Boris and Sunak Won’t Resign Why Would They?
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As world political events go, the party gate scandal is seemingly as low and as small as it can be. It’s not in the league of the Profumo scandal with sex, spies, and politics all mixed and which forced the resignation of a defence minister and weekend the Prime Minister Macmillan.
It certainly not as strong as the lies involved in Blair’s missing weapon of mass destruction that lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and misery on millions. After all its simply a cake brought into the Prime Ministers office by his wife, left uneaten isn’t it? A technicality that should be dismissed with an apology and payment of the paltry fine.
Certainly that is what the tsunami of Conservative party MPs are doing as they trapse from tv studio to tv studio announcing the mea culpas of Boris and Sunak. Like modern day evangelists for Pontius Pilate’s sainthood after his conversation to Christianity. He saw the light after the ordering of death. Next they will be doing a TikTok dance of forgiveness to the tune of they will survive.
Of course, when the Tory troops march their political enemies fire their wispish waffle on the battlegrounds of the BBC and Sky. The usual Zelenskian heavyweights of battle, Khan and Starmer, blasted:
“A Prime Minister who breaks the laws his Government makes and then lies about it isn’t fit for office.(Khan)
“Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have broken the law and repeatedly lied to the British public. They must both resign. The Conservatives are totally unfit to govern. Britain deserves better” (Starmer)
The mustering of opposition mercenaries in the form of charities and civil society are rushed to the front to give comfort bombs for the anti Boris offensive. Bereaved Families for Justice, said Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak “broke the law” and “took us all for mugs”.
Well, I can’t argue with that. British families have been taken for mugs for a long time by a self serving, out of touch elite, filled with politicians that represent a privileged snob class that look down their noses at the public and simply revile us. From the forever remainer FBFE class, who despise us for not understanding how important it is to be part of the EU (or you’ve made staying in my Dordogne villas soooo hard) to the cancelling diversity mob who yell racist at anyone who doesn’t flagellate themselves for being white.
It is the Christian period of Lent (not that you would know it) and Christians suggest that as we all have faults it is a time for forgiveness and respect. Again fully agreed. I know I certainly have mine.
I can also agree that politicians make mistakes and should be forgiven too. If we didn’t how many would actually still be in office?
Yet, when did we accept the principle it is right that a PM and his Chancellor can lie, break the law and remain worthy of those positions? Is this mistake so small it can be ignored as a matter of principle? Is it so small that a law was created by them and they broke that law not worthy of a higher level of responsibility and culpability?
Recently the same government, that ignore this offence as a misdemeanour, watched as former Shrewsbury MP Owen Paterson was pilloried for his lies to committees. Was his actions less or more serious? What the difference? Then recently we have Former Labour MP Fiona Onansanya convicted of perverting the course of justice or Tory Imran Khan MP for abusing a 15 year old.
Politicians have to take responsibility and are held to a higher standard. For it is they who set the laws and standards in the first place.
Allies of Boris say he was under enormous pressure and just returned from Covid. He had got us vaccines and PPE and he sent troops, weapons and money to Ukraine. Oh and apparently he got Brexit done ( well in name only). These bigger picture issues, Ukraine, Covid or cost of existing crisis warrant forgiveness and he shouldn’t resign.
Some say it’s a waste of police time. Maybe but so was the waste of time by Derbyshire Police pursuing walkers across the beautiful countryside when we were in lockdown. So was the pursuing of people in their homes during lockdown or the closures of businesses.
Still despite calls for his resignation he won’t go. They don’t have to go do they. Why because the precedent was set that a Prime Minister could lie openly and clearly to the electorate and no consequences would ever follow. The precedent of how to avoid responsibility was finessed in the modern age by Tony Blair.
Lying about weapons of mass destruction when there were none. Sending men and women to their deaths on plans for restructuring the globe. Murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in foreign lands and creating the framework for mass emigration from those countries and mass immigration in our own.
Those lies, mistruths and dirty dastardly deeds were all committed as a Prime Minister and finessed by teams of media, PR and communications experts. So what harm is there in lying about attending events in Covid lockdown under laws that they enforced upon us all.
Yes, in the grand scheme of things the deaths in war caused by Blair and having a cake and eating it by Boris are very much worlds apart. Yet it is the principle that matters.
If they demand that we act properly they should take the consequences. Politicians treat us like fools because as voters we are fools. Millions of us still vote for them. We vote for them because we say look at the other side. We are not voting positively we are voting out of fear and negatively.
They should resign and be replaced by others, who will simply replicate and fill their shoes. Just as Blair was replicated by Cameron who was replicated by May and so on.
Whilst we are at it. Keir Starmer should resign because of his lockdown party. Khan for being well simply a buffoon and incompetent, the whole of the SNP for irritating us daily, the Greens for ensuring we all freeze and just about anyone else who looks down their noses at us because we challenge their status.
Steven Woolfe is Editor of LIBERTATIO and also writes on Substack . See his work here
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