Utterly delusional Tory MPs defend Boris Johnson during debate on Partygate report findings

As the Commons debated whether to accept the findings of the Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson misleading Parliament over Partygate, we were treated to some absolutely unhinged contributions from some Conservative MPs who are inexplicably still on team BoJo.
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[@DoctorBastard]

They defend him even though he'd throw them all under the bus in a second if it benefited him.

[@WolvesLoyalty]

It's bad enough that they broke the rules by partying, but mocking the public and showing they knew they were breaking the rules is discusting and totally unacceptable 😠

[@factstrumpprejudice6740]

Fortunately you first need to have a mind in order to lose it.

[@eileenpritchard9154]

​@Terry ABSOLUTELY, it was al. A lie.

[@leroysimon5692]

👍🏾

[@wobblywally-0]

Clown shoes in here. If it was a lie, why is it on 100s of thousands of death certificates up and down the country? They should be punished for contempt of their own rules but don't lose sight of the real issue and resort to conspiratorial nonsense.

[@icebergrose8955]

The queen couldn't sit with her family when her husband died. These people are entitled scum.

[@marka2520]

A trivial sanction? Boris blocked the former speaker from getting an honour just because he thought the speaker wasn't on his side.

[@markpedley6133]

If it's so trivial a sanction then he doesn't need to get upset about it does he.

[@marka2520]

@@countfosco8535 it's not his first name.

[@Matt-cz6ti]

What an amazing coincidence that all the MPs who stood up to defend this human offal were given honours in his resignation list ...

[@combatwombat2134]

The best one so far was that spineless fucking rodent Gove absolutely refusing to say whether the two at the Tory HQ who were on the Honours List should have their names struck from it. What could they POSSIBLY have to on / to offer Gove to keep his mouth so firmly shut. 😂

[@eileenpritchard9154]

ABSOLUTELY.

[@robertcottam8824]

'Human offal'. I like that.

[@andyaim4764]

Vile creatures

[@alfching2499]

This out of date insane asylum should be pulled down it's history has been completely ruined by the kind of people that attend it

[@tashday9662]

All these people are showing is that they have no right to be in their positions. All of them should be kicked out immediately,

[@johnmccann5104]

Sooner rather than later ideally 😉🇬🇧

[@maxcuthbert100]

Especially the odious JRM.

[@travelwell6049]

The entire system needs to be scrapped and rewritten. We have a de-Mock-racy

[@robertcottam8824]

ALL of them? Don't be so silly, poppet. 🙄

[@maxcuthbert100]

@@robertcottam8824 Too,too many.

[@knottybogeye6387]

Very worrying, Tories had the audacity to drag our NHS nurses through courts.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

I absolutely support the nurses (and Doctors and all my NHS colleagues) but I do believe that the RCN knew that the strike date was illegal and judged that either the government would take them to court, which results in Tories taking Nurses to court - bad look for the government, or results in the government not dating to do so and the nurses getting the full strike. The cynic in me thinks that they hoped for it to go to court though as it certainly helped with awareness and didn't gain the government many supporters!!

[@adrianfielding4678]

@@adrianhjordan1981 Your interpretation is logical until one considers that the nurses/RCN didn't need to pull a stunt like that to garner the attention and support they already had and have.

[@willtricks9432]

Honors for the Party loving Tories, Court cases for medics who worked through the Virus, had poor PPE, put their own families at risk and many died.

[@georgefuters7411]

​@@adrianhjordan1981I don't believe the RCN had a choice, after 12 years of Tory austerity slashed the basic wages of everyone outside the upper echelons of business to the point where the rise in the cost of living became a crisis for the majority. The intransigence of the Tory government and their refusal to negotiate with all groups looking to protect their members led to the consequences we observed. Strange that the Scottish parliament could negotiate with teaches, nurse, rail workers etc and largely avoid the strikes that plagued our southern brethren 🤔🙄🥴🙉🙈🙊

[@noodles8203]

Good enough for the tiktok clapping fools.

[@AngelicusImmortus]

Jacob Rees-Mogg is just an excuse for a politician. Now titled by Boris, he’s so self important, it’s amazing they can fit his ego into the chamber.

[@TheShortCon]

His nanny carries it in for him.

[@robbuelens]

He's really really dumb but confident.

[@JohnMartin-oh6bf]

He’s also useless,like Johnson.

