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14 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
One of the key questions about Johnson is: Can he be damaged? Or does that wink-wink image he's cultivated insulate him from political attack? Well it looks like the lobbying scandal might be about to answer it. politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
We've no way of knowing which way it'll go. Perhaps by this time next week it'll all have fizzled out, or maybe the damage will all focus on Cameron and the civil service.
But there are strong reasons to think that it can damage him, at the very least by providing a backdrop of Tory sleaze that make any future missteps more prominent.
I know the general Twitter disposition is Eeyore on amphetamines. 'He'll always get away with it, we're all doomed' etc. But the daily drip-feed of corruption stories does cut through. And everyone looks like they get away with it until they don't.

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And that's really it, isn't it. Quite apart from anything else, he's just just a cheap, tiny, superficial, self-interested little man. It's an embarrassment that we made him prime minister.
And even worse to think that this country chose him over a political heavyweight like Gordon Brown.
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Got a visitor. You'll have to excuse the squeals of delight from me and the missus.
And yes I know that back fence is a fucking state.
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Bookshops are open, thank the lord almighty. The finest retail experience in the history of humankind is possible once again.
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But failing that, just go buy a book, any book at all. Those shops have been struggling. And a high street without a bookshop is a sorrowful fucking place.
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There is something quite aggressively joyless about anti-pub Twitter (no, I didn't know it existed either).
If people are expressing how much they like something - whatever it is, Monet, steak, tulips, fucking Postman Pat - you can just let them do it without interrupting to point out how much you don't care.
Such a weird website. It's the equivalent to going up to two people on the street and screaming I DON'T FIND YOUR CONVERSATION INTERESTING.
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It's not even that I want to get back in a pub anymore. I mean... I do. I really fucking do. But that's not the main thing. It's that they're the sign of things being halfway normal. I really need them to be open in the background.
The first time they closed, it did a number on me. 'The pubs are closed in England' is a horrible statement. It's like the show-don't-tell shorthand for catastrophic national emergency.
The first point I had when lockdown eased was honestly akin to a moment of religious transcendence. Then when things started locking down again last autumn/winter, I was desperate for pubs to stay open.
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