Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the ‘partygate’ lockdown gatherings. In a statement to the media he dismissed the probe led by Labour MP Harriet Harman, who had “already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence”, as a “kangaroo court” and said he believed it was “determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament”.
Here is his statement in full, courtesy of the Telegraph.
I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear – much to my amazement – that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.
They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.
They know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say, like any other minister. They know that I corrected the record as soon as possible; and they know that I and every other senior official and minister – including the current Prime Minister and then occupant of the same building, Rishi Sunak – believed that we were working lawfully together.
I have been an MP since 2001. I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie, and I believe that in their hearts the Committee know it. But they have wilfully chosen to ignore the truth because from the outset their purpose has not been to discover the truth, or genuinely to understand what was in my mind when I spoke in the Commons.
Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts. This is the very definition of a kangaroo court.
Most members of the Committee – especially the chair – had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence. They should have recused themselves.
In retrospect it was naïve and trusting of me to think that these proceedings could be remotely useful or fair. But I was determined to believe in the system, and in justice, and to vindicate what I knew to be the truth.
It was the same faith in the impartiality of our systems that led me to commission Sue Gray. It is clear that my faith has been misplaced. Of course, it suits the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP to do whatever they can to remove me from Parliament.
Sadly, as we saw in July last year, there are currently some Tory MPs who share that view. I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt underway, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.
My removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray – who investigated gatherings in Number 10 – is now the Chief of Staff designate of the Labour leader.
Nor do I believe that it is any coincidence that her supposedly impartial chief counsel, Daniel Stilitz KC, turned out to be a strong Labour supporter who repeatedly tweeted personal attacks on me and the Government.
When I left office last year the Government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened.
Just a few years after winning the biggest majority in almost half a century, that majority is now clearly at risk.
Our party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.
We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda. We need to cut business and personal taxes – and not just as pre-election gimmicks – rather than endlessly putting them up.
We must not be afraid to be a properly Conservative government.
Why have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the U.S.? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?
We need to deliver on the 2019 manifesto, which was endorsed by 14 million people. We should remember that more than 17 million voted for Brexit.
I am now being forced out of Parliament by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without the approval even of Conservative party members let alone the wider electorate.
I believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set.
The Conservative Party has the time to recover its mojo and its ambition and to win the next election. I had looked forward to providing enthusiastic support as a backbench MP. Harriet Harman’s committee has set out to make that objective completely untenable.
The Committee’s report is riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice but under its absurd and unjust process I have no formal ability to challenge anything it says.
The Privileges Committee is there to protect the privileges of Parliament. That is a very important job. It should not be using its powers – which have only been very recently designed – to mount what is plainly a political hitjob on someone it opposes.
It is in no one’s interest, however, that the process the Committee has launched should continue for a single day further.
So I have today written to my Association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.
I am very sorry to leave my wonderful constituency. It has been a huge honour to serve them, both as Mayor and MP.
But I am proud that after what is cumulatively a 15 year stint I have helped to deliver among other things a vast new railway in the Elizabeth Line and full funding for a wonderful new state-of-the-art hospital for Hillingdon, where enabling works have already begun.
I also remain hugely proud of all that we achieved in my time in office as Prime Minister: getting Brexit done, winning the biggest majority for 40 years and delivering the fastest vaccine rollout of any major European country, as well as leading global support for Ukraine.
It is very sad to be leaving Parliament – at least for now – but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias.
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Awww. Poor diddums. “It is customary to thank people who leave with a toast, I
did it for work purposes.” Just as it is also customary for people to be able to comfort their dying loved ones in person, and for children to go to school, which you and your merry men cruelly denied people from doing.
”Dangerous precedent to kick me out like this.” No words about several other hugely dangerous precedents, which you set “with a heavy heart”? You could have been a hero if you had resisted the calls for them.
Didn’t he call himself der Fuehrer?
They all should be in jail. 630 useless fat stupid corrupt MPS out of the 650. And the uncivil corrupt non-service serpents + SAGE + NHS management etc etc.
Yep! and it is only going to get worse, If the polls are to be believed then Labour will be in power is a few years time then the downward spiral will become linear, vertically straight down, with no bounce back, just the resonant slap of a cow pats terminal impact.
