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I am watching #PMQs late. I note that @BorisJohnson is really angry about exactly who leaked his "bodies piled high" comment, & also really angry about being challenged about his expensive redecoration of #10DowningStreet. /1
I also note that Keir Starmer has neatly, without breaking Parliamentary codes of behaviour, noted that Boris Johnson is lying about NOT having said that - & that the Ministerial Code means Boris Johnson has to resign over lying to Parliament. /2
I further note that Keir Starmer has wrapped up that Boris Johnson didn't declare the gift from the Tory donor that paid for the expensive redecoraton of the Downing Street flat, & that this is also a resignation offence.
This is a good #PMQs. /3
This is a good #PMQs. /3
Boris Johnson is really a squealing, spluttering mess when faced with the fact that he may be in inescapable, public legal trouble that could actually prevent him having a lucrative post-PM career as a speaker. #PMQs /4
How humiliating is it for @joymorrissey to have to butter up the spluttering disgraceful mess that is her party leader? A man she knows to care more about his wallpaper than getting people vaccinated. #PMQs /5
"Are you a liar, Prime Minister?" asks @IanBlackford_MP.
"PRODUCE THE AUTHOR" @BorisJohnson demands. He really wants to know who leaked him saying he'd rather pile the bodies high in their thousands.
Anyone seen Gove lately? #PMQs
"PRODUCE THE AUTHOR" @BorisJohnson demands. He really wants to know who leaked him saying he'd rather pile the bodies high in their thousands.
Anyone seen Gove lately? #PMQs
Ian Blackford reminds Boris Johnson the Electoral Commission can prosecute him if he continues to lie about who paid for the redecoration of his flat. #PMQs /7 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1387347903426056193
I wonder who wrote @GarySambrook89's speech for him? It was so dreadful & didn't even pretend to be a #PMQs I didn't even feel embarrassed for him as a Tory MP having to flatter his corrupt & spluttering leader. /8
(My crappy @VirginMedia internet went down: hence the gap.)
(My crappy @VirginMedia internet went down: hence the gap.)
Liz Saville Roberts @LSRPlaid Westminster leader of @Plaid_Cymru, asks the best question yet (sorry Ian, but hers is better than yours): "What happens when the Prime Minister goes rogue?" #PMQs /9
Boris Johnson claims "the people of this country" will be able to decide on 6 May. But @BorisJohnson himself isn't standing for re-election on that day. Welsh & London Assembly, English councils, & of course the Scottish Parliament. Only Tory MPs can rid us of Boris Johnson. /10
I note that @BorisJohnson didn't answer Liz Saville Roberts question about what to do with a rogue Prime Minister.
But only the 363 @Conservatives MPs keeping that corrupt, spluttering mess in power to lie to Parliament & buy rolls of gold wallpaper, can answer it. /11 #PMQs
But only the 363 @Conservatives MPs keeping that corrupt, spluttering mess in power to lie to Parliament & buy rolls of gold wallpaper, can answer it. /11 #PMQs
A rare bird at #PMQs: a Tory MP asks a real question not a slavering abject offer of loyalty. Even more unusually, this prime minister actually answers it. /12 https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1387372117889589251
And @HywelPlaidCymru asks why COVID tests were diverted from Wales to England: Boris Johnson tells him he's "quite wrong" & launches into a campaign speech for the Welsh Assembly elections. Disgusting spectacle. #PMQs /13
Another Tory MP gets up to offer her abject unquestioning loyalty to the sleazy pile of rubbish leading her party. Ugh. #PMQs /14
Oh, how delightful. Sarah Olney uses a #PMQs about carbon emissions - which Boris Johnson has been trumpeting about for #COP21 - to ask Johnson if he'll oppose the third runway for Heathrow. Which of course Johnson got elected in 2015 promising he WOULD oppose. Go you, Sarah! /15
Another slavering offer of unquestioning support from a Tory MP. #PMQs /16
Janet Davey wants to know why all these stories of corruption & sleaze are happening to @BorisJohnson. #PMQs
Boris Johnson claims that "over the past year" people have had nothing else to talk about. #CoronavirusUK /17 https://bylinetimes.com/2021/04/01/greed-is-good-the-conservatives-trope-of-the-pandemic/
Boris Johnson claims that "over the past year" people have had nothing else to talk about. #CoronavirusUK /17 https://bylinetimes.com/2021/04/01/greed-is-good-the-conservatives-trope-of-the-pandemic/
Another local elections speech instead of #PMQs - will Boris Johnson say something about the Tory candidate to be Mayor of Doncaster? Maybe something nice about his taste in wallpaper? /18
Oh, this is an excellent #PMQs - @Chris_Matheson asks @BorisJohnson about the texts he sent to Sir James Dyson offering to "fix" that pesky tax problem. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56819137 /19
Boris Johnson calls James Dyson a "British ventilator maker" & then hastily corrects himself to "potential ventilator maker" & complains that Labour isn't supporting the government in "relationships" with business. Well, some businesses. Donors.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/22/covid-lancashire-firm-wades-into-dyson-ventilators-row /20 #PMQs
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/22/covid-lancashire-firm-wades-into-dyson-ventilators-row /20 #PMQs
Chunter chunter let me tell you about tourist attractions and cafes in my Tory constituency & offer my unwavering loyalty to my dear leader, no matter how corrupt or dishonest he is. Honestly, this be-suited Tory is really phoning it in. #PMQs /21
"The Prime Minister thinks rules are for other people" says @LilianGreenwood.
Boris Johnson: splutter splutter splutter we're doing REALLY WELL stop TALKING about CORRUPTION. #PMQs /22
Boris Johnson: splutter splutter splutter we're doing REALLY WELL stop TALKING about CORRUPTION. #PMQs /22
Another Tory MP phoning in his expression of loyalty to let Boris Johnson give an election speech for next week. #PMQs /23
And @rach_hopkins asks "When was the Prime Minister made aware of the plans for a European #SuperLeague?" #PMQs
Boris Johnson claims he first heard about it in the Florentino Pérez press release on Sunday 18th April. /24
Boris Johnson claims he first heard about it in the Florentino Pérez press release on Sunday 18th April. /24
So Boris Johnson is claiming that Ed Woodward, CEO of @ManUtd, who met with Johnson & Dan Rosenfield a few days before 18th April & then got the impression Boris Johnson approved of the #SuperLeague, is lying about having mentioned this to the PM? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/25/boris-johnson-urged-reveal-if-endorsed-european-super-league-plans /25
Another Tory MP blithering about her constituency & the "historic lamp stand". This one actually has the grace to look a bit embarrassed at the nonsense she's spouting at #PMQs. /26
Now @andreajenkyns takes the proactive step of making an election speech for the Tories in West Yorkshire instead of asking the PM a question which he can respond to with an election speech. Boris Johnson notices the sigh of contempt & explodes "They don't like that do they!" /27
I don't think that a Prime Minister who may be about to be prosecuted by the Electoral Commission should be talking so much about other parties being "soft on crime".
And with that, a very entertaining #PMQs comes to an end. Thank you for reading. /28
And with that, a very entertaining #PMQs comes to an end. Thank you for reading. /28