[@chrisgoblin4857]

@@robbuelens A dangerous combination

[@vickymc9695]

He looks like a slapped arse when Harret answers

[@1980jamesm]

Broken system, and it needs to change. These MPs dont represent the public anymore, they represent themselves.

[@clementsphil]

I think on this particular vote at least the vast majority represented the thoughts of the entire country. The seven who still regard Bozo as some sort of Messiah are an irrelevance

[@HarryFlowerrs]

They never represented their constituents!

[@wilsonmanch6773]

Exactly. These clowns has no shame except protecting their own elite kind.

[@DACatface]

​@@clementsphiland the many who failed to attend because they were 'busy'

[@markcarnall3249]

They represent their corporate donors you mean. We need strictly enforced public funding only, for political parties. The lobbying is out of control, they must not be allowed to buy influence. This is why politics is broken.

[@shady2322]

Boris, who told us every night do not meet anyone, stay at home, see nobody, did not realise having drinks parties with people was not part of the guidance.... the gaslighting really is off the scale.

[@alexanderde-sowah857]

Was he there with them?

[@Anonymous-xl7fm]

Yes he was there withthem! Keep up!

[@milsub59]

Johnson ...pleb

[@wleon4068]

​@alexanderde-sowah857 Yes he was.

[@dimsoneill]

They describe him like he is a 3-year old toddler with no self control of awareness of his surroundings. Oh wait.....

[@maxharbig1167]

It's a circus but the clowns aren't funny any longer.

[@seriousoldman8997]

Clowns are never funny, just various degrees of scary.

[@littlewoodimp]

The arrogant lounging of Mogg really grinds my gears. It's nice to see him genuinely pissed off though. Ruffled feathers much? You can practically see his tiny blackened heart pounding in his pigeon chest .

[@johnmoore9862]

The image of him laying on the front bench would make a good opposition party poster at the next general election.

[@MrDavey2010]

These MPs are unfit to be in the Commons. Their arguments are disingenuous & wholly perverse!

[@evelynwoolston7]

Harriet Harman spoke well.

[@connerbrown9567]

Hope they’re constituents are watching this charade, “honesty accountability and integrity” yea right 😂

[@finlybenyunes8385]

Spineless Richie Soontax wasn't even in attendance... a born No.2 🐖

[@adrianhjordan1981]

Weirdly Mogg's constituents genuinely seemed to like him when I lived there. Baffling as a lot of them are in the very groups most hurt by policies he supports!!

[@johnmoore9862]

@@adrianhjordan1981. His constituency has a nano gene pool.

[@guymasterson6767]

Rees Mogg defines everything that is abhorrent about Tory self-servitude - desperately protecting his hoped for elevation to the HOL.

[@S-I-T]

Harmen putting Mogg in his place beautifully.

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

You could see how much she wanted to tell him to go fuck himself. I can only applaud her restraint.

[@S-I-T]

@@uniquerebeljaney3639 He's the very essence of condescending. I'll be glad when he finally disappears up his own ar$ehole.

[@rowancrew2934]

I have absolutely no respect for any Tory MP but these who speak for Johnson are the lowest of the low.And Sunak once again has shown his true colours.

[@Silver-st2zq]

Same here.

[@philiplewis9825]

Yes he's chicken out

[@raylexa]

I think Boris has dirt on sunak that's why he wasn't there

[@benshakespeare5159]

What colours he's too scared to pick any?!

[@hidusb]

You should add all the tories who abstained from voting. They are tacitly supporting the liar.

[@seberdee8824]

So under Bill Cash's logic nobody can be found guilty of a crime unless they are previously told by a lawyer that it was in fact a crime ,ignorance of the law is not a crime!

[@10gimp39]

Never spoken to a lawyer so off to rob a bank if caught I will claim this defence 😂

[@mister3566]

He needs to resign too.

[@JayGee6996]

He was clearly reading verbatim what a lawyer had said which was basically ‘a-ha, but look at this loophole I found.’ His claim was that the vote to initiate the investigation was based on the statement that Boris had lied, but to initiate the investigation, you have to knowingly lie.. so even though he was found to knowingly lie, Bill is saying that because it started from the statement that Boris lied, it means the outcome of the investigation is null and void.. great attempt at a last ditch effort to discredit the report but not quite enough!

[@jeffreybresnahan]

"Ignorance of the law" is not accepted as a defence, in any British Court of Law.

