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UK disability groups explain plight of disabled people to the UN. Tory minister absent

As seen on Twitter: but is the UK government already planning ways to discredit a new United Nations investigation into the (mis)treatment of disabled people here?

That’s right – the UK’s minister for disabled people, Tom Pursglove, couldn’t be bothered to attend the United Nations in Geneva to provide the Tory government’s side of the story:

This Writer will dare to predict what will happen:

Firstly, the government – that will have had plenty of time to put together a report before this meeting took place – will complain that it was not allowed an opportunity to present its case.

Secondly, any findings by the UN will be vilified by government representatives, in line with what has happened to other UN reports criticising the UK’s Tory government in the past.

Nothing will be done to improve the lives of disabled people in the UK.

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Rishi Sunak’s costly Covid Inquiry legal challenge has failed – as expected

The High Court in London: once again, judges here have overruled the government, meaning Rishi Sunak and his followers were trying to break the law.

Well, it’s only money, isn’t it? And the behaviour of Rishi Sunak and the Cabinet Office shows that the UK clearly has oodles and boodles of long green to splash about.

Sunak’s government was warned before it launched its court bid to legalise its decision to withhold Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries from the Covid Inquiry, that it was doomed to failure.

And now that failure has come to pass – at a huge cost to the public purse.

It turns out that one of the judges of this case, Lord Justice Dingemanns, is a rugby fanatic – so the media are full of comments that he has firmly kicked the government’s attempt at a Covid cover-up into touch.

He and co-judge Mr Justice Garnham have also applied common sense to the affair

and told the two sides to get together and work out what’s relevant to the COVID Inquiry and what’s not… The judges sensibly suggested that the Cabinet Office should appeal to Baroness Hallett about what’s relevant and let her decide.

Sunak and his civil servants have now backed down – a decision for which we should all be grateful as otherwise this could have gone all the way up to the Supreme Court.

But the whole affair has incensed campaigners including the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice

who not surprisingly have condemned the legal fight as “a desperate waste of time and money”.

Watch this develop into a swingeing attack on Sunak and his lackeys as the Covid Inquiry progresses – whenever any information that the Cabinet Office tried to censor comes to light.

Source: Rishi Sunak’s costly COVID Inquiry legal challenge was doomed to failure – and has now been kicked into touch | Politics News | Sky News

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Covid Inquiry starts public hearings – and you can watch

Baroness Heather Hallett: the Covid Inquiry she is chairing has started holding its public evidence hearings – and you can watch them.

Never mind the fuss about whether the Tory government is going to submit any relevant evidence to the Covid Inquiry – plenty of other people have, and you can hear it yourself.

The inquiry has begun its public hearings of evidence, and they are being transmitted via YouTube.

You can watch the live feed every day via the Inquiry’s channel. Preliminary hearings are also available to be viewed so it seems likely that these hearings will remain available after they have ended.

Considering all the rubbish that has been spouted about it so far, it seems a good idea that the inquiry’s proceedings are available for everybody to see.

It means we’ll all be able to check the truth (or not) of what the politicians say about it afterwards.

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Here’s why the Cabinet Office referred Boris Johnson to police for MORE Covid rule breaches

Partygate: here’s a shot of Boris Johnson at a Downing Street party that took place during Covid-19 lockdown. Did he mislead Parliament about them?

This could be the stupidest blunder in a lifetime of stupid blunders for Boris Johnson.

It seems that, because his defence against allegations that he misled Parliament is being bankrolled by the public (with around a quarter of a million pounds spent so far), Johnson’s lawyers have to provide the Cabinet Office with all information relevant to his behaviour during the times concerned.

Such information was contained in his diary – but after reading it, officials reported Johnson to the police in both London and Thames Valley.

Apparently it contains information on further breaches of the rule against mixing with other people during the Covid-19 lockdowns between June 2020 and May 2021.

Both police services refer to breaches of the Health Protection Regulations.

Here’s some meat to cover the bones of this story:

Some of Johnson’s friends (yes, apparently he still has some) in the Conservative Party have come to his defence – like Ben Bradley:

So he reckons we’ve all moved on.

Some of us haven’t moved on from his libelling of Jeremy Corbyn, back in 2018 (his apology for doing so remains the most-shared tweet ever published by a Conservative MP). Or from his suggestion that the online reporter who revealed the libel should be castrated. Or, indeed, from his desire to starve hungry children by denying the extension of free school meals in holidays during the Covid-19 lockdown periods.

Perhaps Mr Bradley should have kept his mouth shut.

Then again, perhaps Johnson should have kept his mouth shut too, when he said he had no knowledge of any Covid-19 rule breaches involving him.

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MP ‘speechless’ after hearing rape alarm excuse for ‘Night Stars’ Coronation arrest was false

Assumptions about a pre-Coronation decision to arrest volunteers who help vulnerable people on the streets of London at night were shattered when it was claimed the stated reason was nonsense.

The Commons Home Affairs Committee took evidence on the arrests today (May 17, 2023) – including from ‘Night Stars’ volunteer Suzie Melvin, whose comments left chair Diana Johnson “speechless”.

