The Sue Gray Report Amendments Explained: Have the Met Saved Johnson? - TLDR News

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To the frustration of many around the country, the infamous Sue Gray Report is still yet to be published. And it looks like we're going to be waiting a while longer before seeing the full document, thanks to an intervention by the Met Police, asking for it to be amended. So in this video, we take a look at what's happened so far, why the Met has stepped in, and what this all means for Johnson.
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[@rufioh]

The met’s intervention seems like a cover up to me

[@danielwebb8402]

You think Boris asked the police to investigate?

[@ianl1052]

@@danielwebb8402 Never put down to incompetence anything which can be explained by malice, greed or, in this case, *corruption.* Who's in charge of the Met? The Home Office. Who's in charge of the Home Office? Priti Patel. Who is Priti Patels boss? Boris Johnson. Do you see where I'm going with this?

[@danielwebb8402]

@@ianl1052 Yes. That Boris and Patel requested a police investigation. Into an issue they wouldn't investigate at all, for 3 seconds, if we're you or I. So that they could delay the Sue Grey report (by a few days?) and make sure more is redacted. I don't believe that. I believe the media and public forced the met to get involved. Even though the met said more than once "it had a policy of not retrospectively investigating alleged breaches of coronavirus laws". I don't think the met said that repeatedly. As a smoke screen. Always intending it would investigate at the 7th time of asking.

[@hedydd2]

@@danielwebb8402 The Metropolitan Police Force, unlike any other in the UK, directly answers to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel just now. Cressida Dick, the Chief Constable of the Met. does what Priti Patel, effectively her boss, tells her to do. This absolutely stinks of a cover up, but it is very clever and most people will not appreciate how it is being worked unless they are told of the politics of it all.

[@danielwebb8402]

@@hedydd2 So why did the met investigate it at all? If Pritti wouldn't want them to. If their normal procedure is they wouldn't. If they wouldn't for you or me? Why did the met start an investigation?

[@Notaffiliated1]

The worst part of it all for me is remembering the navy submarine captain, who had been underwater since before covid started, then surfaced, came into port, and had a BBQ with his crew who had all been living in A PRESSURISED METAL TUBE UNDERWATER SINCE BEFORE COVID! And the media tore him down and made him resign. Yet the people in 10 Downing Street, you know, not living underwater in a pressurised tube together, can have parties with no consequences.

[@lachry4019]

One set of rules for the nobles and another for the commoners

[@Notaffiliated1]

@@lachry4019 exactly, even though the commoners literally were remaining within their household. But screw the peasantry am I right?

[@geraldbutler5484]

Why does the UK keep electing the privileged bastards? 21 PM’s from the one ultra privileged school (Eton). Wake up UK they’ve conned you with Brexit and you now have 2000+ food banks. What’s next- workhouses ?

[@Notaffiliated1]

@@geraldbutler5484 we enjoy the suffering apparently. No it’s because the elites will only put forward their own candidates.

[@geraldbutler5484]

@@Notaffiliated1 Two solutions. First don’t vote for elite parties or politicians who do not have your best interests at heart. Second, the UK voting system needs to be dragged out of the19th century and into the 21st century. The problem is all parties that are elected think, well this is what got us here so we are not changing it. Also the UK really needs independent inquiries into all political malfeasance as can be seen by the present stitch up.

[@hedydd2]

The Met is different to all other police forces in that it is directly answerable to Priti Patel, the Home Secretary. With only a small fine likely for anything the police is investigating, it would be very naive to ignore that relationship where Patel can exert pressure on Cressida Dick at the Met to investigate, specifically to derail the Sue Gray report. It’s all about dodgy politics characterised by this administration more than any other in recent history. It is to be hoped that Sue Gray has the balls to ignore the Met’s unwarranted pressure to redact.

[@gulliverdeboer5836]

Yes, exactly: the punishment would be some fines at most, so justice or the public interest aren't served by this move. Sue Gray must know this, so her going along with this just stinks.

[@nashwise4everGM]

Yup, it's not conspiratorial that the Met doesn't want to be call out for not doing her job by preventing the party in the first place. Hence why she suddenly turns 180 on this.

[@hedydd2]

@@gulliverdeboer5836 I do hope that she will not go along with it or her reputation will be permanently tarnished. Her report will in no way hinder the police investigation because there will be no jury trial for this type of offence and the maximum likely fine would only be around £150 per head as I understand it. No different than for any member of the public [who would have certainly been prosecuted at the time it happened, considering there were police crawling all over the place as it happened, it being 10 Downing Street after all].

[@cafeacupiper]

Agreed

[@sarahjf69]

My thoughts exactly

[@reiteration6273]

There's no way this is just incompetence. At the exact same time the police were refusing to investigate parties that happened a year ago (in Downing Street), they were already investigating parties that happened a year ago (elsewhere). That was already blatant corruption, but that didn't surprise me. I think most people already expect a certain degree of corruption from the Met, since they are basically the country's least honest police force. But this lastest act is a new low, even for them. I'm honestly appalled at how bad it is. This isn't just refusing to charge a criminal, they're actively helping a criminal avoid the consequences (legal or otherwise) of breaking the law.

[@mh1593]

There was news previously (summer 2021ish) that Ms Dick was very friendly with Boris on a business level; sadly I only have sketchy memory of it but it would lead that she would "favour" him over -for example - a PM who has slashed police funding. See also the main income source for the 43 geographic police forces in England and Wales is a central government grant made available through the annual Home Office Police Grant Report which is directly influencedby the Home Secretary. As we have seen with the BBC; if the Police actively work against the government, they'll get their funding cut....

