Have the Cabinet Office 'lost' Boris Johnson's Diaries?

Right so, whenever an investigation takes place you expect all the evidence to be made available so to arrive at the correct result, especially when it’s public money paying for it and in the public interest to arrive at the correct judicial conclusion, that is unless it applies to a man who lies like a rug such as Boris Johnson, for whom truth is an allergen to be avoided at all costs lest he come out in a rather nasty rash. Not just is it Johnson avoiding truth and justice let’s argue, but also those around him too, the hangers on, who won’t hear a bar against him, from Mad Nad Dorries to donors like Peter Cruddas, for whom a country run in the interests of ordinary people doesn’t enter their minds, we’re numbers on a spreadsheet, producing more numbers in the way of GDP, I don’t think we even count as living, breathing entitles to such people, living in their elevated rich person bubbles as they do and Johnson is the man to keep them rich; what kind of a man he is, what sort of things he gets up to, what he says from one moment to the next doesn’t matter at all as long as they remain wealthy and powerful. This of course extends throughout government too, those parliamentary Tory backbenchers who still hail him as an election winner, even if that election was won on a pack of lies and deceit, it doesn’t matter that his own obnoxious behaviour was his own undoing, both through his chronically incompetent leadership, blatantly not up to the job, worst PM in the last 100 years according to Prime Ministerial biographer Anthony Seldon and  people will bend over backwards for Bozo and his lazy, half-cocked policies, that blighted peoples lives, for too many saw their lives ended too. Right now the government is protecting Johnson as well, but maybe not completely out of a sense of ‘protect the exhalted one,’ but out of self preservation for themselves. This is of course all centred around the latest events concerning the Covid Inquiry into government conduct during the Pandemic, not set to report it should be noted until the Summer of 2026, but right now the only story going is the part of the inquiry looking at Boris Johnson’s part in all of this. We know he had secured £245,000 worth of publicly funded legal aid as the separate investigation by the Privileges Committee into whether her misled parliament is also ongoing, entitled to it because he was a former minister, so yet another parliamentary perk none of the rest of us have available to us, and all handed to a guy who has just made £5m on the US speech circuit, so I’m sure we’re all appreciating this was money well spent – not. Well the lawyers he had assigned to him not only have a responsibility to Johnson, but also to the public funding Johnson’s defence, so when they came across Johnson’s ministerial diaries from Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat and found entries that appear to imply he’d been breaking lockdown rules whilst there as well, his sister Rachel Johnson appearing to drop him in it live on LBC radio notably over this, apparently confessing to having gone there herself. The lawyers referred this to the Cabinet Office, who as public money is being used needed to be clued in on this. There’s some argy bargy as to who felt things were above board and who didn’t here, there’s been some conflicting reports on this and who decided they weren’t between the lawyers and the Cabinet Office, but ultimately the files were apparently passed onto the Met Police and Thames Valley Police to see if a criminal prosecution under the then law, which has already seen Johnson get fined once, is warranted. What might clarify this position further is what has happened at both the Cabinet Office and with Johnson’s lawyers since. Johnson has fired those lawyers. The Cabinet Office, despite the full unredacted ministerial diaries from Chequers, along with WhatsApp messages relating to this time, text conversations, from other leading figures during the pandemic, involving people like Chris Whitty, Matt Hancock and more has been ordered by the chair of the Covid Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, to hand them over, yet the Cabinet Office has refused, saying they are ‘unambiguously irrelevant.’ Hallett gave the Cabinet Office until 4pm today to hand them over, however they have just issued a statement as I was writing this video to say now they don’t have them. Well what have you done with them then? The lawyers showed them to you, gave them to you they say, so where are they now? Have you given them to Johnson’s new legal team, now costing the public purse apparently a further million pounds? If so why won’t you say that? If you haven’t got them, why did you say they are unambiguously irrelevant a few hours ago beforehand? You can smell the cover up, it stinks worse than a Bognor Regis beach right now – major sewage spill, I’m not picking on Bognor for the sake of it – and Rishi Sunak, when spoken to about it hasn’t offered any reassurance here either. He said: ‘its really important that we learn the lessons of COVID and that’s why the inquiry was established and we want to be sure that whatever lessons are there to be learned are learned and we do that in a spirit of transparency and candour. The government is co-operating with the inquiry team, tens of thousands of documents have been handed over and with regard to the specific question of the moment, the government is carefully considering its position but is confident in the approach that its taken.’ Word salad again, more flannel than my mums airer, I really hate that lessons learned excuse, if you were learning lessons you’d actually co-operate. As for transparency, just hand over the damn diaries then, unredacted as requested by the inquiry chair. The deadline to come up with the diaries and WhatsApps has now been extended to 4pm on Thursday – they wanted until next Monday the cheeky swines and got told no – but still, its giving them time to consider what they’re doing, find said items if needs be and pass them onto the inquiry chair as required of them in the name of transparency as Sunak has bleated today. The Cabinet Office haven’t it seems got a pot to piss in over this, but how far are they prepared to go to protect Johnson and why? Johnson sacked his first legal team, and was initially saying releasing such material was a breach of national security and breached government rules of disclosure, something the Cabinet Office are hiding behind as well, yet now he says he has no problem with these items being handed over. What changed? The sacked legal team say they left the materials with the Cabinet Office, so what have the Cabinet Office done with them? Well interestingly enough, Johnson issued a statement last Friday saying any requests for materials from him must be in writing and that since then no requests for materials had been made to him. Now is it just me, or does this imply that Johnson has been handed all of these items back after he sacked his lawyers? In which case him saying he has no problem with them being handed to the inquiry speaks volumes about how comfortable he might be about them not making it into the Inquiry’s hands. Is an unfortunate accident going to befall them? Whoops, the dog ate them? Oh dear they fell in the fire? What are the chances I  happened to be walking past a very deep old mineshaft and they just fell in? Aliens abducted them. We know the drill. Will this even be necessary though, as seemingly in order to stall things all the more, legal action against the Inquiry is now being mooted and nothing quite says I’m, innocent like taking the people investigating you to court does it? Make your mind up Bozo, are you happy to hand them over or are you calling the lawyers in again? There’s an impasse between the government saying this material is irrelevant and the inquiry chair demanding to see it though. Baroness Hallett, who is an eminent judge, the daughter of a policeman herself, is widely respected, politically switched on more importantly and is best known as the Coroner for the inquest into the 52 victims of the 7/7 bombings, so an excellent choice to lead this inquiry in my view, more than qualified, isn’t taking an shit from the Cabinet Office over this, exactly what we want to see when far too many governmental figures are seemingly enthralled by or implicated in the lies of Boris Johnson. I think this is going to drag out, I think we’re going to be footing the legal bill some more for Boris Johnson as he tries to protect these documents. If they are back in his hands I doubt they’ll ever see the light of day again now and this has to be seen by the inquiry as an attempt to subvert justice and withhold evidence to protect themselves, after all, it’s not just going to be Johnson implicated here is it? How many serving ministers and government figures will be implicated in this latest scandal? He was meeting with a communicating with other people here, obviously yes? And is that the real impetus to bury this in as deep a hole as possible? What the Cabinet Office are pulling here is unprecedented, as unprecedented as the cruelty, callousness and crookedness of this Tory administration. Baroness Hallett appears to have seen this coming too though, as she has demanded a signed statement as part of agreeing the Thursday extension from the Cabinet Office under Oath no less, to back up their assertation that they no longer have the requested evidence. Do not mess with this woman! And no doubt her next question will be, well if you don’t have them, who does? You can bet ‘don’t know’ won’t be an acceptable answer. This story is going to rumble on a while yet and if you like share and subscribe to the channel, you can be sure I’ll keep following it up, digging into the detail and hold all concerned to account, in the no nonsense way regular viewers have come to know and love. Or at least I hope they do, they keep coming back for some reason if its not that! In the meantime, instead of clicking away, might I recommend this video here where you can get a flavour of the fanboy and fangirling that went on at the meeting of the Boris Johnson Fan Club Conference the other week, the sort of people no doubt with an interest in burying this story and protecting their idol and of course there are hundreds more vids to peruse at your leisure, please have a butchers of them and I’ll catch you on the next vid, cheers folks.