Boris Johnson

I have been watching it can't say its making me cringe a bit monotonous from both sides covering the same ground

I don't know they can prove the claims against him; a slippery eel comes to mind.

Much repetitive blathering going on from Johnson.

I gave him five minutes. I can cope with most MPs from all the different parties, but not BJ. I felt my hackles rise within seconds.

He's just named 2 people who were supposed to have protected identities. 🙄

I think it’s impossible to prove that he knowingly misled Parliament.
Watching it he seems a lot more coherent than he used to be, even has combed hair!

He’s insisting the multiple gatherings were all necessary work events despite admitting his wife and interior designer were present on one occasion. He defended that by saying no 10 was her home and she was entitled to be present.

He’s not controlling his body language well when he blames other people, which is telling.

He’s a slippery, skilled liar. He’s making sure his responses are lengthy and focussed on the pressure under which number 10 was operating, He’s honed his craft at avoidance, minimisation and deflection over many years
He’s not trustworthy and lacks integrity. He uses his Eton/Oxford experience to good effect but we see him

Interesting how his 'cuddly Boris' tousled hair can be tamed and look normal when it suits!

My husband and a colleague both left work "during Covid" and neither had a leaving "do" - there was an option of a zoom "drinks at home" party which they both declined.
His colleague had worked at the University for nearly 30 years.
I wonder how "essential" the no10 leaving do really was?

I hope he is brought to book this time.
I expect he'll slimy out of it.

It’s making me so cross watching it, I just cannot bear to listen to his arrogance. The thought that this man could make any sort of political comeback makes me despair. 🤬

I thought drinking at work had been unacceptable for years, but clearly there was a drinking culture at No.10.
I wonder if so many of these “gatherings” would have taken place if alcohol had not been involved?

Interesting to listen to Johnson saying that he would refuse to accept the committees verdict if he is found guilty of misleading parliament.

He appears to have thrown down the gauntlet.

I've got a headache!

I can hardly believe the NHS staff and police in my family forgot to tell me how the bosses did the "essential work gathering", often accompanied by alcohol, to say "thank you". And I obviously missed the press reports of supermarket workers, refuse collectors, transport workers et al having their "thank you" gatherings.

He's totally lacking in any feelings of responsibility and seems to think he's something special and superior. As I recall his school report from Eton said as much.

I wish one of them had asked exactly what "work" was being done especially in the garden gathering when there wasn't a laptop, paper or pen to be seen.

Jill Rutter senior fellow for Institute for Government - said - and I agree- that as leader we should expect the prime minister and his office to be the model which showed how everyone should behave in lockdown.

I really don't understand why, when we were all avoiding any sort of gatherings, and people were being denied visits to elderly relatives with dementia (who could not necessarily understand why), these people thought that they were entitled to "work events".

I keep going back to the sad pictures of the Queen sitting alone at her husband's funeral - she knew what the rest of the country was having to do. Why should 10 Downing Street be so different?

It’s about whether he deliberately lied or not. The inquiry lasted 3hours and 20 minutes. I thought he put his case across quite well but I’m not sure he’ll pull it off.

"deliberately or recklessly" deliberately may be a harder prove, but recklessly was adequately demonstrated in my opinion.

Boris’s character is reckless!

25Avalon

It’s about whether he deliberately lied or not. The inquiry lasted 3hours and 20 minutes. I thought he put his case across quite well but I’m not sure he’ll pull it off.

I should hope he put it across well! We paid for that advise😡

I watched for a few minutes and seriously could not take any more. I just wanted to wipe that smirk off his face along with the entirely fake sincerity 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Advice😡