Johnson rejects calls to resign amid 'partygate' fine

Fixed penalty fines. This will blow over. Even if a vote of confidence is forced by his own party - with the amount of backers he has, the current economic conditions and many other frankly more pressing concerns - he would be very likely to win the vote and not be subjected to another for a year.

Not sure who would take over anyway at present and the fact that the opposition Labour party are concentrating on nothing else but this just proves further that they are still in full rebuild mode following the disaster for them that was Jeremy Corbyn.

Bozo, you have shamed Britain by your reckless and irresponsible behavior. You have shown that you ain't fit to govern a rubbish bin. The UK suffers from what made you sick in 2020, and in the meantime even when the Queen attends a service for her husband alone in a cathedral - you and your bloody pals have to get 'pissed' (by your terminology) in the Parliament. Shame on you.

You have made yourself the most despised and derided PM since Maggie Thatcher (I remember the 80s).

RESIGN NOW.

Johnson idiocy, fleckless abandonment to the people, the electorate that intrusted in him the confidence that in high office he would with honour and humility stick to the rule Johnson broadcast openly.

Then to blatantly ignore is beyond redemption.

The war in Ukraine is at a crucial point, the UK at some pint will be compelled to provide heavy weapons. tanks and long/short range missiles. next-generation light anti-tank weapons, and if deemed necessary sky sabre.

Johnson role now is to complete his support of Ukraine in office then to resign.

Johnson has no long term political future beyond this role.

Off with his head!!!

Didn't admit he "fell short", just that people "feel" he did. Just another pathetic conservative loser. Doesn't matter what side of the pond they are on.

“I understand the anger that many will feel that I, myself, fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government I lead had introduced to protect the public. And I accept in all sincerity that people had the right to expect better,” Johnson said late Tuesday. “And now I feel an even greater sense of obligation to deliver on the priorities of the British people.”

"I myself": the reflexive pronoun insinuates that he was not the only one and that others have "sinned", too.

"...in all sincerity..." (Lol!) Another Johnson lie to add to his Pinocchio list of porkies.

“And now I feel an even greater sense of obligation to deliver on the priorities of the British people.” (!!??) Well, let's hope Johnson will soon be shaken out of his Dunning-Kruger self-deception when he discovers that the priority of the British people is to remove this disgraceful and disgusting charlatan from office and the public stage.

zichi 07:13 am JST

Boris and Sunak are ministers of sleaze.

The Tories have been stuffing their pockets with Russian oligarch cash for years now. Their hypocrisy is beyond belief.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/boris-johnson-uk-tories-conservatives-russian-oligarchs

"Last summer the Intelligence and Security Committee published, albeit in redacted form, a report on Russian interference in British politics following nine months of delays. “Russian influence in the UK is the new normal,” it stated. “Successive governments have welcomed the oligarchs and their money with open arms, providing them with a means of recycling illicit finance through the London ‘laundromat’, and connections at the highest level with access to UK companies and political figures.” 

That alarming conclusion was also ignored by a Prime Minister who once raised £160,000 for Tory Party coffers by playing tennis with the wife of one of President Putin’s former ministers."

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2021/03/corruption-britain-has-reached-new-heights-under-boris-johnson-s-government

If Boris Johnson is guilty of flouting and ignoring Corona restrictions then it could also be argued that the heads of state in many countries across the world have done the same thing.

The prime minister of Japan,France,the US have been seen and photographed many times without masks laughing and joking with each other.

And it is also the case that no matter how many times one is ‘boosted’ that there is no immunity from the’ virus.

Yet the narrative is to get boosted ad Infinitum!

What do constant injections using mRNA treatments mean for our immune systems?

The opinion out there is still….out there

Way to go Johnson--that's the American in you. Stay tough.

The fine followed a police investigation and months of questions about lockdown-breaking parties at government offices, which Johnson had tried to bat away by saying there were no parties and that he believed no rules were broken.

What a waste of the poor Brits' money. They have enough to worry about, letting their economy and inflation get out of control.

painkillerToday  08:30 am JST

Way to go Johnson--that's the American in you. Stay tough.

I bet you would be a lot less supportive if you thought he was a liberal.

Bozo really is an embarrassment, however merely a reflection of the British electorate.

@Michael Machida: Yes - that's odd. Problem is in the UK that the opposition are beyond impotent as a result turning harshly to the left after their crushing election loss of 2015. They are not fit to govern and probably won't be until they remove people like that awful Angela Rayner woman from the leadership.

I understand the anger that many will feel that I, myself, fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government I lead had introduced to protect the public

The police were convinced he ‘fell short’ and issued him and his chancellor with fines for breaking the law. Johnson didn’t appeal.

Best leave the ‘feel’ out of it. It’s pathetic.

I wonder if he tried this with his former wives. He’s caught in bed with another woman and apologizes if his wife ‘felt’ he was being unfaithful.

A really contemptible man.

@Andy

A reflection of the British electorate? I think the walls should close in on that idea.

Less than half of the British electorate voted Tory.

@theResident

You are talking about Corbyn ( no longer leader of Labour ) and Rayner ( not leader of Labour ) and completely ignoring Johnson’s conduct. We can all see why but it comes across as a bit evasive.

Just say what you think of it. Did you like Jacob Rees-Mogg’s description of it as ‘fluff’?

We know they are untrustworthy hypocrites, conning us, so this is hardly new.

The key difference here is that Sunak, the Tories' only viable alternative, got fined too. So if Johnson went, their Plan B would have to go too.

