If he doesn’t do it himself, will the queen intervene? I’m not sure how these things work…
I don’t know, he can’t go to the PMQ’s tomorrow surely .
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He’ll be chatting to an empty room at this rate 
It’ll be full to the rafters of bear baiters .
Gosh - Johnson may be gone by the time I get back to Blighty 
With those Senior cabinet members resigning, I’m sensing there may be a bit of Cabinet manoeuvring going on to get rid of Johnson and line up one of the others to take his place before Johnson causes any more damage - they must know that all their jobs would be on the line if they let the Joker carry on.
BJ “apologised” … but it’s to little, too late:
Boris Johnson has apologised for appointing Chris Pincher to a government role after being told about a misconduct complaint against the MP.
The PM admitted he had been told about the complaint in 2019 - but had made a “bad mistake” by not acting on it.
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In reality the old lizard has no power.
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Yeah, and she always strikes me as not really knowing what she is doing either…I don’t want to be mean, but she isn’t exactly quick, is she?
I couldn’t wait to fire up the laptop tonight to see what everyone was saying about this latest development…
Looks like Omah was right all the time…
Conservative councillor Daniel Cook told Channel 4 News that Mr Pincher, who has been suspended as a Tory MP, had groped him in 2005 and 2006.
Mr Cook, deputy mayor at Tamworth Council in Staffordshire, where Mr Pincher is an MP, said he had lodged a complaint with the Conservative Party.
Another tip to the iceberg … 
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now let me see if I have got this straight?:
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all our elected ministers in parliament who go around chatting away with each other ; having drinks at the bars and groping away and if complained about and often get away with it whilst
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the rest of us in private life - working as bank managers down to the lowly dock workers are not allowed to drink alcohol at work and not allowed to go around groping each other?
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She up there who must be obeyed doesn’t not whether she is martha or arthur or head of the church of not and can drink when she bloody well feels like? and can have a scratch when she wants?
can some check my spelling I would hate to mislead you all?
pleb
Seems a fair appraisal to me Gumbud, what happens in a private club should stay in the private club…Hence the name…
I disagree.
The Carlton Club used to be The Conservative Central Office and although they have moved their Central Office, the Club is still used for political discussions in a social setting.
Membership of The Carlton Club almost goes hand in hand with the job of being a Tory MP, so it’s rather like an extension of their workplace, with Ministers, MPs and Party Managers gathering there for political discussions.
People should not have to put up with being groped by drunks, just because it’s a private members club.
Members still have to obey the law and behave decently or they deserve to be called out on their behaviour and deal with the consequences.
The former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour was a reluctant member of the The Carlton Club, complaining of the club in the early 1900s.
“The Carlton is a beastly club… but it must be suffered like long hours and constituents as a necessary though disagreeable accompaniment of a political career.”
(My answer to the other two complaints he made would be - if you don’t like the hours or dealing with Constituents, don’t stand for election as an MP!)
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It was just a throwaway comment Boot. But these private clubs do seem to conjour up a sleazy picture from what has gone off in the past…
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All the more reason for calling out the sleazy or lawless behaviour and driving it out, instead of continuing to cover it up, I’d say!
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You will never drive it out Boot, it might go quiet for a while but when all the ingredients come together…(money, power, and an ageing group of men) it will inevitably happen. It always has, but now the media can capitalise on it better.
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I don’t think you will ever stop humans behaving badly but if we take the attitude that we’ll never stop it so why bother to investigate it and hold people to account for their bad behaviour, it sends the message that it’s OK.
That is how all those paedophiles got away with abusing kids in chiidren’s homes for so long because nobody wanted to stand up and speak out.
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like on here too
I think that might deserve a thread on it’s own Boot. I don’t think it’s relevant with Mr Pincher.
How else would he find consenting adults if he didn’t touch a few up occasionally. Not all of them would have complained.
I hope this was meant as a terrible joke and not actually serious?
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