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Luddite
Shameful, utterly shameful.
kurisupisu
One rule for the elite and other rules for the rest of us-the ongoing collapse of society continues…
Aly Rustom
she's right
buchailldana
And still he is in power.
Shame on the UK
He was asked was he at this party.
All he had to do was say Yes or No
And he couldn't even do that.
tooheysnew
The British voted this idiot into power.
The British voted yes for brexit.
and they’ve been complaining about both ever since
Mr Kipling
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a member of the wealthy elite that send their children to Eton followed by Oxford. He joined the infamous Bullingdon club whose members take delight inlighting cigarettes in front of homeless people using £20 notes. They regard themselves as entitled and above the rest of us plebs. There is no wonder that they ignored the rules. Those rules were for the ordinary people. I'm obviously not a great fan of these types but worse are the millions of ordinary people who for whatever reason, think that Boris and his friends have their interests at heart. Maybe its because the press and media in the UK is controlled by friends of Boris?
Steve
Poor Boris!
he just wanted to party!
Simon Foston
tooheysnewToday 08:39 am JST
Fewer British people voted for other parties than for the Conservatives.
No, a majority of English people did.
Wouldn't you? Especially if you hadn't voted for either yourself?
GBR48
Omicron rates in England are plummeting, largely because Johnson didn't impose limits and let it rip through quickly. If they fall far enough, fast enough, he will be able to remove restrictions and few will care about the party. Otherwise, he could be in trouble.
Any investigation will take time. During lockdown, the police generally gave people a ticking off or fined them, and a lot of people broke the rules. There is also an expectation that governments are corrupt and ignore their own rules.
Johnson isn't Dominic Cummings and the Tories are in a difficult position. They might want a change of leader, giving them enough time for the public to actually recognise them, and to bed them down. But they simply don't have a 'Plan B' candidate.
This is really quite finely balanced now. Like most things, it will depend on Covid rates and how that gets played. Stronger lockdowns in the EU may spin out Omicron there a little, giving Johnson some extra political capital.
This is as close to the wire as it gets.
itsonlyrocknroll
Where Brexit is concerned, I get the impression and read, that it is the minority that voted to remain, yet never failing to waste an opportunity to complain and harangue the majority that choose to leave the European Union.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson many have succeeded in persuading the electorate to overwhelmingly back his premiership/party, however Johnson has betrayed the trust granted/ bestowed from the Britain public.
How in god’s name did Johnson believe that holding and press conference midday May 20, 2020 reminding the public to respect the Covid measures in place, with the police on hand bashing down doors in Brighton and the local council snoopers peering through letter boxes, only at 6 pm to host a boozy number 10 garden party.
To cap it all with emails to remain all attendees,
And not think sooner or later, those emails wont leak.
What a plonker!!
Mickelicious
Britain once mighty,
Boris, Brexit and Queen in
Twilights for Blighty.
starpunk
Bozo, you bozo - resign now.
itsonlyrocknroll
I don’t know zichi, imagine being handed the reins of power, of government by the people with an unassailable majority, and then flip it all up over a dysfunctional inability to rise to office.
He couldn’t even join the dots that turning a blind eye, or worse attending a soirée in his own back yard wouldn’t come back to haunt his own government.
I never had the confidence for politics, I wrote enough for others.
But where politics was concerned, I was a nervous Nerys.
Ah_so
Well, about 17m voted to leave in a country of 65 million, so it's definitely a "minority" either way. And it is estimated that as at the date that Brexit actually occurred, the demographic changes that had happened in the few intervening years would have produced a different result.
Boris was an opportunist, seeing Brexit as an opportunity to seize power from a weak leader.
And now Boris Johnson has probably met his nemises in this event - a sloppy decision resulting from his casual arrogance.
Mickelicious
Boris: a minor act in the great drama of Britain's sacrifice on the altar of English nationalism.
The question is, are we near its nadir, or is there much, much worse to come?
Madverts
Good god hasn't he resigned yet?