[@Kazekou]

I love the idea that this is "a new low" for the met. Let's review some of Cressida Dick's greatest hits: 1. Ordering the unlawful shooting of John Charles De Menezes because she failed to realize that if plain clothes police officers pull a gun on an innocent man, he might run. Because he doesn't know they're police 2. Hiding evidence that the police were complicit in the murder of Daniel Morgan 3. When the institutional corruption behind the Daniel Morgan murder was pointed out. Just said "no" and refused to acknowledge that the head of the police hid evidence in a murder trial 4. The handling of Sarah Everards Vigil. This isn't a new low for the met. They are regularly doing much worse, much scarier things.

[@blicknessraven]

Civil disobedience must ensue

[@TheBloodsuger150]

Go away conspiracy theorist

[@Silvertongue8]

@@Kazekou WELL SAID,,AND THERE LOADS MORE AS IM SURE YOU'RE AWARE OF,THEY JUST BE DISGUSTED WITH THEMSELVES, BUT OF COURSE SADLY THEY WONT BE

[@shaunscott4773]

Johnson will be fine, obviously he's clearly got too many get out technicalities / friends etc. It's just fucking heartbreaking to watch.

[@williamproffitt6688]

He will be forced out the hard way of thats the case.

[@derekallen4450]

Manipulation of evidence by the Metropolitan Police I can believe that 🤐🤣🤣

[@paocut9018]

Well, it'd be really sad if nothing happens to him but on another or a, he is so unpopular with the public that if he is the party leader when an election comes, the Torys are sure to lose. Though I'm just stretching it to find a good thing about him staying

[@bbbf09]

@@williamproffitt6688 What hard way would that be then? A general election,? I think you vastly under estimate the powers of the darkside

[@bbbf09]

@@paocut9018 You are assuming some sense in the electorate? You will note that latest opinion polls are already swinging back toward favouring Boris. We are donkeys led by donkeys. It's just the leading donkey happens to be an evil greased pig SOB of a donkey.

[@lexslate2476]

Boy, having the police fail to go after this before the press got hold of it and the public got mad, then continue to drag their feet until the Gray Report was ready to come out, them leap on to the report to stop it being published in a timely manner sure made the UK look like a working democracy and not a corrupt fucking banana republic! Also, I love that 'we don't investigate retroactively' as though there were another fucking way to investigate crimes than after they've happened!

[@Cythil]

What I was thinking. Is not most crime investigate after they have committed? Yes. You can do pre-emptive police work too. But it would not fill me with great conference if the police here when out and said that. Why should I report any crime if they are not going to investigate it? Such a claim in itself is a scandal, I would say.

[@damianmichaelides179]

Exactly! How about all the unsolved cold cases the Metropolian Police reinvestigate decades later.. appealing to the public on shows like Crimewatch.

[@jonathonjubb6626]

If this isn't a quiet coup I don't know what one would feel like!... Do they have to involve the Armed Forces before people see what's in front of us?

[@annankesawa7500]

"We don't investigate crimes retrospectively" literally the dumbest thing a police chief has ever said.

[@dianamincher6479]

This is Mugabe and Idi Amin territory!

[@PK-qm1yt]

Just note: There's always police outside and around No.10 every day of the year. Are they accountable too? 🤔

[@DaniStarEngland]

That's the investigation I'd like to see. Let's investigate the met

[@PennyGraham]

No, they probs couldnt tell it was a party.

[@Thanos1908]

No they are not (at least not all of them). Officers dispatched as security are bound by confidentiality restrictions on what they can report back to "base". Your question is equivalent to asking if the lawyer of a repeat killer is accountable because he was aware of everything he did, but never spoke out about it.

[@PatrickButterly]

no but also yes. The police (the individual police) probably wouldnt be. The entire force might be. A single office should interviene in these circumstance but they would be increadably stupid to. At best doing so would be they wouldnt advance in their career ... ever. more likely they would probably just be fired or reassigned someone with less high profile.

[@joopjansen9102]

"Ich habe es nicht gewusst"... Carry on mate, nothing to be seen here. Seriously: those policemen are not put there to investigate or report on what's happening indoors, but to keep baddies out. Nothing more than security.

[@ianl1052]

Never put down to incompetence anything which can be explained by malice, greed or, in this case, *corruption.* Who's in charge of the Met? The Home Office. Who's in charge of the Home Office? Priti Patel. Who is Priti Patels boss? Boris Johnson. Do you see where I'm going with this?

[@Zoco101]

Insufficient separation of powers. Britains should insist on an overhaul of the Met.

[@somethingelse9228]

@@Zoco101 Britain doesn't have any separation of powers to begin with

[@Zoco101]

@@somethingelse9228 I think you exaggerate. In most regimes that claim to be democratic there is some separation of legislative, judiciary and executive. Maintaining a reasonable level of separation is a fundamental objective in the fight against autocracy/tyranny. The British constitution is largely unwritten, relying on precedent. This inquiry that obstructs and diminishes the existing enquiry is a very poor precedent, and places the Met in a highly suspicious light. If we want a fairer, more just society, the Met needs to be investigated by an independent body, and restructured, almost certainly.

[@somethingelse9228]

@@Zoco101 The British PM more or less an elected king as long as his MPs keep voting as he says. After all, the only other powerful institution is the Parliament which is controlled by the majority party, and the PM is the leader of that party

[@Zoco101]

@@somethingelse9228 It's true that the first past the post system creates some exceedingly powerful prime ministers. The primus inter pares concept was killed by Thatcher, and now the prime ministers think they are presidents. Without electoral reform, we can't get moderate governments in the UK.