[@just_some_guy_on_the_internet]

@@mister3566 Cash is standing down at the next election.

[@lesleywright2823]

Sickening how the totally indefensible can be defended 😡

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Yep, but on the other side, only nine people out of 600+ felt moved to defend it. These are the handful of people who have ruined the economy, attempted to dismantle democracy and fostered an even greater public mistrust of politicians. Rees-Mogg thinks he is defending Dunkirk but he’s actually defending Dresden.

[@darrengavin6197]

Mogg talking about free speech and China is hilarious. People can't protest or yell in public without fear or arrest.

[@alexbuckenham1663]

No, you misunderstand, he doesn't mean that we plebs should have free speech. Only the elite can have rights in his world.

[@stephenfulford222]

Surely the point about BJ's criticism is that he did so when he had received the report in confidence. In confidence because it had yet to be shared with the House and therefore before it was debated by the House. To comment was therefore to create prejudice. This was his contempt

[@OrcusMaximus]

Mogg is such a hypocrite.

[@robertcottam8824]

Mogg is simply the lowest specimen of the self-appointed ruling class. I thank God for him and his silliness. He is a poppet; no more, no less. Worse, despite his advantages, he is no scholar and his Latin is shit.

[@robertcottam8824]

Essentially, having known this dolt for the best part of forty years, he's as thick as a fæcal disaster after a night in a semi-disastrous curry in Thick Lane.

[@gillraven-pipes4930]

The lies are beyond belief! There are even more photos of them dancing and drinking, so no one believes a word the Tories say!

[@czgibson3086]

Remember this when it's time to vote.

[@john_mega]

the party told them to ignore the evidence of their ears and eyes

[@nikitamckeever5403]

Why do they refer to themselves as honourable , there is not honour amongst thieves is there 😡

[@johnrowland3105]

Living proof that no matter the evidence some will want Johnson no matter what he's proven to have done.

[@raylexa]

Because he's filling their pockets

[@barbaraarndt5293]

The cult of Boris.

[@mysystem8961]

I have never personally met a Tory voter with a moral compass, so this was expected from them. The only thing that surprised me slightly was to learn how spinless Sunak is.

[@wilfullness]

Me either. I have never even met a nice Tory. The clues in the name. Conserve. To seek to keep things the way they are. And who benefits from that eh. Selfservitives.

[@mysystem8961]

@@wilfullness you had me at "CON" as they say🤣🤣🤣 Apparently "Tory" comes from old Irish for thief.

[@ozzie2612]

you only just learning how spineless the prime miniature is ....wow

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

What strikes me, from the evidence here, is that these MPs are not very bright.

[@delgray1442]

None of them are bright. They ALL treat the voters with discontempt. They all lie. Some are more blatant than others. There is also inconsistency between the police forces in the UK with regards to being fined for breaches of lockdown. The met police are hackhanded and fining people left right and centre whereas Durham police do not fine for breaches of lockdown. Every one knows keir starmet and angels rayner breached lockdown in Durham but did not get fined otherwise Dominic Cummings would have been fine. Wonder if the met police would have fined keir starmer and Angela rayner if beergate happened in London? Plus these two lied to the public and parliament about her attendance in Durham. Will Harriet harman carry out an investigation on that?

[@ftumschk]

The worst of them, Lia Nici and Nick Fletcher, were part of that 2019 intake who only got into Parliament when formerly staunch Labour constituencies lost their minds and voted Tory, all because of their rabid desire to "Get Brexit Done".

[@milsub59]

the Tories , you mean?

[@amc8241]

The former lecturer certainly came across as less than

[@JB-Thatisme]

Natural born lying/privileged bastards that have the top schooling..but there's zero common sense.

[@dgnoel4180]

The Cult of Personality personified. Bozo has missed a trick not starting his own breakaway religion... yet

[@magyarbrit5631]

Johnson is definitely a Cult.

[@mrdaveythebaby]

Too much like hard work for him.

[@johnmoore9862]

Bojologists, worshipping at the altar of lies, greed, contempt, corruption, & filth.

[@ragerancher]

Bill Cash looks like a bloody spitting image puppet, no extra work required there.

[@markc8956]

Nia's constituents must be thick to have her as their MP

[@grahamtaylor8080]

Finally, i have said it before, i know i will go to my grave knowing that I have never voted Tory in my life. This brightens my day everyday 😊

[@ianlunn1521]

Good man!

