The Boris Johnson Show: Not a Comedy

It just won't go away, and is if anything, getting worse.

So there you are in the Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street (that's the one in London, England, not Greenwich Village, New York, New York), the table is set with snacks from Marks & Spencer, with a birthday cake in the centre of the table. 30 people assemble to sing Happy Birthday! to the Birthday Boy himself, Boris Johnson -and all of it as clear a violation of the rules on Social Distancing that he pronounced with such Solemnity and in such Grave Tones not long before it.

"Boris Johnson’s gathering with birthday cake in the cabinet room was not a party, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said, denying the prime minister had organised the event.
“The prime minister clearly didn’t organise to be given a cake,” Shapps told Sky News after the latest revelations about lockdown breaches in Downing Street. “Some people came forward and thought it would be appropriate for on his birthday.”
But he suggested it was “unwise” for the prime minister have been given a cake at the gathering of staff. He told BBC Radio 4 Today that he shares “the sense of unease about all of this”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-grant-shapps

The unease? Because we know about it now, because those who knew what the rules were took the 'sod it' view that such rules were drawn up for the Mugs, aka the British Public, and are now facing the prospect of being grilled by the Meropolotan Police. All of which enables Johnson to delay the Gray Report until the Police Report and to comment on neither until then.

Delay, delay. But can he delay his last day in office indefinitely? He will try, because he has no shame, doesn't think he has done anything wrong, and is destined to lead the UK out of the European Union and into a new era of Global Britain. Cue trumpets, drums for the Prime Minister.

As for us -we don't even get to eat cake. Just eat shit.

"Foreign Office emails appear to contradict Downing Street’s insistence that Boris Johnson did not personally authorise the controversial rescue of cats and dogs from a British animal charity in Afghanistan."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...espite-denials

Woof woof?
Woof!
Wooo....

"The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “It’s not uncommon in Whitehall for a decision to be interpreted or portrayed as coming directly from the prime minister even when that’s not the case, and it’s our understanding that’s what happened in this instance. We appreciate it was a frenetic time for those officials dealing with this situation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...n-no-10-emails

Ah so, when 'No 10' is reported to approving this or that, be it in a crisis or over a holiday weekend, it doesn't mean the Prime Minister was involved.

So who is running the country wearing a badge that says 'Prime Minister'? And where does he work? Er, No 10. Which part of London is No 10 in? Whitehall.

And again, that is an address in London, Engand, not New York, New York. (And I only mention this trivia because I used to know someone who lived on that little street in the Village).

Sue Gray has published an 'Update' of her report INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED GATHERINGS ON GOVERNMENT PREMISES DURING COVID RESTRICTIONS.

She describes a 'failure of leadership', so how has 'the leader' responded? 'Sorry'. And further action must wait for the full report to be completed -he will decide if it is published in full, while the Metropoltan Police complete their report, not forgetting this means the Prime Minister of the UK is one of the people subject to this criminal investigation.

Over 100 people were arrested by the Metropolitan Police in London in early November 2020 for violating Covid regulations, but none of them were in the offices of the Prime Minister.

How much longer can this hypocrite remain in office? Probably longer than many want.

Gray's report, not that long, is here-

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...s_-_update.pdf

I must call it 'Putin's Penumbra' being that shadowy world occupied by Oligarchs and their minions, intelligence men, internet sleuths and who knows who else....linked to the Conservative Party in general, and Boris Johnson in particular.

The man who brazenly trumpets his leadership in the defence of Ukraine has been up to his neck in Russian cash, as the Russia Report might tell us. For that matter, since it is claimed Boris had an affair with the Russian violinist 'Olga D' (who can that be?) in 2020 if not before and since, Boris has been what, 'up to his wick' in Russian affairs? Then there is the relationship he has with a man called Ben Elliot, who is sort of in and out of Putin's Penumbra.

And then there is Brexit....and a campaigin infiltrated and manipulated by the Russians, who also dabbled in our elections, as Theresa May made public in 2017 when Johnson was Foreign Secretary and asked about this and said, categorically 'No' the Russians had not done that. As for the FBI investigating Russia's 'operatives' operating in London.....

Carol Cadwalladr has multiple tweets on this issue, if you have time to read through them.

Get Brexit Done! Defend the Ukraine! Invite me to your Villa again, Lev! Fancy a vodka, Olga?

The truth is out there, who will open the X Files so we can see it? But stay clear of the Kreuzer Sonata.

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/s...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

After a thousand days of lies and corruption and incompetence, allow Professor Peter Hennessy to make the judgment on one of the worst Prime Ministers in history-

"On Sunday, the distinguished constitutional sage Peter Hennessy – not exactly given to intemperate public statements – declared of Johnson’s failure to resign for breaking the actual law: “I think we’re in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember.” Describing Johnson as “a rogue prime minister, unworthy of [the Queen]”, Hennessy went on to judge him “the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions – our very system of government”. As his diary entry for the day Johnson’s police penalty was revealed reads: “I cannot remember a day when I have been more fearful for the wellbeing of the constitution.”

Seriously, Tory party, there is no pooper scooper big enough to clear up Johnson’s constant mess | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

The party that elected Boris Johnson is now voting to either keep him or replace him. In the meantime, Lions Led by Donkeys has a couple of video accounts of his 'colourful' life...see them here-

Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) / Twitter

comedy or tragedy?

Final Standings:

Resignations Premier League: Government/Party 59 Boris 3

Boris relegated

Boris resigns after seeing the Partygate report, Nadine Dorries resigned earlier having been snubbed by her heartthrob. The theory being that by not sending her to the Lords this allowed Tories avoiding a by-election. As hell has no fury like a woman scorned Dorries immediately resigned thereby forcing the dreaded by-election.

Boris -I AM THE NEWS!- Johnson, perpetually obsessed with himself to the exclusion of all others. I am sick of all this 'entertainment' politics, be it Boris or Trump, neither of whom have a shred of interest in the countries they live in, no significant policies on the cost of living, homelessness, climate change, education and health, transport and infrastructure. It is no surprise that like some second-rate Hollywood He-Man, Boris is leaving, he claims, -for now, as if in a year or two years' time the people will yearn for him to return to front line politics. He became Mr Brexit, then Bungled it, because in the end, he really didn't care one way or the other as long as he was making headlines and using his fame to make a fortune.

As for those multiple injunctions to prevent the media reporting on his affair(s) with one or two Russian beauties when he was supposed to be attending COBRA meetings to co-ordinate the UK's response to Covid -will the Enquiry find out where he was at the time? There is even more dirt waiting to be smeared on the front pages, but he needs to be in control of the message or his lucrative lecture tours might come to an end.

I hope we are at the beginning of the end of these clowns, liars and murderers like Johnson, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, all of whom are functionally incompetent, all of whom have damaged their brand but more importantly, their countries. I would like to think a better generation of politicians is waiting to take command, but I have become cynical in my mature years though I am prepared to be pleasantly surprised. But it doesn't look promising right now.