Electoral Commission To Investigate #SofaGate

 

 I wonder, given the "quality" of the refurb, whether Boris now feels that it was really worth all the hassle?

Boris Takes The Knee

 

Derry Irvine's £60K Pugin Wallpaper

 

It seems that the media and Labour Party, in their "excitement" over Boris refurbishing Number 11 with his own money, have very short memories.

Have they really forgotten, for example, Derry Irvine's £60K Pugin wallpaper paid for with taxpayers' money?

#CumGate - A Gate To Nowhere

The inhabitants of the Westminster bubble (namely the journalists and politicians who feed upon each other) are in a feeding frenzy over what Cummings has hinted he knows, and what he may reveal to Parliament next month.

Thusfar it has been pretty thin gruel a.o.:

- the PM may, or may not, have vociferously resisted a third lockdown (which he ended up imposing)

- the PM may, or may not, have wanted someone else to pay for the redecoration of Number 11 (which he ended up paying for)

- Chatty Rat may or may not be Cummings or Henry Newman

The fact is, no one outside of the Westminster bubble gives a toss about these issues that have been in the public domain for some months now.

As the pandemic restrictions are eased, people will want to put the whole experience behind them (as they did after the 1919 flu pandemic). What will matter to the people who actually do matter (ie the voters) will be

- the state of the economy (exceptional growth now predicted), 

- the functioning of the NHS(which has been found wanting), 

- education, 

- housing and 

- law & order.

Who, Why or What is Redthroat - Classic Dom!

 

It would appear that Redthroat may well be Dominic Cummings...or is he?

Mercer Takes Careful Aim at The Government

 

EXCL: Johnny Mercer has called the British government “the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in”, in his first interview since being sacked as Veterans Minister last night. Listen to it on @TimesRadio in a few minutes.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) April 21, 2021

Having been sacked by text a day before resigning, Johnny Mercer has come out guns blazing.

He has though, notably avoided having a go directly at Boris; thus leaving the door slightly ajar for a return one day to ministerial office.

Mercer says the PM himself wants to do the right thing for veterans, but hasn’t yet. “I think Boris Johnson is deeply committed to this agenda. I think he wants to deliver it. He recognises the injustice of it. But the truth is that nothing has been done".

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) April 21, 2021

A Good Day To Bury Bad News

With the implosion of the European Super League taking up the media headlines, the government used that handy distraction to bury some bad news a.o.:

- the abandonment of the daily press briefings (farewell Allegra Stratton) and the need for a £2.6M briefing room.

- the sacking by text of Johnny Mercer from the Defence Ministry because he was not going to resign until today.