Yeah , he needs an advisor to tell him what the law he put in place is. Doesnt work as a defence anywhere for anyone while saying a leaving party is necessary work as the Queen sat by herself to bury her husband.
Yep, someone who can’t tell what a party is until someone tells him. So why were we lead by someone who can’t make a sensible decision without being told
@@Jojohumf because we are British...we have subservience, obedience, and apathy built into our school system. No one knows who Atlee, or Bevan is, but everyone knows Thatcher and Churchill. Churchill the man who apposed the NHS, workers rights, women's votes, and killed millions of "foreign" people. Yeah him... another sociapath.
With all due respect to the people hiding behind pseudonyms, that's not at all what he said. What he said is he'd reserve his judgement until the committee had ruled. There are not binary options of find for or against him. That's a false dichotomy. There are scales and middle ground across possible outcomes.
@@tjmarxHe may not have said it exactly, but that is what he meant. We are not all gullible idiots. What do pseudonyms have to do with anything? Wise people know better than to broadcast their true identity all over the internet.
Drinking alcohol at work... If I was caught with any alcohol at work I would be sacked on the spot. Im only an electrician... Disgusting what these people think is ok
True scan. When I rejoined the civil service in 2007 after a 25 year absence I was reminded that Friday afternoon drinks were no longer acceptable. This guidance failed to penetrate SW1.
@JesusisKing oh so doctors and nurses were throwing parties with drinks? Garden parties for the paramedics? Going to guess "all the guidance can be ignore if you've had a really tough day" was on a secret page no one else got a look at. None of which answers why if everyone was allowed drinks breaks and Boris thought everything was fine why he lied about it afterwards. Multiple times. And expected you'd believe him.
That's not the point though the committee isn't trying to find out if the events broke the law, they're trying to find out if he deliberately or recklessly mislead the house whilst asked about it. A thief he may be, but in this case, if the thief claims he did not know he was a thief, he'll walk away freely.
@@RT-iy9fe "Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government."
@@Christinebanks11 I wasn't. Nor did I break lockdown rules, nor do I get paid obscene amounts of money for making after-dinner speeches. Apparently that disqualifies me from getting any legal aid
He's allowed to claim up to £115,000 a year in expenses alone just for being an ex-PM. Same with Liz 'PM for 44 days' Truss - Basically paid out of taxpayer money to speak at posh dinner parties the rest of their life. In any other country they'd be swinging from a lamp post.
Moggs cockiness still bothers me. I would love to see his communications with russia this last few years. Seems he's still full of confidence for some reason. King rat?
Its a diversion. They want everyone arguing over something small so they can get away with all the real crimes. Like actively helping crash the entire western economy (apart from a few in the know who reaped a 9x increase in wealth in 2hours) for profit. and believing in eugenics, and helping putin weaken his target nations. And having the royal family destroyed Theres so much more than turning up at a party. They were celebrating the demise of the poor and the new rule of the uk by oligarchs with british educations.
"Well officer, I did point the gun at that man and pulled the trigger, but some guy, can't say who of course, told me it was going to be fine so how could I have possibly known I'd kill him?" Trying really hard to understand what's going on but what I've mentioned above is really what he is going with, right?
That's a poor analogy and not what he's going with. He's going with "I wasn't present when my whatever was used, but when I asked those whom were present told me everything was done inside the law. This assurance is what I conveyed to parliament".
@@michaelhxhdhdjdj He wasn't present, that's the point. The committee accepts he wasn't present. Channel 4 does too. The question is not whether he was or wasn't present. The question is, as someone not present was he aware of the plans of staff to hold a party, and therefore did he knowingly mislead parliament when he claimed it wasn't a party qualified as being based upon the word of those present. That's why his tory supporters are so sure the committee won't find him in breach. The evidentiary requirement to do so would need them to have documents of some description which without any ambiguity demonstrate he knew first hand that there was going to be a party before it happened and in contravention of the law. That kind of evidence simply doesn't exist because even a dumbass like Boris isn't going to incriminate himself to that degree in a recording or written text.
@@tjmarx What on earth are you talking about? He got fined by the police for being present. From the BBC : "Boris Johnson is set to apologise for breaking his own lockdown laws when he makes his first statement to MPs since being fined by police. The prime minister is expected to say he did not knowingly break the rules at a 2020 birthday party at No 10. Opposition parties have accused him of lying to Parliament after he previously told them no rules had been broken. MPs will decide on Thursday whether a Commons committee should investigate whether he has misled MPs over parties." The only question is: When he told Parliament that guidance was followed did he A: Lie B: Did not understand guidance wasn't followed. A seems the most likely here because he himself made the guidance. Johnson however obviously says its B because some mystery person told him it was fine.