It might not make any difference, given how feeble the opposition are, but they won't risk it.

On a point of order, if you add together all the fines it won't cover the cost of the police investigation, which will be paid for out of public money. The icing on the cake for a nation suffering the consequences of Brexit, the Covid lockdowns, higher taxes, reduced rights of movement around the EU, hammered supply chains, staff shortages, hyperinflation, avian flu, and public sector strikes.

What next? Juvenile hepatitis, new variants of fluvid, energy rationing, heatwaves, and more food shortages apparently.

Fun times.

Way to go Johnson--that's the American in you. Stay tough.

“You’re part American, which is why you’re a criminal” is not the compliment you think it is.

AndyToday  09:07 am JST

Bozo really is an embarrassment, however merely a reflection of the British electorate.

No, he's a reflection of a first-past-the-post electoral system that works when you have two main parties, not when you have three or four.

GBR48Today  10:10 am JST

The key difference here is that Sunak, the Tories' only viable alternative, got fined too. So if Johnson went, their Plan B would have to go too.

It might not make any difference, given how feeble the opposition are, but they won't risk it.

It's not like Japan. Labour are ahead in the polls. If the Tories keep on making themselves look bad and Labour don't mess up too badly, a lot of people will swing back to Labour in the next election.

On a point of order, if you add together all the fines it won't cover the cost of the police investigation, which will be paid for out of public money. 

Unfortunately, if laws get made we can't stop enforcing them because it's a bit expensive.

Surprised by the abuse of power by the elites?

Dont. be.

It’s par for the course.

Well said Matthew Hopkins.

People should also be careful on what comes after Boris.

Matthew HopkinsToday  11:02 am JST

People should also be careful on what comes after Boris. If he goes and is replaced by Truss the conservatives have zero chance of being in power after 2024 and the replacement is a party with no actual policies, a want to re-open the european debate and most importantly a party that last time was in government, lied to the people, took them into war and left after makeing the country bankrupt.

It sounds like you're parroting Tory PR. Full disclosure - I support Labour but I stopped being a member after what Tony Blair did. That being said, I wouldn't condemn a party in 2022, based on what happened more than ten years ago, and I certainly wouldn't criticise Boris Johnson or Rishi Sunak because I didn't care much for John Major or Margaret Thatcher. If you don't like who they are now, fair enough. All the "under the last Labour government" stuff is a bit tedious though.

Matthew HopkinsToday  12:05 pm JST

Simon - I personally would have trusted labour if they had chosen someone other than Keir but they did not and he was to me the basic reason labour were trounced in the last election.

I think you mean Jeremy Corbyn, right? Otherwise, I think everything else you say is absolutely fair and reasonable. I certainly take your point about not knowing who the opposition candidates are going to be until election time, especially if they're ex-SPADs parachuted in from party head office.

If Johnson, day one, held his hands up and admitted the fact he broke the law.

No excuses, with sincerity, an act of human frailty, Johnson might have convinced the majority of the electorate he is just a fool on the life's zip wire.

However his buffoonery has run out of road, at a time this country, Europe, in in the mist of mayhem.

And worst is on the horizon, with reports French President refusal to call out Putin genocide.

How can Johnson blatant lack of integrity, persuade Macron to change course.

Simon - I personally would have trusted labour if they had chosen someone other than Keir but they did not and he was to me the basic reason labour were trounced in the last election

Jeremy Corbyn was the leader of the Labour Party at the last election.

Oh dear. We are beyond ‘left field’ here.

He a Russian

Divided our opinions may be @Jimizo, but common knowledge is at least intact.

..but in the landslide of 1997 less than half the electorate voted Labour. This is nit a good indicator of how you win a commons majority as you well know.

simon:

No, he's a reflection of a first-past-the-post electoral system that works when you have two main parties, not when you have three or four.

Yeah, when you have 3, 4 or more, you end up with the disaster (again) in France with a 'choice' between Macron and Le Pen, and the only one who gave a damn about the people narrowly missing the run-off. Macron vs Le Pen. Clinton vs Trump. Trump vs Biden. And this is democracy???!!!! This is like asking someone how they'd like to be killed.

That sign is hilarious

Cancel culture smear campaign.

No more parties for him.

@theResident

Couldn’t agree more. A system which allows a 200+-seat majority with less than half the popular vote is ridiculous regardless of your political affiliations.

Utter toerag.

@Jimizo - BUT..the public also rejected a PR style system out of hand in the referendum, - back in 2011.

@theResident

True.

Both Labour and the Tories worked hard to make sure that voters shot it down and their interests were protected. I remember some talking about chaotic Italian-style politics and far-right rubbish in parliament.

theResidentToday  03:57 pm JST

@Jimizo - BUT..the public also rejected a PR style system out of hand in the referendum, - back in 2011.

I think that was the one to introduce Alternative Voting, i.e. ranking the candidates in order of preference and transferring votes in run-offs until someone gets a majority. It would have been much better than either FPTP or PR.

The shameless Johnson, flaunting his self-entitlement as a rogue PM and impervious to criticism, continues to push the public's face in it: now he's proposing his version of the German "Madagascar Plan" and wants to offload asylum seekers to Rwanda for "processing". That he's miffed by Rwandans' lack of enthusiasm really takes the biscuit. Who is going to do their patriotic duty and remove this out-of-control unkempt national embarrassment whose loony conduct has only diminished the UK's reputation?