Well, I have no idea what they were watching, but I watched pretty much all of it on Parliament TV, and I thought Boris gave a strong performance to an overly polite and shamelessly amicable panel. #PartyGate #Boris
Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.
For all those Lineaker fans “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels
You do love a quote, but they are not always true. Everyone knows Johnson is a liar. Opinions on whether he makes a good leader are divided. Up to the Tories to choose their path. I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.
While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.
@steevc But Boris is really awful at being able to answer the questions; he can't give a straight answer even when it's obviously in his best interest. For example in one of them he was asked about a meeting with ~17 people and the questioner said 'well we know that at least 2 of them shouldn't have been there' - I'd have come back and said with 'so almost eveyrone had a reason to be there'.
I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.
I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. 🤷♂️
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •dick_turpin
in reply to Steve • •Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.
For all those Lineaker fans
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
dick_turpin
in reply to Steve • •You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.
While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •I thought you wanted politics to be entertaining?
Do we really want liars and crooks running things just because they can do some things well? What useful things has Johnson done?
I wish politics was more boring.
penguin42
in reply to dick_turpin • • •dick_turpin
in reply to penguin42 • •I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.
Iran/Contra scandal 1987
dick_turpin
in reply to dick_turpin • •WHAT! He got us out of the EU, didn't he?
I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. 🤷♂️