A note to the downtickers:- you’ve inadvertently stumbled onto the wrong website
please follow this link to lead you back to tiktok and you’ll be grand again!
Just the government spooks being paid to spy on us, Dinger. We have to expect them to be lurking around keeping tabs on us, gathering intel on what the heretics are gabbing about. I’ll definitely have a black mark against my name by now!
Their downticking just a pathetic attempt at a PsyOp. They’ll have to do better than that if they’re intending to have any effect whatsoever.
Note: Spooks = Hamster dicks.
The 77th then?
“I’ll definitely have a black mark against my name by now!
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Actually Mogs you will have substantially more than one black mark by now given all your posts calling out the whole Scamdemic these last two years.
You and Mogs are bloody common sense hero’s in my eyes
I’d vote for either of you!
Dinger, that is incredibly kind and generous of you.
Me and Mogs think alike and are nearly always on the same page as each other. I hope she doesn’t mind me saying that.
Thank you very much
I find the negative ticks quite amusing, as the negative tick is nearly always against a comment which is not exactly to what the woke wits would like. This in addition to the fact they have to subscribe to the Dailey Sceptic in order to negative tick the comments of articles they would not normally be associated with, if it was the last publication on earth. Maybe/ if a subscription to the DS is a precursor to being a heretic and black marked, by buying their subscriptions they have unwittingly joined the ranks of their enemy. I hope they have the permission of the politburo.
They are going to thqueam and thqueam until the are sick. Well I am sick of them already
In the current scheme of things and with an all but certain One World Government to be shortly forced upon us does the loss of this traitorous coward really matter?
Russia might just save us before then.
It is indeed a dangerous precedent, in fact there are dangers in most of what Parliament is currently doing. Look at The Covid Years and the endless lies which are still ongoing. The removal of a Prime Minister and injection of a non-Prime Minister who was rejected under Party rules so the rules were simply bypassed. It was clear from day one that Harmen should never have been even within sniffing distance of that Committee.
Democracy is disappearing, freedom has all but disappeared. We are routinely monitored without our knowledge for what we say, think, where we go, what we eat, where we shop. The WHO is set to take power over our health all in the name of Big Pharma and is now in cahoots with the EU to force through a global health passport which will, of course, become controlled by Government and allow you access to treatment, travel and your money. It can, of course, be switched off at will.
These are dark days indeed and Johnson is merely the latest victim of what has become a Dictatorship Parliament intent on heading to a World Government.
Once again part of the Lockstep – a sitting US President brings federal charges against his chief election rival, using highly politicised policing and judicial institutions.
Straight out of the communist/authoritarian playbook.. Khrushchev and Saddam Hussain chose more public occasions to haul people out to firing squads, but the rationale is the same…
Johnson, a “victim”? The twat that locked us up three times, ran the country with Wankock chaotically for two years laying it and people lives to waste for absolutely no purpose; who blackmailed the populous into having a useless, nay dangerous, “vaccine” as the only way out of the dystopia that HE created. A “victim”? You have to be kidding!
I despise BJ, but it’s so very convenient to everyone else that he’s apparently shouldering all of it. The ‘blob’ does seem to be an unaccountable political entity, and these quangos, committees and inquiries are avenues into quietly wielding power.
To be honest, the whole shebang should fall, but I think the turmoil of dismantling and reinstating the world power structures would be too much for anyone to bear. And there’s no guarantee we’d like what emerges from that sh1tsh0w. I’d certainly put woke down as being one of those efforts.
One World government is on its way so there will shortly be no need of the house full of lazy, treasonous freeloaders in Westminster.
The Prime Minister has enormous powers and control over government policy; as a newly elected leader and with all the kudos of achieving Brexit he was in the strongest of positions to show some backbone and stick to his libertarian instincts; but he didn’t and his cowardness resulted in a huge price that had to be paid by everyone else! And then to go on and indulgence his Falstaffian inclinations with the party gate nonsense just adds insult to injury. A truly contemptible human being
If he believes he is innocent why resign?..
Johnson is a victim?
Good grief what does that make the rest of us?
