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Surely Boris Has To Go Now?
Who is sticking up for Boris now? None of the papers as far as I can see.
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The moral high ground was neither here nor there in what I wrote, which was focused on why Johnson's messed this up so badly from a *political* viewpoint. But in any case, I didn't write the law, I didn't pass the laws, and I didn't appear multiple times a week on television to tell people that they must follow those rules. Nobody on AB did. I don't understand why it's so difficult to see that the hypocrisy and double standards at play make a significant difference in assessing who has or noes not have the "moral high ground".
From the BBC feed :
Boris Johnson is running the government like a "medieval court", a former Cabinet minister has said.
Tory MP Andrew Mitchell tells BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "This is a crisis that is not going to go away and is doing very great damage to the party.
"It is more corrosive than the expenses scandal was and it will break the coalition that is the Conservative Party."
Mitchell says an "awful lot" is going on "beneath the surface".
He went on: "I think the problem is that Boris is running a modern government like a medieval court, you need to rule and govern through the structures, through Whitehall, through the cabinet for National Security Council.
"Many of us thought he would govern in the way he did when he was Mayor Of London, through being a chairman of a board, running a very good team - that is not what has happened here."
Boris Johnson is running the government like a "medieval court", a former Cabinet minister has said.
Tory MP Andrew Mitchell tells BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "This is a crisis that is not going to go away and is doing very great damage to the party.
"It is more corrosive than the expenses scandal was and it will break the coalition that is the Conservative Party."
Mitchell says an "awful lot" is going on "beneath the surface".
He went on: "I think the problem is that Boris is running a modern government like a medieval court, you need to rule and govern through the structures, through Whitehall, through the cabinet for National Security Council.
"Many of us thought he would govern in the way he did when he was Mayor Of London, through being a chairman of a board, running a very good team - that is not what has happened here."
//I don't understand why it's so difficult to see that the hypocrisy and double standards at play//
Such is the red mist that's once again descended that even 'double standards' have acquired double standards. It's probably futile to repeat an alternative point of view yet again but nevertheless I will.
I don't see double standards at all. Common sense should dictate that if people are working together day in and day out it matters not whether they're drinking a cup of tea or a glass of wine Would drinking a cup of tea together (which doubtless they do throughout their working day) have produced the same result? I doubt it very much. Furthermore, does walking through the back door into the garden rather than staying inside render the 'crime' more serious? The bleating about funerals and being separated from loved ones, as if the people involved were ignoring those rules, together with the disingenuous absurdity of the notion that the nation was in mourning on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and therefore the queen was owed an apology, is simply ludicrous, but feed it to the hysterical masses - and it works.
Had those office workers invited people from outside to join them I could well understand the complaints - and I would be furious too - but they didn't. They are obliged to be together because they work together - and within a work environment I can’t see that it matters where they sit or what they drink. Had I been working in those offices it wouldn't have occurred to me that 'rules' were being broken.
This whole thing is an absolute nonsense designed by people clearly sharpening their knives, with the former pariah but curiously now flavour of the month that is Cummings leading the charge. Double standards there alright!
So what's really going on? Several have already hinted - very hopefully - that Boris's departure could herald our re-entry into the EU - but none of them have an agenda, do they? Of course they don’t. They’re all squeaky clean doyens of morality. Not a dishonest bone among them.
PS. Some people have a very odd idea of what constitutes a party. A birthday cake and a quick rendition of 'Happy Birthday To You' doesn't cut it for me.
Such is the red mist that's once again descended that even 'double standards' have acquired double standards. It's probably futile to repeat an alternative point of view yet again but nevertheless I will.
I don't see double standards at all. Common sense should dictate that if people are working together day in and day out it matters not whether they're drinking a cup of tea or a glass of wine Would drinking a cup of tea together (which doubtless they do throughout their working day) have produced the same result? I doubt it very much. Furthermore, does walking through the back door into the garden rather than staying inside render the 'crime' more serious? The bleating about funerals and being separated from loved ones, as if the people involved were ignoring those rules, together with the disingenuous absurdity of the notion that the nation was in mourning on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and therefore the queen was owed an apology, is simply ludicrous, but feed it to the hysterical masses - and it works.
Had those office workers invited people from outside to join them I could well understand the complaints - and I would be furious too - but they didn't. They are obliged to be together because they work together - and within a work environment I can’t see that it matters where they sit or what they drink. Had I been working in those offices it wouldn't have occurred to me that 'rules' were being broken.
This whole thing is an absolute nonsense designed by people clearly sharpening their knives, with the former pariah but curiously now flavour of the month that is Cummings leading the charge. Double standards there alright!
So what's really going on? Several have already hinted - very hopefully - that Boris's departure could herald our re-entry into the EU - but none of them have an agenda, do they? Of course they don’t. They’re all squeaky clean doyens of morality. Not a dishonest bone among them.
PS. Some people have a very odd idea of what constitutes a party. A birthday cake and a quick rendition of 'Happy Birthday To You' doesn't cut it for me.
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