The reason? It had been stated that the ‘Night Stars’ volunteers were arrested for handing out rape alarms which police said could be used to frighten horses in the Coronation Day parade.

There’s just one problem with that: the ‘Night Stars’ weren’t handing out rape alarms at all.

Here‘s the BBC report of what Ms Melvin said [boldings mine]:

She explains to the select committee the work volunteers do and the equipment they use – mostly items to help people struggling to get home during a night out, from sick bags to flip flops.

She describes the night as quiet, with the volunteering team mainly helping people by directing them to taxis in central London.

But as the team – wearing hi-vis jackets and backpacks – approached Soho Square they were told by officers they would need to be stopped and searched.

Melvin says officers looked through their bags. But despite explaining to officers who they were, they were arrested and taken to police custody – where she was held from Friday night until Saturday afternoon.

“I am speechless,” the chair of the committee Diana Johnson says after hearing Melvin’s testimony.

Melvin says that when she was arrested, the police officer told her they were specifically looking for the Night Stars volunteers.

Longhi asks if it could be because they were giving out rape alarms, “which can cause a sudden occurrence to happen amongst the horses that were parading” and a risk to the public.

“None of us have ever handed out a rape alarm,” says Melvin. “I am not sure why we were arrested and detained.”

Suzie Melvin from the Night Star volunteers is asked if she had any dialogue with the police beforehand about the new laws and what it might mean for her operations.

“Not directly no,” she says, “but I am aware that city council members did have a dialogue and were not made aware of any suggestion we might be involved in plans to disrupt the Coronation.”

I’ve seen no comment from police who gave evidence at the hearing on any reason for the ‘Night Stars’ arrest. The claim was that they’d had information suggesting the group’s members were handing out rape alarms for the purpose of disrupting the Coronation celebrations but that does not appear to have been substantiated by any police representative.

So was that their excuse or not? Or are they changing it? I have contacted the Metropolitan Police to seek clarification.

ADDITIONAL: The Met Police responded at 2.12pm as follows:

Three people were stopped by officers and arrested in the Soho area on suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance. Among items seized were a number of rape alarms.

The three people – a 37-year-old woman, a 59-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man – were taken to a south London police station, where they were questioned. The 47-year-old man was also further arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.

All three have since been released with no further action.

So neither side is giving an inch, it seems.

I await with eager anticipation the report of the Home Affairs Committee – and any responses to it.

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EXCLUSIVE: Partygate inquiry report delayed due to new evidence

Partygate: here’s a shot of Boris Johnson at a Downing Street party that took place during Covid-19 lockdown. Did he mislead Parliament about them?

A report by MPs on whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over the so-called ‘Partygate’ scandal has been delayed, not because it might interfere with the local elections, but because the inquiry received new evidence.

That is what the House of Commons’ Privileges Committee told This Writer today (May 2).

In response to a query prompted by a press report claiming that there were concerns that the committee’s final report might unduly influence voting in the local elections, a spokesperson stated:

Since taking oral evidence from Mr Johnson on 22 March the Committee has sought and received further written evidence.

The timing of publication of the Committee’s final report will be announced on its website in due course.

Is there time for media speculation on what the “further written evidence” was and how it might affect the outcome?

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After Boris Johnson gave his evidence, here’s comes the propaganda war

I could almost put this article out with just the tweets, and you might get the message.

Let’s start with Boris Johnson’s evidence to the Commons Privileges Committee on Wednesday (I still haven’t watched it all because not enough of you are reading my articles to let me pause writing them for a moment and do something else!), and most particularly the reaction of his (publicly-funded lawyer):

Let’s couple that with a reaction from the social media, in which Damo points out that Johnson’s defence that he ought to know what was going on in the house where he lived is defeated by the fact that he wasn’t living at 10 Downing Street; his flat was next door:

Amazingly, though, staunch Johnson loyalists aren’t having any of it.

They’ve been all over the media, trying to brainwash us all into thinking that his evidence session was a massive success.

Here’s Nadine ‘Mad Nad’ Dorries:

And now (forgive me) a double dose of Jacob Rees-Mogg:

And what do most of us think?

Well, some of us have been pointing out that Johnson was partying while the NHS nearly broke:

Some of us lost our faith in the Blond Baboon – as was demonstrated strikingly on the BBC’s Question Time:

Some of us had personal experience of dealing with Johnson, and were able to provide eyewitness evidence about his lies…

And what does Johnson make of it all?

Well, if the following is any yardstick, he’s worried.

He has twigged that the committee exonerating him might be a forlorn hope and he might get that dreaded 10-day suspension, leading to a recall motion from Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituents and a by-election.

So – well, look:

It’s just a tweet, but I reckon there might be some truth to it.

Last word has to be praise for the Yorkshire Post, whose editorial staff put together an image for that paper’s cover – the now-infamous one showing Johnson raising a glass at (I believe) Lee Cain’s leaving event – composed of photographs of people who were staying home while the Downing Street parties were taking place, because they had been told it would save lives.