İ just love the guy who intervies Rees Bogg, even manages to turn his back on him. Well done and is not the first time he has shown his disdain. GREAT GUY.
I particularly enjoyed the part where he said they'd put in some effort some of the time so it's fine. Afterall there were screens in another room. If only everyone had known you could have a booze up and hand out drinks if there were screens in another room or sanitizer.
Funny - he lies about telling untruths despite having clear evidence. Unbelieveable. But because he's from where he's from or has a certain amount of money he'll not be thrown into jail like he should be.
They need to tie him down to actively spreading covid (many of the rules he dreamt up did this by ignoring the real science...real science says 28ft for an airborne virus..even if the air is warm and rising (his logic for defending us). That was terrorism. Having shady deals with putin. Terrorism Trying to ruin agriculture links with europe by lowering to usa food standards, terrorism. Trying to sell of the entire uk to the american gop like another puerto rico. Terrorism..and an act of war against his own people. Helping bankers and their investors increase wealth by 9x in 2hours by crashing the economy. And throwing up a wall of human life and immigration as a smokescreen. Throwing kids lives into the sea as a damned smoke screen...terrorists. eugenicists and terrorists. That is the tory party. (And their undercover tories "its just a from of eugenics" - sadiq khan, labour 😑)
And we the tax payers are paying for his four expensive lawyers sat behind him that aren't necessary when this is not a criminal trial but we are paying through the nose to try and get him off from lying to us all in Parliament! You couldn't write it!
Wrong crimes. Should be getting locked up for terrorism, hate crimes, attempted genocide, as well as thousands of lives he had sent to be lost in the waves because that was a great cover for his corruption. Sod the party thing. The lightest of all the charges he could possibly face. he needs to be strung up on big ben for the world to see. Also that..how much money did he blow on a private jet (just like trump got..trumps was an ex russian 747..guessing boris' was too), and washing some dusty old buildings..that were dusty because of all the pollution he helps create. All while the british public died horribly around him. So much more than partygate. Terrorist leader. Our people died for that? Fk no.
Johnson: "We didn't ... erm, er, ... pass stuff to each other if we could .... erm, er ... possibly avoid it ..." Harman: "Presumably people were passing drinks to each other, because we've seen the picture?" Johnson: "Of course!" As Johnson would say, "Erm, er ... WTF?" This is the level of "truth-telling" that this man is capable of. Words come out of his mouth. They're challenged. He immediately does a U-turn. As Mick Lynch would say, "Enough is enough."
Pens? What century are they working in? Christ, why were they even in Downing St. in the first place. Exactly what part of the Downing St. operation could not have been done remotely and required people to be there in person? I can see an argument for people working in Security related roles, but loads of the Downing St. staff are just communications/press staff
Harriet harmon, shows how to have integrity and class. A polar opposite to the man being question! Unfortunately I can't see the Tory members of the committee, voting to boot him out of Parliament which absolutely should happen. Because Tory party always looks after the Tory party!
The person clearly states that in his mind, no rules were broken. Maybe that is because he did not condider the rules for the common people to apply to him and his cronies. So he means: "no rules aplying to me were broken"
“He told the truth, as he understood it at the time, as he was advised… as he perceived it at the time…”. A lot of caveats to him telling the truth in there
2:25 “Apl.. plu.. ble.. peh.. It was guidance!” So if the rules were just “guidance”, why did the public get fined for doing the same as if they had broken “law”
"We didn't touch each other's pen" "But of course, we passed around drinks to each other" Clearly, alcohol is so much more important for work in No10 than pens 🧐
@JesusisKing even if you can forgive the 'mistake', (which, as something that happened multiple times, I find hard to do) the big issue is the way Johnson conducts himself & twists his words to absolve himself of wrong doing. He consistently denies knowledge of a 'party' despite attending a gathering with little social distancing and alcohol. He said he thought that a gathering to say goodbye to leaving staff was 'essential to the job'. (could he not have used Teams like everyone else?) Ordinary people were fined for less. The then leader of our country should be held to the same standards. I'd have had more respect for him if he had admitted his wrong doings. But as usual, we got the 'I'm a buffon but actually i'm quite smart but i'm going to make you think I'm an idiot to get away with things' character politics we can be so confident we'll get from Johnson. I don't know who the 'normal people' you speak for are, but it certainly isn't me.
My favourite sentence: "If I had looked [to that direction], what I would have seen, I'm sure, was people doing a HUGE amount of work" (3:39) 😂🤣😂 Have you ever seen people doing HUGE amount of work just by looking at them? 😂🤣😂
This seems to be what passes for "accountability" in UK politics. Boris Johnson should actually be prosecuted in a court of law for the appalling decisions he took during the pandemic. For example, his refusal to impose quarantine on overseas arrivals caused well over 100 thousand avoidable deaths. Did he receive back-handers from the airline industry for that?
