Outgoing UK prime minister Boris Johnson claims 'deep state' wants to undo Brexit, reiterates pangolin COVID origin theory in latest speech to Commons

UK prime minister Boris Johnson, who announced his resignation on July 7 and who will remain in office for seven more weeks, gave a fiery speech to the House of Commons on Monday, recalling his accomplishments in his three years as prime minister, predicting that the "deep state" will not succeed in undoing Brexit, and reiterating that COVID may have originated from Chinese pangolins.

In one of his final addresses to the Commons as prime minister, Johnson enumerated all the "very remarkable" successes the Tories have had under his leadership, especially Brexit and the government's handling of COVID-19.

"We got Brexit done and though the rejoiners and the revengers were left plotting and planning and biding their time – and I’ll have more to say about the events of the last few weeks and months in due course – we delivered on every single one of our promises," he said.

But he also issued a warning to his opponents in the Labour Party and in "the deep state": Brexit is here to stay.

"Some people will say as I leave office, they will say, 'This is the end of Brexit,'" he told MPs, "'and [that] the Leader of the Opposition (Sir Keir Starmer) and the deep state will prevail in its plot to haul back us into alignment with the EU as a prelude to our eventual return.'

"We on this side of the House will prove them wrong," he pledged.

He also claimed that Starmer has repeatedly attempted to "overturn the will of the people" regarding Brexit and that, given the chance, he and the Labour Party and deep state would attempt to do so again if Starmer were made prime minister.

However, Starmer insisted earlier this month that, should he succeed Johnson, he would not try to undo Brexit.

“So let me be very clear: with Labour, Britain will not go back into the EU. We will not be joining the single market. We will not be joining a customs union,” Starmer said.

In his speech, Johnson also weighed in on his government's accomplishments during COVID, which he said likely originated in a Chinese wet market.

COVID was "[a] pandemic that was global, whose origins we do not fully understand but were nothing to do with the British people — and if anything the result of distant misbehavior involving bats or pangolins — and whose spread was appallingly difficult to manage, and this Government never gave up through wave after wave," Johnson remarked in his speech (emphasis added).

Johnson is likely to step down officially on September 6. Fellow conservatives Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat are now attempting to become the leader of the Tory Party.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/boris-johnson-deep-state-wet-markets

Texas State Police Launch Internal Review of Uvalde Response

UVALDE, Texas—The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced Monday an internal review into the actions of state police who had dozens of troopers and agents on the scene during a slow and chaotic response to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting.

The review comes as a new 80-page report released over the weekend by the Texas House revealed wide failures by all levels of law enforcement. The findings estimated more than 90 state troopers were at Robb Elementary School during the May 24 tragedy.

It is the first time Texas DPS has said it would examine the actions of its own officers in the two months since the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.

Texas DPS said in a statement the review would “determine if any violations of policy, law, or doctrine occurred” during the response to the attack that killed 19 children and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. It said the review was launched last week.

Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw has previously called the law enforcement response to the shooting an “abject failure.” He has put much of the blame on the school district’s police chief for not breaching the classroom sooner.

The findings of an investigative committee released Sunday were the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas city for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.

Footage from city police officers’ body cameras made public hours later only further emphasized the failures.

Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the school, but “egregiously poor decision making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed, according to the report written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives.

Together, the report and more than three hours of newly released body camera footage from the May 24 tragedy amounted to the fullest account to date of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety,” the report said.

The gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building—and it is “almost certain” that at least 100 shots came before any officer entered, according to the report, which laid out numerous failures. Among them:

—No one assumed command despite scores of officers being on the scene.

—The commander of a Border Patrol tactical team waited for a bulletproof shield and working master key for a door to the classrooms that may have not even been needed, before entering.

—A Uvalde Police Department officer said he heard about 911 calls that had come from inside the rooms, and that his understanding was the officers on one side of the building knew there were victims trapped inside. Still, no one tried to breach the classroom.

https://www.ntd.com/texas-state-police-launch-internal-review-of-uvalde-response_810563.html

Waste of time self investigations = coverup