Tory Corruption thread

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1670163000978812930?t=fhvZ7Poi9Q6M56EUQmV-vg&s=19

Why is this being leaked to the Mirror now?

Johnson being thrown under under bus to deflect from the real issues caused by Johnson et al.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Another by-election coming as whipless Tory David Warburton resigns, in disgrace rather than in protest. Lib Dem tap-in in Somerset.

What did he do?

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1670167022242594818?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

What did he do?

As well as the above he's the guy who posted a photo of himself next to a tray of several lines of coke.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

(oh that's mentioned in the above too, carry on)

[ursus arctos]

Another reason the video was leaked

[https://twitter.com/londoneconomic/status/1670153463160766464?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Mr Beast]

The honours system is inherently corrupt and should not exist. Boris Johnson is perhaps the most morally bankrupt politician that has ever existed without the surname Trump.

How unsurprising that he rocks up at the Mail. Scum writing for scum.

[Satchmo Distel]

Not following this closely but I infer that Johnson didn't have any dirt on Sunak otherwise No. 10 wouldn't be leaking this stuff. Sunak made the right moves during Covid to avoid being damaged here.

[ursus arctos]

Well, Sunak already got a penalty notice, but it appears that that was indeed the only party he attended.

Sunak's pandemic exposure is rooted in Eat Out to Help Out, which killed hundreds/thousands, but that isn't the kind of thing that can be easily leaked (and not without issue for Johnson).

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

The Covid enquiry might get him for that, depending on how well it is allowed to do its job.

[ursus arctos]

One sure as hell hopes so

[ursus arctos]

Does anyone know if the responses to "questionaires" that the Met used for its "investigation" were provided under penalty of perjury?

If they were, I have to think that at least some of the Shaun Bailey revelers have more than fixed penalty notices to be worried about. If they weren't, then the whole thing was a sham from the outset.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/GrahamJones_MP/status/1670898938063323138?t=XVUQC0fC9PcJKQZFewwgiQ&s=19

Here are the 7.

[Discordant Resonance]

What's Ulster Scots for "rubes"?

https://twitter.com/BBCJayneMcC/status/1670901131126480897

[Eggchaser]

https://twitter.com/GrahamJones_MP/status/1670898938063323138?t=XVUQC0fC9PcJKQZFewwgiQ&s=19

Here are the 7.

Going down with the ship as the abstaining seek sanctuary in South America.

[Kevin S]

Quite grimly amusing that Hancock turned up to add his vote to Johnson's kicking.

[Capybara]

What's Ulster Scots for "rubes"?

https://twitter.com/BBCJayneMcC/status/1670901131126480897

Crikey. When did Andrew Bridgen join the Reclaim party?

[Etienne]

After he got kicked out of the Tories for wild vaccine conspiracising.

[Capybara]

Yes, I'd picked that up but hadn't realised he'd formally signed up to it.

[diggedy derek]

Bridgen’s speech in the debate yesterday was a babbling mess of paranoid nonsense

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/SteveJGoodrich/status/1671481263457280000?t=cupiRFA8VLAaC5K8VAeSiw&s=19

[Balderdasha]

Since it looks like the Partygate report is going to show him for the turd he is, I do kind of hope he tries to hang on and poison the Tories for a generation.

Even eejits who voted for him because they thought he was a "good bloke" won't forgive him when they find out just how much debauchery was going on in Downing Street while Joe and Josephine Public lost their jobs and couldn't go to their own parents' funerals.

You would think so, but the current word on the street amongst my mum's small town poverty-stricken Tory supporters is that it's a real shame he got booted out because at least he was fun and wasn't stuck up like those other Tories...

[Satchmo Distel]

My anecdotal evidence is that even some nurses who treated dying patients while Johnson threw these parties are giving him a free pass. NHS problems are due to all the freeloaders coming over, etc. This is in Leeds.

I just think the last 8 years proves that right-wing ideology is absolutely faith-based baked-in evidence-free and even in some cases patently against self-interest, even to the point of life and death. Partly that's racism and pulling up the drawbridge, certainly a hatred of the poor (Oh, our parents were poor but they were decent folk but now all poor people are scum, just as bad as the immigrants).

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1671650818167042048?t=OwVbmkTsYOllYY5MaKd07w&s=19

A little bit more detail to what UA posted yesterday.

[Ginger Yellow]

Not Tory corruption per se this time, but since Neidle/TPA were mentioned in the thread previously, they have a big two-parter on an illegal NI evasion scheme and the KC opinion that endorsed it.