[@johnmoore9862]

Very good man!

[@johnbecaus8324]

They could support Bo Jo far better by resigning their seats, they won’t do it because of their MPs salary they get for doing very little whilst doing a full time job that they are not qualified for elsewhere

[@markus_aurelius_888]

Well said

[@sandyellis28]

Plus they do it for power - and abuse of power

[@nigelandrews5617]

Well said!

[@LaReynedEpee]

So true. There's no other job you can get which requires no knowledge, skills or competency. All you have to do is get enough votes.

[@nigelandrews5617]

@@LaReynedEpee so true!

[@kevinmcguire1049]

Johnson was so confident in his position having seen the report in confidence he resigned and ran. The 90 day suspension was in large part due to his advanced unapproved disclosure of the report to the press. He's a coward and liar, and the MP's who found it convenient to be elsewhere for the vote show the contempt they have for Parliament and the British people. Brexit was in part about Parliamentary sovereignty and today Johnson saw that in action. I'm not sure that's what the leave campaign meant when they came up with the slogan, any more than the 350million on the side of the bus for the NHS.

[@craftaholic9897]

Defending the indefensible, if it wasn't so serious it would be laughable! Note the MP's who abstained or who are pro-Bojoke at the general election! Barking mad springs to mind!

[@eileenpritchard9154]

ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.

[@garethfitzpatrick3932]

Rishi didn’t vote…he was too busy apparently (or spineless)

[@AntSudbury-tv3we]

Especially that Grimsby one

[@AntSudbury-tv3we]

The rat faced one ,has no backbone ,,

[@LaReynedEpee]

​@@garethfitzpatrick3932He's as prone to hiding to avoid things as Bojo in the fridge days

[@peter844]

If these people are willing to back a person ( Johnson.) who is clearly a liar they should be removed from their position in Parliament.

[@Will46666]

So, you believe that politicians do not lie ? Unless it’s Boris ?

[@jamesriley3760]

Politicians that lie and mislead the house should be removed and this would have happened to Boris, but as was predictable, he chickened out, threw his toys out of the pram, and he will NEVER be able to come back from having done this. He is a disgrace, a stain on our nations history. A stumbling idiot! That man has no place in our future. He has lied, and lied and lied and lied again.

[@ahartify]

MPs like Rees-Mogg would be perfectly at home in Putin's Kremlin 'parliament.'

[@vishmaster09]

If a member of public had a gathering they would have gotten in trouble. They couldn't use the excuse that they didn't understand the rules because they didn't have lawyers. They got fined on the spot

[@beckiebeckiebeck]

Rees-Mogg standing up and talking about free speech. Has he forgotten about this? “A chemical weapons expert has been disinvited from giving a keynote speech at a UK-run expert conference after civil servants discovered social media posts he wrote criticising Conservative ministers and government migration policy. Dan Kaszeta is one of at least eight speakers banned from government events by an opaque vetting scheme introduced by Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2022, a policy that the banned expert described as an attack on free speech.”

[@johnmccann5104]

If they actually thought about what they were saying instead of thinking how they can benefit from their position, Britain would be in a much better place than it currently is 😉🇬🇧

[@HShango]

Wow, that's a new one 👀🧐

[@OrcusMaximus]

To think many forlock tuggers wanted Mogg for PM.

[@allip4226]

It’s not cancel culture when we do it! - Tory MPs.

[@errolcostin631]

@@johnmccann5104 well said.

[@keithrodgers1030]

This situation is an absolute replica of what’s happening in the USA. The same liars following the same MO being used on both sides of the pond.

[@LaReynedEpee]

Very likely directed by the same actors.

[@johnburrows3385]

No doubt if the Privileges Committee reported about a misdemeanor by Diane Abbott Mogg would be full of praise for their work .

[@thodystack]

If I robbed a bank and it was caught on camera, I then said 'I didn't do it" Ive asked around and to the best of anybody knowledge I didn't do it. Would that make me innocent yet suddenly rich?

[@trevfindley5704]

Depends if you're a Tory, and whether you've robbed a bank or an entire country...

[@Aviertje]

That depends. Are you a conservative donor?

[@sandyellis28]

Plus you can always say you were advised to do it and followed guidance completely and at all times while doing bank job😮

[@oystercatcher943]

Nobody told me it was illegal

[@ColourfulAnimals]

Who lets Jacob masquerade as an upstanding member of parliament?

