Boris Johnson set example for ‘rotting’ Tory party | Alys Denby
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- “It does feel like something is rotting in the Conservative Party.”
Boris Johnson’s behaviour set a negative example for lowering Tory politicians’ standards, says CityAM editor Alys Denby.
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They always were rotten. Don't kid yourselves.
So very 100% true !
They all are, whatever party. Nobody gets into politics these days for the sakes of the electorate. They get into politics to demonstrate that they are 'real people' who 'care' and who feel so deeply inadequate that they have to validate themselves by winning a popularity contest by spinning the biggest web of lies and deceit.
They were always self-serving but Boris lowered the bar. It's worse now than it was previously.
Boris increased the rot 1000%
Being terrorized 😂
Rotten fish worldwide will be furious at being likened to Tories
No, the sewage being released into our rivers due to Tory policies and inaction is really unhappy when people say it's like the Conservative Party - I;m very glad I'm no longer a member.
Apart from the Happy Fish in Brexit rivers.
@@StratsRUsyes, and the litres of human excrement in those rivers
This is the worst government in decades they sent money to ukraine to cause wars with russia and other countries and if borris johnson was still in power there would of been war war 3 now the world is every body's so every country got a say where there money is going it should be spent on the country's not causing wars and selling weapons they should be banned
It even gives bacteria a bad name- those stinky bugs are useful - at least they recycle dead and dying stuff..
Tufton St isn't about "growth and prosperity", its purpose is to extract as much wealth out of the system as possible without contributing anything in return.
D plan 😂
As someone who lived under Thatcher, I can assure you there was very little that improved the lives of working people other than the the Council House giveaway - the cause of today’s housing crisis.
I do like how shocked right wing journalists who openly paraded their support for corrupt Tories and now act shocked that they're corrupt. Gotta love the Nepo babies as well from the Times
The Times,Telegraph etc are just Tory shills.They support the Tories no matter what.
Would you prefer if they continued to support them despite these ongoing revelations (note this story was revealed by Times reporters)
The corrupt tories replaced corrupt labour.
At this point they’re both the same party split in two to confuse the public into thinking we have a choice.
@@jonm7272they should have been holding them to account from the start. Not just now when the amount of scandal has become undeniably absurd.
There's a moral vacuum at the heart of the Tory party and always has been...
Everyone is laughing like it’s high school hijinks, this is a criminal matter and the party hierarchy is complicit. Where are the police? A politician claims to have been kidnapped and extorted, his employees paid a ransom and the party covered it up.
This is a criminal matter but we have no police left
@@jhonson7079 strange how 12 police officers are investigating Raynor even though there is no chance of prosecution even if she is found to have done something.
The Tories knew about this for months, the party should be prosecuted for covering up a crime.
Two things started the Tory slide... No1 Johnson No.2 Brexit.
And Truss twisted the blade (almost feel sorry for Sunak to have to carry their blame)
@@Boghopper1979I totally agree.
One thing laid the foundations for the destruction of the UK and that was Thatcher.
Nah, one thing started the Tory slide, austerity. Everything else is fallout from that policy choice. Unfortunately the first thing they did was austerity.
3. Corbyn. Because he was so bad the Tories thought they would be in power for at least a generation and emboldened the Brexit jihadists to let their freak flags fly.
Worked in Tufton Street for a think tank, now on Times Radio telling everyone how the "Think Tanks" are concerned for us all........... yeah right.
agreed, don't trust that woman
To be fair, she was only "spiritually" in Tufton Street.
This panel sums up the problems with this country. This isn’t a laughing matter. If any of the opposition parties behaved in this manner there would be uproar. Somehow we expect this behaviour from the Tories and are prepared to put up with it with very little in return.
I used to laugh at Rik Mayall in the New statesman as Alan bstard but after Boris became PM the series is more like a documentary 😂😂🎉
B"stard was a rôle model for Johnson.
A clear description of a blackmail target. He should have been dismissed immediately.
We need a full Russia investigation.