Exactly, the UK is an island and therefore all that was truly necessary was to fulfil the Brexit dream of pulling up the drawbridge and not allow any body into the country, yet the country stayed open to contamination, and that is exactly what happened, of course the serfs don't matter to the likes of the Tories who look down on the people that are meant to serve.
That's what an Eton and Oxford education does for you, the ability to lie with a completely straight face and to sound sincere and reasonable even if the words make no sense.
If Boris is found not to have misled Parliament that means his behaviour can be and will be replicated by others in the future. We deserve better than that.
This was democracy under the microscope today...and I was re-assured by the committee. Johnson was just Johnson- incapable of having a person-person proper adult dialogue, constantly interrupting. Rees-Mogg is exactly the same...so breath-takingly arrogant and ignorant.
Ffs....How Pathetic is this ? Loads of people were at work and had gatherings together in or outside ..! Oh the nurses who were working and tik tok ing is that not the same? This is Embarrassing beyond belief !
I watched the Channel 4 clip and was singularly unimpressed and dismayed. Even though I am no Boris supporter, the Privileges Committee Investigation appears nothing short of an attempted stitch-up by the anti-Boris camp, yes, it is tantamount to trial by a kangaroo court. I felt uncomfortable about the proceedings being televised as there is then bound to be a theatrical element regarding any such “trial”. I also find it strange that the trial is being done by "politicised animals". I fear that conclusions will be determined by political baggage rather than being based on fairness. Other points I had issues with were loaded remarks made by Harriet Harman, the chairman of the committee, before the proceedings had even started. This is nothing short of stupidity on her part as they undermine the whole process. Also, some of the evidence is based on information provided in a report by a senior civil servant, Sue Gray, who has recently been appointed to be a personal adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Kier Starmer. Hence, her report lends itself to charges that it may be tainted. Her move was quite an extraordinary development, the timing, let alone the highly-politicised posting, were egregiously wrong. It reflects very poorly on both Starmer and on Gray. All in all, I harbour severe doubts about the integrity of the process, yet it represents a huge distraction and cost to the tax payer. It is a disgraceful situation. If I may throw in another point, why was Tony Blair not subject to some sort of process following the Iraq War? We went to war on a false prospectus, it cost the loss of lives of nearly 200 British soldiers and of 100,000s of civilians, these numbers do not include life-changing injuries. This represents a huge indictment on our political class. To rub salt into the wounds of so many families who are feeling the consequences to this day, Blair was awarded our highest civilian award, a KG. This should never have been awarded let alone accepted. (I have not even mentioned Blair’s disastrous foray into Afghanistan which has had a history of not succumbing to foreign occupation) I also feel that Johnson has already suffered his dues in having to resign his position as PM. Surely, taxpayers money would be much better spent on quickly getting to the bottom of the due process (or lack of it) underlying lockdown, it was a disgrace that the public were not shown the whole picture in terms of the huge collateral damage caused by lockdown. The repercussions of the inept management (both the Opposition and the BBC colluded and were equally culpable) will be suffered for decades. There is no true sense of priorities, a very poor reflection on the political class. There is also an underlying stench of hypocrisy. If the likes of Krishnan Guru-Murphy were to prove their worth, they would concentrate on these much more important issues, alas they are just as grubby as everybody else. It is no surprise that so many of us are utterly disillusioned and feel so let down by the political class and the media.
Let’s not forget that part of his defence was when he admitted that he may have lied in the past but this time he’s telling the truth!!!!! So he’s saying he has a track record of being a liar. I can’t believe people like my own mother like him and want him to be let off.
We hope so. The sheer audacity of the man who thinks he can make a comeback. Always said he and Donald Trump were twins but separated at birth, no accusations meant against their mothers, but it is surprising that both are going through accusations at the same time.
How many people could not say goodbye to their loved one's in care homes and hospitals before they died whilst Johnson held alcohol fueled leaving parties for his colleagues during the lockdowns which he said were imperative to protect public health?
The man who can't tell whether a gathering is a party unless he is told is the one we chose to run our country! Frightening
Not mine ! 🇺🇸😆
Yeah , he needs an advisor to tell him what the law he put in place is. Doesnt work as a defence anywhere for anyone while saying a leaving party is necessary work as the Queen sat by herself to bury her husband.
I know right.
Yep, someone who can’t tell what a party is until someone tells him. So why were we lead by someone who can’t make a sensible decision without being told
@@Jojohumf because we are British...we have subservience, obedience, and apathy built into our school system.