Here’s the tweet; you’ll already have seen the image at the top of this article.

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Boris Johnson’s Partygate defence published. Do you believe it?

Boris Johnson raises a glass at Lee Cain’s leaving party, surrounded by glasses and bottles of alcohol: he says he didn’t know it was a party at the time.

Boris Johnson wants us to believe he did not “intentionally or recklessly” mislead Parliament about the parties he attended in Downing Street while the UK was in Covid-19 lockdown. Why should we?

The inquiry into what happened has a threefold purpose. It intends to find out:

  • What Boris Johnson said to the House of Commons
  • Whether what he said was correct or whether it was misleading
  • How quickly and comprehensively any misleading statement to the House was corrected

We know he said no parties took place and that this was not true.

So the question is about how quick he was to correct his misleading statements.

He says he did this at the earliest opportunity, which was after Sue Grey’s report was published and a police investigation into the parties had ended (and he had been fined). He says he didn’t want to give a “half-baked account, before the facts had been fully and properly established”.

But he knew the facts, didn’t he – after having participated in what happened?

I’m listening to Politics Live while I’m writing this, and have just been reminded of his words at one such event – that it was “the least socially-distanced” event at the time. He knew the rules because he announced them. Is it credible for him to claim innocence?

This is what the inquiry will have to decide.

More booze on the table, and no social distancing: Boris Johnson reckons he didn’t realise this was a Christmas party at the time.

More sinister is Johnson’s attempt to impugn the motives of the Commons Privileges Committee, stating that he considers it to be “partisan” and not to have done all it could to ensure “fairness”.

This is nothing but a smear.

It makes him look like a guilty man, flailing, trying to find anything that could call a verdict against him into question.

In that sense, it seems highly ill-advised.

He doesn’t know what the inquiry’s decision will be. But now he has already turned public opinion against him.

Boris Johnson will give TELEVISED evidence to Partygate probe next week. Buy popcorn!

Boris Johnson: his evidence to the Partygate inquiry might be quite short – after all, his inquisitors really have only to show him this image of himself at a party he said he never attended and ask him if he was there.

This is one to put in your diary:

Boris Johnson will give public evidence about whether he misled MPs over Partygate on [Wednesday] March 22, the Privileges Committee has confirmed.

The former prime minister will be questioned by the cross-party committee from 14:00 GMT in a televised session.

In an initial report published earlier this month it said Mr Johnson may have misled Parliament multiple times.

But Mr Johnson has rejected this and said he believes the process will “vindicate” him.

I’m looking forward to this one, very much!

In fact, I might have a ‘Partygate party’ and invite friends to watch it with me. Wanna come along?

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BBC Chairman said he did not help arrange a loan for Boris Johnson. Do you believe him?

Corruption? Richard Sharp (left) and Boris Johnson.

I can’t say I do.

Richard Sharp appeared before the Commons’ Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee to explain his involvement in the arrangement of an alleged £800,000 loan for then-prime minister Boris Johnson, right before Johnson appointed him Chairman of the BBC.

According to the BBC News report,

BBC chairman Richard Sharp has denied that he helped arrange a loan for Boris Johnson when he was prime minister.

But the same report states that

Mr Sharp confirmed he had introduced his friend Sam Blyth to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in late 2020, which was shortly before his appointment at the BBC.

Mr Sharp has previously said Mr Blyth had told him he wanted to provide financial assistance to Mr Johnson after reading about the then-PM’s money troubles in the media.

On Tuesday, Mr Sharp agreed with acting committee chairman Damian Green that he had “acted as a sort of introduction agency” between Mr Blyth and Mr Case.

It’s all a bit murky as to why this was necessary. Sam Blyth is said to be Boris Johnson’s cousin and well-known to him; the claim seems to be that Mr Sharp stepped in to provide a buffer between the two family members in order to bring Mr Blyth to the attention of civil servants.

Mr Sharp also said

“I did not provide and have not provided the former prime minister personal financial advice. I know nothing about his [financial] affairs, I never have done. I didn’t facilitate a loan.”

Really?

If he knew nothing about Johnson’s financial affairs, how did he know Johnson needed a loan?

Nobody seems convinced by all this mummery:

And then there is the fact that this happened while Mr Sharp was applying for the job of BBC Chairman. This has also attracted round criticism:

His evidence suggested that he did realise there would be a perceived conflict of interest; that’s why he said he told both Simon Case and Mr Blyth that he had to step back, after introducing them. But still…

John Nicolson, the SNP MP who hotly grilled Mr Sharp at the committee meeting, had this to say:

In the meeting itself, he went a little further:

“It leaves the impression so much of this is deeply ‘Establishment’; it’s pals appointing pals, donating money to pals.

“It rather leaves the impression that it is all a bit… ‘banana republic’ and cosy.”

Yes it does.

Here’s a video clip of the full confrontation between Mr Nicolson and Mr Sharp:

BBC staff are said to be furious about the shame Mr Sharp has brought down on the organisation.

So here’s the question:

Should he remain as BBC Chair or should he quit?

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