[@That_sand_guy]

Words can’t describe how utterly fed up I am with this Government, when they speak I stop listening.

[@aye3678]

Tories doing what they do best.

[@max3446]

The moment I graduate I'm leaving this country lmao, fuck this

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

@@max3446 Hope your fully jabbed, otherwise you won't be allowed in another country.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

@@aye3678 Labour don't do anything best.

[@max3446]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 Yes, I'm aware? Was that meant to be a gotcha?

[@PK-qm1yt]

What did you expect? A governments police doing an investigation 🤣 I called it. All set up. That's like getting your family to investigate a theft within the household.

[@ejbh3160]

Everyone focused on whether he broke "the rules", means nobody is looking at whether those 'rules' were justifiable in the first place. Why did countries like Sweden fare no worse, than those who had strict 'rules'? All this storm in a teacup does is reinforce the whole 'lockdown' narrative at a time we should all be saying with one voice "never again".

[@Melonist]

@@ejbh3160 dunno mate, lockdown worked pretty well down here in Australia

[@kennethkho7165]

@@Melonist you're being lied to by your government

[@kennethkho7165]

@@Melonist there's no bill of rights in australia so the government is free to disregard human rights

[@Melonist]

@@kennethkho7165 Uh-huh. Care to elaborate?

[@RFXZ67966]

When Boris Johnson says a thousand times that we need to wait until the report - I think it's clear that he, himself, was expecting the report to be muted. Expecting the Sue Gray Report to be the killing blow to Johnson is like expecting the Mueller report to have ended the Trump presidency

[@chrisb9179]

Exactly.

[@fernandosanchezm]

Very good parallel there

[@bikkiikun]

NEVER FORGET, while these parties were going on... and the Met very much knowing about them and having ample evidence (i.e. entry Logs into Downing street), that very same Met brutally ASSAULTED a vigil for a woman that was RAPED and MURDERED by an Officer of the very same Met Police... And their excuse for the assaults on the vigil was COVID rules... even though these women wore masks, socially distanced themselves, were quiet and outside. All the things that the Parties at Downing at the very same time were not... under the watchful eye of the Met.

[@PennyGraham]

Thats a unrelated issue the met may have corrupt indivudiles but not all of them

[@MikoG2000]

@@PennyGraham I think you missed the point. Cressida ordered her officers to stop the vigils, despite the vigil holders taking precautions such as social distancing, knowing full well it would escalate to violence. But took no action against politicians brazenly breaking the rules.

[@PennyGraham]

@@MikoG2000 that is 1 instance I'm sure the met have done great things or else they'd not have any power.

[@willtricks9432]

This reads like a Charlie Brooker dystopian nightmare, now he's off to Ukraine as an avoidance. Cheers

[@allip4226]

@@PennyGraham Right, because powerful people have always done great things that make them deserving of their power. Did Hitler do great things? How about Stalin or Kim Jong Un? Do you think at all before you type this nonsense?

[@tejashdasgupta1840]

Metropolitan police to Johnson: 🎵I'll be there for you🎵

[@scottchristie6734]

If the Met are found to have not enforced the law in Number 10. Then I expect the resignation of the head of the Met Police.

[@joopjansen9102]

Don't hold your breath... Sadly, nobody really expects the met to uphold the law or the enforce it - and that's been the situation for well over two decades. Just have a look at the chain of command... it ends with the patel woman and her handler, de pfeffel. Nuff said.

[@dadikkedude]

@@joopjansen9102 Don't understand why the public don't take to the street than

[@BeerElf66]

She didn't resign over ordering the fatal shooting of an innocent electrician, which marked the card for me. I've been watching her rise since. Horrible craven sniveling bastard that she is.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

I suspect the duties of those Police who guard No.10 are very restricted. Approx 300 people have passes to enter No.10 and their job is to ensure no one gains entry who shouldn't, rather than question those people as to the purpose of their visit and then make a judgement as to its legitimacy.

[@tonyb9735]

Oh, I'm sure she'll hand in her resignation ..... alongside Boris and the rest of the cabinet.

[@thomaslukeable]

Now that this is on pause, Johnson will look to boost his career by new plans, schemes and Ukraine. In the end the public perception has been hit hard in every part of the UK due to his and the government's actions, and I doubt they will forget it.

[@danielwebb8402]

Agree. So we can hold them to account / vote them out next time.

[@WeGameEXP]

Are you sure? Because people have forgotten EVERYTHING Boris promised before Brexit

[@ejbh3160]

@@danielwebb8402 ...and vote who in? Labour? They would have been even more draconian with stricter 'rules', longer 'lockdowns' and we would still be cowering in fear of omicron (which is nowhere near as dangerous as earlier variants). Everyone focused on whether he broke "the rules", means nobody is looking at whether those 'rules' were justifiable in the first place. Why did countries like Sweden fare no worse, than those who had strict 'rules'? All this storm in a partycup does, is reinforce the whole 'lockdown' narrative, at a time we should all be saying with one voice - "never again"

[@BoyeeSmudger]

@@ejbh3160 it's typical for the opposition to go against what the government in power wants to do. Yes we're going off what has been said, but we do not know for sure what they would have actually done. Have Labour (and other English parties) had the same access to the data? Let's face it though, regardless of what other parties have said, the tories are the ones in government and over 150k deaths is embarrassing compared to many other smaller nations, especially as we are an island. Personally I'd rather not be at the top of the table playing for the championship win for deaths per capita - that's not a win. Its important to scrutinise the party in power, not that it matters with this lot.

