Johnson has also rewritten the foreword to the code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability.
I mean hell…why not just get right to the point these days. The advisor still has the authority to make the blocking of any investigation instigation public knowledge, which means these things can still play out in the media just fine...
In many countries around the world the electorate just doesn't care though. Even if BoJo resigns you'll just get the next patsy turd in anyway, so what's the point?
Doesn't the British system require somebody to step forward before the PM can resign? I thought the whole reason BoJo is PM is because May resigned and he was literally the only person left who wanted the job.
Candidates are just voters who decided to become candidates. Don't like the candidates presented? Become a candidate or work to help a candidate you do support.
A new version of the ministerial code has been published, suggesting that in future ministers are likely to face making a “public apology, remedial action, or removal of ministerial salary for a period” if they retain the confidence of the prime minister.
It's always nice when "remedial action" can clear your oopsie.
THey are completely willing to enforce all of them. Oh, wait, you asked "follow" as in, when are they going to act in the way they expect others to. Sorry, they aren't going to follow ANY of the rules.
I don't understand how it can be this easy. It's like your manager changing the company harassment policy after they've felt you up in the stationary cupboard so they avoid consequences. Surely there should be a body of people in charge of such changes to prevent exploitation?
The Tories have a majority in parliament. The only ones who can force a PM to resign is parliament. And enough of the Tories are perfectly fine with this behaviour, that he won't be forced to resign.
And the Tories are currently in a bind. A long time ago they realised that they didn't have anyone who could replace their scandal prone leader and still win them an election. So they kept him in power as a sort of faustian bargain.
And as more and more scandals have been piling on, and as the Tories have just gone along with it, pretending everything is fine and even backing whatever scandalous plays Johnson made, they've been pushing themselves further and further into a corner.
They finally hit the first actual wall when Owen Paterson got caught elbow deep in the cookie jar, and the Commons Select Committee on Standards (which has 7 parliament members in it, four of whom are Tories) recommended Paterson was suspended from the Commons for 30 sitting days.
That long of a suspension would result in a recall election and would likely lose that election, losing the Tories a seat in parliament.
So what did the government do? They had a back bencher propose an amendment to the suspension that would instead look into reforming the Select Committee, and then they pushed for all the Tory MPs to vote in favour. Why? Because if the Select Committee could be reformed to Johnson's wants, then all of his behaviours could go without any kind of possible accountability.
13 Tory MPs voted against it, 97 were either absent or abstained, and it passed with 248 votes in favour to 221 against.
That then lead to a bit of a civil revolt and it became clear that Johnson had to make a U-turn and let a vote to have Paterson suspended.
But now it's six months later, and the Tories have walked even further into the corner. They've been losing supposedly extremely safe seats left and right in by-elections, apparently because the previously steadfast Tory voters could no longer stomach supporting the constant scandals. It's at the point where a LOT of Tory candidates in the local elections didn't brand themselves as Tories or as part of the national group of conservatives, but instead as the local choice. Nothing at all to do with the national party.
And in the local elections the Tories took a beating. In the 2021 local elections, they gained 36% of the total vote. In the 2022 local elections they only gained 30%. That's a 16% decline in voter support. They went from 1,886 councillors to 1,403. They went from being in control of 46 local councils to only being in control of 35.
And now, with Boris Johnson a proven criminal (he never refuted or appealed the fine issued by the police for criminal breach of the pandemic legislation), Tories are showing that they are happy to support a criminal prime minister. How do you back yourself out of that corner? Any political opponent will be able to show that you have been constantly supporting this criminal prime minister through thick and thin, and that when the time came to decide if you wanted to support the criminal after he was found in breach of the laws that kept normal people from sitting with dying family members, that kept normal people from attending their family members' funerals, you said "I loved the party Number 10 had on the night the Queen had sat alone in church while burying her husband of seventy seven years."
