UK Politics Thread

[Furunculus]

Boris Johnson changes rules so that being a lying **** doesn't carry with it an expectation to resign. Other changes include independent adviser no longer having power to launch investigation without the PM's permission.

So if the PM does something wrong, he is no longer expected to be penalised, and the independent investigator can only investigate with his permission. If the PM decides to be above investigation or accountability, then it is so.

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1530286112274534403

I got something stupidly WRONG. As @timd_IFG has pointed out. Willingly lying to parliament is still an offence where resignation is expected. That paragraph in the code has not been changed. Here it is: ? It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate nd truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity. Ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation to the Prime Minister ?. So if the PM were found to have ? knowingly mislead MPs, he would have to offer his resignation to himself. Sorry for getting that wrong.

not only is a significant proportion (of the alleged coarsening of political norms and institutions), invented behind performative outrage, another significant proportion [IS] that performative outrage; where calls for 'direct action' are fine, and every action is perceived through in the least charitable interpretation possible.