Esp given the am’t of booze those tory bastards put away. It is, after all, the land where “Drunk as a lord” came into the language.
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I love you.
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No-one really anticipated that Johnson’s toadies, apologists and parasites would manage to seem so proud of their craven boot-licking gutlessness. Rees-Moggs, Gove, Raab, Dorries et al manage to combine their grovelling with smirks and smugness. “Aren’t I just the dickens for coming up with such a preposterous explanation of why Master’s boots are so tasty?”
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Before Mueller there was Patrick Fitzgerald
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I don’t think there are many Tories who want to step up at this point as at some point they’re going to have to admit that Brexit is a giant shit show and no-one wants to carry the can for that. Better off navel gazing on the back benches for a few years while Boris gaslights the public and see if they can push through. Whether the economy/NHS can survive this, who knows.
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There is nothing sadder than a fallen empire, or the joke that often remains.
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NARRATOR: They won’t.
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Or, in the case of Nadine Dorries, for ‘having your thumb up your ass’.
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There is never a situation where this phrase is true.
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Also I don’t think any willing back-stabbers (A feature of Tory Politics) really wants to be PM at this very moment - They want some distance, for blame purposes, from :
- Energy price cap hike in April (+54%)
- 10% increase in NI contributions in April (Sunak has already called this “the PM’s rise”)
- ALL COVID restrictions/protections being removed (and going horribly wrong)
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It feels as though we are going around in circles here; I am not disagreeing with you in the slightest! A crook is a crook. And yet e.g. Richard Nixon didn’t go to prison. I was trying to separate the “political” part from the “criminal” part -Trump lost an election that other candidates would normally have won, and Johnson is facing the same future.
Questions about whether or not our legal systems have been subverted to such an extent that obvious crooks are able to escape justice seem to me to be different from questions about whether or not our democratic systems are unable to respond to these sorts of crises. At the moment, the democratic systems seem to be doing a marginally (and I stress ‘marginally’!) better job of it.
Johnson is a lot like Trump: Stupid but insanely clever in a greasy eel way.
Willing to ignore common sense and basically keep pushing to the point where it wears people out knowing he is fairly safe from being given a clout on the head and escorted out the back way and dumped.
There’s no reason to do so, if the crimes committed are part of their political actions…
I disagree. Those questions are intimately connected, because who can get away with particular crimes in particular contexts are always political. The over representation of Black men in prisons is political. The underrepresentation of white men for the very same crimes, committed at the same rates is also political. Members of the conservative parties (who are often the “law and order” party) getting away with particular crimes is political.
That remains to be seen.
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Who is the other one?
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“This is a government that lies.” The words that start nearly every paragraph. It is almost poetic in its repetitive mantra.
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