//The thing is Johnsons 'covid' actions do matter to the public.//
x2 with a few bells and whistles added.
The two pressing issues of the day are not mutually exclusive. The issue with "partygate" (or whatever name you want to give to the culture of arrogance and hypocrisy that seems to have permeated No 10) is not what was done but who did it, who presided over it and what they were ordering everybody else to do at the time. Normally nobody gives a toss what politicians do so long as they do not cause them too much trouble. But this was different.
There are tales of untold hardship that originated from that time: people unable to visit dying relatives; people unable to attend funerals of those who did die; people unable to meet with and support vulnerable loved ones. There are other tales of people being issued with penalty notices for engaging in everyday (and often completely harmless) activities, such as the two ladies taking a stroll in the country whilst drinking a cup of coffee. These were outrageous impingements on their liberties. Yet most complied because they believed it was the right thing to do (which often it wasn't, but that's another debate).
Then we turn to this lot. Tale after tale emerges of them carrying on their business (and pleasure) as if the rules did not apply to them. This is followed, when their misdemeanours are revealed, with obfuscation and excuses, much of it a downright insult to the intelligence of normal people.
It does matter. It matters a lot that the country has a leader who clearly believes that his work (which seems recently to consist mainly of visiting hospitals and vaccination centres and simply getting in the way) and that of his ministers and officials is far too important to be troubled by the petty rules with which everybody else is expected to comply. More than that, their pleasures, relaxing after work with cheese and wine on government premises to "destress" after a long day, is necessary only for them as if nobody else has had such a stressful time over the last two years.
Much as it pains me, Mr Johnson needs to go. His leadership, which displays no Tory qualities or values at all, is crippling the country and destroying the Tory Party.