[@garethjenkins5922]

Some people in Somerset who must have imbibed so much cider they lost their minds.

[@garethjenkins5922]

Cap doffers in Somerset.

[@adolforodolfo6929]

He's got a lot of kids, so as parliamentary members go, his must have been upstanding a few times in the past. Is "parliamentary member" a euphemism for prick?

[@jusrob1942]

GENERAL ELECTION!

[@martinobrien7110]

The people of North Somerset , do your Duty .

[@HShango]

If they vote Tory again, then forget that constituency

[@adrianhjordan1981]

​@@HShangoSadly they more than likely will. For some bizarre reason they like him. Though isn't he stepping down??

[@cammyreid469]

I'm watching ants crawling around a shitty toilet 🙄

[@BuIIetBiII]

Hearing Jacob Rees Mogg's smug posh accent makes my eyes roll so much I now need glasses

[@mcgoverg1]

I’m not prone to violence but I’ll happily make an exception for Mogg. He has a face I’d never tire of slapping

[@adrianhjordan1981]

​@@mcgoverg1Careful, he'll set Nanny on you!! 😝

[@johnmoore9862]

@@mcgoverg1. I’m so with you on that.

[@oystercatcher943]

“None so blind as those who will not see”. Great use!

[@ThomasKing19933]

Only a coward would defend Johnson.

[@user-kv5fv2nv7o]

Or maybe quite the opposite.

[@HShango]

@@user-kv5fv2nv7o nah...only cowards.

[@thuzzwhistle1028]

Morons would too

[@yddraigoch]

"contiau pob un " in God's language! Dirty, stinking ones at that 😡

[@Will46666]

I will defend him.

[@rajarshiraychaudhuri3106]

The House owes an apology to Dawn Butler.

[@milsub59]

Hoyle does !

[@Mechtec500]

Also to Ian Blackford (SNP) who called out the liar!

[@oakabielb5406]

Imagine how embarrassing it must be to have any of these people as your MP

[@RankinMsP]

It's terrible. I've lived in a Tory majority constituency under Thatcher and it was demoralising. It was pointless even trying to talk to those suffering under the Tories. Depressing.

[@countfosco8535]

We are lucky enough to live in a decent constituency, but imagine a majority of your neighbours voted for one of these Tombliboos. What would you do?

[@pollytickle8346]

She is MP in my town. She is invisible, she is awful.

[@Jennifer-xw7dw]

@@pollytickle8346 Wish she had the superpower of silence too. Poor you, hopefully not for too much longer.

[@countfosco8535]

@@pollytickle8346 Imagine ...

[@owenrichards1418]

If perception mattered, then Johnson would never have been elected in the first place.

[@smileytall]

Well that was like watching the political edition of Father Ted, with multiple Dougal's.

[@annem5899]

And Ricky G the office .

[@ianlunn1521]

You don't want to be doing that,Ted!😂

[@LaReynedEpee]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g37MfKycmZubd5I

[@jakefowler8522]

Someone slap that smug look off of mogg.

[@adolforodolfo6929]

Impossible - it's early-onset rigor mortis (if only.....)

[@lyseight1l991]

Regarding Cash: is he real? Do people really vote for him? As for Rees-Mogg, why is he given airspace? A Commons Pass - its withdrawal a trivial matter? I wonder what he said when it was refused for John Bercow. Rees-Mogg has gone far too far on such slim intellectual capacity.

[@bayleafdog]

Cash has been like that for years

[@johnmoore9862]

& Rees-Mogg’s constituency has a very small gene pool.

[@topgunner7082]

Demonstrates how far ,as a nation ,we have fallen

[@normanclark933]

Where are the tumbrils when they are needed?

[@beomgguks970]

Funny that Rees Mogg vehemently supports Boris but didn't extend that far enough to vote in his favour to reject the findings of the Committee. Seems to me like he fakes his convictions to but has to keep up a pretence in light of Boris giving him a knighthood.

[@alexritchie4586]

My laywer told me that theft is legal so I'm off to burgle Bill Cash's house.

[@simonbamford8441]

Cultists.

[@GerryT.]

They are as bad as Trumps loony fanclub.

[@michaelpearce9593]

That is better than being a "loony leftie", the lowest of the low.