The least imaginative of us become politicians , the Tories are a bunch of ridiculous entitled children, seriously that is how naive they are, totally absurd.
Supporting and voting for someone that used to burn 50 pound notes in front of homeless people; what could possibly go wrong 🙄
Who did?
The one I like about Truss is, she ordered a load of furniture for number 10, but she wasn´t in the job long enough for it to be delivered.
😂
They do take returns. 😂
problem is, the taxpayer picks up the bill
Plus, she could not organise an Ocado delivery! Allegedly.
@@petertaylor1447 Fits the pattern.
Truss did not just surround herself to Tufton Street, she surrendered to them.
How much does one get paid to deliver the same old speech to those far right US think tanks - when it's the conversation in the corridor and the meal afterwards that surely matters.
Its game over for the Conservatives and Unionist's.
interesting. Now, I'm European so I don't give a F about your union.
It is in fact a precursor to the EU, but who cares.
Listen, as much and able keith is, he won't save your country.
@@thesaw9988 As a Scot I personally want to see Scottish Independence from Westminster / England and to join the EU.
Labour will most likely do well in office but it is far too little, too late to save the UK from breaking up after Brexit.
@@thesaw9988I’m pretty convinced the EU are okay with England, Scotland, Wales, (re)joining the EU - but only as separate entities. Better to have them back inside the tent, spitting out. But it can’t be as the UK. The UK was too disruptive to the EU’s workings. And the EU, which had its issues over a decade ago, seems to be working fine now. As if a bug, was removed from its hard drive.
The Brexit elites, ironically wanted a glorious defeat in the 2016 referendum. To extract concessions from the EU. But little did they know, the British electorate would call their bluff. That wasn’t in the script.
@@ErinStephanie-mf2qkpretty sure when the UK were in the EU, they were in the tent spitting into the tent. The EU seems genuinely better off without them.
@@ErinStephanie-mf2qk Divide and conquer works best for the EU project of homogenisation and amalgamation. You need the sub units to be too small to be able to defy the centre successfully.
Alys Denby said that the Tufton Street crowd believe that growth and prosperity is good for everyone, the poorest in society as well as the wealthiest, but she is clearly wrong as the benefits of growth are unevenly distributed between the groups hence the inequality that exists in this country.
He needs to pay all the money back.
In short, the Tories will turn a blind eye to literally anything as long as you're another Tory MP!
Wrong they turn a blind eye until it favours them not to.
the Tories will turn a blind eye to literally anything as long as you can make money from it
And back them too. Rosegarden was just astonishingly blatant.
Which is why they're on their third PM this Parliament.
There seem to be a lot of Tories who aren't good at politics, and most of them are (or have been) in positions of power.
No why ditd you idiots even vote.
In europe we believe in democracy. You don't have that.
The Tory party has not changed, it has only become more obvious.
With Johnson in charge, the mask slipped 😮
Trouble is rotting takes so long! ELECTION NOW!
The fantasy that so many supporters hold onto was that there was ever a caring, compassionate, decent version of the Tory party. Of course there wasn't.
And you think Labour is any better? They sold our gold reserves and completely destroyed our economy. Do you even know what you are talking about? Wild.
Really appreciate you covering Mark Menzies. Rishi tried his best to change the subject with his targeting of the vulnerable but great to see this story is still front and centre
Boris keeps breaking the rules and gets away with it
He didn't get away with it. He was forced out as PM and an MP.
Privilege buys better consideration
@@jonathanfell688 ... by MPs who'd behaved exactly the same as Johnson during lockdown.
@@jonathanfell688. I think he got away with it, and still is. Along with Cameron , he betrayed his office and duty to the country. Johnson managed to extort £265,000 from the taxpayer for his legal defence FOR LYING TO PARLIAMENT, a first for a Prime Minister.
Ok so why has Blair not been arrested for war crimes? Boris Johnson denied missile strikes when Trump asked and Blair was happy to join the entire Invasion of Iraq? Where is your logic?
Tories never change. corrupt to the bone
I'd have thought a corrupt party would tend to be far more changeable than one with immovable principles.