No one knows who Atlee, or Bevan is, but everyone knows Thatcher and Churchill. Churchill the man who apposed the NHS, workers rights, women's votes, and killed millions of "foreign" people. Yeah him... another sociapath.
Interesting how he struggles when forced to tell the truth
When does he tell the truth?
When they get round to burying him, never will the epitaph ring so true: Here *LIES* Boris Johnson 🪦
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Absolutely right
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Anyone else find it utterly hilarious that he admitted to their faces that he'd only think they're legitimate if they find in his favour?
I proper LoL’d when he came out with that.
With all due respect to the people hiding behind pseudonyms, that's not at all what he said.
What he said is he'd reserve his judgement until the committee had ruled. There are not binary options of find for or against him. That's a false dichotomy. There are scales and middle ground across possible outcomes.
whats funny about it ?
@@tjmarxHe may not have said it exactly, but that is what he meant. We are not all gullible idiots. What do pseudonyms have to do with anything? Wise people know better than to broadcast their true identity all over the internet.
@@Lamya65 Hi. Hope you're doing well
Interviewer - Mr Johnson which is your favourite lie that you told?
Boris - I don't tell lies.
Interviewer - That is my favourite one too.
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😂Best comment of the year so far...
This is screaming out to be a meme...
nice one
Drinking alcohol at work... If I was caught with any alcohol at work I would be sacked on the spot.
Im only an electrician... Disgusting what these people think is ok
Exactly, it was a party!! So he had a party during rules were not allowed.
Part of their mantra...
True scan. When I rejoined the civil service in 2007 after a 25 year absence I was reminded that Friday afternoon drinks were no longer acceptable. This guidance failed to penetrate SW1.
@JesusisKing oh so doctors and nurses were throwing parties with drinks? Garden parties for the paramedics? Going to guess "all the guidance can be ignore if you've had a really tough day" was on a secret page no one else got a look at. None of which answers why if everyone was allowed drinks breaks and Boris thought everything was fine why he lied about it afterwards. Multiple times. And expected you'd believe him.
Don't think 'only' your an Electrician your a Somebody, a Professional, not an Idiot like them.
Listening to Jacob Rees Mogg is like listening to a child defending his naughty friend.
These people run the country..😢
Yes, running it into the ground.
How did the country get conned by this lot of privileged oafs costing every citizen rights, money, lifestyle....when will they pay....?
People voted for these people to run the country. Everyone knew BJ was a liar before he won the majority. This country wanted these liars.
a thief who claimed he didn't know he was stealing, and that his gang didn't think he was a thief, would still be a thief.
under what circumstances can someone not realise they stole something??
And if your leader of a country..you should probably know the laws. ..unless you believe in different laws for different classes (eugenics)
@@bearnecessiteespolio5359 receiving and handling stolen goods is another crime isnt it
That's not the point though the committee isn't trying to find out if the events broke the law, they're trying to find out if he deliberately or recklessly mislead the house whilst asked about it. A thief he may be, but in this case, if the thief claims he did not know he was a thief, he'll walk away freely.
Nothing worse than people having a party in your house that you're neither informed of or invited to
Pretty sure blatantly lying under oath carries a serious penalty..🤔
It's equivalent to perjury in a court. It can (and often does) result in prison time.
only if youre poor
@@RT-iy9fe "Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government."
@@dexocube that's brilliant 👏
Bozo bojo 🤡was the prime Minister, he is special. 😆
Genuine question. Why is Johnson's defence being funded by taxpayers' money? Does he qualify for legal aid? If so, why don't I?
Were you the prime minister? 😆
@@Christinebanks11 was he? Apparently he thought having drinks was vital government work.
@George legal aid is for people that can't afford it donkey
@@Christinebanks11 I wasn't. Nor did I break lockdown rules, nor do I get paid obscene amounts of money for making after-dinner speeches. Apparently that disqualifies me from getting any legal aid
@Janet Gough I'm sure you didn't break any rules 😉
He wasn't at any of these parties. He was at Pizza Express with Prince Andrew.
In a sensible world, we’d never hear from him again. In reality, he’ll get a massive record deal or something later this week.
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Johnson is already making money giving after dinner speeches in the US.
He's allowed to claim up to £115,000 a year in expenses alone just for being an ex-PM. Same with Liz 'PM for 44 days' Truss - Basically paid out of taxpayer money to speak at posh dinner parties the rest of their life. In any other country they'd be swinging from a lamp post.
@@jesusisking3820 what do you think of his proven adultery and bearing false witness, if Jesus is indeed king?
@@jesusisking3820 typical Bronze Age Mediterranean viewpoint.
