Will the Nation accept an apology? Will you?

PGAgirl

Yes, you all seem holier than thou, nobody is perfect, we all have flaws, remember the crowds on the beaches, no social distancing there. I see Boris as a maverick in the style of Churchill., he took the bull by the horns and ran with it. It must have taken a lot of courage and foresight to have taken on Covid19 with the purchase and distribution of the unknown vaccine at the time. Weak Labour would have shilly-shallied. joined the EU vaccine purchase scheme and we would be in another of Labour mess-ups. .

I was just waiting for someone to bring Labour into the discussion. Pure speculation of course, you have no idea what the Labour party would've done, nor the Conservatives under May.

And it's a shame his "courage" and "foresight" didn't prevent him from missing 5 COBRA meetings at the beginning of the crisis.

I sat and watched hundreds of people in my street who had attended the Cheltenham Races - going to the pub a few doors away, and piling into people-carriers to take them to their B&B / hotel locations. There were thousands at the racecourse.

NO never voted for him never wanted him hope to see the back of the lot of the conniving cheating lying party before too much longer

Sarnia

Thought it was a works do, my foot. This at a time when people were having to work from home, meet with 1 other person at a social distance and only go out for essential supplies. The man is a total embarrassment.

Work's 'dos' were no more allowed than parties!

I voted for him, I now want him out, an apology won’t cut it.
He has taken us for fools.

Johnson isn’t fit to wipe Churchill’s backside PGAgirl

PGAgirl I am a Tory voter but I hate liars. A maverick is one thing, a liar is something else altogether. A person without integrity.

PGAgirl

Yes, you all seem holier than thou, nobody is perfect, we all have flaws, remember the crowds on the beaches, no social distancing there. I see Boris as a maverick in the style of Churchill., he took the bull by the horns and ran with it. It must have taken a lot of courage and foresight to have taken on Covid19 with the purchase and distribution of the unknown vaccine at the time. Weak Labour would have shilly-shallied. joined the EU vaccine purchase scheme and we would be in another of Labour mess-ups. .

No definitely not. It’s just the last in a long line of being very economical with the truth.

How can anyone possibly know what any other government would have done but I suspect May would have made a better job of keeping more people safe. This also is pure speculation, of course.

Thought it was a works do, my foot. This at a time when people were having to work from home, meet with 1 other person at a social distance and only go out for essential supplies. The man is a total embarrassment.

No

You are clearly deluded PGAgirl. There is no plausible excuse for the PM attending a party in lockdown. It’s absolutely nothing to do with Labour, or anything else that happened for that matter. He may be a maverick, but he lied. End of.

A resounding 'no' from me

No and no.

He went to this party less than six weeks after he came out of hospital thanking the NHS for saving his life. Even after going through all that he didn't abide by his own rules, rules that most of us were following in order to do the right thing by our fellow man. I watched my Aunt's funeral on Zoom and saw my cousins, in masks, socially distanced and crying and I couldn't comfort them. No, I don't forgive him.

Yes, you all seem holier than thou, nobody is perfect, we all have flaws, remember the crowds on the beaches, no social distancing there. I see Boris as a maverick in the style of Churchill., he took the bull by the horns and ran with it. It must have taken a lot of courage and foresight to have taken on Covid19 with the purchase and distribution of the unknown vaccine at the time. Weak Labour would have shilly-shallied. joined the EU vaccine purchase scheme and we would be in another of Labour mess-ups. .

No

Not even if he did it in person, at a party he threw in my honour, at his own expense and not the tax payer's

I saw a nice elderly lady on TV this morning, she looked very much an ideal Tory voter and she was very calmly explaining how much she now hates Boris Johnson. I wonder how much damage he has done to the party's grass roots.

Absolutely not. An honourable man would not break the rules he was imposing on others.

peanuts for the likes of them - and they would get their even richer mates to pay for them. But yes!

In many countries, fines for speeding, dangerous driving, etc, are proportionally linked to income- now that would be great.

How about some heavy fines for breaking the law - just like those doled out to 'little people' ignoring the rules?

Wheniwasyourage

Apology not accepted. He must think our heads button up the back if he thinks we will accept it!

Seems the reaction is pretty anonymous.

But thanks for this Wheniwasyourage- never ever heard this expression- love it 'he must think our heads button up at the back' - lol - indeedy.
Whether it was Cummings or not that leaked, and whether we like, trust, hate, Cummings or not - makes absolutely NO difference to the facts. Johnson lied (surprise? not) and he was there. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I like to think the best of people - so really can't believe 'the nation' will see an apology as appropriate or sufficient - let alone accept it.

“I accept full responsibility” always translates as “I am wriggling out of this as soon as I can find someone else to blame”

I really don't care but I do resent journalists reporting every word that Cummings chooses to whisper in their ears. I bet Boris regrets trying to defend his arse, horrible little weasel has got them all dancing to his tune.

No, no, no. Lies, more lies, incompetence and corruption.

Yesterday he told us the supersize p.ss up in his garden was a work event. Do BJ and his government do anything other than party?

Nothing less than immediate resignation will cut it.

NO and NO!

I just thought it rather interesting, MaizieD

In the blog he does say that he was photographed in some of the photos that the media called parties. He pointed out that they often worked outside.

He's certainly not sticking up for Boris Johnson in that blog!