naomi - // is term in office has been the most difficult of any prime minister since the war. No one has has anything like it on their plate. That people are so willing to forget that and ditch him over something as petty as a group of work colleagues having a drink together should surprise me, but people being people, it doesn’t. Dogs are more loyal. //
I remain amazed at your stance on this.
Not that you disagree that Boris should be sacked - but the utter paucity of your defence.
What you appear to be saying, and do correct me if I am wrong - is that because the PM has presided over one of the most horrendous periods in history - no argument there - we should allow some flagrant rule breaking by the very people who make the rules, to slide as a kind of reward for all that stress and hard work.
Well I don't believe politics, or indeed life, works like that.
You don't get to store up credit in the morality bank by doing good things, simply so you can call on that credit when you are found to have behaved inexcusably badly, breaking the law which you made, as you do it.
Boris Johnson should, with the integrity and simple decency that goes with his office, have been able to stand up in the Commons and say -
'I knew nothing whatsoever about any rule-breaking parties among the staff of the government of which I am the head.
It is against not only the law of the land, and the simple law of morality that says we cannot be seen to be ignoring the rules that we enforce so rigidly on everyone else.
On that basis, I will ensure that every single person who either organised or attended any such parties / work gatherings / Teddy Bears' Picnics, call them what you will, is dismissed from their job forthwith.
I obey the law, I expect my staff to obey the law, and I will take action against anyone who does not obey the law.
How could I, in all conscience, do anything else?'
Instead, he is virtually having to have an 'Apology' pro forma printed out - just fill in the details and send it off - to saved time.
His behaviour is appalling, and I remain, as i say, not only amazed that you defend it, but that your defence is only slightly more feeble and pointless than his.