Goodness only knows!
If Doris is a victim it may be of his own deceits, incompetence, vanity and greed?
I think we need to be careful not to say he deserves this because of the part he played in the Covid nonsense, (and other nonsenses I can bring to mind.) These are two things, not one thing. One is his actions, and two is the actions of the Privileges Committee
It is clear to anyone who cares to read it that ‘Kangaroo court’ is correct, and its powers exceed anything that should be reasonably used. Trusting an ‘independent process led by your opposition, fed by your opposition and controlled by your opposition’ is folly, and I don’t understand why Boris thought the outcome would be any different. Maybe he didn’t, and for reasons yet to be seen, this is what he wanted to happen. We will have to see.
He may well be the victim of a Kangaroo Court.
But so was a significant population who resisted the suspension of their Civil and Human Rights which he and his cohorts imposed with no democratic oversight whatsoever.
It is the precedent of the kangaroo court, essentially rubber stamping a process by which a coup was staged in this country, that I’m talking about.
We all know what Boris and the rest of them did during lockdown and subsequently. But that is a separate issue. How fortunate that Blair repealed the Treason Act. I’ve no great liking for Boris. He’s a man of plasticine when we needed a man of steel, and his fawning over Joe Biden before victory was declared will stick long in the memory and my craw.
He led the Brexit campaign and then abandoned ship immediately after letting May become PM.
He caved to pressure and locked Britain down instead of holding firm like Sweden.
Heaving spoken passionately against identity cards he brought in vax passports .
He is a weak, pathetic person lacking in any form of courage and his sad little whiny article in the Spectator couldn’t reflect that better.
He thinks resigning is going to save him?
I always liked the TV pictures of him going around a beer garden with a pint in hand and chatting to tables of six – there was no rule of 7. Just like Starmer standing in the doorway of a brewery in Wales with a pint in hand. They just won’t keep to the rules they impose on the rest of us.
“we must not be afraid to be a properly Conservative Government”. What is that then? Is it what the Country became under Mr Johnson and his Cabinet? A Government that locked people in their homes, encouraged people to denounce their neighbours and families? abandoned the elderly and sick to die alone, stopped children playing, being educated?
Censored the Public and those that were critical, locked people up for not covering their faces? stopped people from seeing others, accused children of being killers. Used Tax payers money and beggared the nation by paying people to not work. Closed down and mothballed the health service. Coerced an untested, experimental injection on the country, Othering those that refused, causing them to lose their jobs, preventing them from travel, socialisation, encouraging the injected to hate those refusing the experiment.
Tracking and tracing, passport style papers segregating the society.
Is that a proper Conservative Government? Because thats what it became under you Mr Johnson and so it remains. When you look at the list of horror linflicted by the Conservative Party, with let us not forget the cheering on of Labour and Lib Dems, Conservative may be the new label for Tyrant
Oh and rather like other Tyrannical regimes the “conservative” Party bigwigs, Partied, and carried on with life whilst everyone else was held prisoner. Rules for thee but not for me.
Absolutely first class.
A proper Conservative government would never have signed up to the suicidal net zero project. Johnson led this. He is a gullible fool.
Were those who voted for Doris gullible fools???
Net zero 2050 was in the 2019 party manifesto. Page 52.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/annex-conservative-manifesto-half-time-analysis.pdf
So the lies are all part of what he was “briefed” to say like any other minister who happens to lie?
No attempt is made to fact-check for themselves even when it may affect their position?
Despite everything that goes before, they still blindly trust the Civil Service?
Doris doesn’t have record of dealing in truth – spin, lies and deceit is more his forte.
Guilty of misleading parliament over partygate lockdown gatherings? More like guilty of misleading the entire ruddy country over a mythical deadly disease and compounding the lie by trashing peoples’ lives, jobs and futures, topped off by overseeing the murder of the frail and weak and poisoning a huge proportion of the population with useless “jabs”.