[@Jay_Johnson]

Not even a war could save Churchill his idol. Attlee was voted in before the defeat of Japan.

[@gerbenvanessen]

"we don't investigate crimes retrospectively" so you only investigate future crimes? once a crime has occured you won't do shit?

[@charliecrome207]

Yeah, minority report style

[@lemonjuice3551]

I don't think they investigate crimes in the past, present _or_ future.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

You are very sharp, be careful you don't cut yourself.

[@bLiNdThInG1]

We can only hope the full, unredacted report somehow gets leaked.

[@kennethkho7165]

that's against the law

[@jackcarr7694]

@@kennethkho7165 It's also illegal to shake a rug out before 8 in the morning...

[@Sindri44]

@@jackcarr7694 it's also illegal to mislead the House and lie to the public and then cover it up to save your arse

[@Nickle314]

I FOId for the list of invitees, and the list of attendees. They aren't the same thing. Invitees who didn't attend, should have reported it. Invitees who attended committed an offence. Then we have the gate crashers who committed an offence. On top we have the people who knew and looked the other way. The Cabinet Office refused on the grounds the information was for future publication in the Gray report. I suspect that the Cabinet Office lied. The names will not be published.

[@tourmelion9221]

@@kennethkho7165 if she gets incarcerated then the Mets going to look so bad

[@jaydenvancanne9981]

This just reinforces the belief that the primary goal of the police is not to actually enforce the law, but instead protect the government.

[@richardcory5024]

Hole in one. Now perhaps the government can get on with its work of making the poor pay for all the government's own idiotic blunders and corruption.

[@janbananberg357]

I always knew that BoJo would get out of this on a technicality. This combined with his gaffe intentional style will let him get away in conservative eyes. He successfully turned it into a political issue rather than a legal or moral one.

[@megarmarmar7641]

Well let's hope he's done enough for the Tories to not get reelected next time. He may still have the position but he's doomed his party and that should be a win in everyone's book.

[@danieleyre8913]

Johnson may have avoided the music yet again. But he’s been in permanent damage control mode since about 6 months after he came to power. And every time he’s had a scandal and got away with it: His support and allies has been ever more eroded, and it’s setting up his inevitable fall to be ever harder. The electorate are fed up with him, even his former sycophants in the Tories want him gone. He’s still on borrowed time, delaying the inevitable. Give it a fortnight and something else will come up.

[@tomwright9904]

We will see what parliament does

[@elizabethbrown8833]

But there's something overall worrying about that how he always gets his way. The Public however, are too scarred by him and his favoured few to let him and them, escape scot free. They serve the People, not the other way around. 🙏🥀

[@alandobb3949]

He will only get away with it until the next election.

[@archiemitchell8426]

I never would have believed that the most senior police officer in the UK would commit such a brazen act of corruption.

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

Boris is acting like a criminal who knows he's got the system in his pocket, he's way too calm in his responses

[@myintmyintthein]

Agreed. He is still showing full confidence.

[@annaholley8913]

That how mafia operate.

[@thegoodolddayz6183]

I find it really fishy that at first when the few parties were discovered, the Met Police said they were not going to investigate anything with these parties. Now that Sue Grays report is close to completion, the Met Police are now going to investigate the allged parties and asked Sue to minimize the details of her report, and yet make a statement that this will not delay her report in any way. What it does do is restricts the details down when all MPs in parliment are asking for a "Full Report" and Boris said the report will be issued in full and I think that was another lie. He has ordered the Met Police to investigate and made it look like he didn't order it so that the report has to be published with minimal information. He is a crafty bugga but he aint fooling anyone.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

The fault is that of those vindictive individuals who pressured the Police to change their decision not to investigate. Had they not done so the Gray report would now be in the public domain.

[@juliegreen640]

It's not the people that pushed the police it was planned...put it all on Sue everyone mention Sue!! Then shes nearly done get her outta the hot water pass it to the police....then tale your time and everyone will forget!! Problem solved!! For Johnson.....its a stitch up his own party are threatened if they go against him!! They never put there letters in cos they needed to grow a pair!! Its so so sad that the UKs come to this.. Americas not as stupid they knew they had a prob with Trump.....they got rid!!!

[@glazierblue573]

Of course there wasnt enough evidence for an investigation! It's not like there was photos of the event... oh wait! Yes there was. Well photos are not an confession... oh wait there were more than one of them too. Damn! Even witnesses as they went out and got more alcohol. Well gee... and they wonder why so many have conspiracy ideas? 🤔 Here is another one. The police are in enough trouble with there image, you know having psychopath and rasist on the force does invoke confidence and obedience from people. So there either super incompetent or super corrupt! But saving Johnson sorry ass will have some major 'quid pro quo' perks. No wonder Johnson was so hell bent on waiting for this report. He needs more time to line his pockets before he vanishes into the wood work.

[@maudgoedkoop456]

Maybe he can’t fool anyone, but it will help him to get away with it all. The longer it takes for the report to get out, the more indifferent the public and the press have become.

[@collieman]

If gray had any balls she'd release the whole thing and deal with the consequences. The met investigation will only result in a fine or 2 so gray might as well give us everything she's got.

