How do we get rid of this government?

[pontypridd]

They've been pretty poor throughout the Covid crisis.

But the Cummings fiasco is the last straw.

Do we really have to put up with this lot for another five years?

We” means you need a lot of people to agree. I can’t see that happening .

I've never seen so much rubbish on one thread. What happened with Cummings is just a storm in a teacup. The press were hankering for something like this. Honestly, who cares if he drove to Durham. He had a 4 yr old child that needed looking after if both parents were ill. And both parents did get ill. It's a parents worst nightmare.
As for people thinking there will bd a vote of no confidence. What utter tosh.

His wife has family in London that could have helped.
He broke the rules, that many of us are struggling with, but still sticking too. Because we aren't arseholes.

I'm sure the mum of the 13 year old who died and was buried alone without her being there cares that the guy who helped make the lockdown rules blatantly ignored them

Cummings broke the rules plain and simple am sure he had other avenues open to him (in my opinion) but he chose to think the rules did not apply to him. I thought traveling while actually symptomatic was particularly heinous.

I don’t get the BoJo fan girls I was speaking to a staunch SNP supporter but she said she loved him and that he was a lovable rogue. I can’t see it.

No chance

They won an 80 seat majority

Labour suffered worst election defeat since the 1930s.

I'm happy to have the Conservatives. The alternative is much much worse < shudders>

A staunch SNP supporter who loves Boris??
Are you sure?

@BoingBoingyBoing and @ssd all of what yous said 👏🏼

Sadly OP I don't see any chance of us getting rid of this government until the next election - they have a massive majority. They are a bunch of absolute shameless incompetent self-serving turds, but I thought that about them anyway even before Covid which no one could have predicted. Boris is utterly shameless, lazy and a self-serving liar, but sadly his election campaign resonated with people who wanted Brexit, and Labour at the time were utterly shambolic. Now it's clear that this government's reaction to Covid has been woefully inadequate, with the defence of the awful arrogant Cummings being just the latest, and yet for some reason Boris still enjoys a lot of support, and most of the media are in thrall to the Conservatives. All I can hope is that under Keir Starmer Labour become competent and credible, there is some actual scrutiny of the government's response to Covid, and maybe with the ensuing recession people vote with their feet at the next election.

@ssd yes not his politics but his loveable personality was gobsmacked lol

There was an allowance in the rules for safeguarding. He was safeguarding his 4 year old son.

Yes, we are stuck with them for the next four years. It’s likely the Tories will want an election in the spring of 2024 at the latest, although they might want to go earlier. That’s what passes for democracy under FPTP, I’m afraid.

And that’s what you get when there is no remotely credible opposition or alternative candidate for PM to vote for in a General Election.

Is no one else scared for the future of this country under this current government?

Yes, I am.

No he wasn't tabby

A person showing symptoms is supposed to stay at home and self isolate. I'm presuming with their money they would have had room for this at home.

That's safeguarding your child.

Putting said child in a car, with a person showing symptoms, for a journey of over a few hours, is putting them at risk. That's the total opposite of safeguarding.

You don't need to keep saying "I don't know much about politics". Anyone who knows anything about anything can tell you don't know much about politics. If you accept that you don't know much about politics why not educate yourself on politics and then start telling everyone else how they're wrong and you're right?! Even as someone who didn't vote for this government I find your posts impossible to agree with.

So what’s going to happen now?

Twitter is saturated with calls for Boris to resign. Will he?

The lockdown has ended now. That’s for sure. No one can take any advice this government gives us seriously from now on.

The country is getting what it deserved, it's just that the Tories are now fucking everybody (not just the marginalised). The outrage is 10 years too late.

@pontypridd

Do you understand democracy? In December, the Conservatives won an 80 seat majority. That included constituencies that had voted Labour for one hundred years. The government are in power for five years. The reason they are in Downing Street is because millions of former Labour voters switched sides. Has this been incinerated down the Memory hole already?

If I were Keir Starmer, I'd be pretty pissed off people couldn't spell my name right.

And OP you might not like it, but do you understand how our political system works?

So what’s going to happen now? Twitter is saturated with calls for Boris to resign. Will he?

Nothing, unless evidence emerges which proves that Cummings has lied to the Prime Minister.

Johnson isn’t going to resign , however much uproar there is on Twitter, which is an irrelevant, unrepresentative echo chamber.

So what’s going to happen now? Twitter is saturated with calls for Boris to resign

Twitter is constantly saturated with breathless activists who imagine their echo chamber obsessions reflect external reality. One would have thought they had woken up to their reality gap circa December 2019...

The country is getting what it deserved, it's just that the Tories are now fucking everybody (not just the marginalised).

This!

If anyone watching the current situation thinks that's these incompetents can negotiate multiple complex trade deals and take us out of the EU in the glory they've promised you are barking mad.

There was an election. There is now a majority government.

You will have to wait until the next election.

If anyone watching the current situation thinks that's these incompetents can negotiate multiple complex trade deals and take us out of the EU in the glory they've promised you are barking mad.

To be fair I don't think anyone thinks that, and I'm not sure many people ever really did. Brexit has become an end in itself, an act of nationalist pride, somewhere between the Titanic, the Somme and the charge of the Light Brigade. The only good thing about the current lockdown recession is that it will make the brexit fuck-up look like a boom