Classic Proof of Lying Government

[JP_]

Top tip: If there is another lockdown over Christmas, don't worry, just have a cheese and wine business meeting, with friends and family, at around lunchtime on the 25th.

(warning, this clip has been hosted on YouTube, so it might not actually be at all true)

 

[JohnD]

It is a sad fact that the Conservative Party chose a leader who is known to be dishonest and a liar, and that the country chose his party to lead the nation.

His supporters don't care.

Not a word that passes his lips can be believed.

His cabinet and other acolytes feel obliged to pretend that his lies are true.

"It has come to the point where Boris Johnson and No 10’s denials that an event took place have diminishing credibility.

All the evidence points to a party having taken place in Downing Street on 18 December, when London was subject to restrictions on indoor gathering.

Testimony from many sources says No 10 staff held a party that day, with a Secret Santa, refreshments and games. A video has now emerged of aides joking about the gathering and its lack of social distancing.

But Johnson’s official spokesperson was adamant on Monday. “There was no Christmas party. Covid rules have been followed at all times.”
Johnson himself says he is “satisfied” that no rules were broken.

The same gulf between reality and No 10’s doublespeak is evident in the case of the rescue of Pen Farthing’s animals from Afghanistan.

A whistleblowing Foreign Office civil servant has given evidence that the prime minister was involved in ordering the dogs to be rescued instead of humans, potentially depriving people of life-saving spaces on a plane.

Johnson and No 10 were adamant the idea that he or his wife, Carrie Johnson, ordered that decision was “utter nonsense”.

But within hours a letter emerged from Johnson’s parliamentary private secretary, Trudy Harrison – his closest MP aide – giving Farthing authorisation to proceed with evacuation of his staff and animals.

And, as ever, it is the appearance of cover-ups that has made things worse for No 10, with people close to the events pushed to speak out by the sense of untruthfulness emanating from Downing Street.

The multiple leaks from within the civil service are also a sign that all is not well in Johnson’s administration, with deep discontent in Whitehall.

Even Johnson’s supporters would concede he has a chequered relationship with the truth, stretching back to his days as a young journalist during which he was sacked for fabricating a quote.

In 2004, Michael Howard sacked him from the shadow cabinet after he lied about an affair. Johnson reportedly told Howard: “It’s my private life. I have the right to lie about my private life.”

Since becoming prime minister, there have been a string of occasions on which Downing Street’s integrity has been challenged.
Among the many examples was the furore over whether the prime minister lied to the Queen about his reasons for proroguing parliament – an allegation which he denied.

Then came Johnson’s reported quote that he would rather “let the bodies pile high in their thousands” than order another lockdown. And while Downing Street insisted the allegation was untrue, many media outlets – BBC, ITV and Daily Mail – reported it all the same, citing sources who were allegedly in the room when the statement was made.

And there is Wallpapergate: the ongoing saga of who financed the £58,000 in lavish renovations to Johnson’s No 11 flat, with the prime minister accused of having been evasive over how the bill was paid. Johnson insisted he had stumped up – but it later emerged that money was loaned by the Conservative party and subsequently by the millionaire donor and Tory peer Lord Brownlow. The Electoral Commission is investigating.

Aides in Downing Street will now be agonising over whether this latest story about the Christmas party has the dreaded quality of “cut through” with the public. They believe the public is not that bothered about how the prime minister funded his flat, or whether he made a comment about Matt Hancock being “****ing hopeless”.

But, like the Barnard Castle affair, where Johnson’s aide Dominic Cummings was found to have gone on a drive during lockdown to test his eyesight, and Hancock’s resignation for having an affair when socialising was banned, this story seems to contain a strong element of hypocrisy.

It is the sense that the rules did not apply to Johnson and those around him, and their efforts to dupe the public about what really happened, that could leave an enduring sense of rancour."

 

[Mottie]

I must admit, I'm starting to get fed up with the Tories now. This party thing when we couldn't see our families, if true, is ****ing disgraceful.

 

[fillyboy]

I must admit, I'm starting to get fed up with the Tories now. This party thing when we couldn't see our families, if true, is ****ing disgraceful.

I agree, I'm expecting a statement/apology/resignation/today. I'm even considering changing my avatar.

 

[Notch7]

I listened to a radio show about this on Monday, 2 callers were literally in tears, they had lost their loved ones last and they hadn’t been able to see them over Christmas because of the rules.

 

[SirGalahad]

I agree, I'm expecting a statement/apology/resignation/today. I'm even considering changing my avatar.

You enabled this with your constant support of the liar and his surrogates who lied for him.

The lies just add up.

Perhaps try not put party before country next time.

We need electoral reform and the ending of fptp.

 

[SirGalahad]

I listened to a radio show about this on Monday, 2 callers were literally in tears, they had lost their loved ones last and they hadn’t been able to see them over Christmas because of the rules.

The lies pile up, and how many times have you seen on here the Torys supporting him blindly - it's not your football team.

It's why we need electoral reform.

 

[JP_]

I'm even considering changing my avatar.

OMG, sh1t just got serious!

In years to come, when people talk of the fall of the Tory party, this moment will be considered the beginning of the end!

 

[JP_]

The sad thing is, they will avoid any election until this is all over (next one due on Thursday, 2 May 2024) and there will be major spin and marketing talking about vaccines and furlough and how they saved Britain, and people will forget all the bad things, and suddenly there will be another attack on labour that voters will lap up, and it'll be business as usual for another 5 years, til we are all fooled by the spin doctors again.

 

[SirGalahad]

OMG, sh1t just got serious!

In years to come, when people talk of the fall of the Tory party, this moment will be considered the beginning of the end!

I bet they will increase their vote share as the press will do a full onslaught to change the narrative as the RW press and BBC are involved. It's the Mirror and ITV breaking this news whilst the RW press likely just sat on it and now will try their best to front run and bring forward something else to deflect.

 

[SirGalahad]

The sad thing is, they will avoid any election until this is all over (next one due on Thursday, 2 May 2024) and there will be major spin and marketing talking about vaccines and furlough and how they saved Britain, and people will forget all the bad things, and suddenly there will be another attack on labour that voters will lap up, and it'll be business as usual for another 5 years, til we are all fooled by the spin doctors again.

Because you can't trust a guy who can't eat a sandwich properly but you can trust a man who has been sacked twice for lying, cheated on his first wife with this second and cheated on his second wife with his third.

The press are the enablers.

 

[JP_]

I never thought I'd say this, but thank god for having ITV!
Must be the first good thing they've broadcast in decades.

 

[SirGalahad]

I never thought I'd say this, but thank god for having ITV!
Must be the first good thing they've broadcast in decades.

Boris Johnson met with the editors of four national newspapers and senior executives at the BBC, before he reportedly attended a party for one of his aides inside Downing Street during lockdown.

Transparency data released by No. 10 reveals that the Prime Minister invited editors from the Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Sun as well as the BBC’s Chief Executive and its Director of News and Affairs into Downing Street on 27 November 2020.


https://bylinetimes.com/2021/12/07/...into-downing-street-on-day-of-lockdown-party/

 

[AngleEyes]

Perhaps try put (the Xmas) party before country next time.

That's what causing all the trouble.

 

[SirGalahad]

PMQs - not an iota of contrition by Boris. Just the same lies over and over again.