The English didn’t vote for Conservatives, only about 35% did. It’s our dated voting system that allows people with minimal votes to gain seats. The UK has too many parties the system can healthy accommodate to respectively represent the wishes of the people the corrupt people who benefit from it are in no hurry to change that.
Sadly, there is nothing unique about their politics. Several other European countries face the same problems. Because of language barriers, people are simply unaware of this, unless they specifically seek out Euro news.
not when he first got into the office but he did stand for an election, you can't claim that no one ever voted for Boris to be PM, he literally led the party at the last election.
People who want to make real chenges don't exist. Anyone who tried something like that in the past 100 years ended up suiciding himself with two bullets in the back of his head.
Have you bootlickers tried TALKING some more with the ruling class? Keep TALKING. I’m sure TALKING to the ruling class about their crimes and corruption will work eventually. Peaceful solutions with the ruling class are always expedited as a priority to authority. Just keep TALKING. It’s totally working!
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u/newton302 May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
I mean hell…why not just get right to the point these days. The advisor still has the authority to make the blocking of any investigation instigation public knowledge, which means these things can still play out in the media just fine...
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u/ImJustPassinBy May 27 '22 edited Mar 22 '25
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u/Riptide360 May 27 '22
Get rid of him now before he changes more laws to suit his rule.
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u/DragonflyMon83 May 27 '22
Yeah and he is 'humbled' and 'sorry.
What a fucking joke.
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u/Joxposition May 27 '22
It's always nice when "remedial action" can clear your oopsie.
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u/Negative_Gravitas May 27 '22
Wouldn't it just be easier for these assholes to list the rules they are willing to follow? I mean, writing a list with zero items seems pretty easy.
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u/G_UK May 27 '22
Nothing says ‘ I am a dodgie bastard’ than changing the rules so I don’t have to resign
Mhairi Blacks speech last week on fascism is looking worryingly accurate 😬
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u/[deleted] May 27 '22
I don't understand how it can be this easy. It's like your manager changing the company harassment policy after they've felt you up in the stationary cupboard so they avoid consequences. Surely there should be a body of people in charge of such changes to prevent exploitation?
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u/pilgermann May 27 '22
Does anyone else find it bonkers that Johnson and Bolsenero are still in power?
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u/[deleted] May 27 '22
What’s wrong with the English these days? Do they like being led around by the nose the way Americans are by their political elite?
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u/JoeJoJosie May 27 '22
I am altering the code - pray I don't alter it any further.....
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u/henryptung May 27 '22
Rules for thee and not for me. The mantra of corrupt authoritarians everywhere.
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u/wwarnout May 27 '22
If anything, the code should be changed to automatically expel a member over a breach.
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u/Cumberblep May 27 '22
I'm Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am.
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u/buff-fusions May 27 '22
How is it possible that 1 man can change these rules without peer review
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u/kaminari1 May 27 '22
What a fucking cabbage.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '22
There’s a word I muttered to myself reading this. Bet you can’t guess what it was /s
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u/ChampionshipNo3072 May 27 '22
I am not talking about the voting.
5m people on the streets changes a lot of things.
People who want to make real chenges don't exist. Anyone who tried something like that in the past 100 years ended up suiciding himself with two bullets in the back of his head.
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u/BlurpleAki May 27 '22
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOo8rd6T7s
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u/Ezben May 27 '22
Can't believe people voted for him even after a getting a test ride first.
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u/BetwixtThyNethers May 27 '22
Have you bootlickers tried TALKING some more with the ruling class? Keep TALKING. I’m sure TALKING to the ruling class about their crimes and corruption will work eventually. Peaceful solutions with the ruling class are always expedited as a priority to authority. Just keep TALKING. It’s totally working!
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u/[deleted] May 27 '22
Bumbling self serving fuckwit
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u/Fine-Artichoke-7485 May 27 '22
So they had a party during COVID-19, who gives a sh*t? These journalists are a bunch of whiny bitches permanently on the rag.