Unless you're JRM, Nadine, or any sycophantic prat who worships Johnson, this was an incredibly embarrassing display.
Moggs cockiness still bothers me. I would love to see his communications with russia this last few years. Seems he's still full of confidence for some reason. King rat?
It was awful , the man is a pleb of the highest order.
The Daily Mail headline reeked of desperation, describing BJ as being ' as agile as a cat'
He was at the gatherings. There are photos we can all see. What's wrong with the British people? How can you say there is no smoking gun?
Their vaxxed
Its a diversion. They want everyone arguing over something small so they can get away with all the real crimes. Like actively helping crash the entire western economy (apart from a few in the know who reaped a 9x increase in wealth in 2hours) for profit. and believing in eugenics, and helping putin weaken his target nations.
And having the royal family destroyed
Theres so much more than turning up at a party. They were celebrating the demise of the poor and the new rule of the uk by oligarchs with british educations.
CORRUPTED BRITISH MPS?, NOT THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
Come on folks, he'll get a slap on the wrist and that's it, our government is a circus
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"Well officer, I did point the gun at that man and pulled the trigger, but some guy, can't say who of course, told me it was going to be fine so how could I have possibly known I'd kill him?"
Trying really hard to understand what's going on but what I've mentioned above is really what he is going with, right?
Excellent analogy yeah
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That's a poor analogy and not what he's going with. He's going with
"I wasn't present when my whatever was used, but when I asked those whom were present told me everything was done inside the law. This assurance is what I conveyed to parliament".
@@michaelhxhdhdjdj He wasn't present, that's the point. The committee accepts he wasn't present. Channel 4 does too. The question is not whether he was or wasn't present. The question is, as someone not present was he aware of the plans of staff to hold a party, and therefore did he knowingly mislead parliament when he claimed it wasn't a party qualified as being based upon the word of those present.
That's why his tory supporters are so sure the committee won't find him in breach. The evidentiary requirement to do so would need them to have documents of some description which without any ambiguity demonstrate he knew first hand that there was going to be a party before it happened and in contravention of the law. That kind of evidence simply doesn't exist because even a dumbass like Boris isn't going to incriminate himself to that degree in a recording or written text.
@@tjmarx What on earth are you talking about? He got fined by the police for being present. From the BBC :
"Boris Johnson is set to apologise for breaking his own lockdown laws when he makes his first statement to MPs since being fined by police.
The prime minister is expected to say he did not knowingly break the rules at a 2020 birthday party at No 10.
Opposition parties have accused him of lying to Parliament after he previously told them no rules had been broken.
MPs will decide on Thursday whether a Commons committee should investigate whether he has misled MPs over parties."
The only question is: When he told Parliament that guidance was followed did he A: Lie B: Did not understand guidance wasn't followed.
A seems the most likely here because he himself made the guidance. Johnson however obviously says its B because some mystery person told him it was fine.
İ just love the guy who intervies Rees Bogg, even manages to turn his back on him. Well done and is not the first time he has shown his disdain. GREAT GUY.
He’s a horrible toad, but not anywhere near as horrible as Rees Mogg.
Why is he a toad?@@beezergutler5488
Rees Bogg, I love it !!
He'd been repeatedly assured by some people he couldn't name
They should have ridden him into the ground on that one.
I hope they'll dig deeper into this and charge him with perjury
@@verabolton very true Vera, and with a name like Vera you are so very close to the truth
@@stevenhoward3358 😉
I particularly enjoyed the part where he said they'd put in some effort some of the time so it's fine. Afterall there were screens in another room. If only everyone had known you could have a booze up and hand out drinks if there were screens in another room or sanitizer.
One law for them and another for us.
Funny - he lies about telling untruths despite having clear evidence.
Unbelieveable.
But because he's from where he's from or has a certain amount of money he'll not be thrown into jail like he should be.
All of this and nothing will come of it
They need to tie him down to actively spreading covid (many of the rules he dreamt up did this by ignoring the real science...real science says 28ft for an airborne virus..even if the air is warm and rising (his logic for defending us). That was terrorism.
Having shady deals with putin. Terrorism
Trying to ruin agriculture links with europe by lowering to usa food standards, terrorism.
Trying to sell of the entire uk to the american gop like another puerto rico. Terrorism..and an act of war against his own people.
Helping bankers and their investors increase wealth by 9x in 2hours by crashing the economy. And throwing up a wall of human life and immigration as a smokescreen. Throwing kids lives into the sea as a damned smoke screen...terrorists. eugenicists and terrorists. That is the tory party.
(And their undercover tories "its just a from of eugenics" - sadiq khan, labour 😑)
And we the tax payers are paying for his four expensive lawyers sat behind him that aren't necessary when this is not a criminal trial but we are paying through the nose to try and get him off from lying to us all in Parliament! You couldn't write it!
