‘Will things change? It’s still Tories in charge...’
PEOPLE across the North East have been reacting to Boris Johnson’s resignation.
Angie Comerford, who runs Hebburn Helps community foodbank, said: “I don’t think things will get any better ‘cause it’s still a Tory government.
“They’re all running off the same policies so I don’t think much will change. Hopefully there might be one of them that wants to do right by the people and not have people starving because they can’t afford to live.
“But, honestly, I can’t see it getting much better because their hands are going to be tied by delivering a Tory policy. A whole change of government, as in a whole change of leadership party, would be the ideal outcome but I doubt that is going to happen right now.”
Rebecca Highton, from Kingston Park, said she was happy about Mr Johnson’s resignation, which she described as “a long time coming”.
The 27-year old added: “I think he held off as long as he possibly could because
he had no shame at all. I’m glad he’s finally going and I hope they do get an interim caretaker Prime Minister because having him until autumn is still far too long.
“The fact that he is going is something, but it’s a shame that it has taken so much for it to happen. Somebody alleged to have sexually assaulted other people and the Prime Minister having a knowledge of these accusations but still hiring him, as well as his handling of the pandemic and ‘Partygate’, and every other scandal that he’s been
involved in. He clearly has no shame to have stayed as Prime Minister for this long.”
Rebecca’s son Alfie, three, who was born with cerebral palsy, was seriously unwell while ‘Partygate’ was going on. She followed the Covid rules strictly, which left her alone at her son’s hospital bedside, while her husband and other son were unable to visit.
Rebecca explained that during the pandemic doctors were going to postpone surgery for Alfie. But at the same time she said she was
told that if Alfie caught Covid, because of his vulnerabilities, he “would likely die”.
She said: “It was a really terrible position we were in and then you find out that MPS were partying in that time.”
Rebecca added she’s not surprised at how the last week in politics has turned out and believes all party members who have resigned have done so to “cover their own backs”.
She also said she has “no faith” in any of the Tories because “they have stuck by Boris Johnson for far too long”.