Just like Labour who bankrupted us and caused this mess that continues to haunt us today.
I don't think Boris was the example, more akin to the product if anything. A guy who was raised from day one to believe he was above everyone else, rules are for others & everyone should just praise him for being born in the first place. A true chip off the Stanley Johnson block, really.
Like Hunter Biden?
It's game over for them for a good while
The Labotory party will disappoint .
They will, but still will be orders magnitude better than Tories
Remember the days when you looked up to MPs as bastions of morality, honesty and people who knew better, who would fall on their swords if found to have done something immoral? Children know how to behave better than most politicians (of any party).
We need the likes of Ben Wallace or Rory Stewart to run the country.
Two of the most corrupt politicians in British history were Walpole and Lloyd George. Walpole kept us out of war for a very long time, and Lloyd George helped us win the First World War. Probably the least corrupt politician in the history of Israel was Menachem Begin. When he finally retired, he lived incredibly humbly in a one-bedroom apartment. But he was also an extremist, a terrorist responsible for the Deir Yassin Massacre. Corruption is bad, but very human. Zealous true believers can be worse.
You must go back further than me. I have come to the conclusion. An honest/moral politician is one that hasn't been found out yet and that has been the case since Roman times.
You could substitute the Tory party for the MAGA party in the USA.
It's the contempt he so obviously feels for parliamentary process, and his constituents. He gets paid handsomely, gets most of his living expenses at a discount, and still can't meet the standards the electorate expect from their MP. He's just a sleazeball. And Tory party cchq covering up, yet again, behaviour that suggests he should never an MP in the first place.
Like father , like son, the Donald and Boris show
The fish stinks from the head.
Already Rotten 😂
The rotten media fully backed bojo so if you have any sense at all do exactly the opposite of what they recommend and things will get a lot better
The way to fix the media is to not buy their product of which in this internet day and age means ; don't give them the clicks, so advertisers take heir business elsewhere
To be fair, a big chunk of the population backed Bojo too.
Ugh! The mere sight of The Muppet on your title page sends a wave of revulsion through me.
Get the tories out
I'm so happy that I've always hated the Tories. In fact if there is an afterlife, I'll hate them in that one too.
Utterly blind to what systems gave birth to De Pfeffel.
Any scandals must be submitted to the Whip's office.
If anyone is going to blackmail an MP then that's *their* job!
👌🏻
Seldom in my life have I read a more accurate headline.
The Tories: "They literally fill things with poo" (apart from their own pockets which they line with money). Get 'em out!
Are Class A’s medical expenses? Asking for a friend
My thoughts exactly. Chem s*x parties aren’t cheap.
Yeh Britains Trump.
It was rotten before Boris
Precisely. Boris is in so many ways is the fruit of a long process of decay in the Tory Party
The worst bit about all this is.... The "party" tried to cover it up. So they are all guilty by association.
I can see why so many Tories feel uncomfortable about being in Europe - their natural home is Latin America.
An insult to the majority of Latin Americans.
The France of Giscard’s Bokassa Diamond scandal, Mitterand blowing up the Rainbow Warrior, of Edith Cresson, Chirac and Sarkozy; the Ireland of Charles Haughey; the Italy of Giulio Andreotti, Bettino Craxi and Burlosconi. Why don’t British Conservatives belong in that company exactly?
When it’s a Labour MP’s they’re called ‘Labour MP’s’, when it’s Tory MP’s it’s called ‘problem MP’s’.
So dumb and hurray for Putin!
rotting or rotten ?
Both, almost putrid eh!
They are rotten and the country is rotting under them and it will take decades to clear the infection.
Rotten (stinking).............
TOXIC DUMP JUST LIKE THE RIVER THAMES. THANKS TO TERESA MAY. 👍🤑🤑
Can no one report on anything about the tories without bothsiding it?
Listening to this mob are their cheerleaders.