Yeah you want see this plastered on the tory press. Instead "look imigruntz"
That’s the Conservative fiscal responsibility - utter thieving bastards them lot.
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Once A Liar Always A Liar
Was his legal team providing their services on a no win no fee basis?
I watched about an hour of it and Boris should be found guilty
Same here would agree with you 💯👈
I watched the whole. It was so satisfying to see him being told to zip it when he kept spitting word salads 😂
Wrong crimes. Should be getting locked up for terrorism, hate crimes, attempted genocide, as well as thousands of lives he had sent to be lost in the waves because that was a great cover for his corruption.
Sod the party thing. The lightest of all the charges he could possibly face. he needs to be strung up on big ben for the world to see.
Also that..how much money did he blow on a private jet (just like trump got..trumps was an ex russian 747..guessing boris' was too), and washing some dusty old buildings..that were dusty because of all the pollution he helps create. All while the british public died horribly around him.
So much more than partygate. Terrorist leader.
Our people died for that? Fk no.
Johnson: "We didn't ... erm, er, ... pass stuff to each other if we could .... erm, er ... possibly avoid it ..."
Harman: "Presumably people were passing drinks to each other, because we've seen the picture?"
Johnson: "Of course!"
As Johnson would say, "Erm, er ... WTF?" This is the level of "truth-telling" that this man is capable of. Words come out of his mouth. They're challenged. He immediately does a U-turn.
As Mick Lynch would say, "Enough is enough."
I know I’m very much enjoying watching every second of him squirm, lie, and obfuscate.
I do hope the appropriate justice is served.
Indeed. Appropriate banishing from public life for the rest of his time.
Meat hook, piano wire, short drop.
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@@DavidSmith-ze2wi If only 👍🏾
@@starmersbarber send him to Rwanda. 😂
Didn’t touch each others pens…..that’s because no work was being done.
Pens? What century are they working in? Christ, why were they even in Downing St. in the first place. Exactly what part of the Downing St. operation could not have been done remotely and required people to be there in person? I can see an argument for people working in Security related roles, but loads of the Downing St. staff are just communications/press staff
Harriet harmon, shows how to have integrity and class. A polar opposite to the man being question! Unfortunately I can't see the Tory members of the committee, voting to boot him out of Parliament which absolutely should happen. Because Tory party always looks after the Tory party!
Never seen the country in this state of moral depravity.
I don't think Mogg has ever met the British public
There is a great Politics Joe video where he does (confronted by a guy who lost his job due to Govt. cuts) and it is proper painful to watch
@@Boghopper9999 the guy had a disability and he wanted to work but wasn't allowed, he was distraught, it was sad to watch.
'Court of public opinion'
'What I fear of the electorate'
This guy has no real grasp on reality. - Jacob Rees Mogg
And they lead our country!
I'm sorry,but I just cannot believe a word he says😮 nevermind trust him.
He had some big slip ups.
The person clearly states that in his mind, no rules were broken. Maybe that is because he did not condider the rules for the common people to apply to him and his cronies. So he means: "no rules aplying to me were broken"
This is a viva for the degree of PhD in lying, and I think the candidate passed with flying colours.
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"Hope that the committe could see what was in his heart at the time". Do tell. We want every detail, never mind the smell.
“He told the truth, as he understood it at the time, as he was advised… as he perceived it at the time…”. A lot of caveats to him telling the truth in there
2:25 “Apl.. plu.. ble.. peh.. It was guidance!”
So if the rules were just “guidance”, why did the public get fined for doing the same as if they had broken “law”
Boris Johnson sounds in his defense remarkably like Andrew Windsor when interviewed by Emily Maitlis.
"We didn't touch each other's pen"
"But of course, we passed around drinks to each other"
Clearly, alcohol is so much more important for work in No10 than pens 🧐
Thing that gets me is, this is absolute proof that social distance was not mitigated. Bet he's gonna say he didn't see drinks getting passed around.
Why were they not wearing a mask at work at Downing Street? When masks were mandatory 😮
Boris thinks that, if he plays dumb, everybody in his vicinity will grow stupid as well.
He's toast, he knows he's toast, he knows that we know he's toast...
But will the toast get served?
@@ageoflove1980 nope he was born too privileged to ever pay for any of his actions
I wish! But the sad thing is, there are still many halfwits supporting him, worshipping him and seeing him as their selfless saviour.
@@solennethomas7365 Boris supporters are so dumb it makes me worry for the future of the human race.
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You would think by now people would be tired of defending Boris.
Don’t get your hopes high 😅.
