Tine would be up for an honourable Prime Minister under investigation by the Metropolitan Police and braced for Whitehall mandarin Sue Gray to publish her report into Downing Street parties.
But shameless Boris Johnson is not honourable. He is a proven liar. A charlatan prepared to twist the truth to survive and throw colleagues and juniors under the bus to save his skin. Britain deserves better, much better.
Taking the British people for fools, pretending first there were no parties then, when that lie was exposed, implausibly claiming parties weren’t parties and anyway he knew nothing, is the contempt for leadership of a Conservative unfit for high office.
Johnson’s immediate fate is in the hands of Tory MPs and if they choose to believe his lies, to parrot deceitful propaganda or look the other way, they will be damned along with the prime fraudster in Downing Street.
We need a PM to champion living standards, save the NHS and deal with crises such as Ukraine. We can’t afford Johnson in No10.
Ukraine hope
When Ukraine is not part of NATO and the Government understandably would not send British troops to fight if Russia invades its neighbour, an economic backlash is a potentially forceful deterrent.
Yet there is no hiding the fact the financial fallout would hit Britain and other European nations hard too, sending fuel prices soaring.
The question is whether the former KGB thug is prepared to wreck Russia’s economy and kill many of his countrymen to grab territory off a former member of the Soviet Union.
While talking continues, there is hope. The alternative would be terrible for both sides.
Penny drops
The young are sending some of our old sayings to the knacker’s yard.
Still, you would need to be as mad as a hatter not to know language evolves, with the younger generation maybe thinking they are buying a bargain when they “spend a penny”.
