Boris takes the prize...
The debacle that is the Tory government found a new nadir this week, with the fall-out surrounding former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ignominious dive from grace.
Largely the architect of his own downfall, Boris Johnson has now been condemned by his own party peers for the liar that the entire non-Conservative electorate has always known he is.
Sacked from the Times newspaper for making up quotes, and sacked from the Commons’ Front Bench for lying about having an affair, it is perhaps only surprising that his lies had failed to tangle him up long before now.
At the weekend, following his risible resignation as MP after the parliamentary committee found he had knowingly misled the House of Commons, and thereby, the entire population, the disgraced politician couldn’t even summon up the courage to admit his misdeeds.
A liar and a coward, then.
However, as much as so many people will gain no small amount of satisfaction from seeing one of Brexit’s biggest deceivers receive his comeuppance, there remains heartbreak at the centre of Boris’s sad tale. Throughout the pandemic, when people were dying in hospitals, and while their loved ones were forced to grieve from a distance, Boris and his cronies were partying their way through lockdowns. Then, when the veil was lifted, Boris denied the partying. Then he lied about denials. Then he lied about lying about the lies. All of this – all of the sleaze, the lies, the back-stabbing and everything else which went on at Downing Street, whilst indicative of the misshapen heart of the current Tory Party – has only served to deepen the pain of those who lost friends and family to Covid.
There has been some strong competition for the worst British Prime Minister over the years but on balance, Boris surely takes the prize.
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- By davidjay