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Quality journalism from The Scotsman. Two-question headline that answer each other.

Perhaps we ought to have more canned billionaires.

Piss off, you vacuous goon. You hide behind parliamentary privilege as much as the next HoC troll.

“Veteran politician”/“party grandee”: a person who will tell the truth about the government or President/PM etc. the moment it ceases to be of any benefit to the demos, or require any courage at all.

Hey friends, I’m in a bad place right now.

Not mentally; I live in Britain.

UK Politics 

Hello Tory MPs.

You may be feeling very virtuous after voting for the #PartyGate report yesterday.

But you're not fooling anyone. You don't get to claim to be suddenly in favour of integrity when you were perfectly happy to support Johnson at the time he was lying.

Waiting until you get caught before you come out in favour of integrity doesn't count.

#BorisJohnson #Integrity #PrivilegesCommittee

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-659

#UkPol #PrivilegesCommittee 

The world truly is topsy-turvy when even Andrea Loathsome is making some sense.

At 16:37 on 19_06_23 Hansard will record without qualification, correction, or retraction that Thangam Debbonaire said "Boris Johnson lied."

That is a first.

#partygate

Not sure who Sunak believes he could “influence” that doesn’t have at least one cogent thought in their head. Dorries, perhaps, but she’s nailed her faded wine-stained colours to an already sunk mast.

Class: Bard
Weapons: Ring binder hole reinforcer and marker pen
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Can’t say I disagree with this terse assessment of Stanley Johnson.

It's fucking insane how addicted corporations have become to #tracking everything you do, everything you look at, everything you type, everything you think about.

They've gotten so brazen about it. Shit like this - the #Microsoft #Edge browser routing every image through some "AI enhancer" that also tracks what you're viewing - is now a default setting. I suppose at least people who use Edge can opt out, for now, if they know to.

We need #privacy legislation so badly.

neowin.net/news/edge-sends-ima

The Scots language needs its own equivalent to “siesta”, but with various ancillaries to cover the existence of midges, taps-aff, the haar, Irn Bru/Buckfast, etc.

UK Politics 

OK, so the Privileges Committee found that Johnson had not only lied to Parliament, he'd also lied to the Committee.

Now, maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but didn't he testify to the Committee under oath?

I wonder if the Committee will have the balls to refer him to the police for perjury?

bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politic

#BorisJohnson #PrivilegesCommittee

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