Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

[1andrew1]

Letter published

Geidt says he quit because PM put him in 'odious' position asking him to approve 'deliberate' breach of code

Geidt says the final straw was a request to consider a proposal that he said would be a “deliberate and purposeful” breach of the ministerial code.

He implies that Boris Johnson asked him to approve of this breach.

Letter and relevant paragraph: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...olitics-latest

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Letter published

Letter and relevant paragraph: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...olitics-latest

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Talk it's all about steel tariffs and Party donations from steel tycoons. We'll see.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Exactly, why have an ethics advisor or an anti fraud tsar when you have none of one and love encouraging your chums to do the other, there will always be some useful idiot that comes along to defend your behaviour no matter how odious

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Exactly, why have an ethics advisor or an anti fraud tsar when you have none of one and love encouraging your chums to do the other, there will always be some useful idiot that comes along to defend your behaviour no matter how odious

Yes, how long till someone plays the false equivalence card and says Starmer's expenses are being investigated.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Dave42

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

... Blue rinsed rather?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Dave42

has OB made you a copy of his welded on forever rose tainted tory glasses

Poor old Boris can't do anything right in the eyes of you lefty remainiacs. When hard-working households are struggling with Putin-generated inflation, he's simply saving tax-payers' money by not replacing the role.

Besides, Boris is perfectly capable of managing his own ethics thank you very much, he doesn't need a highly-paid, unelected civil servant to do it for him.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Poor old Boris can't do anything right in the eyes of you lefty remainiacs. When hard-working households are struggling with Putin-generated inflation, he's simply saving tax-payers' money by not replacing the role.

Besides, Boris is perfectly capable of managing his own ethics thank you very much, he doesn't need a highly-paid, unelected civil servant to do it for him.

When you don't have an ethical bone in your body why would you employ someone to look after them?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

When you don't have an ethical bone in your body why would you employ someone to look after them?

To take the blame for poor guidance if you get found out for crossing the line.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Another back stabber gone then, no rush to replace people who get upset about a slice of cake or thanking your team for a job well done.

Except this isn’t about those two things - it’s about a proposed deliberate breach of the Ministerial Code.

[papa smurf]

Robert Peston was forced into a grovelling apology after he falsely claimed Boris Johnson's ethics adviser quit over a plan to help firms linked to the Tories

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ked-firms.html

[daveeb]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Robert Peston was forced into a grovelling apology after he falsely claimed Boris Johnson's ethics adviser quit over a plan to help firms linked to the Tories

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ked-firms.html

The fact that Johnson won't comment on why he has lost his second ethics adviser speaks volumes. Seems he has even lost his ability to attempt plausible lies these days.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Robert Peston was forced into a grovelling apology after he falsely claimed Boris Johnson's ethics adviser quit over a plan to help firms linked to the Tories

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ked-firms.html

'I apologise for my inaccurate language and getting it wrong in the tweet below. I should have said 'a possible conclusion to be drawn...', not 'the only conclusion to be drawn...'

'I made a mistake, not for the first or last time. I am sorry (not for the first or last time).'

"grovelling - acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour."

Strange - I would have thought you, of all people, would have understood what ‘obsequious’ meant, especially in relation to the Conservative Party…

[papa smurf]

For the hard of understanding
1 I do not work for the daily mail
2 I posted an article from the daily mail online i did not write it
3 it is considered rude in polite society to shoot the messenger
4 ffs get a life

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Starmer returns questionnaire to police investigating 'beergate' episode

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has returned a questionnaire to police investigating the so-called "beergate" episode.

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-...isode-12635823