bannedfromHandV Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 54 minutes ago, bickster said: Not quite, I think eventually they admitted someone "loaned" Johnson the money but that he'd paid that back. Is there any evidence of this payback in the story? (I can only find a Times paywalled article right now) There was some mention of it having been paid back somewhere down the line yes, as Genie said, no doubt after it looked like becoming news/noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Cool cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 They've finally found Michael Gove. Can't imagine where he manages to find the er...confidence and energy for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 If someone hasn't posted partridge in leather pants in the comments to that I will be disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 19 hours ago, ml1dch said: They've finally found Michael Gove. Can't imagine where he manages to find the er...confidence and energy for it. Glad to see I'm not the worst dancer in the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted August 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 28/08/2021 at 23:07, ml1dch said: Cool cool. Be interesting to know total volume of emails received and read as opposed to this stat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Just now, Follyfoot said: Be interesting to know total volume of emails received and read as opposed to this stat I agree, it’s a meaningless stat. If they received a total of 5,100 then that’s terrible. If they received a million, I’d say it was pretty good. My own tory MP tweeted for people to email him with anything concerning Afghanistan. Then within the hour changed that to anything about refugees, then to families within his constituency and then gave a general email for everything to be sent to. That looked to me like they simply had no idea what sort of scale of issue they were dealing with, that it took them by surprise the level of connection there is with that country. I’m guessing, but I’d strongly suspect he couldn’t deal with the level of response he got, tried to refine it down and then in very short order basically gave up. Which to be fair, is pretty much what his boss has done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 30, 2021 Gove making himself look like some sort of comedy idiot in public, a laughable buffoonish character. I would assume that's part of a leadership bid. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: Gove making himself look like some sort of comedy idiot in public, a laughable buffoonish character. I would assume that's part of a leadership bid. It was the Distraction bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 30, 2021 Author Moderator Share Posted August 30, 2021 23 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: Gove making himself look like some sort of comedy idiot in public, Perhaps he'd had a hard day shovelling coke like a locomotive worker? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 30, 2021 Quote Michael Gove 'tried to avoid paying' £5 entry to Scots rave by saying 'I'm the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster' Daily Record When I used to get into clubs for nowt, it was because they knew who I was 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 49 minutes ago, bickster said: Daily Record When I used to get into clubs for nowt, it was because they knew who I was I once went to a club and an old friend was taking the entry fees, she said “you’re alright, you don’t need to pay”… nice one I replied, can my mates come in free too? She said “sure no problem”. She didn’t realise at that point there was about 15 of us on a stag do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Keep Our NHS Public Now Parliament's back from holiday, the filth will be seeking to break up and further privatise the NHS. A Tory Brexit for lobbyists, the tax parasites, Conservative donors and chums. What a nation of mugs. Quote £420 per visor: the price of ministers’ PPE panic A former Conservative councillor received a £120 million government contract for face shields whose quality is so doubtful that fewer than 1 in 400 have been used, meaning each one has so far cost the equivalent of £423. Steve Dechan, 53, is the owner of Platform-14, a Gloucestershire firm that had specialised in devices for managing chronic pain. It recorded significant losses in the year before the pandemic. In April last year, his offer to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) from China was fast-tracked through the "VIP" procurement lane. The government then invoked emergency rules to directly award him a series of contracts It heralded a change in his company’s fortunes as well as his own: he recently swapped his modest home in Stroud... for a 17th Century farmhouse with 100 acres of land. Times Is it sinking in yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Are the majority of the media going to start turning on Boris now? He seems to have gotten away with Brexit and Covid to a certain degree. This repeated breaking of manifesto promises and tax rises could be the turning point. He’s on the front page of the Daily Star with the caption “how can you tell when he’s lying, his lips move”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjsg Posted September 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2021 32 minutes ago, Genie said: Are the majority of the media going to start turning on Boris now? He seems to have gotten away with Brexit and Covid to a certain degree. This repeated breaking of manifesto promises and tax rises could be the turning point. He’s on the front page of the Daily Star with the caption “how can you tell when he’s lying, his lips move”. You would of thought that they would of got him on something by now, plenty of free hits, but I have to agree with Peston Quote Why breaking his tax pledge probably won't harm Boris Johnson ITV.com on this one, I don't think the tax jump will do it as I think it will at least have some support from people from both parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, andyjsg said: You would of thought that they would of got him on something by now, plenty of free hits, but I have to agree with Peston (https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-07/why-breaking-his-tax-pledge-probably-wont-harm-boris-johnson) on this one, I dont think the tax jump will do it as I think it will at least have some support from people from both parties. You gotta love point 3 of that article Quote 3) Literally no one expects Johnson to keep his promises (in just recent months he's broken them on the overseas aid budget and having vaccine passports); his brand is not as a man of his word. He won't be damaged by lying because no one expects him to tell the truth. We definitely deserve what he get as a society. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Raising costs for the worker with no change for the wealthy whilst breaking a key manifesto pledge.... CON +10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Words fail me. Boris is only in power because a large number of people found him to be a likeable character. We left the EU to "Take Control of Our Borders". We have a +25 mile moat as our border with France and we can't control it from illegal immigrants. Whilst legal immigrants with skills are deserting the country in massive numbers and causing skills shortages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 7, 2021 Author Moderator Share Posted September 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Raising costs for the worker with no change for the wealthy That’s not what he’s done. I mean I detest him and the tories, but as I understand it the more you earn the more you pay, up to a max level. Then there’s share dividends another rich people thing, which get taxed more. I don’t think the government has got it right, but it’s not a case of no change for the wealthy, more like not assigning as much of the burden on the wealthy as some people would like 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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