Should Boris do the decent thing and resign?

Lincslass

So you decide , during a lockdown, where parties and gatherings are banned, to have one with your work colleagues. Your manager is on holiday, or away on a business meeting, or at home with their family. Not there in fact. The party goes ahead,or not,what’s the difference between a party and drinks in the office. They knew it was against the Law,but non of those present have yet had the balls to own up and resign, yet you’re all calling for the manager to resign. The manager should have the bottle to manage, and sack all involved, as he should have done with Cummings. Can imagine a wall of silence amongst those there. The little snake leaking this was possibly also there,but again no decency amongst criminals.

He's not the manager though Lincslass, he’s meant to be the leader. He runs the ship. And if his officials decide to completely ignore the rules he is setting for everyone, and go ahead and have a “gathering” behind his back, that says to me he doesn’t have a very good grip of the group he is meant to be leading.

And then if they just tell him that they didn’t have a “gathering”, and he says OK then and tells the rest of us there was no “gathering”, then not only is he not a good leader, he’s a gullible one liable to be taken in by the most egregious of lies.

Or worse, if he knew there was a gathering but pretended there wasn’t, he’s a liar who is contemptuous of the people he is meant to be serving – us.

Then on top of that, if there were more illegal “gatherings” in his house, the house he got undeclared backhanders from someone to decorate, then yes. I’d expect him to resign.

People did leave the Labour Party when Corbyn became leader MaizieD, I was one of them, and I know others who did too. There was a wave of young people who joined at the same time though, which masked the leavers.

Boris won't resign, he's like Trump in that he can justify his behaviour to himself, what I think might make him leave is lack of money. Like Trump, his financial affairs are a mess although I doubt he has anything majorly illegal hanging over him, he doesn't earn enough as PM to support his life style. It will be interesting to see what he does when he eventually goes. tbh I don't see him as a back bencher!

monica he isn’t just leaving because of Johnson’s dreadful leadership, he is also resigning because of what he described as the Tories “authoritarian policies”

Presumably it is the Police and Borders bill he can’t stomach.

Did that many people leave the party, I mean party members, not voters, when Jeremy Corbyn and his crew of nitwits led the Labour party?

Labour Party membership increased massively when Corbyn was leader. This might be a shock to you, MOnica, but his LP had policies that appealed to people. It only lost its appeal after the press had done a complete hatchet job on him as a result of the scare his party gave the Establishment in 2017.

So you decide , during a lockdown, where parties and gatherings are banned, to have one with your work colleagues. Your manager is on holiday, or away on a business meeting, or at home with their family. Not there in fact. The party goes ahead,or not,what’s the difference between a party and drinks in the office. They knew it was against the Law,but non of those present have yet had the balls to own up and resign, yet you’re all calling for the manager to resign. The manager should have the bottle to manage, and sack all involved, as he should have done with Cummings. Can imagine a wall of silence amongst those there. The little snake leaking this was possibly also there,but again no decency amongst criminals.

Whitewavemark2

Next sacrifice seems likely to be Jack Doyle - press chief.

Not a sacrifice, if he was there and partying he should go, as should all the others who were with him. They are all grown ups, all actions have consequences, theirs should be to resign.

Boris has gone into hiding to avoid resigning. We now need to wait to see if the Tory MP's do the decent thing and vote him out.

Whitewavemark2

Next sacrifice seems likely to be Jack Doyle - press chief.

is that the chap in the mac who was darting around like a chicken being followed by the press?
Never heard of him.

Not on this thread, but the Chairman of Conservative Association in Essex did, on radio, not just resigning his post, but leaving the party.

To be fair, I wouldn't leave my party just because we had a crap set of leaders going through, I would just pull back, hunker down and try and change things. Did that many people leave the party, I mean party members, not voters, when Jeremy Corbyn and his crew of nitwits led the Labour party?

Is there anyone who has always voted Tory who has changed their mind on this thread?

Next sacrifice seems likely to be Jack Doyle - press chief.

Boris won’t go until his party push him, and knowing our poor luck at the moment we would end up with the vile priti Patel in his place.

