronted with evidence admit you did know but claim you forgot!

How much longer can the spineless Cabinet members continue to support this morally reprehensible prime minister and trot out untruths on a daily basis - what is the matter with them?

As the man said, lying is an indication of a dangerous state which is failing and corrupt. Have the government been infected with some sort of virus that removes morals, induces lying and backs the idea that far right ideas are acceptable? If they have, they should take a long hard look at the Republicans in the US and decide whether they want to become as obnoxious as them. (They seem to be heading that way). There needs to be an intervention to halt this cultish behaviour.

HousePlantQueen

Thank you for posting that link MaizieD, I listened to the whole thing. I don't know how to articulate just how I feel.

I don't either.

In the twitter comments someone posted that civil servants had to be impartial. I can understand the concept of impartiality when it comes to civil servants having to implement policies that they might not be politically in agreement with, but does it encompass covering up for government lies?

The man on the phone to O'Brien sounded utterly desperate.

Thank you for posting that link MaizieD, I listened to the whole thing. I don't know how to articulate just how I feel.

Urgent question on standards in public life being debated now .
Interesting to see that conservative m.p.'s are asking for clarity, for truthfulness and asking ministers to look carefully at what they are being asked to say in their morning rounds.

Well!

Just listen to this.

A long serving civil servant calls James O'Brien and asks, begs, his colleagues and Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary (the top civil service post) to walk out and stop supporting the government in its lies to the public.

No doubt, despite his assertion that he will not be recognised, he will soon be an ex civil servant. But this is unprecedented and he should be listened to.

www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/civil-servant-urges-colleagues-to-quit-over-boris-johnsons-lies/

RichmondPark

Dominic Raab has been on morning TV denying that 'upheld the complaint' means Pincher was guilty. He says 'guilty is a loaded word'.

What squirming, lying toads these people are.

How bad is the truth that these people have to consistently and pathetically lie to conceal it?

Apparently Raab hadn’t been briefed before his appearance this morning that the PM categorically did know. If I was him I’d be fuming, it smacks of complete incompetence not to at least let him know before he made a pillock of himself.

Iam64

Yes that’s all over radio tv and newspapers varian and is no surprise sadly. I’ve heard several allegations that Johnson was warned against this appointment but that Pinchers loyalty led Johnson to disregard advice men with a reasonable understanding of what constitutes a drink problem, serial allegations of groping men who didn’t want the advances etc, would have taken. Well, most PMs wouldn’t/shouldn’t have needed such advice, they’d have relied on their own jydgement

Pinchers loyalty led Johnson to disregard advice

Presumably because Pincher knows where even more bodies are buried.
Although nothing seems to make any difference however many scandals are revealed.

The Tory government just seem to find it impossible to ever just tell the truth.

Even if they don't really need to lie, or if they know they will be found out.

All this lying just makes it worse. ?

Dominic Raab has been on morning TV denying that 'upheld the complaint' means Pincher was guilty. He says 'guilty is a loaded word'.

What squirming, lying toads these people are.

How bad is the truth that these people have to consistently and pathetically lie to conceal it?