I really think this entire episode has been one big distraction technique.Maybe, but we rarely get what we deserve in this life. For well over half a century our policians have been continuously lying to us, Blair even famously re-spelt as Bliar after his protestations.
Remember cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken and his "Sword of Truth" claim, the same sword that impaled him when he was sent to jail.
Anthony Eden and Suez. Harold Wilson and his lies about our reserves. The list is endless.
All that said, I still think the current fuss about a staff party silly and pointless. Some slack should be cut since it's no different from what that much of the rest of the country did and which has been publicised. It's being human.
The police are never going to arrest the PM over this and even if they did and it came to a court, he would undoubtedly win,
I've pored through the acts measure by measure and failed to find any mention of the word party. As I told you, it's only about separation and work places are specifically excluded from the legislation. The staff were in their place of work and one could never prove that there was no work connection to their presence.
Yes it was reprehensible behaviour, but that's nothing new. Politics everywhere has always been a dirty and dishonest business, always will be and it will never be cleaned up.
A dictatorship bosses us about.
A democracy bosses us about with a smile.
Either way we lose.
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Boris would rather face questions about parties than stalled vaccine programme, dangers of Omicron, secret deals with Pfizer... Yep, fine take him to task over this but 2 weeks now... What lies have gone under bridge now that will have sunk in the murky world of our current political leaders.
I suspect Starmer has Bern manipulated, fed the "party" in instalments. Yes, somebody might have yo fall on sword but big deal. We, ll still have Tories and in all probability Boris... Having said all that, he has lost an awful lot of support, and episode is seen as just another example of his lying..
But again, to repeat my old argument, so what with no viable alternative. Are Labour capable of forming a credible Government, or to be more precise, does country think they are?