Rules don’t matter for these Eton ‘toffs’

Sir, – 150,000 Covid deaths (the highest in Europe), a cost of living crisis with benefits slashed and fuel bills going through the roof; the secondjobs scandal and an attempt to get a corrupt Tory MP off the hook; a dodgy flat donation, allegations of cash for access and a Downing Street party during lockdown Boris Johnson claimed didn’t happen but was within the rules.

Now it emerges that in May of 2020 when people were following the rules, couldn’t attend funerals or visit dying relatives, Johnson decided to have an alcohol-fuelled party while people were dying.

He and his other Etoneducated Tory toffs have nothing but contempt and scorn for those they view as the “lower orders”.

The very fact Johnson thinks it’s appropriate to go on TV and smirk when confronted with the latest allegations says it all.

His wheeze to get off is twofold. First go into hiding and stonewall. Secondly appoint one of his employees (a civil servant) to investigate what he already knows.

Namely that this party happened, he attended, it was against the law.

Johnson is a laughing stock, a clown, a blathering fantasist and buffoon. He was never morally fit to be prime minister. Yet the Conservative Party embraced him. As did Scottish unionists.

They knew what he was like but they endorsed him for electoral expediency.

Johnson’s complicit enablers in the “Scottish” Tories – including Ruth Davidson (who took a peerage) and Douglas Ross who supported him in multiple elections, and the rag media – all bear culpability. Alan Hinnrichs. Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.