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

Lying to the public needs to be a criminal offence if an MP. There beeds to be serious consequences for lying as its extremely dangerous for the council as a whole that we can trust our MPs not to lie.

[@SteveEvansFilms]

He lied throughout the Brexit campaign...he never stopped lying!

[@johnmoore9862]

He told the truth once, just once, & he still gets nosebleeds when he has the flashbacks.

[@michaelcoward1902]

They arent delusional, quite the opposite: They know EXACTLY what they are doing. They KNOW that the only chance they have of remaining in front line politics is with Johnson...no other conservative administration would be stupid or desperate enough to put them anywhere but the furthest back benches.

[@elfboy29]

You see the party line has pathetically morphed into blaming the unelected officials to deflect from MP's now, and PM's. Patsy is the word for that. And young, I heard that a few times. Ah they're young. You can imagine the strategists huddling together to come up with this stuff. Just wow every day now.

[@LG-jn5fx]

There is a legal principle called Nelsonion blindness. If this had been in a Civil court he would have certainly been found guilty.

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

Well,well,well,Harriet Harman asked the Government if she should stand aside because of the infamous tweets,and they said carry on.Kept her powder dry all this time to give sanctimonious Jacob Rees Mogg a glorious broadside. Well done Harriet!

[@davidlewis1787]

JRM pointing is just plain rude. What an oik.

[@a.westenholz4032]

Though I've always considered context to be important as to how rude or not any gesture was, pointing as well, the fact that it can generally be thought so and in such a formal context as a parliamentary debate- yup plain rude. As my aunt would tell me as a child, that just isn't done.

[@johnmoore9862]

I’d have thought his nanny would have brought him up better.

[@sergiodbd]

I don’t see how taking away the parliamentary pass is vindictive… he quit, fleeing from a suspension, I don’t think anyone under those circumstances should be allowed black in the building 👀

[@Gwalion]

Mogg - try going into a court of law and telling a judge ne carries an egregious bias and he sits in a kangaroo court - that's entirely different to suggesting the court got something wrong....but that's what Johnson did and he has been rightly censured for it.

[@efy5aru]

how sad to see our country turning into a crappier version of the US. Thanks bojo n farage

[@mdanni4741]

Only 7 MPs voted for BoJo 😂

[@davidchamberlain5425]

Each of these seven so called mps constituencies should beg for a bye election!! Immediately.....NOW...

[@josiecoleman8986]

Probably the seven dwarfs they thought he was snow white

[@markus_aurelius_888]

​@@josiecoleman8986 😂😂😂👍

[@blackbearish]

there were a lot of mps who didn't vote at all, and our pm didn't attend the vote at all. they should all be ashamed.

[@martinbootneck]

@@josiecoleman8986 PMSL at this brilliant comment 🤣👍🏼

[@peterdawkins8836]

We need a general election simple as that !

[@ianlunn1521]

We do,but we don't need SIR!

[@TheSynthnut]

But she doesn't humiliate herself as she is utterly shameless and deluded. She describes herself as a good judge of character even and yet cannot see how Johnson has lied throughout his entire career and personal life. It's a sorry state of affairs...

[@pollytickle8346]

Oh, she knows Johnson, she is shameless, and wants her name /foto, known in the newspapers & TV. She is a terrible MP after fame.

[@thecommonsensechannel6268]

Just seen the results 7 people actually voted to reject the report- I’m guessing these tories are in that 7

[@bayleafdog]

Mogg abstained.

[@brianwilkinson6891]

They really cannot see that this is killing them

[@AngelicusImmortus]

What a surprise, old Moggy has to try and undermine her. His pomposity knows no bounds. He knew full well that she had acted properly. He was just being an ass, As to the rest only they know what on earth they are thinking. Maybe deluded enough to believe they will get some kind of title from defending the proven liar. They haven’t read the report, they have been told what to say and they say it, irrespective of the truth. Backing him now is just some kind of insanity.

[@AbaddayofRain12]

They are all a disgrace, how they can stand up in a public forum beats me!!

[@ivansmith540]

His colleagues all look a little embarrassed as Mr Fletcher reads off three words from each prompt card.

[@mrtt7972]

Tories showing their true colours.

[@dominicparker6124]

This is business as usual

[@stephenlaw9827]

Mad Tory MPs😂😂😂

[@themintleaf1778]

Those who defended Boris were hoping for his comeback as PM to get their high positions back in the Government. Specially Rees-Mogg who cannot stand Rishi. He wanted Boris back for his own gains. He is so odd just like his name.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

Mogg doesn't like that someone who is not white has more money AND power than him!!!

