‘This arrogant behaviour is causing huge resentment at the worst possible time’
@Suki Devereaux:
“There’s a theme here. A Chancellor imposes higher taxes on the grounds of a national emergency, but his own family avoids them. A Prime Minister imposes lockdown rules on the grounds of a national emergency but he and his family ignore them. There are really tough times coming for British households and businesses, and this arrogant behaviour is causing huge resentment at the worst possible time. We need new leadership.”
‘Rishi Sunak has been shafted here’
@D Met:
“The problem for Mr Johnson here isn’t the birthday cake celebration itself, but the culture of rule breaking he allowed to preside in Number 10. For that reason alone, his position is becoming untenable.
“I do think Rishi Sunak has been shafted here, though. Incredibly harsh. It seems as if he almost stumbled on this cake cutting ceremony, which was taking place in the same room as a meeting he was about to attend. You could say he could have walked back out, but if that’s all he’s guilty of, then he deserves a second chance. The problem is, now he’s been fined, that’s all the public will remember, and it will stick.”
‘A global crisis is exactly when you would remove an unfit leader’
@John Langford:
“I would have thought a global crisis would be exactly when you would remove someone who is proven to be less than truthful and tends towards self serving behaviour.
“I see a Government run by individuals who shame us as a nation.”
‘What Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have done is not a heinous crime’
@Moirelyn Jewula:
“Whom should he be replaced by? When we look at leaders across the world, there are no shining examples. No one is perfect and people make errors of judgement, but it is precisely because we have a democracy that we can allow ourselves to do this amount of navel gazing – a far cry from Russia.
“What Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have done is not a heinous crime. I would wager that most people have witnessed in their working lives situations where those at the top, get away with far more than the lower ranks. We may not like it, we might loathe it, but it was ever thus.”
