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Not fit to be prime minister

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Quizzer Tue 12-Apr-22 21:33:20

Compared to many people my disappointments during lockdown were not too bad.
Missing my golden wedding celebrations, not holding my new grandchild until he was nearly six months old. Not being able to have the other grandchildren to stay - they all live some distance away, not being able to attend a close friend’s funeral.
I, like most other UK citizens, stuck to the rules.
Boris and his cronies did not. They held drinks events and parties for pathetic, unacceptable reasons. How can they ever expect the electorate to respect them or their laws. How dare they think they still have a mandate to rule us?

DaisyAnne Tue 12-Apr-22 21:47:13

This is a man who has made himself and his party so much greater than our government that he can determine that the law and the conventions of Parliament do not apply to him.

I wouldn't call that democracy.

Isthepopecatholic Tue 12-Apr-22 21:52:46

As far as Johnson is concerned, we are all beneath contempt. The rules don’t apply to him and his cronies. It makes me mad.

Ali23 Tue 12-Apr-22 21:54:04

He absolutely needs to go. How can anyone with such a lack of integrity pretend to be fit to run our country. While he was messing about, I stayed away from my friend even during her last few days. I’m disgusted by this man.

Joane123 Tue 12-Apr-22 21:59:04

I heard him on the news declaring that he would stay, he had work to do! The man is shameful, it is quite difficult to believe that someone in his position should lack any morals. What on earth is it coming to, to have someone like this in power. It beggars belief.

Parsley3 Tue 12-Apr-22 22:01:17

He isn’t going to resign. He says he is going to get on with the job^and^deliver the priorities of the British people. We are being asked to forget about it. I don’t think I want to do that. I don’t care who replaces him but someone should.

Redhead56 Tue 12-Apr-22 22:03:47

I agree with you it’s a disgrace I personally don’t know anyone who broke the COVID rules. We all missed our families and lost someone it was something none of us will ever forget. The morons in number 10 laughed their way through COVID. They have rubbed it in our faces shameful behaviour and totally unforgivable.

MerylStreep Tue 12-Apr-22 22:16:14

Redhead56
I know so many many who did. From a magistrate to the nurses next door and all their in-laws to the neighbour opposite with her 5 children. In fact it would be easier to count the number who did follow the rules.

volver Tue 12-Apr-22 22:26:06

It doesn't really matter whether the people next door broke the rules. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom broke the laws that he and his government had only recently set up. And they did it while telling us not to.

I agree with you Quizzer. He is not a fit person to be Prime Minister.

Parsley3 Tue 12-Apr-22 23:09:50

MerylStreep you have been unfortunate if you live in an area where most of the people you know failed to follow the rules. However, your experience has nothing to do with the PM and the Chancellor being fined. They need to do the decent thing and resign.

BlueBelle Tue 12-Apr-22 23:33:36

Merylstreep I don’t care about your neighbours two wrongs don’t make a right
He MADE the bleedy rules
They have broken their own rules and not only that they have lied through their back teeth denying being there denying the parties existed That “hee hawing” woman caught on camera saying ‘hee hee’ we can pretend … is beyond contempt many of them should go starting with the blond one

mokryna Wed 13-Apr-22 00:14:27

Not only partygate but there is a war going on, which the outcome will effect the whole of Europe, he is on holiday with the rest of parliament ?
Where are the weapons he promised?

LadyWee Wed 13-Apr-22 00:35:01

He and his government are a disgrace and an embarrassment to Britain and I am surprised there is not more outrage and a push for his resignation from others. Matt Hancock did resign and that was only mixing with one other person.

hugshelp Wed 13-Apr-22 00:35:17

I wonder how many people have jobs where getting pissed is a regular part of the job - not to mention all the other ways these people take the piss rather than getting on with some bloody work.

poshpaws Wed 13-Apr-22 00:42:45

I am constantly astonished, on Facebook threads, at the number of people who STILL admire that piece of shit.

If he won't resign, surely there must be some way to remove him?

pieinthesky Wed 13-Apr-22 00:56:08

He never was fit to be a Prime Minister and should never have got voted in. He was useless as Mayor of London, as Foreign Secretary he managed to get Nazanean Zaghari- Ratcliffe’s sentence lengthened and has lied continuously to the public about the benefits of Brexit. Just what is known about his private life should tell us that he is a man of very little moral integrity. He has no respect for the democratic system of government that has taken hundreds of years to be established in this country and thinks he can make and break laws whoever he feels like it. All the while he and his cronies are treating us with contempt and laughing in our faces. Anyone else in his position would be shamed by Partygate and being fined and would resign, but no he thinks he is better than us and will carry on just as he pleases. Hopefully now his supporters will realise what a dishonest person he is and force a vote of no confidence.

vegansrock Wed 13-Apr-22 06:49:17

The priorities of this British person is that he should go.

TopsyIrene06 Wed 13-Apr-22 06:50:01

Straight out of Trump's playbook.

How dare people suggest we didn't follow the rules. I would have loved a hand to hold when I walked into the hospital for a major operation. Not even a 9 minute party when I got home. I feel very concerned about the future if this sort of behaviour becomes the norm. A world leader - what a joke.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 07:09:21

Ambushed by truth. And as Churchill once said, 'When ambushed by truth incontrovertible, you may resent it, you may deride it, but resign you must.'

Ladyleftfieldlover Wed 13-Apr-22 07:14:21

I agree, he has to go. PMs have been replaced in times of crisis before - Churchill replaced Chamberlain. As others have said, he should never have been PM in the first place. He is basically a lying charlatan with the morals of an ally cat.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 13-Apr-22 07:18:39

Led by Donkeys has done another excellent video.

Bizarrely I didn’t find it funny just so very very sad at what has happened.

Please anyone who can put a link up

Thank you

DiamondLily Wed 13-Apr-22 07:35:27

He needs to go. Lying to Parliament is an immediate resigning or removal matter.

Grannynannywanny Wed 13-Apr-22 07:35:47

hugshelp

I wonder how many people have jobs where getting pissed is a regular part of the job

According to MP Michael Fabricant it’s part of the normal work routine of nurses and teachers. In his defence of Johnson and his cronies yesterday he said nurses and teachers retire to the staff room at the end of a busy day to have a quiet drink. This is the link to what Fabricant said and the response from the Royal College of Nursing to his grossly insulting statement.

I hope his constituents remember this at the next election.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prime-minister-michael-fabricant-rcn-downing-street-bbc-news-b994046.html?amp

Curlywhirly Wed 13-Apr-22 07:41:12

Well, I was a Council worker (as are teachers) and in recent decades, no alcohol was allowed on Council property. Drinking at work was a sackable offence. If we had a pub lunch, none of us drank alcohol, it was just a big no-no. Fabricant it talking through his hat.

Riverwalk Wed 13-Apr-22 07:44:20

He had a cheek mentioning Ukraine and Putin in his statement yesterday - this country is not at war, although he's desperately trying to be a wartime leader.

He's beyond contempt.