Boris's Brain is missing

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djnotts wrote: 5 Apr 2023, 3:36pm "No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In"

From the Anarchists' posters of the '60s (and possibly earlier), "Whoever you voted for, the Government got in."
The 2019 election would seem to be the first that is different, the present incumbent administration is merely a cabal of rotters, thieves, and charlatans; certainly not a government.
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...just as a postscript to this old chestnut of a thread, I'm reading Sonia Purnell's excellent biography of Johnson at the mo' - an absolute page turner - haven't put it down since I started! If you've ever wondered why & how on earth Johnson managed to survive as long as he did, it's all in the pages of this detailed and well-researched book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/JUST-BORIS-Tal ... C73&sr=8-1
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(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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Jdsk wrote: 12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3

The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
Sounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/

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Jdsk wrote: 19 Apr 2023, 12:37pm
Jdsk wrote: 12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3

The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
Sounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/
Report "expected":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65414185

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Jdsk wrote: 27 Apr 2023, 6:43pm
Jdsk wrote: 19 Apr 2023, 12:37pm
Jdsk wrote: 12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3

The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
Sounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/
Report "expected":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65414185
Resigned:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... g-pressure

The Report:
https://publicappointmentscommissioner. ... -SHARP.pdf

And Sharp's statement on his resignation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/state ... hard-sharp

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Jdsk wrote: 2 Feb 2023, 5:27pm
Jdsk wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 1:28pm
francovendee wrote: 21 Jul 2022, 11:51am Do you believe being under oath will make Johnson tell the truth? I certainly don't. He'll continue as before and bluster and avoid any direct answers to direct questions.
Jdsk wrote: 5 Sep 2022, 1:47pm ...
And there's the imminent inquiry by the Privileges Committee... or is there?
Response by the Privileges Committee to Pannick's opinion:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... eport.html

And the application for review of the use of public funds to pay for it:
https://goodlawproject.org/news/the-pub ... -the-hook/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NV__H3 ... 0PRM1/view
(The first of those includes how to donate to support this.)
And the National Audit Office is getting interested:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587

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Probably in the wrong thread but I've just read about Matt Hancock's availability to covid ghouls set to make a packet out of it:- (Guadian sorry) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... tt-hancock
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Jdsk wrote: 10 May 2023, 8:01pm
Jdsk wrote: 2 Feb 2023, 5:27pm
Jdsk wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 1:28pm Response by the Privileges Committee to Pannick's opinion:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... eport.html

And the application for review of the use of public funds to pay for it:
https://goodlawproject.org/news/the-pub ... -the-hook/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NV__H3 ... 0PRM1/view
(The first of those includes how to donate to support this.)
And the National Audit Office is getting interested:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
Early Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917

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The PPE scandal Robert Gos' company supplied £millions worth of useless PPE:- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid- ... Gy0iR35mvm
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Jdsk wrote: 21 May 2023, 5:03pm
Jdsk wrote: 10 May 2023, 8:01pm
Jdsk wrote: 2 Feb 2023, 5:27pm And the National Audit Office is getting interested:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
Early Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917
"Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA

Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.

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Jdsk wrote: 23 May 2023, 7:02pm
Jdsk wrote: 21 May 2023, 5:03pm
Jdsk wrote: 10 May 2023, 8:01pm
Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
Early Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917
"Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA

Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.

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Jdsk wrote: 23 May 2023, 7:02pm ...
Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.

Jonathan
Johnson's legal bills seem to be costing the taxpayer rather a lot. Money better spent eg given to food bank?

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roubaixtuesday wrote: 23 May 2023, 8:01pm
Jdsk wrote: 23 May 2023, 7:02pm "Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA

Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.
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I've been trying to work out which lawyers this was and what they were doing.

We're suddenly one step closer to knowing... letter from Johnson to the COVID inquiry:

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And the Guardian's explainer:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... p-messages

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And the letter from the Chair of the inquiry:

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-co ... Office.pdf

Blimey.

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