How anyone can equate boris and a good job tackling covid is astonishing. He and his cronies have hesitated at best and been negligent at worst. Near the start of the pandemic gavin Williamson said on the bbc (r4) that “the younger generation shouldn’t have to pay the price of old people surviving.” No one seemed to think that was wrong.

It seems to me that boris and his gang have put peoples need to go to a pub or a meal out before the health of the country, and they are actually proud of it. It’s therefore no surprise that drinkiepoos at number 10, lying about funding for his flat decoration, covering up for his bullying mates, getting rid of the very body who has oversight into his misdeeds, his oven ready hoax, pulling off the greatest lies of all on a gullible British public are all part of his repertoire.

He has styled himself on trump and like his equally abhorrent hero he will not go quietly or with good grace.

As an old etonian he is merely sticking to their rules ....the 11th Commandant ....Thou Shalt Not be Found Out ........then, if you are, out of spite take everyone back into Plan B .........

Alegrias1

WWM2 I watched that too and sat there open mouthed at some of the things they believed.

So did I. Until I remember what was happening in the UK........people spouting unsubstantiated and malicious nonsense, the story about Starmer and Savile for one, the riches heaped upon 'illegal immigrants' for another.

There have been few non mask wearers in Wales from what I’ve seen, but the point is that the vast majority have complied, and it’s nothing to do with Boris.

I don’t know about Scotland. Possibly all Scots have constantly worn masks, not at the Women won’t Wheesht protest, oh and they were the people who travelled to London weren’t they?

I know about Scotland.

I'd say probably 95% compliance. Anecdotal.

Masks don't have to be worn outdoors, even at Women won't Wheesht protests.

As for the people who travelled to London - I'm assuming you meant the football fans? The ones who behaved badly, their behaviour was indefensible. But do carry making it all about the whole country. That's going to do lots for cross border relations. Suits me.

The only way he'll be prised out on No.10 is by us voting him out. His vanity won't allow him to accept that he should resign.

One nephew and family lives in NI and he reported frequently about the refusers over there. Very worrying for him in his job, where he was frequently faced with maskless people.
Wales did slightly better, though there were sufficient reports of non compliance from there too.

I don’t know about Scotland. Possibly all Scots have constantly worn masks, not at the Women won’t Wheesht protest, oh and they were the people who travelled to London weren’t they?

Boris Johnson has never ever been known to do the decent thing. So, no I won't hold my breath waiting for him to resign. He will have to be booted out.

Yes, he definitely should go but I honestly don’t know who I would prefer in his place other than Ruth Davidson.
It’s truly grim.

Mollygo

Do I think Boris should go- yes. But not because if Covid.
Do I think someone else could have made everyone in the UK wear masks, socially distance, have the vaccine?
NO.
There are too many selfish, unkind, ‘I know what’s best for me’ and ‘I don’t have to follow the rules’ people in this country so not even Jacinta Ardern would have succeeded.

Nicola? Mark? Whoever is in charge of NI? (Sorry, I'm uninformed). All those UK countries who have been wearing the masks non stop, nothing to do with Johnson

Or is it just the English who are rebellious and self centred?

Mollygo in the rest of the UK we have been wearing masks, socially distancing, using covid passports etc. all through the summer when it was dropped in England. We were already doing Plan B. For Covid issues, we listen to our own government leaders, not to Boris. In Wales and Scotland more people have been vaccinated than in England as well.

Do I think Boris should go- yes. But not because if Covid.
Do I think someone else could have made everyone in the UK wear masks, socially distance, have the vaccine?
NO.
There are too many selfish, unkind, ‘I know what’s best for me’ and ‘I don’t have to follow the rules’ people in this country so not even Jacinta Ardern would have succeeded.

It was appalling that he used the tragic personal story of a woman who couldn’t see her dying Mother in hospital.

What, more appalling than having an illegal party on government property while that woman was dying? Then laughing about breaking the rules?

As for Johnson taking charge of the vaccine rollout? That was Hancock, Bingham and countless NHS people we've never heard of. The only thing Johnson did was stay out of the way.

Some very dodgy attitudes on this thread.