Another bad week at the office for Boris

THIS Prime Minister yet again proves what an arrogant and unthinking man he is.

While attending a worldwide gathering of hundreds of heads of state trying to get to grips with global warming, we taxpayers paid for a private jet to carry him from Glasgow to London to attend a fancy dinner in London and carry him back so he could make another speech in Glasgow – the content of which nobody seems to have bothered to print.

Earlier, he attended a speech by Sir David Attenborough. Now David Attenborough is one of only two people in this country who transcends politics; the other is the

Queen by virtue of her inheritance of the throne of England – David Attenborough by virtue of his almost universal acceptance as the authoritative voice on survival of this Earth and we miserable humans who live on it.

Sir David, at 95, is critically exposed to the consequences of catching even a slight infection of Covid-19, and I believe he knows that. This Prime Minister is a non obvious person; his self aggrandisement rules above all else.

When the rules of Scotland, and the UN at the Glasgow conference, say that inside a building masks will be worn, this self-obsessed man decides it does not apply to him and, unshielded, he decides to stand within two feet of Sir David and breathe all over him.

Forty years ago, as Master

Johnson, his Eton Master said of Boris Johnson: “He honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

Such people never change.

There is, then, the small matter of his sudden proposed changes to the all-party agreed Parliamentary rules on standards in public life.

I understand it would immediately affect a Conservative Member of Parliament who, after a two-year investigation, has been found guilty by the Standards Committee of his peers of serious, repeated transgressions in that area.

Mr Johnson wanted to permit an appeal. How Opposition Deputy Leader Angela Rayner dealt with that can easily be found on the internet.

So, 250 Tory sheep trotted into the lobby to vote for this suddenly announced change.

The next day, Mr Johnson and his ruling Cabinet reversed their decision and now all the sheep have to trot back in again to vote it off.

The MP resigned his seat, so the matter ends.

I sincerely express my condolences to the former MP Mr Owen Paterson and his children at the very sad circumstances of the death of his wife and their mother.

Perhaps in due course he will agree to a question session, along the lines given by Mr Cummings.

It’s been another bad week at the office for Mr Johnson.

Don Frampton Newton Abbot, Devon