Blunt backed down. But the breathing space was very temporary indeed: then came news that the Metropolitan Police had actually done their job for once. This time the Beeb told that “Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be fined over lockdown parties”. Why so? “Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be fined by the police for breaking lockdown laws”. A serving Prime Minister has been caught breaking the law.
There was more. “The PM's wife, Carrie Johnson, will also be given a fixed penalty notice”. Team game, and all that. Do go on. “Officials confirmed the three had received notification of the fines from the Met, following an investigation into illegal parties in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns”. Would any of them care to take the biscuit?
They certainly would. “Spokespeople for the Johnsons and Mr Sunak said they had not been told which event the fines were linked to”. Master, how shall we fuck off? Open goal time, folks. Keir? Nicola? Incoming! “Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak must resign”. And more.
By tomorrow, though, our free and fearless press will be in full arse-wiping mode. Bozo may be an SOB, but he’s their SOB: pundits will be deployed to ensure the message goes out that it’s nothing really, maybe even that it didn’t really happen. But here a problem enters: a fixed penalty is not a statement of opinion. It can’t be waved away by a thundering headline or righteous editorial. It’s a fact. It means He Done It.
So how many of those lobby fodder Tory MPs will be willing to stand before not just the cameras, but also their constituents - the kinds of people who obeyed the law while those in Downing Street didn’t - and tell them that it’s no big deal? How many will volunteer to give up a little more of their soul in return for an easy life? How bad does Bozo’s conduct have to get before they discover their backbone and dispense with his services?
Are breaking the law, lying to Parliament and breaching the Ministerial Code not sufficient to force Johnson to go? How bad does it have to get? The PM is not just a liar and corrupt with it, he has now broken the law. If not now, when? Don’t all shout at once.
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Let's hope the electorate punishes the Tories on 5th May.
ReplyDeleteThe Tories and their supporters have already started the defense citing Ukrane as to why Johnson should stay as PM
ReplyDeleteFor as long as I remember, the Tories claim they are on the side of those who ''do the right thing''. Presumably this included being law-abiding. So when Bodger Johnson and Richly Sunk break the very laws they implemented, why should they remain in office???
ReplyDeleteMoreover, had this been a high court judge or chief constable breaking the law, thy'd have been expected to have resigned by now had they not already done so. A judge administers the law and a chief constable enforces the law, as well as having men and women in and out of uniform under them doing the very same. A PM actually devises the law. The very law they're expected to follow. This is why Johnson should not only resign, but should never have been placed in a position of power in the first place!!!!
Because of course there’s no precedent to ousting the incumbent Prime Minister while there's a war going on. You'd think that the W Churchill fanboiz who make up the vanguard of Bloody Stupid Johnson's least critical supporters would know that. Oh… wait.
ReplyDeletePS: And remember what happened to Churchill as soon as WW2 was over :-)
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ReplyDeleteYes to the PS.
Quite literally with ink scarcely dry on the 1945 surrender document Churchill ordered a preparatory plan - Operation Unthinkable - for a nuclear strike on Russia. Fortunately ignored by those with better judgment than the old imperial racist drunk. But later taken up in spades by the Pentagon genocidal lunatics.