No seats please and please turn the lights off
How do you pay for public services if you roll back taxes. Or do you accept just the one bin collection a month and a bankrupt local council. These think tanks only represent their billionaire sponsors interests
You know what they say about that rotten apple in that barrel
Thick Lizzy was “a successful cabinet minister”? Seriously? 😂😂😂😂
We need a new way of running things. I dont remember feeling so worried for the future of the people of this country. There is not one person in any if the parties I would trust down a dark alley. They are trying create a future that only works for the wealthy. Rest of us will be left to rot. Dont get old and dont get sick if you you may god help you.
ZERO SEATS.
Why on Earth did the party worker not call the police in real time, and where did she find all that cash? Anyone effectively holding an MP 'hostage' is a serious criminal offence and what possible reason would there have been for not calling the police? Wild rumours circulate in the absence of a concrete explanation.
'there's an Ocardo just for you...'
The same party the emeritus editor of the newspaper backed, and benefitted from? Up can't be down, left can't be right.
In 1978, apparently Keith Joseph and Tony Benn, from opposite ends of the poltical spectrum, met on a train, had a deep conversation, and both agreed the status quo of then was failing. Over 40 years on, it’s disturbing that the British electorate faced with similar circumstances, have been offered not one, but two, radical breaks from the current failing consensus. And have rejected both Corbynomics and Trussonomics, either judging by election results or opinion polls. But the tectonic plates will clash. It’s not long now. Something has to give. Some say, they don’t care if it resolves itself by either a communist revolution, or Thatcherism 2.0. Anything is better than this.
Labour's proposed New Britain Constitution is intended to make any future move away from Blairite Stakeholder Capitalism legally impossible. Times Radio refuses to discuss it for some reason.
How did he pass the vetting process to become an mp ,I used to work in power stations some were nuclear they needed proof of who my parents were and where from were I related to any convicted criminals and my lifestyle was examined just so I could work there so how come this perverse gets the freedom of parliament
thinking back to my younger days,I've done similar,called some elderlies in the middle of the night demanding money whilst being held hostage in a telephone box.If I remember right the opening part of the conversation started like this "hello mum,sorry to wake you up,can you put dad on the phone,please" 😀
How about him nixing the Istanbul peace agreement resulting in a million casualties?
Man, it's become incredibly difficult to argue that we actually don't like killing helpless people. It's not even about a lack of baseline morality anymore. It's become an argument of exactly what type of Bond villain we are. Callous megalomaniacs or unfeeling entitled nihilists.
Edit: from a geopolitical standpoint. Obviously, regular Britians are and have pretty much always been reasonable and personable.
@@fightthepowerman and still, besides some inflation we suffer no consequences in our privileged lives.
If Putin is correct about this, it's massively worse than anything Times Radio is criticising Johnson for.
"Cycle of low growth" this started with austerity.
A fish rots from the head, it does, and that means we're decaying.
'Comes of the back of Will Wragg being entrapped ...' Hang on, hang on! I think it is important that we are clear on the nature of the behaviour of certain MPs and the manner in which they appear to have put themselves in highly vulnerable situations. There's a tendency to suggest that there's a security issue from which these gentlemen need protecting. Wragg, for example, is an openly gay man who is not in a relationship, I believe. He would have been prone to embarrassment if pictures he had voluntarily shared were made public, but can we really call that entrapment. What was the particular hold they might have had on him, or had he actually readily shared information of others until he realised he'd been a complete and utter fool, and was trying to build up a case of extortion to make his actions appear less reprehensible. On the face of it, both Wragg and Menzies seem to have got themselves in hot spots by simple misadventure. How would it play out for example if I were to go to police and report that my bank account had been cleared out. 'Did you divulge details of your account, sir? Along with your card and your pin number, perhaps'. 'Well, yes, but ... er, these were ... er 'bad people'. I'd stumble.' You can imagine all the questions that would then follow. Did you report the matter to the police? Did you inform your bank? Did you attempt to cancel your card? Not surprisingly, you'd be laughed out of the station. As for these fools, it's time they were laughed out of Westminster.
Most people would pay good money NOT to have a Tory MP in their place,surely?