Amongst the waffle he states that it was naive and trusting of him to believe that the investigating parliamentary committee would be fair……welcome to our world, you dope. A UK where every institution is corrupted. Where every dissenting voice is crushed, ridiculed and deplatformed. These are the voices of good, honest, educated, ethical people, capable of critical thought, standing up against the tidal wave of propaganda and the onslaught on natural rights and freedoms coming from our “government”. You created a country where corporation grifters, stasi, snitches and toadies thrive at the expense of the rest of us. You should have had the wit and gumption to listen to other opinions apart from those of the lickspittle toerags funded by grants from vested interests.
You were the Captain, and you must go down with the ship.
Parliament was unanimous in allowing the government to impose COVID restrictions. They’re all complicit.
Totally agree, not letting any of them off the hook. I’m sure there will be all sorts of machinations, cover ups and ritual sacrifices made to protect a majority of backsides. Wasn’t me, sir, the big boy did it and ran away.
True, but as leader, he carries the can.
Terrific.
Perfectly put!
So very well and clearly said. It is also clear from BJ statement that the basic goal of government being the welfare of the people and the country is nowhere in his thoughts. He lives in a world of self-serving elites spewing group think ideas who cannot see beyond the boundaries of that herd. This is a complete failure of intellect and leadership at the highest levels.
I don’t give a 4X about Johnson.
He didn’t deliver anything remotely approaching a real Brexit.
He deliberately opened the floodgates to several million legal immigrants between 2019-2023.
He did SFA to stem the flood of criminal migrants.
He morphed from a so-called Libertarian-Conservative into an Authoritarian Dictator – wrecking the economy and millions of lives as he and his Government systematically lied to us on a daily basis.
He reinforced the Net Zero lunacy, which will destroy what’s left of our economy and cost ordinary people £tens of thousands most of them haven’t got.
Good riddance. I just hope it results in the utter destruction of the Not-a-Conservative-Party.
If bojo is a ‘victim’..I’m a Chinaman..although we’re probably not allowed to say that anymore….so ‘a chap of Asian descent’….
The new head of NATO will be chosen in September..and if it isn’t that I’m sure ‘one of the boys’ has something ready in the pipeline for him.
Utter, lying, dishonest narcissistic charlatan..I really hope it is the last we have to see or hear of him…
Spending more time with his family is he?
That old chestnut! How quickly and easily they can walk away these days!!!!
Er, surely if feels that his position is that secure he would muster forces and stand and fight, not resign? That would be the Churchillian thing to do. Or is the fact that Zelenskyy is apparently the new Churchill mean there’s not enough to go around? Klaus has other plans for him, obvs.
I would be amazed if Bozo does not re-emerge in some capacity funded by the WEF or Billy.
While the method of getting rid of Boris may be novel the practice of MPs or a cabal of them, working with malign bureaucrats, is not new. Mrs Thatcher was removed in that way and probably so was IDS.
nore recently Boris was removed as PM in this way with overt support from newspapers hitherto regarded as conservative: DT and Speccie, who behaved disgracefully. Then Truss was removed in a similar fashion and Sunak installed likewise.
we are living through the removal of democratic methods and we should all be very worried. Boris’s experience reminds us how far things have gone.
And this is not just happening in Britain but in all Western countries. The EU formulation has made it easier for so many European countries. This is a world event by an elite group of powerful people. It is better to be called a conspiracy theorist than a conspirator these days.
So the fat useless pig dictator runs away .The fact he will not face any sanctions is the crime of the century .I will bet this useless cnut will creep back in a couple of years after he has filled his face with Globalist Danegeld.
I live in hope that at some point soon he dies slowly of something very slow and painful .
Utter bastard.
Like, covid?
wouldn’t that be the icing on the cake?
Poetic justice!!!
Boris, how about spilling the beans about really happened in 20 and 21? Who got to you? I wondered at one point if you’d been replaced with a lookalike.
How can a fat useless piece of shyte have a lookalike?
Just watch where you step in a field of cows!!
yes , boris was ,i think, the only leader who was going to go for herd immunity ,besides sweden, i was so glad to read that and then … at least he was going to for a little while ,unlike all the rest of the cowardly ‘leaders’
Just replace sir Robin with sir Boris!
