How much more of this polluted PM do we have to suffer? Rules just for the little people
■■1457 BC: The Battle of Megiddo, the first battle with a reliable account, takes place, with Egyptian forces under Thutmose III defeating a Canaanite coalition led by the King of Kadesh.
■■1705: Queen Anne knights Sir Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.
■■1746: The Jacobite rebellion comes to an end with a decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden, the last pitched battle fought on the British mainland.
■■1912: American aviator Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an aeroplane across the English Channel. ■■1917: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (now known as St Petersburg), Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
■■1942: King George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta.
■■1963: Dr Martin Luther King Jr writes his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’.
■■1966: Monty Python star Michael Palin marries Helen Gibbins.
■■1972: Apollo 16 blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for the moon.
■■2003: Basketball superstar Michael Jordan plays his final game in the NBA.
■■2012: The trial of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik begins in Oslo, Norway. ■■2017: The largest gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes is held in Vevey, Switzerland, with 662 attending.
■■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Raul Castro announces that he will resign as leader of Cuba, ending his family’s six decades of rule in the country.
I HAVE heard some twaddle in my years but the attempt to excuse this pungent government and its disgraceful leader takes the biscuit.
While watching Boris Johnson squirming over his fine for lawbreaking this week, someone said: “So what if he broke the law? It was only a piece of cake or a piece of cheese or a glass of wine. He had after all been working hard to roll out the vaccine or invest money in the furlough scheme to keep food on the table during lockdown. Don’t forget his amazing efforts as the ‘leader of the free world’ in supporting Ukraine.”
What utter tosh! The next thing they’ll be claiming he can leap tall buildings with a single bound.
Let’s just unpick this a little. Firstly it wasn’t just a piece of cake or a glass of wine. There were many, many parties in Downing Street.
Johnson is a serial offender! To claim that his justification for lawbreaking is that others in stressful occupations would have partied as well is ridiculous. Apart from the fact there is no evidence for this, the comparison between an overweight schoolboy and NHS staff is too grotesque for words.
Don’t forget that Johnson and his Tory chums had to be dragged by Marcus Rashford, kicking and screaming into TWO U-turns about free school meal support for children.
Don’t forget the incompetence over PPE and how contracts were awarded to Tory chums who made fortunes from the misery and suffering of others.
Don’t forget that Johnson and his gang presided over the deaths of so many in care homes because of the foolish policies he adopted. Who can forget that the UK has the highest total of excess deaths in Europe!
Never forget the attempts to support his colleagues who had transgressed.
Throughout it all Johnson has lied and wriggled and twisted to avoid responsibility for his incompetence. Now it turns out that he and his neighbour have been laughing at the suffering of the people of the UK.
How much more of this polluted man must we suffer?
SO THERE we have it then. Boris Johnson and his fellow ‘partner in crime’ Rishi Sunak have just gone from being ‘suspects’ to ‘convicts’ now that they have been fined for breaking the Covid lockdown laws.
Despite all his lies and bluster, it just confirms what has seemed obvious for some time.
I suspect there are likely to be more fines to follow for Johnson, given he is reported to have attended up to six of the lockdown rulebreaking parties which are under investigation by the Metropolitan Police.
I am not sure what is worse – the callous and rank hypocrisy of Johnson in breaking the lockdown laws which his own Government introduced, or all the bare-faced lying he has done about it since he was first rumbled on this.
Johnson is the first ever Prime Minister to be found guilty of breaking the law whilst in office and it seems clear he has deliberately misled Parliament.
This really ought to lead to Johnson doing the decent and honourable thing and resigning, but he clearly isn’t going to.
Unfortunately,there is nothing whatsoever decent and honourable about him, and it is a travesty someone like him has managed to become Prime Minister in our country.
Conservative Party MPs have the power to oust Johnson if they want to, but it would appear they are nearly all buying into the complete and utter bunkum that what is happening in Ukraine means now is not the time to contemplate a change of Prime Minister.
What nonsense! Our country changed Prime Ministers during both the First and Second World Wars, and those changes proved to
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be very much for the better. I mean, it is not as if we are even actually at war ourselves, and the conflict in Ukraine is not stopping the Presidential elections in France.
And as for the tax affairs of Rishi Sunak and his family. My goodness me. His hypocrisy is in real danger of eclipsing even that of ‘Good Old Boris.’
It seems that some of the selfentitled toffs running the country believe not only are laws and rules just applicable to us little people, but taxes are only for us little people as well.
Steve Shackleton