It's like BBC comedy show "Yes, Mr Minister " but sadly in reality....
The lady from South Derbyshire episode in the committee room. My father introduced me to yes minister when I was growing up, it really opened my eyes
"He won in the court of public opinion", we all know that Lord Snooty has his finger on the pulse of the general public's opinion! 😂
@JesusisKing even if you can forgive the 'mistake', (which, as something that happened multiple times, I find hard to do) the big issue is the way Johnson conducts himself & twists his words to absolve himself of wrong doing. He consistently denies knowledge of a 'party' despite attending a gathering with little social distancing and alcohol. He said he thought that a gathering to say goodbye to leaving staff was 'essential to the job'. (could he not have used Teams like everyone else?) Ordinary people were fined for less. The then leader of our country should be held to the same standards.
I'd have had more respect for him if he had admitted his wrong doings. But as usual, we got the 'I'm a buffon but actually i'm quite smart but i'm going to make you think I'm an idiot to get away with things' character politics we can be so confident we'll get from Johnson. I don't know who the 'normal people' you speak for are, but it certainly isn't me.
Thats perfect ......Lord Snooty what a toe rag
@JesusisKing you make no sence what so ever,as for jesus is king ....only your opinion ,and not held by the majority of the british people
Swore to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, then lied through the entire thing the man is just astonishing
Honestly, what did you expect? ‘Pure blockbuster political theatre’ as the BBC has framed it..
@@Gnasherism Very true lol
My favourite sentence:
"If I had looked [to that direction], what I would have seen, I'm sure, was people doing a HUGE amount of work" (3:39)
😂🤣😂 Have you ever seen people doing HUGE amount of work just by looking at them? 😂🤣😂
I told you he is a brilliant comedian. Unconciously that is.
@@johannesnicolaas I'm laughing at it, but, sadly, it's deadly serious and I do cry when I think of the unimaginable damage he did to the UK.
If he gets away wid this shame on us all
Yet again the people who put the rules in place, and restricted our freedom, didn’t follow the rules themselves. Disgusting
This seems to be what passes for "accountability" in UK politics. Boris Johnson should actually be prosecuted in a court of law for the appalling decisions he took during the pandemic. For example, his refusal to impose quarantine on overseas arrivals caused well over 100 thousand avoidable deaths. Did he receive back-handers from the airline industry for that?
Exactly, the UK is an island and therefore all that was truly necessary was to fulfil the Brexit dream of pulling up the drawbridge and not allow any body into the country, yet the country stayed open to contamination, and that is exactly what happened, of course the serfs don't matter to the likes of the Tories who look down on the people that are meant to serve.
Guilty as charged. Serial, chronic prevaricator.
If you buy a new tea kettle for £20 you will save £10 on electric a year for 2 years
- Boris Johnson
Avoiding physical contact with Boris is hardly taking extra special care.
2:09 "We didn't touch each others pens" . . . Ok😂
Just bottoms when Pincher is around
prince andrew levels of arrogance, entitlement and bare faced lies.
Yes who gave the assurances, name them!!!!!
Mogg is so irritating…. His entire government was not operating properly, how dare he!
That's what an Eton and Oxford education does for you, the ability to lie with a completely straight face and to sound sincere and reasonable even if the words make no sense.
In Portugal we have a saying: "There are no dead men in politics."
Never trust a tory.
You sad sap
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I can only think of one adjective to describe jrm- Odious !
Boris is sunk. You can tell in his eyes he won’t be returning to No 10
No he is not winning this in the court of public opinion , he may have a minority of voters backing him but that still leaves the majority .
Sunak's position could be looking fragile soon.
When was his position strong?
Johnson has never done an honest, hard day's work in his life. Who is paying his lawyers' fees?
Send the narc to prison for the 150k deaths he caused
Please Yes!
Astute of Sunak to release this today.....
Keeping the population in prison while they partied! All these parasites should be in prison for life…or capital punishment should be reintroduced!
LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE....Although that should be said for ALL MP's....
Might be true but the "all MP's are liars" argument just serves to let the actual liars get off the hook as it tarnishes all of them.
Guilty
Hahaha Noooo Boris has not won in the court of public opinion 😂😂😂😂😂
Why bother interviewing Mogg he’s as bad as BoJo 🤷🏻♀️
Hope he get what he deserves but think it will end up as a slap on the wrists unfortunately 😉🇬🇧
Man with reputation of liar found to be a liar yet again
Billy Bunter deserves a good caning for wasting the countrys' time when there are so many more important things to be getting on with.
I didn’t know you people can’t multi task
If Boris is found not to have misled Parliament that means his behaviour can be and will be replicated by others in the future. We deserve better than that.
