To quote Professor Brian Cathcart, of Kingston University: “What we are witnessing is the UK’s equivalent of the storming of the Capitol. Johnson should no longer be PM and everybody bar a few fanatics knows it, but (with the Met’s assistance) an outrageous attempt is being made to keep him in office.” He should have resigned weeks ago but instead Johnson is, he adds: “Staging a kind of coup.” To put it as clearly as I can, we are watching a criminal conspiracy, involving the Metropolitan Police and the government in plain sight.
No serious person, which rules out the likes of the absurd Jacob Rees-Mogg, the stupid person’s idea of what a clever person looks like, and Nadine ‘I ate a giraffe’s anus on live TV’ Dorries, believes Johnson has behaved with any sense of propriety. The fact that Johnson is a liar is baked into the man’s very being and even his supporters in parliament and outside accept this is part of the deal. And the very people who say that politicians are all liars and only in it for themselves are supporting the man who perfectly fits that description.
Never mind Sue Gray, the civil servant carrying out the investigation into Johnson’s partying throughout lockdown who is answerable to…er…Boris Johnson, what price the behaviour of the aptly named Commissioner of the Met, Cressida Dick? Her police force has told Gray that she should not go too deep into what’s gone on at Number 10 because, for reasons no one can understand, she thinks it could prejudice the police investigation. To which we should all say balderdash and much worse. We’re being taken for fools.
It really is that serious. Cathcart continues: “The constitution, such as it is, is being torn up. Governments and PMs are supposed to be constrained by the law and the police are meant to uphold the law. MPs are not supposed to lie and other MPs are meant to police that. Such checks and balances are being set aside.” It is not (yet) an insurrection but it is a clear and present attack on our democracy by people who should know better, like Cressida Dick, and those who don’t, like Johnson.
Sign petitions, write to your MPs and protest. It doesn’t matter what your politics are: Johnson is trashing our country. The next prime minister will also be a Conservative MP. There must be one better than Johnson, surely?