[@eugenenoonan1886]

Rishi is brown so you can imagine what Rees mogg thinks of that.Mogg is nothing but a scumbag .

[@wilsonmanch6773]

Half of them are racist snobbish elitist who went to elite schools. Born in elite white families who can’t stand other races coming and doing well in uk. Sorry. World has move past that long time ago.

[@vickymc9695]

They're probably hoping their pictures of them are the parties doesn't come out

[@danny117fc]

make sure this is played during the general election and make sure these people are never allowed to make a mockery of justice for the thousand of people who did not get to say goodbye

[@andybullemor-music5928]

He must have something on this lot. I mean how can you defend what he has done with any real credence?

[@user-te9pu1ox6j]

These MPs should know that Boris was destroyed by the misuse of his own power and behaviour

[@kdato774]

They are not only delusional. They are also naive. They are not fit to represent.

[@naztubes]

These upstanding people can do no wrong! What great examples they set out for justifying the unjustifiable. Beyond reproach by default.

[@davidlatham8630]

The vote was 354 to 7, and the PM du jour was a no show.

[@danielkeating4821]

Roughly a third of the house abstained. I am quite disappointed, this is important & to me, they have abandoned the responsibility of office to uphold the rules set forth to govern the house. How can we follow the rules & laws set forth to govern us, if they will not follow them, if they feel they are above them, and should not be held to account for the egregious breach of laws, rules set forth for our safety, and the trust placed with them.

[@janwallace5005]

So if perception is the point on which they're basing their argument it follows in their logic that Johnson should not be found guilty of misleading parliament because his perception was that he was not at a party. My question would be "So why would you serve in the government and follow an imbecile? As only an imbecile would not have recognised the gathering with copious amounts of alcohol as a party."

[@stevenhoward3358]

The seven donkey riders of tory apocalypse... and Bob Seely who tried to wiggle out of calling it a kangaroo court on Newsnight, but VD insisted he said it, and he knew it!

[@brummie.bill-379.]

Any MP defending Johnson should be shown the same exit door ASAP.

[@matthewwallis419]

Bring back Oliver Cromwell throw the Tories out.

[@rajdhillon4722]

How the hell is JRM a Sir???

[@magyarbrit5631]

'Cur' you mean

[@martinbootneck]

Sir actually means 'Self Interests Remain'

[@ianlunn1521]

He was just following his orders 😂

[@csharpe5787]

I really do hope the constituents of these 4 individuals are watching. there judgement is woefully flowed and they have no place been in Parliament. They are totally delusional.

[@ajw9533]

It's nice seeing Rees Mogg rattled. They don't like it up'em!

[@countfosco8535]

Mogg might even like it up him. Public school boy that he is.

[@vincentadika8562]

How do they sleep at night with a clear CONSCIENCE !❤

[@stringer6435]

they love to do anything but work! country a mess, people are struggling can you guys start doing what your paid to do…. help the people of this country!!!

[@degaulle30]

That woman who said hes innocent cause she spent every hour with him most likely broke the law. Lets just say it.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

Or, given BlowJo's history, she was keeping a very close eye on his briefs!!

[@actingfrankie7052]

Lila Nicci, mp for Grimsby, for some reason people keep voting her

[@ysgol3]

I saw this live on TV. The pathetic arguments out forward by Johnson's pals were incredible to watch. Mogg's nonsense derived entirely from his sudden panic about being held in contempt for insulting the committee - he's perfectly entitled to criticise the decision, but he was unforgivably personal. What a pillock he is.

[@garychown4885]

Shameless

[@richardjames7905]

Lovely to hear the audible comment made about Rees- Mog when referring to Hoffman protocols as a criticism of “ How Bumptious”

[@orraman5427]

It's interesting to note that although all these MPs who were desperate to rattle their gums in the House, Mogg, Nici and Berry didn't register a vote.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

@orraman5427..even those that abstained were not for Boris...couldn't bring themselves to vote.

[@orraman5427]

@@janetmalcolm6191 They were afraid to register their vote because they could be held accountable in the future, whereas it's possible to hide behind the ambiguity of an abstention.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

@orraman5427... at one point on tv they were not keen to state who had voted for Boris. Did they think that would never come out...! Xx