Boris is on holiday.....again

Which is all well and good, this all assumes that energy bills will go down in 2023. Why cannot energy bills be subsidised by the Government clawing back fraudulent Covid grants?

Same with the NI rise which I am not completely against, but would also agree that people over the age of 65 living on more than the state pension or still working should still pay NI.

If we had a competent Government in the first place, they'd have had this on their radar and had an action plan in place ages ago instead of this panicked toilet-paper package.

Big difference between being shadow minister and the one in power. I'm no fan of Emily Thornberry but she's nowhere near as gaff prone as the bunch of scheisters currently in power.

I read that in the style of a visit to confession

David Lammy when he first got elected as an MP circa 2000 was the sort of guy who jumped out at anyone as a potential first black MP or someone who was destined for very high office. Been called to the bar at 22, first black Briton to graduate from Harvard was in a rock solid Labour seat and with the party in power. Despite Labour remaining in power for the next decade and him holding junior ministerial positions for a lot of these years he never made the Cabinet.

The next decade through his own choice and because who the Labour leader was he remained on the back benches until 2020 when Sir Kier bought him back to the fore. He had rather become a forgotten MP as other younger stars elected well after him rose above him but I'd always feel Sir Kier would have a "use the best people available" and thus got David back into the sort of role I felt he merited.

I may not agree with Labour on a lot of policies as my politics are right of Centre but the likes of David Lammy I'd put at the top table if I wanted the sharpest and a diverse mix in any government. Considering some of the clowns who held major positions for Labour post losing power to Sir Kier taking over it becomes even more striking.

BJ could soon be taking a very long holiday

Fingers crossed

From Covid Downing Street anti lockdown parties, now the party is truly over.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Johnson and his acolytes have been using that line about his mandate basically giving him permission to do anything he likes a lot and we're about to see it run into reality soon by the looks of things. How can he continue with no one left to fill goverment posts and more of the cabinet threatening to resign.

He conveniently forgets he was originally made PM by his party and not the public.

No surprise its come to his. The kind of man he is, selfish, amoral and only interested in his own position, was obvious to all for a long time. Shame that Tory MPs and voters were willing to ignore it for so long.

As Mayor he did very little and although he was corrupt the opportunities were less.

Also the situation was relatively stable and the major issues like austerity weren't that direct an issue for him.

I think he expected being PM to be similar except with more prestige but the level of focus needed and amount of scrutiny is just so much more.

Who pays £8000 for wallpaper? and more importantly, where'd she get it from?

I don't know if the party could stop him calling an election. He might lose but if a PM was getting it from all sides he puts a lot of the problem members out of seats and they wouldn't get all the extra jobs/opportunities a future PM may get?

People know I'm a Tory but I said a few months ago he needs to go for the sake of the party. 12 years we've been back in power only the last few with any sort of majority and that was dominated by Brexit and Covid.

I wonder if Mr Javid regrets resigning in Feb 2020 as a couple more year's as Chancellor and it would have made more impact and he'd have been at top of the queue to replace Boris.