[@quanghuyvo6112]

but she doesnt because she is a SHE

[@collieman]

@@quanghuyvo6112 If she's as strong and ruthless as everyone claims then she'll "accidentally" leak it

[@saurabhrao1981]

What makes you think she wants to? Maybe she's a puppet just like Dick

[@collieman]

@@saurabhrao1981 well yeah, her boss is boris so the report will be watered down, but it's better than what the met can do, they allowed the parties in the first place,

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

@@collieman Her career would be over, her reputation destroyed and probably face a prison sentence.Unlike you she is a professional.

[@NONstopNINJA5]

This will affect public relations with tbe police for years to come

[@ianl1052]

@Thierry Parte You beat me to it.😉😂👍

[@bikkiikun]

Especially when people start to remember the fact that, while these parties were going on under the watchful eyes of the Met (that contols and logs every entry into Downing) that very same Met brutally assaulted women at a vigil for a woman that was raped and murdered by and Officer of that (you gessed it) very same Met. And the excuse for the assults was breaking COVID rules. Also take some time to compare the events. The vigil was outdoors, quiet, people were masked and socially distanced... while none of that applied to the parties at Downing. Isn't it curious how one event leads to a violent crackdown, while a boat load of other events are being protected by that very same police force? Also, remember that the commissioner who was proven to obstruct the investigation into the murder is still in office (and not serving a prison sentence). No wonder it is branded a "institutionally corrupt".

[@TheDjclockwise]

There's not that much trust with the police fo begin with

[@86pp73]

Can they get much worse?

[@NatTheWise]

I for one would struggle to trust the police in any capacity. There are already swathes of issues within the police but, it they are unable to uphold the law, arguments can't be made for their existence. Legality =/= Morality but the Met are failing to uphold either.

[@dracolee_072]

Yes, yes they have saved Johnson

[@MrDWinpenny]

One rule for them. Another for the rest of us.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

The rules were the same for us all and I don't know anyone who didn't break them. I did and Im sure you did too.

[@Tehquall]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 I didn't, nice to meet you

[@tonyb9735]

No rules for them. And if there are, they change them. This is just another example.

[@SusannaSaunders]

Can you Kindly point out the rule for them? Other than the rule that there are no rules for them...

[@patricialockhart2135]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 hmm, maybe the police should be investigating you then.

[@michaelflinn7784]

It's a stitch up. The British public will have to get rid of him now....

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

It's called a General election and it's due in 2024 when you can vote for who you like.

[@michaelflinn7784]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 you kidding me. What a infantile reply.

[@imsoboredhahaha]

My politics teacher has been treating this report like a much-anticipated Marvel blockbuster

[@grahamwade5932]

Well he'll be disappointed by all the deleted scenes

[@MerrickKing]

Or the third morally-correct option: publish the full report regardless.

[@natemonroe2559]

TL;DR don't know our own laws, apparently. There is no charge, so how can the met order a gagging order? Only a judge can do that when a charge has been brought.

[@andreashellmuth7739]

Saved by the police.... for one of the least worth saving humans in the world. What a sitcom

[@PennyGraham]

Why is that so? why is he not worth saving?

[@AutomotiveRush]

@@PennyGraham have you been living in a cave for the past two years?

[@kanedNunable]

@@PennyGraham have you been in a coma for a few years?

[@PennyGraham]

@@AutomotiveRush I wanted a reason so go on telk me why.

[@PennyGraham]

@@kanedNunable Tell me why

[@7rob27]

In case you didn’t know Johnson has the Police in his pocket, now you know.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

Sue Grey Report approved by the PM & The Met released in FULL: We have found Boris Johnson to be a very honourable Man. -The End

[@myintmyintthein]

:)

[@JustMe-bx8gu]

Dated 1 Jan 2022.

[@julianshepherd2038]

The Metropolitan Police Farce

[@CharlieHolmesT]

Yay, more corruption!!

[@leonbrooks2107]

Johnson is clearly putting pressure on Cressida Dick. She shouldn’t even have a job and part of that is due to the constant failures. This is another failure on the MET’s part so she left it till the last second to claim they were investigating this but they are only investigating to take the pressure off Johnson. It’s absolutely disgusting and both Johnson and Dick should resign immediately!

[@iankeeley1854]

I reakon when he stood in parliament on Wednesday at PMQS he already knew the police were going to do it.

[@joshuastclair7725]

This was the plan all along

[@pioneer_1148]

I wouldn't be aupprised if the goverment pressured the Met to suppress the report. But attributing any of those morons the skill needed to plan this is dubious at best

[@actuallypaulstanley]

I do agree that there is a large amount of incompetence from this governments cabinet, but also large amounts of corruption. The large number of parties shows a level of contempt for the rules, and this is morally disgusting. The number of parties held during the numerous Covid related health precautions shows a culture of contempt, and culture is defined by those at the top.

[@Alphoric]

Up our budget next year and we’ll get you off this time Boris

[@Totalinternalreflection]

More likely that they threatened the police with further cuts or worse

[@j.j.1064]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" is the usual "better of the two evils". However, Johnson knows that the"court of public opinion and ministerial code" at this juncture has far more teeth than a potential "criminal exposure" further down the road. In which there is an expectation that through the passage of time will be overttaken and diluted by other events. The Falklands war saved Mrs Thatcher and Iraq, ostensibly Tony Blair in the short term and the fact that Britain has"out of the gate"got involved in military action in Ukraine will be seen as playing a trump card to abbort partygate before it takes is first official breath. Meanwhile, our ability to trade with Europe, freedoms, voting access, right to protest, along with the judiciary itself are being covertly dismantled as the noise of all this distracts, to the government's benefit. Government corruption is no longer a dirty word.

