UK Politics June 2023 - Is this the end for Boris? Yes.

Yes, another one.

Mostly :crossed_fingers: for the Johnson report to come out.

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Boy, I can’t wait to see him wriggle his way out of TH

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me reaping, this is great! etc

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Sunak’s claims of a return to integrity and accountability have disintegrated faster than I imagined. Good work Rishi - following up last week’s whitewash of Braverman trying to abuse her position as home secretary with a refusal to release documents to a public enquiry is just the ticket to demonstrate that :+1:

Even Theresa May took over a year before she really started sticking two fingers up at her first speech as PM.

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It’s just a death rattle at this point. We know Keith’ll be basically the same but they’re begging to be voted out.

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Yeah but hopefully we get to find out Rishi was also being all “fuck the care homes, think of the money” about it before they do get booted out though.

All just a game

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Absolute catnip this

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At least this timeline delivers on the second half of the tweet, sometimes.

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Was thinking earlier he might do this. Neatly gave the government the opportunity to fuck it and then also undermine them afterwards rather than just handing them directly to the enquiry in the first place.

While also going “can’t handover my diaries, gave them to cabinet office like the good boy I am” very much playing both sides. I’m struggling to see the government’s argument for not handing it all over

He’s absolutely fucking loving it, all for his book.

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If you think about it was the first thing that was quite clearly a fuck up (there were other fuck ups but it was possibly the 1st one with a clear person leading the charge for it) plus the rumours are that Sunak was the one pushing for looser restrictions against Hancock, which Hancock won the argument to be cautious up to a point maybe that is a discussion to be had Sunak for large period looked incredibly weak during 2020 backing down every few weeks.

We’re back to Eat Out to Help Out discourse? It barely counts as a fuck-up, unless we’re meant to believe this scheme caused a second wave that hit most of Europe (80% of France’s covid deaths came after summer 2020, and they tried pretty much every restriction under the sun) and North America as well as the UK. A decade of austerity, a lack of action on sick pay and care home fuck ups are the only things any inquiry should be focusing on

I don’t see why we shouldn’t be talking about both tbh.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this taking off’s been driven by vested interests planting seeds with friendly journalists, but I don’t think it’s any less important for that.

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This is wonderfully pathetic. Cabinet Office threatening to withdraw funding for Johnson’s defence against misleading government if he cooperates fully with the covid enquiry.

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Christ. Fuck whichever hack noticed, frankly.

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Would this anti-lockdown thing be designed to help minimise fallout around this? I mean obviously only if there was advance warning, I guess

It’s mentioned in the replies that this is an old (nonsense) study, so very much something being trotted out as damage limitation

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Stop the boots

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