A stage to look like a complete fucking wanker as he admits he broke the rules he made everyone else follow.
Yeah that's a really great stage for Boris.
Well a few people are - not exactly the whole country - still gives Boris a stage
It’s on the front page of every newspaper today, bar the FT and The Sun (they went with an Ed Sheeran interview instead)Well a few people are - not exactly the whole country - still gives Boris a stage
I don't think that necessarily proves anything to be honestIt’s on the front page of every newspaper today, bar the FT and The Sun (they went with an Ed Sheeran interview instead)
It’s been live all afternoon on pretty much every news TV channel and Radio station in the country.I don't think that necessarily proves anything to be honest
I personally find it tedious, but every broadsheet and tabloid editor alike deciding to put it on today’s front page suggests they think there’s a lot of interest in the story. I assume you think they all got it wrong?I don't think that necessarily proves anything to be honest
They seemed to be heading for the time taken to correct the record as the approach they were going for, which I guess is maybe more able to be proved? After all, as soon as it came out, people would have been saying hang on, what's this all about.
They still look like shit parties mind you!
Lord Pannick is not looking happy
Inflation gone up again.
Slipped under the radar with all the Boris fun but this is not good. Can’t work out if foods still increasing due to specific cost reasons or a bit of final inflation profiteering.
Supply and demand economics. 16.5% though, highest rate since the 70’s.Slipped under the radar with all the Boris fun but this is not good. Can’t work out if foods still increasing due to specific cost reasons or a bit of final inflation profiteering. Hoping it’s a one off month especially as oils been very low recently. Would be surprised if BoE don’t raise by 0.25 tomorrow (outside chance of 0.5 but unlikely). Unfortunately can’t see it being a pause which it might’ve been with better inflation figures especially with continued worries about stress on global banking system
So the Stormont brake only works if Stormont is sitting. The DUP are running scared.
To a certain extent they manufacture interest in stories, the headlines are not demand led ultimately.I personally find it tedious, but every broadsheet and tabloid editor alike deciding to put it on today’s front page suggests they think there’s a lot of interest in the story. I assume you think they all got it wrong?
I personally find it tedious, but every broadsheet and tabloid editor alike deciding to put it on today’s front page suggests they think there’s a lot of interest in the story. I assume you think they all got it wrong?
Now he’s given his account of what happened would it surprise you if fresh stories, videos and photos started finding their way into the papers again? Seems to have been the pattern. Give him enough rope. If there’s nothing published by Monday I’d say he’s in the clear from any more bombshells on the matter.To back up the earlier point about the media, they were aware of this story for a long time before it was released to the wider public. It was arguably of far greater interest back then.
The Beano doesn’t take an editorial view on this oneWhat is the verdict among your fellow hacks?
To a certain extent - maybe. To the extent that nearly every outlet, left/right, tabloid/broadsheet, radio/TV independently slaps it on the front page and leads with it? Seems a stretch to me.To a certain extent they manufacture interest in stories, the headlines are not demand led ultimately.
I think he lied by the way, he can’t help it, it’s compulsive, lie first ask questions later. Just not sure they can categorically prove it
I give it a 3No this is my one (but we only did it to try and drum up interest, no-one really cares obviously):
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What I genuinely can't get my head around is that they were the rules that he bloody brought in, how can he keep claiming he didn't know the rules? The gentleman on Newsnight tonight who lost his mother to Covid tore into the Boris crony on the panel with this (brilliantly for a layman) and left him spluttering and then speechless.Johnson is such a useless c**t.
I can't believe (well actually I can I suppose) that £200k of public money was spent on his defence which so far consists of:
I didn't know what the rules were
Nobody told me what the rules were
The rules were impractical
Other people were doing it too
I have to say some of my family just decided sod it and did a lot of what they liked especially later on in the pandemicWhat I genuinely can't get my head around is that they were the rules that he bloody brought in, how can he keep claiming he didn't know the rules? The gentleman on Newsnight tonight who lost his mother to Covid tore into the Boris crony on the panel with this (brilliantly for a layman) and left him spluttering and then speechless.
So it got largely missed yesterday but it turns out that Sunak is barely paying the basic tax rate on millions of pounds of earnings. Talk about a rigged tax system. Some suggestion that he also pays tax in the US too but he’s only released his UK tax return.
Unbelievably, after seeing how uninterested the general public is in the Boris story from yesterday’s sales figures, all of these papers have decided to put the same story on their front pages again today.It’s on the front page of every newspaper today, bar the FT and The Sun (they went with an Ed Sheeran interview instead)
Unbelievably, after seeing how uninterested the general public is in the Boris story from yesterday’s sales figures, all of these papers have decided to put the same story on their front pages again today.
And as the excellent Dan Hodges has pointed out none of the headlines suggest that Boris has cleared his name as he insisted he would with his evidence. He didn’t have a good day yesterday at all, the fact that the right wing press has essentially turned on him suggests he’s politically finished regardless of whether the committee go nuclear or accept his version that he’s not a liar he’s just stupid. The Star front page has the best with it’s Boris/Pinocchio/Vicky Pollard hybrid and the headline yeah but no but yeah but.Unbelievably, after seeing how uninterested the general public is in the Boris story from yesterday’s sales figures, all of these papers have decided to put the same story on their front pages again today.
And as the excellent Dan Hodges has pointed out none of the headlines suggest that Boris has cleared his name as he insisted he would with his evidence. He didn’t have a good day yesterday at all, the fact that the right wing press has essentially turned on him suggests he’s politically finished regardless of whether the committee go nuclear or accept his version that he’s not a liar he’s just stupid. The Star front page has the best with it’s Boris/Pinocchio/Vicky Pollard hybrid and the headline yeah but no but yeah but.
I’m genuinely surprised none of the papers have gone with ‘Tears Of A Clown’ in reference to the 70s song and whose lyrics include ‘fooling the public’.
Great song that. Don’t spoil it
He paid US tax on US dividends. You could argue about CGT and whether this should ultimately be brought in line with someone’s income tax levels but his other income he averaged 37% tax from what I’ve read.
Bit sneaky to release it yesterday but I’ve not heard about anything naughty in it. There’s plenty of rich and famous people who are born and bred in U.K. who decide live in tax havens for a proportion of the year to avoid paying anything so I can’t get too upset about someone chucking 500k into the pot
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