[@lemonjuice3551]

This is the New Normal!

[@thejaramogi1]

As an outsider, this game of chess is fascinating! Just when I thought it was almost a checkmate, He just castles in on time,

[@sabinehahn9774]

That's exactly the excitement of politics - it's chess in real life. With different rules, depending on the place, but it's always chess. And what I find fascinating is that we do these moves and plays since we crawled out of the caves.

[@allip4226]

Except that it is not a game, the Tories are ruining millions of British lives with their greed, incompetence and corruption.

[@sabinehahn9774]

@@allip4226 yep - like politicians do everywhere in the world, sometimes their own people's, sometimes others, so what's your point?

[@ThisisnotTwitter]

@@sabinehahn9774 It should not be compare to the respectful game of chess in which there are rules that all players work within. Corruption is Corruption.

[@sabinehahn9774]

@@ThisisnotTwitter you got a point there.

[@blackbaron0]

Well what a surprise. Lots of black marker pen. Conclusion? nothing to see here.

[@PK-qm1yt]

The public know the truth.

[@PennyGraham]

If he is guilty or not? if he's found innocent you will say its a cover up even if there is no tangible evidence.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Im sure Boris, members of the government, opposition, civil service, judiciary, church and every other walk of live also broke the rules. I did and Im sure you did too.

[@cheatermccheat6378]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 So you're saying everyone who got caught and fined should have their money returned? I agree, if everyone else broke the rules too they should reimburse everyone.

[@chriswright3179]

When Brexit was in doubt with the possibility of a second referendum, someone coined the expression neverendum. Here we need the equivalent for 'report'. We are told to wait for the report to deliver the facts. Now we are told to wait for the police to investigate before we get to see the report.. My wife died from injuries received in a road traffic accident. It took two years for the police investigation and prosecution to end in a not guilty verdict for the offence of causing death by driving without due care. Police investigation is a slow and uncertain process. Don't expect a quick and decisive outcome. Isn't this just maybe the best that Johnson could possibly hope for?

[@Chelm9]

“In general, incompetence and cock-up is more likely than conspiracy.” Very well put!

[@ianl1052]

Never put down to incompetence anything which can be explained by malice, greed or, in this case, *corruption.* Who's in charge of the Met? The Home Office. Who's in charge of the Home Office? Priti Patel. Who is Priti Patels boss? Boris Johnson. Do you see where I'm going with this?

[@esme8944]

I'd put it down to corruption, rather than conspiracy. We're supposed to be the one if the best police force in the world how can be cock-up. ?

[@waerlogauk]

The Met had a year or more to investigate this and suddenly decided to start just in time to block the report, I don't think this can be a coincidence.

[@cosmosadorabilis7677]

I believe it's a conspiracy to cover for their corruption.

[@kennethkho7165]

@@ianl1052 no it's actually quite the opposite, hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

[@Bolsonaro_em_Haia]

I would assume that - particularly in times of Brexit, a politically required irrational act if I ever learned of any - the MET would rather be perceived as lenient than as defiant troublemakers. It is never particularly easy for the authorities to take a firm stance against the actual chief of the Executive, even when it is clearly necessary. Boris Johnson normalized acceptance of incompetence and shady politics in the UK, much as Trump did in the USA and Bolsonaro here in Brazil. This twist may be good for Johnson in the short term, but it is bad for nearly everyone else except perhaps the opposition parties. It is particularly bad for the Tories and the MET. Both will now be perceived as accomplices to impunity until and unless they take clear stances, yet it will cost them dearly to take those stances, particularly if they do so before the other party does. It is not really a good situation for Boris Johnson either. He is not the kind of person to act on that, but he is in a very unconfortable place right now and he will come out of it smelling real bad no matter what. His defense amounts to little more than claims that he is a complete moron, capable of no more than craving the prestige of being PM and having no morals nor discernment to speak of. If I had to guess, the most likely outcome is that some influential voices in the Conservative Party will send all kinds of signals to the MET that it will be all right to release a damning yet fair investigation report sooner rather than later. It will look bad, but it will have to happen. For the Tories it will be the catalyst for all-out displays of indignation and direct challenge to Boris, with the threshold of 54 letters being attained shortly after.

[@jeremyhowell8235]

There is one possible justification for the Met asking Sue Gray to leave out the details of the parties they are investigating - to stop people they want to interview knowing what other people have said, (so allowing them possibly to change their stories accordingly). This is why witnesses in trials are not allowed to hear the evidence of other witnesses. But if that is the reason, why don't they EXPLAIN THAT?

[@armphidiic2609]

When I saw that the Met were investigating, I saw it as exactly this. He's been shielded by the people who should be enforcing the laws he broke. This is all being done to help him as a political favor.

[@jimbobur]

It's looking more and more like the only chance for retribution we can have is to vote the Tories out in the next election. Johnson will never go willingly.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

2024 is a long time and Boris may be gone by then of his own accord. i shall however be voting Conservative.

[@jensschroder8214]

What happened to the English reporter Johnson in Brussels? I heard he started a career as a party host. Even back then in Brussels, he was known for not taking the truth very seriously. But his reports were very imaginative fairy tales, as everyone knows. The Sue Gray report can easily reveal this detail.

[@anlumo1]

I applaud TLDR sticking to neutrally reporting the facts even when faced with such an obvious situation where the police is working to protect the government at all costs.

[@natemonroe2559]

not really, they offered 2 options for sue gray, and ignored option number 3: publish in full now, since the police have no legal basis to ask for a censor.

