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Originally Posted by Chris
Do you need any polish for that tin ear of yours? Because it sounds to me like you’re trying to justify egregious breaches of emergency legislation at a time of national crisis, on a technicality that only a very few of the most privileged in society could have hoped to enjoy.
One minor indiscretion passes with the news cycle. However this Chinese water torture is designed (I use the term deliberately) not to be so easily dismissed. Starmer probably won’t win the next election, but that will be in part due to his opponent not being Boris. The ground is being laid for a leadership challenge, which will occur the very moment it would no longer look like Tories obsessing over themselves during a continuing crisis. Some time this summer I suspect.
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My tin ear? [stands back in awe at the irony].
All I am pointing out here is that:
1. These ‘leaks’ are being given the light of day by Boris’s opponents who have no policies to put forward that are better than his. They see him as a popular figure who must be brought down, and so they resort to pettiness and smears.
2. All of this will matter not when the general election comes around. Anyone with a brain will understand that Sir Kier Starmer (AKA Mr Hindsight) has no chance of winning and Ed Davey a good deal less.
3. Boris is already off the hook with his decoration expenses and doesn’t seem to bothered about the party issue.
4. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t broken the lockdown rules in some way. You can say ‘but these are his rules’ as much as you like, but we all know he was pushed into making these rules by the same scientists you want us all locked down again. This time around, he has outmanoeuvred them. Starmer would have given in.
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Originally Posted by Damien
They aren't the ones who made the rules. If caught they could have been prosecuted and fined just as thousands actually were. One student was fined £10,000 for having a party: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-55362290.
Judging by the fall in Tory polling and the even steeper collapse in Johnson's own approval numbers people do not care. People do not like being taken for mugs and that at a time when people were banned from being with loved ones dying in hospitals the story that the Government were having parties is cutting through. |
It’s a storm in a teacup. It will pass. It’s a long time until the next General Election.
If Boris is guilty of an offence, I am sure he will be fined as well. Perhaps we should leave that to the police, eh, rather than being a judge and jury armchair army?