Will there be any Tory MPs left to stand in the election whenever it is?
I thought Brexitters had "had enough of experts"...? 🤔🤔🤔
Deregulation of the banking sector worked extremely well in 2008. Chasing a quick profit and high bonus payment did cost the world's governments trillions
It started long before Boris.
Johnson came across as a naughty schoolboy not as a politician. He thought he could joke his way out of trouble, he was a joke.
She "lettuce" down
This is so bad it's good.
Low tax and high growth. Trickle down theory. That’s always worked and never jacked up national debt and had to be reversed.
They are rotten to the core.
I find it hard to believe that the flat at Downing Street does not have a set of laminate sheets, such as would be found in any Air B'n'B, saying when the bins need to go out, which door Ocado/Pizza deliveries need to come to, and so on, and so forth. Boris's people had no such troubles getting Samsonite delivery's of the Chardonnay and massive Dominos deliveries through the doors of No.10. One has to assume its a Truss thing. Ordinary things just don't seem to work out for her.
Very true about the 74 year old who cared about her comms its and oils the wheels etc. Be very careful not to ignore these people. They are being treated with contempt by the modern Right Wingers. Very poor carriage and behaviour.
Truss belongs in prison for the misery she has caused for millions of innocent victims. She show not an atom of regret. How can she still be an MP?😡🙏
I do wonder what the people that donated good money to this man are thinking, did they know he was using it for immoral means?
"Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law", at least for the Tories.
General election now,enough is enough,get rid asap 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡😡😊
We need a change now .
In what sense was Truss a "successful minister"?
"Tory bad. Vote Labour" - Times Radio
"Where's the difference?" - Me
Tufton Street Alice
Rotten, not Rotting.
The Tories have been rotting since Heath FFS.
Wait what? Intoxicating a canine is frowned upon? Huh. Who knew?
So did the Victorians believe in growth and prosperity? whilst industrialization drove half the Uk population to emigrate- the half that found themselves in slums working 14 hours day in a factory with no regulation and very low life expectancy?
Or do these think tory think tanks mean ' the return to Victorian values' of Thatcher- the ones that decimated manufacturing in England?
Low tax means.no nhs
Low growth also means no NHS.
I don’t understand the fact he resigned 10 years ago???
Wait, Lizz Truss was a "sucessful" cabinet minister. Everyone I have met or listened to who worked for her in the Foriegn Office though she was an idiot.
An example, on a trade mission to Japan, she was late to a meeting with the Japanese Government because she was taking selfies at the Shibuya scramble crossing. Having lived in Japan for 6 years, I can tell you, being late to a meeting is about as rude as you can be.
Any progress on what every she was have been working on would have been out of the window for some Instagram followers.
I don't care what you do, just don't get caught.
They were always rotten. Just because you guys didn't notice doesn't make it so.
Maybe the Tory MP selection process needs to be tightened up !
The execution of her plan was abysmal but the content of it was not. In essence, a government should tighten it's belt, even when things are going well to provide for when times get hard in the same way that a family does. Being reckless with the public finances is what has got us to this point. The OBR, bless their cotton socks, didn't understand the policy, which is the problem most people have, getting their head around the idea that reducing taxation can free up money in business and personal pockets, which gives them more confidence about the track of the economy and encourages them to spend more money, returning those gains back in tax through spending, and the economy growing as a result.
In America, they know this works and although there is a hit initially, in the longer term, tax revenues grow as a result of economic output increases in productivity.
Irresponsible governance during the last 4 years has led to a catastrophic path of people leaving work, myself included, because the useless washed up politicians don't care about anyone other than themselves and boy did it show.
When the average person saw this, they were probably confused, but saw this as a time period where we just had to do as we were told.
When a brighter than average person saw this they were probably worried but still did as they were told.
When insightful people saw this, they proceeded with caution and watched events and studied people and their actions very carefully.
There is a lesson for everyone from the rotten apples in politics. If one ever gets to the top of the barrel, the barrel rots a lot more quickly as a result.