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Watch live: Boris Johnson faces lawmakers over partygate scandal
Euronews ^

Posted on 04/19/2022 10:21:22 AM PDT by FarCenter

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to face British lawmakers on Tuesday for the first time since police fined him for attending a birthday party during COVID lockdown.

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The moderately entertaining proceedings in the House of Commons.

Can't imagine Biden surviving a session like this.

1 posted on 04/19/2022 10:21:22 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

I wonder if the Brit Kopz would have fined a Labour PM.


2 posted on 04/19/2022 10:22:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: FarCenter

He’s such a dork that he deserves all the crap thrown at him over this 🤪


3 posted on 04/19/2022 10:25:49 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: FarCenter

What’s this the 3rd time for partygate? I’m with Boris , screw the lockdowns and let’s party:-)


4 posted on 04/19/2022 10:26:30 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: FarCenter

Didn’t Johnson resign over this?

After all, it blew the lid of the shamdemic.


5 posted on 04/19/2022 10:27:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Seruzawa

The so-called “Partygate” scandal, which emerged in late 2021, has sparked the most serious threat to Johnson’s premiership to date. Revelations that the Prime Minister attended several parties had already prompted furious calls for him to resign even before Tuesday’s announcement of a police fine.

Johnson’s handling of the scandal also sparked condemnation. The Prime Minister initially rebuffed allegations of illegal gatherings by saying there were no parties. When images from these gatherings started to appear in UK media, he said he didn’t know about them and that he was outraged. After another image emerged showing him and his wife allegedly attending one such party, he apologized, but said he thought he was attending “a work event.”

The police launched an investigation into the string of gatherings after a January report by senior civil servant Sue Gray, commissioned by the government, condemned “a serious failure” to observe the standards of government.

The Gray report said the police were investigating at least 12 events — including at least two Johnson attended, and a third held in his flat that he previously told lawmakers did not happen. The police said later it was investigating events taking place on eight separate dates between May 2020 and April 2021.

The Met said in a statement it was given more than 300 photos and 500 pages of information to review during the investigations.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/uk/boris-johnson-uk-pm-coronavirus-fine-intl-gbr/index.html

Given the amount of evidence handed to them, the Metropolitan police pretty much had to issue fines.


6 posted on 04/19/2022 10:31:34 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

I’ve come to the sad conclusion that this Boris guy is nothing but a doofus. No political ideology except reigning as King Doofus.


7 posted on 04/19/2022 10:37:03 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: FarCenter
Every illegal diktat in Britain to lock down, close businesses, change business hours, restrict occupancy, maintain "social distance", take the Jim Jones Jab, etc. were all outright illegal once the Prime Minister ignored them.
8 posted on 04/19/2022 10:38:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: LibFreeUSA

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (/ˈfɛfəl/;[5] born 19 June 1964) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019.

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Johnson attended Eton College and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Candidate for upperclass twit of the year.


9 posted on 04/19/2022 10:46:03 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: LibFreeUSA

Yep, Boris went from appearing to be Britain’s Trump to Britain’s Biden.


10 posted on 04/19/2022 10:46:05 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Harpotoo

I would agree if it were not for the fact that he insisted others lockdown.


11 posted on 04/19/2022 11:52:49 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

And what difference is that from here? You see any of the hypocrites here getting fired?


12 posted on 04/19/2022 1:13:41 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: FarCenter

He should be fined for that haircut.


13 posted on 04/19/2022 3:25:18 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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