[@paulraider2001]

As an American, I can't help but feel a sense of deja vu. An anticipated report from an independent investigator being side tracked by the government department in charge of law enforcement in order to protect those who broke the law. Weird. I just can't shake this feeling. Oh well, good luck gang!

[@Caniewaak]

It's an amazing coincidence that the London police declined to investigate the alleged illegal actions of the former mayor of London, and then opted to take over the investigation once someone else started to look into it, thereby kneecapping their ability to report on their findings on the activities of said former London mayor. Truly what an amazing coincidence.

[@lemonjuice3551]

I think Johnson has already been condemned by the public. If the report is delayed or there is an updated/second report which comes from the Met, it just means he can get condemned for a second time. The longer he stays in number 10, the more damage he does to the Conservatives. Which I think is a wonderful thing 🤗

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Boris could have partied every day and I would still vote Conservative.

[@squeakydoodle]

The Met failing at everything as usual

[@sean2706]

Boris: I can’t bribe sue gray, save me sis Cressida Dick: sure brother

[@alexanderhorwath506]

I am sorry, but as much as I often despise our own political system and its machinations - these clear cases of corrupt and/or incompetent politicial schemes, one after another after another are simply unheard of in Germany and - as far as I am aware of - on the continent in general. The UK is a bad parody of "Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister", is all one can say without being rude.

[@sean2706]

I can say it for you mate, Johnson is the biggest f**king c**t in western democracy, and he is supported by a bunch of Tory t**ts who are just as bad as him

[@abelzatyko1513]

Continent in general is a bit strong. The continent streches east of the Oder, dont forget

[@alexanderhorwath506]

@@abelzatyko1513 I agree, this was a bit hyperbolic. But in terms of one of the oldest democracies in the world, it is not acceptable to have such blatant disregard again and again for the rules and the people. Why is anyone in the UK still supporting this government? Are the alternatives really that bad? Why have division of power if you do what you want anyway without consequences? What a disgrace. If this continues, I would support a split up and integration of f. E. Scotland in the EU and NI into Ireland, just to save some people from these autocrats.

[@sean2706]

@@alexanderhorwath506 To answer your question, we need to know how we ended up with bojo. Back in 2016, only Gove and Bojo fully supported Brexit, they gambled their career and paid off. After the referendum, top Tory and Labour all had to go, cause nobody trusted them to deliver Brexit. There was a vacuum in power, then Teresa May who was sort of impartial and competent, defeated Gove. Corby took over from Miliband. However, Teresa didn’t have the support from Tory backbenchers, and she had a very soft Brexit strategy, EU saw the weakness in her, bullied her into accepting some ridiculous terms. Bojo seized the opportunity to rebel against Teresa, he won again, and became the next prime minister. Yeah, unfortunately, Corbyn didn’t want remain or leave, he wanted a second referendum, Labour got wiped out in 2019’s election. That’s how Bojo got to run the country like a king

[@sean2706]

@@alexanderhorwath506 now I can answer your question. We didn’t really have a choice but Bojo to be the current prime minister. The UK’s system relies heavily on the prime minister’s integrity, in the past, anyone who had half of Bojo’s scandals would have resigned by now. But Bojo has no sense of shame, he just won’t resign, and we don’t really have a way to remove him until the next general election, which is due in two years

[@andrewwright6893]

Corruption. Sack the lot of them. Disgraceful

[@shadowraven4221]

If only we had some type of european comission that is able to try and judge national governments...

[@zorezakbar9892]

No imagine if people held there government accountable for what they did.

[@JustMe-bx8gu]

@@zorezakbar9892 Not easy with the current voting system. Which also resulted in a 2 party system. And it's never easy to switch from one belief to another, even when you not always agree.

[@michaelkaercher]

I did hear today a commentator in Germany that the UK is on its way to a autoritarian police state like Hungary. And it more and more looks true. On one side, Johnson is driving a law through the parliament essentially allowing him to ignore any criminal justice sentence against him. On the other side the metropolitan police does everything they can not to enforce law and even to restrict blame to the government. This is fascinating since it happens in front of all of us. Then they are restricting the right to vote, they restrict the right to demonstrate and can restrict your right to free expression. And they can just pull the british citizenship from everybody they dont like. Too bad that the UK has no constitution. It was never so necessary as today.

[@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928]

I Wasn't expacting many discoveries from Sue Gray besides the parties we already know about. But Having the Met investigate into its own action is like making a goat a gardener.

[@olutobii]

None of this “appears to be” talk matters until something actually gets done. Corruption doesn’t get anymore blatant than this..

[@marielaveau8761]

As things look, I got only 1 question: Can anyone ever trust in anything Boris says ever again?

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

I don't think a career in politics is for you.

[@marielaveau8761]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 You're correct. I got principles. Politicians are hos.

[@StephenRayner]

Furious… this is a joke. The Met stopping justice….

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

This entirely the fault of those vindictive individuals who pressured the Police to change their decision not to investigate as they didn't trust Sue Gray to be impartial.

[@franekkkkk]

Yes, the police doing it’s job….. serving the politicians.

[@danielwebb8402]

Pretty sure was public pressure made the police look into an issue / event they wouldn't have looked into for you or me.

[@esme8944]

@@danielwebb8402 Yeah think it was a hot potato for the Met, but got forced into investigating after public pressure

[@hylkelammert]

this stinks the corruption.

