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Peter Oborne was right about Boris Johnson all along. Watch his summary of the Johnson era [VIDEO]

Boris Johnson’s ethos: Peter Oborne explains how he was able to get away with it for three years.

Peter Oborne’s takedown of Boris Johnson is well worth preserving because his predictions about the future are already coming true:

Oborne’s claims about Johnson’s departure from office ring true: he’ll want to shape the Tory Party while out of office – so he can come back in the future. That’s why there’s a movement to claim that he is a great man who has been pushed out of office by pygmies.

On the subject of pygmies, Oborne doesn’t hold back when describing the Tory MPs who backstabbed Johnson in order to have him removed: they supported his lies, they repeated his lies on television. “All were complicit in the moral squalor.”

He goes on to say that the Tory Party is now owned by non-dom press barons and oligarchs who ran the media machine that enabled Johnson to lie his way into a huge Parliamentary majority at the 2019 general election – and that these people were now working to get their chosen candidate installed as Tory leader and prime minister.

Look at the qualities Oborne identifies as those required by these people: they are embodied in Liz Truss.

So they got what they wanted and she will work for them – not for the good of the UK.

Curiously, Oborne identifies Ben Elliot, the now-former Tory co-chairman who raised huge amounts of funds for Johnson, as a key figure in the determination of the new leader. At the moment that Liz Truss was named leader, Elliot resigned.

Chillingly, Oborne explains how he tried to get an article published, showing how often and blatantly Johnson was lying to the people of the UK in the run-up to the 2019 general election – and failed. The mass media would not accept it, despite running everything possible that was derogatory of then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Eventually the piece was published in Open Democracy on the social media.

What awaits us now? Right-wing populism and fascism, according to Oborne: personified in Liz Truss.

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Boris Johnson is gone: let’s laugh at him with Jonathan Pie [VIDEO; EXTREME LANGUAGE]

Gobsmacked: if Boris Johnson saw the video tribute to him by Jonathan Pie, was this his reaction?

This tribute is well-deserved.

Perhaps you’d like to add a tribute of your own? Feel free to put your opinion in the ‘Comment’ column – but please, be a little more moderate in your language than the charming Mr Pie.

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As Boris Johnson tenders his resignation as PM, watch this short film about his failure

Boris Johnson: could this be the last time Vox Political uses this image to signify Boris Johnson’s contempt for us all?

This Writer was going to put together a video compilation of Boris Johnson’s prime ministerial career – but Led By Donkeys has done it already.

I would query whether it is wise to have said that Johnson repeatedly lied about whether lockdown rules were broken at the now-infamous Downing Street parties, as this is something that is currently being determined in an inquiry by the Commons Privileges Committee.

Other than that, with so many of his blunders and corruptions linked together in this short film, it’s a shocking revelation of what can happen when an unprincipled thug is given ultimate power in the UK by a deceived electorate.

Here’s the clip:

How can we stop this from happening again?

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Did Boris Johnson scuttle a Russia-Ukraine peace deal – back in APRIL?

Ukraine-Russia talks: it seems they succeeded – until the UK’s then-prime minister Boris Johnson intervened. If true, it means the crisis of rising energy costs is HIS doing.

This is incendiary.

It seems that Russia and Ukraine came to a tentative agreement to cease hostilities in April – so Boris Johnson flew out to Kyiv and persuaded Volodymyr Zelenskyy to scrap the deal.

Remember the way Tory politicians – including Boris Johnson – have been saying the energy crisis is a direct result of the Russia-Ukraine war? If this report is accurate, then it isn’t because of Vladimir Putin at all.

It’s because of Boris Johnson.

Watch:

Particularly wounding for This Writer is the information that the deal that had been negotiated was along lines I laid out, back in March.

I stated that Ukraine should agree not to join Nato but should agree a deal by which Nato could step in if its borders were violated; the breakaway eastern regions of Ukraine should hold referenda on their future – whether to remain in Ukraine, become autonomous, or join Russia; Ukraine should relinquish its claim on the Crimea; and Russia should help repair the damage its invasion caused to Ukraine.

The deal, as described in the video above, was that Ukraine shouldn’t join Nato but would get help from neighbouring countries if invaded; and Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea.

I thought it was a naive plan at the time. Now we find it was the plan.

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Government lawyer advising Boris Johnson says Partygate inquiry is flawed

Not a party? This shot was taken during a Christmas quiz at Downing Street – note the tinsel around one person’s neck and the open bottle of alcoholic beverage. Johnson later said all Covid-19 rules were followed at these events – including those for which he and others were fined. Was he lying? That’s what the current inquiry is tasked with determining.

Why is a Cabinet Office lawyer advising a private individual – Boris Johnson – on Partygate?

Apparently a decision by the Commons Privileges committee, that is investigating whether Johnson misled Parliament over the Partygate scandal, that it does not have to prove that he intended to do so, to prove contempt of Parliament.

But Lord Pannick, the legal eagle hired by the government to examine the committee’s approach, said the inquiry needs to establish “that Mr Johnson intended to mislead the House [of Commons] – that is that he knew that what he told the House was incorrect”.

