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I have spoken a lot about the precedent set by the
#PrivilegesCommitteeReport

They found Boris guilty of lying about breaking rules at events that the Met Police deemed were necessary at the time he was at them. (Effectively telling him he broke the law, doing 40mph in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImageImage
Also using the precedent set in the #PrivilegesCommitteeReport his statement to the house:

‘I have not broken any rules’

Could be used by the House against any rule that he may have been found to have broken along the way even if the rules are deemed to have changed after the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImageImage
People are showing their tribal instincts here and it completely misses the point

I don’t give a monkeys whether Keir Starmer had a beer in Durham or not at this stage. It was two years ago!

I am using him to demonstrate just how far the new precedent… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jacob Rees Mogg, with your dumdum baby comments in a voice like a 70s character actor playing an animated drunken frog #PrivilegesCommitteeReport
"Your honour, the report is very mean about my friend, therefore it is invalid because he's a special little baby boy who has given me a medal"
Very sick of that 'I'm from Grimsby I am a good judge of character hun' woman going all 'mm yes you're right hun omg they're snakes hun'
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After reading the full 110 pages my overriding conclusion is that the Privileges Committee Report into whether Boris Johnson intentionally misled Parliament is a confused word salad of conjecture, contradiction and is rather misleading in and of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The basic conclusion of the Privilege Committee investigation is that they find Boris Johnson intentionally misled the house and, in so doing, is found in contempt of the house
Their initial ‘warning’ to BJ was that they were going to recommend a sanction of suspension that would be long enough to cause a recall petition in his constituency

Events then moved very quickly they increased their recommendations to 90 days&removal of his parliamentary pass
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