[@mathieuleader8601]

the key factor here is the Assistant Commissoner for standards at the MET Baz Javid who is the younger brother to our health secretary he is the reason as to why the redactions have happened as the goverment does not want to be ending up with egg on their face.

[@ABR]

Never letting a brit roast me again

[@jamessteel9016]

Did anyone expect it not to be redacted?! Of course spaffer will come out looking totally innocent 🤦‍♂

[@davidray6962]

One does have to wonder who in the Met accepted a bribe.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

The definition of a bribe is like that of a party, it means different things to different people.

[@peterkirby2771]

Commissioner Dick has always been in the pocket of government, who else could still be in there job with her past history

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Another gay person ?

[@simplexajola8893]

All I can say is that if the man walk away from this, then everyone who's been charged for breaking the covid rules should be entitled for a refund!!

[@kbqvist]

Somebody, anybody, please leak the unredacted report NOW... Publishing a toothless version of the report, without the most severe offences makes absolutely no sense..

[@seanhicks4207]

Seems there is no legal requirement for the report to be held back/redacted, the police can ask but at the end of the day it’s at the discretion of the Cab Office. Can the HoC over-rule them and force the report to be published in full/un-redacted?

[@Zod.the.Merciless]

The report should be published in full now. Dick should step down on the basis of incompetence or corruption. Johnson, Sunak and whoever partied on should then resign their positions. Pretty simple really

[@PennyGraham]

Only if it were so simple

[@Zod.the.Merciless]

@@PennyGraham In an non corrupt country it would be. In this one, perhaps not

[@michellecabrera9147]

The Met needs to step aside and let her publish the full report.

[@cheatermccheat6378]

She should just leak it anyway, fuck em.

[@donohoe71]

It would be a good farcical comedy if it wasn't true. Couldn't run a bath never mind a country

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Look across Europe, would you rather be living there?

[@hwica2753]

Sue Gray now needs to investigate the Metropolitan Police.

[@bobjohnbowles]

They are all corrupt.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Nothing more than a reflection of society.

[@AmitSagar4]

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Surely there should be signs for the met commissioner to go after such mess ups in the first place. Whether it was pre conceived to derail the report or not, (I think it was), surely this is only delaying the inevitable. The opposition should put a motion through for the full report to be published as Phil from A Different Bias. If the Tory members vote against it, shows that they are willing to have the report suppressed. If they vote for it, then we can have the full report with "all the juicy bits"

[@mab9614]

He can linger on. I’m expecting a landslide victory for Labour

[@janbananberg357]

As long as labour manage to keep their party together better than the tories. If they come out of BoJo era more united its gonna be difficult.

[@charliesheen9709]

STARMER is worse, his just a better lier

[@esme8944]

@@charliesheen9709 you must of been screwed over by a lawyer

[@PennyGraham]

in no means do I support Boris but I have no confidence in labor's leader

[@mab9614]

@@PennyGraham The lesser of two evils: I personally chose Starmer over that man anytime.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Thank you. Your delivery has become more confident. Congratulations & power to your elbow.

[@anonitachi6966]

Do you not find it a tad odd that your police "don't investigate historical incidents" and need to be told by a Government rep if they can do their job or not. Do you guys seriously not see what situation you are in?

[@allip4226]

Some of us do, yes. It’s the beginning of fascism.

[@fredsharp2456]

The bobbies on the gate must have logs of the coming and going and times. I suppose the records will not be found , binned or lost some how! Be proud tory voters, IT IS DOWN TO YOU.

[@eamonnsiocain6454]

Neither the Gray nor the Met report can be trusted.

[@ChristopherFynn001]

The Met investigations will take months and then they'l finall just say something like they have found nothing worth prosecuting and bury it. Sue Gray's full unredacted report will probably never see the light of day.

[@bittersweet7145]

I now have no confidence in the Met - can we have an inquiry into them by the police? - what an absolute farce

[@CravingBeer]

I think Godot will turn up before this report.

[@vaultsurvivors8626]

This just stinks of corruption. But what can we do, there is no course of action for the general public who are sick of all this crap.

[@scotandiamapping4549]

OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

[@gosafarel]

The police need to refund back all the fines they have taken from the nation.

[@nicholasmiguelignacio3851]

sure was desperate

[@admorris3898]

This is the end of the Tories. They're grossly underestimating just how angry the public are. It won't be forgotten.

[@SentaDuck]

Haven't you heard? Boris is talking to Putin about how to win the next election.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Surely Gray was a “right hand woman”? Lol.

[@rogerbrimner6836]

Rosey for sure…

[@SirCliveCalculator]

"Incompetence more likely than conspiracy" - A concept that should be consigned to history.

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[@Ayasha_khan]

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[@souza-t]

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[@pierogallo132]

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[@cncit]

The longer it goes on the deeper the hole Johnson is digging!

[@reekiereekie7264]

Fascism in action

[@danielwebb8402]

"very intolerant or domineering views or practices in a particular area" Otherwise known as "Anything I don't agree with, I'll call a name. Even if not remotely relevant. Here fascism. Because I'm a silly poo poo face."

[@oliverknagg5109]

Whilst I agree it’s corrupt this isn’t what fascism means

[@nicobruin8618]

So Johnson should just keep partying faster than they can investigate XD

[@PeterWinnett]

Lets just call it what it is, absolute corruption.

[@StevenBussey]

Thinking that this is due to 'incompetence' is beyond naive. Number 10 and the Met police is nothing but a cesspit in this matter.

[@Wheres-my-toes-bro]

It's blatant and demonstrable corruption, call a spade a spade.