Sir Robin’s Song https://g.co/kgs/zvjvJa
Either Johnson is a man with a spine of soup who loves to be loved and was manoeuvred into his Covid pantomime by the Remainiac bourgeoisie because they smelled a gimmick to ultimately ruin him. Or he he’s a globalist shill and he was carrying out their grooming orders – either under duress through blackmail (there’s probably plenty of scope for that) or promises of highly lucrative and cushy positions in the new autocratic global plutocracy.
It’s become crystal clear to anyone with the willingness to see it that there was no pandemic and I won’t believe a word of anything until I see the minutes of every meeting and every un-redacted conversation between Johnson, Gates, Fauci, SAGE, Starmer, Farrar, Daszack, Biden, Carney, Von Der Leyen, Schwabb, Harari, Xi, the WHO, Bourla and the rest of the pharma mafia.
But I’ll be well on the way to becoming anthracite before that happens.
Al Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion. The underlying reason was the Capone was a gangster. Johnson was got rid of because of parties in Downing St. The underlying reason is what is interesting. He should have been ousted for the lockdowns, which destroyed our country. I suspect it’s because of his (expedient for his career) support for secession from the EU.
Don’t confuse signal with noise (to quote a Bannonism).
I don’t like Johnson, but the front page of the Times tells you everything you need to know about why he was slapped.
Both Trump and Johnson are feared by their political opponents. They can’t beat them democratically, so resort to politicised lawfare.
This is a war we’re all part of, and democracy has been dismantled by the globalist cartel.
Keep attacking. Fight, fight, fight.
Hey downtickers, say something you cowards
They can’t: they haven’t paid.
Moral of the story: when you try to please everyone, you ultimately end up pleasing NO ONE. And now he is a man without a country. Good riddance, Bozo! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Hands up all those who believes anything Boris says.
He completely missed the opportunity for his Churchill moment – for two weeks we were on the same page as Sweden. Do you remember Whitty – “this is a disease (if it is) that will mainly afflict the old and vulnerable”.
But, this is the lovely gentle caring Liberal UK. Lol.
So, we went with everyone else, courtesy of murderous idiots like Blair, WEF, etc.
You must be jabbed – lest thou art not a Good Person.
Anyone dismayed at the demise of a lying, murderous psychopath could also well be a … ?
He has earned over $3 million lecturing to US neo-con and other “think tanks” to support more arms to Ukraine. His decision to quit Parliament means he has more time to spend on this financially rewarding activity and he no longer has to declare his earnings in the House of Commons register. Trebles all round!!
“But they have wilfully chosen to ignore the truth because from the outset their purpose has not been to discover the truth”
Join the club mate. Now you know what it feels like only we have been telling the truth and you have been lying for the last 3 1/2 years. And you’re a warmonger.
Hear, hear.
Curiously absent from his statement was his enthusiastic pushing of the net zero narrative. Is that a “proper Conservative” policy? Is that “pro growth and pro investment”?
He also mentioned the vaccine rollout but curiously forgot to mention that he was the PM who imposed three lockdowns on our country, and in the process wrecked or economy and our democratic institutions.
He was an absolutely disastrous Prime Minister. And yet his statement made it very clear that he intends to return to parliament (“leaving Parliament – at least for now”) and presumably seek to lead the Conservative Party again.
I do hope we never see this man anywhere near power ever again.
“I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say,”
Boris admits in writing that he’s just a thoughtless zombie stooge puppet. At least we now have this for the record.
I was so disappointed with Boris, who I thought was a champion for human and democratic rights and free speech, when at a stroke he was prepared to ditch them all completely. It was while he was in charge that part of our military was tasked to censor and block any internet comment that was contrary to the incorrect government line or anyone who spoke against the obviously stupid restrictions put in place by his government. The almost irrelevant involvement of parties in Downing Street were not anything like as important as his failure to support our human rights and freedoms. Despite his eloquent resignation letter, it’s clear he doesn’t understand the meaning of honesty or honour, and I regret that someone I thought would be a people’s champion has misrepresented himself and failed so badly to be what I hoped he was.
Even after the Covid disasters, he has compounded his future failure with his stupid support for the crazy net-zero agenda, I thought, by the influence of his partner. If he was even partly competent, he surely would realise that the net-zero stupidity will cripple our country with no benefit to the climate at all.