This was democracy under the microscope today...and I was re-assured by the committee. Johnson was just Johnson- incapable of having a person-person proper adult dialogue, constantly interrupting. Rees-Mogg is exactly the same...so breath-takingly arrogant and ignorant.
Ffs....How Pathetic is this ? Loads of people were at work and had gatherings together in or outside ..! Oh the nurses who were working and tik tok ing is that not the same? This is Embarrassing beyond belief !
I watched the Channel 4 clip and was singularly unimpressed and dismayed.
Even though I am no Boris supporter, the Privileges Committee Investigation appears nothing short of an attempted stitch-up by the anti-Boris camp, yes, it is tantamount to trial by a kangaroo court. I felt uncomfortable about the proceedings being televised as there is then bound to be a theatrical element regarding any such “trial”. I also find it strange that the trial is being done by "politicised animals". I fear that conclusions will be determined by political baggage rather than being based on fairness.
Other points I had issues with were loaded remarks made by Harriet Harman, the chairman of the committee, before the proceedings had even started. This is nothing short of stupidity on her part as they undermine the whole process. Also, some of the evidence is based on information provided in a report by a senior civil servant, Sue Gray, who has recently been appointed to be a personal adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Kier Starmer. Hence, her report lends itself to charges that it may be tainted. Her move was quite an extraordinary development, the timing, let alone the highly-politicised posting, were egregiously wrong. It reflects very poorly on both Starmer and on Gray.
All in all, I harbour severe doubts about the integrity of the process, yet it represents a huge distraction and cost to the tax payer. It is a disgraceful situation.
If I may throw in another point, why was Tony Blair not subject to some sort of process following the Iraq War? We went to war on a false prospectus, it cost the loss of lives of nearly 200 British soldiers and of 100,000s of civilians, these numbers do not include life-changing injuries. This represents a huge indictment on our political class. To rub salt into the wounds of so many families who are feeling the consequences to this day, Blair was awarded our highest civilian award, a KG. This should never have been awarded let alone accepted. (I have not even mentioned Blair’s disastrous foray into Afghanistan which has had a history of not succumbing to foreign occupation)
I also feel that Johnson has already suffered his dues in having to resign his position as PM. Surely, taxpayers money would be much better spent on quickly getting to the bottom of the due process (or lack of it) underlying lockdown, it was a disgrace that the public were not shown the whole picture in terms of the huge collateral damage caused by lockdown. The repercussions of the inept management (both the Opposition and the BBC colluded and were equally culpable) will be suffered for decades.
There is no true sense of priorities, a very poor reflection on the political class. There is also an underlying stench of hypocrisy.
If the likes of Krishnan Guru-Murphy were to prove their worth, they would concentrate on these much more important issues, alas they are just as grubby as everybody else. It is no surprise that so many of us are utterly disillusioned and feel so let down by the political class and the media.
Let’s not forget that part of his defence was when he admitted that he may have lied in the past but this time he’s telling the truth!!!!! So he’s saying he has a track record of being a liar. I can’t believe people like my own mother like him and want him to be let off.
People still surprised when boris johnson vows, promises or claims something only to throw his own words in the trash 5 seconds later.
I don't know what's funnier his defence or his comb over
I was impressed he (for the first time) brushed his hair for the occasion 😅
So what happens now?
Absolutely nothing 😡
What a freaking prat Boris is 😂
They should sack everyone of them that was there as they are all guilty .
JRM called the committee members "marsupials". Pouch! That's gotta hurt.
Hurting marsupials should be a crime and treated as such.
If ever a book needs to be written on how to spot a narcissist, yesterdays performance contained a subject matter expert!
This man is a born liar he only cares about himself guilty and can’t stand him !!! 🤬🤬🤬
The fact shifting superpowers of JRM's spectacles are always a wonder.
"work events" 😂😂😂😂😂
Not just work events; 'essential' work events!
OK flm shum jeni i mrekullushem Zoti Minister gjonsen 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
JRM and the rest of the ERG will say anything to cover their tracks.
Why is the tax payer paying for his counsel?
Jail time plz
THEY ALL SHOULD BE IMPRISONED, SUNAK INCLUDED.
We hope so. The sheer audacity of the man who thinks he can make a comeback. Always said he and Donald Trump were twins but separated at birth, no accusations meant against their mothers, but it is surprising that both are going through accusations at the same time.
Well both trump and bozo are americans
How many people could not say goodbye to their loved one's in care homes and hospitals before they died whilst Johnson held alcohol fueled leaving parties for his colleagues during the lockdowns which he said were imperative to protect public health?
Question is does Johnson have a heart to see into?
Who will he bribe?
So glad i saw straight through whole circus and didn't comply one bit.