He added that that “the threat of contempt proceedings for unintentional mistakes would have a seriously chilling effect” on MPs.

He said the committee’s approach is inconsistent with past cases where intent was taken into account and the process would be deemed “unlawful” if it was tested in a court.

And he criticised the committee for taking evidence anonymously and said Mr Johnson should be told the detail of the case against him.

The committee’s own lawyer, former judge Sir Ernest Ryder, has already said potential witnesses may not be prepared to give evidence if their identity is made public.

The committee’s spokesperson said it will respond to the other criticisms in due course.

But the fact that Pannick was commissioned to act on Johnson’s behalf suggests that the government is still trying to interfere with Parliamentary process and has learned nothing from the results of – for example – the Owen Paterson scandal.

It seems we won’t be free of the stench of corruption around Boris Johnson – even after he has stopped being prime minister.

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Boris Johnson’s answer to the energy crisis: buy a new kettle

Boris Johnson just made his last major speech as prime minister – announcing a £700 million bung for the building of a new reactor at the Sizewell nuclear power site.

Obviously any power to come from that will not come online for many years yet.

But he did have something to suggest to people facing massive rises in bills due to his mishandling of the UK’s economy and energy needs: buy a new kettle!

See for yourself:

What a relief he’s going, eh?

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Way NOT to Work; it’s claimed Boris Johnson’s flagship jobs scheme was rubbish

Boris Johnson: has he been lying AGAIN?

It seems a scheme launched by Boris Johnson to force people into work by cutting their benefits after four weeks actually saw fewer people into jobs than the average.

The target set for the Way to Work scheme was to get 500,000 people into jobs, and the Department for Work and Pensions made a huge “We did it!” announcement five months after the scheme was launched in January.

But this seems to be untrue:

The DWP has doubled down, claiming that Way to Work did successfully support half a million people into work.

A spokesperson said there had been fewer unemployed people overall in the labour market, so the amount of people moving from unemployed to employed was understandably lower.

But the Office for Statistics Regulation has warned that there is no clear explanation of how the Way to Work target was defined, how it would be measured, and the methods used to support claims that the target had been reached.

It said measuring government programmes in a robust and transparent way is important, and the statistics and data underpinning any measurement should uphold principles of being trustworthy, of high quality and offer public value – but the way the Department has communicated information in this case does not uphold these principles.

Stephen Timms, Labour chair of the work and pensions select committee, was quoted by The Guardian, saying the committee would be looking at the figures as part of an inquiry when MPs return in the autumn.

It seems that, even though he is quitting as prime minister, Boris Johnson’s falsehoods will continue to plague us for some time to come.

Source: Boris Johnson’s flagship jobs scheme was a failure, new figures reveal

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If Boris Johnson is taking full responsibility for everything the government has done, does that include 2,000 construction worker deaths?

Head down: but it would be too much to hope that Boris Johnson was showing shame for the deaths he has inadvertently admitted causing.

Remember way back last spring when Boris Johnson put us all on lockdown – except workers on construction sites?

I do.

It has taken a while, but now we know the result of that.

Between that moment and the start of the current lockdown, 2,000 of them died.

Here are the facts:

I am pleased to hear that Boris Johnson, reporting the bitter fact that the official death toll has now passed 100,000, said he takes “full responsibility for everything that the government has done“.

Clearly this must include the 2,000 construction worker deaths. Come to think of it, the total must also include the 30,000 care home deaths because the government sent residents with Covid-19 back home to infect their friends and neighbours.

I look forward to his forthcoming trial and conviction for manslaughter.

(Sadly, I fear I may spend a long time waiting for it.)

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Johnson sets up secret Whitehall task force to excuse him from Covid-19 mistakes

Johnson’s Covid-19 strategy: this Times cartoon seems to have it right; don’t expect his private inquiry to come to the same conclusions.

Isn’t it strange that Boris Johnson can tell us it isn’t time to have a public inquiry into his Covid-19 strategies – but then orders one to be carried out in private?

The claim is that the Department of Health team will examine lessons to be learned and recommend action.

But I think somebody on Twitter summed up the reality of the situation much better:

“Johnson isn’t looking for the facts. He’s looking for something he can tell Parliament.” That’ll be something to excuse him from any wrongdoing.

Source: Boris Johnson sets up secret Whitehall task force to examine Government’s virus mistakes – Mirror Online

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Tory back to work plan may endanger millions of people with disabilities

Bearing in mind that two-thirds of all the people who died of Covid-19 had disabilities, I reckon they know what they’re talking about when they say Boris Johnson’s latest plan puts them in danger.

But then, killing people with disabilities was the plan, wasn’t it?

So shielding – where people with serious illnesses or disabilities are given extra help to stay isolated from the rest of the population – is going to end on August 1, meaning many more of these people may be exposed to the virus.

And with their illnesses, exposure may be fatal.

Scope’s James Taylor explains it in the BBC news piece:

That’s if they survive the pandemic, of course!

It seems – despite a few mealy-mouthed words of comfort, the Tory government is still trying to eliminate the so-called “useless eaters”.

Source: Back to work advice ‘alarm bells’ for disabled people – BBC News

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