I’ve just read the ‘special report’ from the #PrivilegesCommittee

You can read it yourself here.

Thankfully this one is relatively short



I have a few issues with it… 🧐🧵👇committees.parliament.uk/publications/4… Firstly: their fourth report stated it was specifically authorised to look at @BorisJohnson and no one else

So where is their mandate from the house to criticise multiple MPs/Lords and even @ConsPost ??

Their mandate was also limited to what was said in the House and yet this… https://t.co/Ha5gTwCCTntwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🧵#PrivilegesCommitteeReport

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

Here is @RishiSunak telling the HoC that he did not attend any parties

Yes he was asked about a specific event but that doesn’t matter to the #privilegescommittee hearing for @BorisJohnson

One rule for one and another for another??

That sounds fair 🙄

independent.co.uk/tv/news/rishi-… An exact carbon copy and I have yet to find any link of Sunak correcting the record at all

Did he?

He may’ve done but…🤷‍♀️

Oh my word!!! 😱😱😱😱😱

Suddenly everything is starting to make sense…

👀😱👇 #SueGrayGate

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… Couple that with this:

And you start to understand how we got to where we are now! 😱👀😱👇

#SueGrayGate

For once I’m ‘threadless’

Where to begin…??? 😱👀🫣

https://twitter.com/joerichlaw/status/1633123722260250625

Did #SueGray gather the evidence and report the facts of gatherings in Downing Street or did she set the narrative and set the wheels in motion to oust a democratically elected PM? 🧵👇

Was she motivated by her politics or did she simply report the facts? There were parties - no one is denying that but was her first report prejudicial and was it even necessary?

Imo there are two main aspects of her first report that I find troubling

(FTR the second report I have no issue with- the damage was already done imo by the first)

Now we get onto what @BorisJohnson said in the HoC that could be held to be ‘misleading’

Worth noting that what he was actually asked is as important as what he then said in response

When you’re asked a specific question you answer that question

#SueGray #PrivilegesCommittee Dec1st 2020 from PC 👇

Boris Johnson said:

‘…all guidance was followed completely in no 10’

As per the #PrivilegesCommittee initial report

But

Let’s look at what he was actually asked…

So now they get into the actual substance taking each event that received fines for anyone at anytime

I am going to simply put their description for each event alongside what #SueGray said Boris’ presence and involvement was

May 20th 2020-BYO Email
No fine for Boris

PC/SG 👇 19th June 2020

The one @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak got fined for

PC/SG 👇

So I’ve started reading the report from the privileges committee.

It’s a severe case of moving the goal posts from lying about parties to being reckless about social distancing

I’m going to create a thread as I go through it so it will take time 🧵 1/?

#borisjohnson #partygate Firstly the link to the report:
#PrivilegesCommittee

committees.parliament.uk/committee/289/…

Examples of Adam Wagner- who you may recall was constantly on @gmb @skynews etc pushing the narrative that it was all about the PM based off #SueGray interim report in January 2022

https://twitter.com/shepherdwales/status/1631610418136244226?s=46&t=hlDGVDi2l9G7-WW_FgRU8w

https://twitter.com/shepherdwales/status/1631598707832487936

Also evidence from the Good Law Project themselves that they threatened the @metpoliceuk with being sued if they didn’t investigate #partygate
All in build up to initial #SueGray report.

There is no doubt that there were parties(in the traditional sense)within WM during the covid pandemic

I don’t doubt the evidence contained within #SueGray reports

I say reports because she released two

One when @metpoliceuk took over and one at end 🧵👇 1/? What never sat right with me in #SueGray ‘s report was that the evidence contained in the final report showed that Boris was barely at these events AND YET

2.

.@BorisJohnson has raised concerns about @RishiSunak’s new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland and said he will find it “very difficult” to vote for it.

Thread 🧵👇1/6

#WindsorAgreement
#WindsorFramework In a Westminster speech, the former prime minister said:
‘I’m going to find it very difficult to vote for something like this myself, because I believed we should’ve done something very different. No matter how much plaster came off the ceiling in Brussels.

2/6

Anyone angry at @MattHancock for covid restrictions needs to read about Manaus in Brazil

Anyone angry at @MattHancock for having an affair&breaking own rules-planks and splinters

Anyone angry at @MattHancock for CH deaths need to read the published report for perspective 🧵1/3 Angry at not being allowed to a funeral? A shop? School?
The people of Manaus would’ve loved to have had a leader who didn’t call them sissys and who enforced some infection control to prevent them attending loved ones funerals

scientificamerican.com/article/a-city…

I believe the key to the past years events lie in the Richmond constituency&a few men in grey suits that have been on manoeuvres towards this moment for a few years

Boris was only allowed to be PM to end Brexit

The men in Richmond had a master plan that’s now come to fruition🧵 When I was at my local hustings I was sat chatting to two aids of @trussliz who explained to me that the constituency of Richmond has a long history of getting their MPs to high office and they wanted a PM

The association being a big hitter of influence within the party

So…

Well I’ve just read the #SueGray report and it’s absolutely clear that Blackford has not read it yet

As far as the PM is concerned it’s clear the accusations levelled against him were exaggerated and that the main responsibility lied with Civil servants

A few observations… Purpose intent within emails to wait for PM to leave… 👇

A few points on the #NIProtocol that some U.K. commentators would do well to reflect on 🧵

1) the NIP was signed as part of the WA alongside the Political Declaration before the trade deal was agreed

It was agreed before the 2019 GE under conditions of Benn Act

Signed post GE 2) The PD states that any future trade deal should protect the internal markets of both the EU and the UK

The current implementation of it by the EU is only protecting the internal market of the EU and undermining the UKs

@sandieshoes @Keir_Starmer .@GuidoFawkes

We’ve ascertained he made a promotional video that day:30.5.21 with Mary Foe - indoors no masks

He toured a construction site on the 1.5.21-no social distancing and he invited voters into his office on 2.5.21

But he isn’t Boris so that’s ok🙄

#durhampartygate

https://twitter.com/DeniseMembery/status/1518597895255117824

@sandieshoes @Keir_Starmer @GuidoFawkes 1.5.21

https://twitter.com/ShepherdWales/status/1518620471557861379