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because he was up for being PM, God forbid that had happened. He is still around diddlydo, and still causing problems.
Politicians are similar to underwear, the're full of *** and should be changed regularly.
And washed!!!
I mentioned him diddlydo because that was the choice we were given at the time. So how about an answer to the question and not just try and dismiss it as irrelevant.
Know what you mean 1ozzy, our MP is a newish one and he is already trying to crawl his way up and I won't say what in case I get banned.
The majority of politicians are self-serving bstds. The back-benchers, Mitchel, Davis, etc. know they have no future in Boris' coming cabinets, so they want a change whereby they may have a chance on the greasy pole.

The opposition want Boris out knowing that a new leader (Sunak say) would be a weaker force in the future election, & the media are almost entirely left-wing dominated anyway.

I personally think Boris will survive it all, but he will have to buck up & change his style somewhat.
I don’t see how the PM can survive the fact that so many of his own people are turning against him.

Starmer’s words are powerful but ultimately it’s the “unfriendly fire” which will get him,
If it was a simple matter of swapping out one leader for another he’d already be gone.
The interview with the former chief whip was typical: clearly Mark Harper thinks Johnson should go but he admitted that it was a messy business replacing a leader so was prepared to wait for the Met to finish up
Apparently, in the meeting with the Tory party afterwards, Johnson said something along the lines of "I nearly died of this [ie, Covid], of course I take it seriously". I am confused why he didn't say so in the Commons. I'm confused, too, why he pointedly refused to commit to releasing the full Gray report, when it becomes available, only for Downing Street to confirm that this would happen barely a couple of hours later.

//I'm confused, too, why he pointedly refused to commit to releasing the full Gray report, when it becomes available//

He confirmed that last week in a run in with Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.
If that's so, why didn't he repeat the confirmation yesterday? He was invited to, twice, and refused to both times.

Still, it's the absence of the first quote in the Commons that confuses me more. I genuinely don't get why he only thought of that line, or only saw fit to use it, in a private meeting as opposed to a public one.

First thing I heard on BBC Radio news this morning is that the majority of Tory MPs are now supporting Boris. That doesn't surprise me at all.
//it's the absence of the first quote in the Commons that confuses me more.//

Doubtless you'll rationalise it ... somehow.
Well he didn’t really as we’ve established.
It turns out that he “may” have referred to a statement he made way back on Dec 8 saying that it would go in the library. I suspect he couldn’t actually remember what he’d said that far back so was playing safe. Yesterday, first Diane Abbott asked him, then Mark Harper, then at least two others, and he evaded the question every time.
Plainly Downing St bowed to the pressure shortly after. All of which gives the impression of weak leadership
In this particular case, Naomi, I think you're clearly misunderstanding my point. Perhaps the below will make it plainer.

It's now established as a matter of fact that there were multiple parties in Downing Street, at a time when there weren't supposed to be such events according to the rules of the time. The question of whether or not they broke the law to a criminal standard we can set aside. Also, let us accept as a starting point that Johnson himself was unaware of these goings-on, or at least of most of them. In those circumstances, Johnson himself has been lied to or misled by his officials, and he has been embarrassed by them nationally for weeks on end, dragging into months. He should be furious. The line about having nearly died himself fits this narrative perfectly.

Where, then, was it? At the moment it seems to me that Johnson's anger, at least in public, is not at those who caused the issue, which I assumed above does not include him, and instead at those who continue to bring it up.

It is, at the very least, a serious missed opportunity in this case. "There is a culture at Downing Street of contempt for the rules and contempt for those whom the officials are supposed to serve. I have failed to stop it thus far. I will not continue to fail one moment longer" strikes me as a very powerful message. Coupled with that personal story, of how the contempt is personally wounding because it attacks victims of the very disease of which he himself almost died, I would have thought that ironically there's some political capital that Johnson could make of this.

In essence, this is what I'm criticising Johnson of the most: he's just suddenly bad at politics. It barely matters if he was at any of these events or not. It *does* matter that he hasn't shown any capability in dealing with the matter remotely effectively.
So bj were you at a party on 13 December .can’t answer that you will have wait till Met finishes it lookin into it .Oh so then Ah forget it .
He's toast
I think what you really are saying Jim is that Johnson’s brass neck is now somewhat tarnished.
He “could” have said what you suggest but perhaps he’s lost the chutzpah to make such an outrageous statement
diddly: "How can so many people be so deluded and taken in by a compulsive liar and law-breaker? " - coming from someone who claims to not know a single brexiteer, right oh!
Indeed, but it's been tarnished by his own apparent inability, at the start, to see the problem. The problem is not the parties. The problem is lying about them.

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