BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

😂😂😂 Touché. Raab is just ghastly and creepy too

It's not an extreme claim; it's a fairly heavily qualified one. I was careful to say that Johnson had some form for criticising child sex abuse investigations when the suspects are white, but being more keen on them when they are not.

His criticism of the the investigations you already know about; the "spaffing up against the wall" comments. That was in relation to investigations against into allegations against mostly white people - indeed, into pillars of a mostly white political establishment; people not unlike Johnson himself. But when challenged about this in Rotherham(!) he changed his tune, and emphasised the importance of investigating child sex abuse complaints in that town, directed against non-white people.

Plus, he's on record as saying that, if Muslim parents "indoctrinate" their children into extremism, that should be treated, legally, as child abuse. He has not made that suggestion in relation to white racist extremism.

So, yeah, he has some form for double standards here (as in so many other areas of life).

If he was talking about someone on I'm A Celebrity, he'd have a point. When talking about the actual Prime Minister, "Technically he may well be a con man and he might be the bad guy" and "He might pull off one more great con" should be a clip played on every news programme until he resigns.

With allies like that who needs enemies.

Just come back home after working the last year in London.

This is being hyped up to all proportion by a media that wants to continue setting and controlling the agenda. It gives the opposition something to go at with the government.

To the average person, they show little interest. It's a Westminster bubble story.

As would the many people calling into radio shows and going on TV who aren’t within the Westminster bubble and are livid that many of them didn’t get to say goodbye to loved ones who died during the pandemic(and not always of covid) and couldn’t say goodbye properly or in a reduced way. My grandmother died in December 2020 and not having the usual Irish funeral was awful so I can understand how they feel.

I totally agree when it comes to covid restrictions even during the most severe lockdowns, they were too severe, especially in the case that one had a relative dying in hospital. And in relation to funerals as well; it all seemed way over the top and inhumane. And even if there was a risk of spreading at such events, extra precautions could have been taken to allow access. When this is all over that is something that will be criticized even here in Ireland as well.

However, in respect of this affair, it is the exact same people who criticized Alexander Bojo Johnson for not locking down soon enough, hard enough, longer enough, who are 'representative' complainants of the people who had it toughest, most 'offended' by partygate. They can't have it both ways.

Now is respect of this interview Nadine Dorries with the BBC today

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/feb/05/nadine-dorries-refuses-to-say-whether-she-has-spoken-to-pm-recently-in-awkward-interview-video

Now I totally get Dorries does't come across as the brightest of ministers the Tory gov front bench ever had, and I know she's Bojo's biggest fan , but the attitude of the BBC presenter here is something else. Is this an example of supreme BBC journalism that we've heard so much about? That civies are required to pay €160 odd squids a year for? The same BBC that is so biased against Labour? Give me a break. #followingtheplot

Ah, so now its the polls are in on it as well. The media, polling companies, remainers, EU, something something.

Jebus, even Johnson has admitted that he should have done things differently and promised change and yet you guys are fighting the good fight dir the poor oppressed Johnson who is being unfairly treated because he failed to do his job or live up to the responsibility of his position.

Don’t try and spin my first paragraph as some criticism of the severity of the lockdown rules.

so no you don’t agree with me at all. It’s hardly a massive ask for Boris Johnson to folllow his own rules now is it ?

YouGov is actually public and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The founder Nadhim Zahawi is now a Tory MP, he stood down from YouGov when he won a seat in Strafford upon Avon in 2010 and later worked in Theresa Mays government. YouGov has been accused of having a Tory polling bias in the past so if their polls are showing Boris' numbers have tanked then it could be even worse than what the numbers are saying.