Johnson

It has now dropped to the 'my father is bigger than yours' level FFS

Yes Mark they were all Tory PM's but surely that is where any comparison ends. Thatcher, regardless of your political persuasions, was a serious politician - I rest my case. 

Totally....and its great! 

Shameless,  lying toe-rag at last exposed formally,   for what he is.

Of course, its all a conspiracy, fake news...just like that surrounding  the other arch cretin Trump..

The difference  here in the UK, is that he has been judged by his tory peers .We know that they overlooked his failings,  when things were going well., but soon as the cracks  showed, the knives were out.

In fairness however , some have continually  spoken out, and congratulations  to the Tories on the Standards and Privileges,  like Bernard Jenkin, and others,  for digging their heels in.

Trump, on the other hand had been backed by the shameless 

Republicans, many too frightened of the backlash from Grass root Republicans in their  area.

What a shower!!

One final point..and  in response to GPR's(always well balanced posts) point regarding Johnson, Truss and Thatcher. 

I totally agree with him that she was a 'serious ' politician in  comparison to the two clowns,  Johnson and Trump. 

In fairness,  things would Never have happened under her, that have happened under Johnson ', parties during lockdown,  lying about it, appointment  of a serial sex predadator as a minister,  and lying about it.Re -furbishing the Downing St flat, at a tory donors expense and lying about it , continually changing his story.Lying about Brexit, and what he  probably knew he could'nt deliver. 

Truss, we know   was down right incompetent .

What instigated  thus thread was the theory of the ' hide of a rhinoceros ', which is where I drew my comparisons between the three Tories.

As opposed two the other two buffoons,  Thatcher was efficient  in the way she went about things . Efficiently,  destroying  the fabric of Welsh communities,  from which they have have never recovered. 

This was based on her hard nose dogma, varied in the oven by her crackpot  mate Sir Keith Joseph.

She Efficiently  destroyed  the ethos of ' community ', we held so dear,

the very essence of what describe as civic pride, responsibility  to each other

Ask anyone of a certain age about Thatcher in places le Llanelli and Ammanford, your reply will be swift

On a day,in which we should ge concentrating  on the demise of Johnson,  I could go on and on, so I apologise for my rant.

Let's hope we can  now return to politics,  where,  whatever  your views wher standards matter,  and ethical code of behaviour,  matters. 

Telling the truth matters, how else can we build a credible society to hand on to our children and grandchildren.

We have huge problem facing us , particularly  global warming,  and the destruction  of the natural  world  as we know it.

There is an absolute necessity,  to have those in positions of authority,  not only to be capable , honest, but making hard decisions  in the best intrests for all of us( including the wider world),  not just the few.

I am not holding my breath  about the above sadly.

So a decision from a Tory majority committee they don't like they then respond to by attempting to bully their colleagues and even exclude them from their party?

Democracy when it suits them, eh? These individuals, most of whom show that they have been bought by Johnson by the "Sir" that has appeared in front of their names recently (not Dorries though!), know they are finished and appear quite happy to try and split their own party over it, which is completely fine by me.

The report is interesting reading BTW, very comprehensive and full of this "evidence" thing. The critics of it should read it sometime.

The fact that he can still command a following from some Tory ministers is just incredible, although a lot of it is probably down to the fact that they know that they are a busted flush and are desperate for the man who (allegedly) delivered a landslide win in the last GE all by himself, to come back and rescue the party and resolve the current financial crisis.

Bojo has for the first time in his life has been found out for what he is and more importantly has been sanctioned for it.  In the past he hasn’t been held accountable for any of his indiscretions and has been allowed to just move on.  This time is different, it’s been recommended that he is banned from the commons for 90 days and that he is not allowed to ever stand as an MP again - although these are just recommendations and the final decision will be decided by a vote in parliament next week (so nothing can be taken for granted).

I hope this is the last time we see him in position of extreme power/ public office and that he just crawls under a rock somewhere, but I don’t hold my breath.