AIBU to think that Boris should resign now?

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Today it has been revealed that in May 2020 invitations were emailed to (allegedly) 100 Downing Street staff, for a garden party. This party happened during the first lockdown, when many people could not visit their elderly relatives, even on their death beds, due to the lockdown rules. The email was sent by one of the PM's top people, and stated that people should "bring their own booze and enjoy the sunshine". Today Boris has been conspicuous by his absence.

I think this is the final straw and shows a lack of judgement and absence of moral fibre. Enough is enough - he should resign and if he doesn't do it then his own party should force him to go.

AIBU?

Is @JaniieJones perhaps Carrie?!

Spoiler alert: he’ll cheat on you too, love, if he isn’t already.

She either Carrie or she's delusional, if she doesn't realise shes just another pleb like the rest of us.

He needs to resign and IMHO he should face criminal charges for whatever the fuck they can get him for.

Abuse?

How is it not abusive to mandate a whole country stays inside their homes, to close schools, playparks, places of business and every other fucking thing they did to us and our children when it was apparently totally unnecessary?

How is this not a crime?

What the fuck can we do?

Do class action lawsuits exist in this country? Who does he actually answer to????

Can someone start one of the Change.org petitions and send it viral? Surely a solid outcry from the public at that scale would make his position untenable? He clearly will never have the decency to resign, and the fetid mess that is the govt is clearly so ensnared in numerous cronyism/insider dealings/corruption that they’re all petrified of each other and won’t make him do what is right.

Hmm not comparing per se just pointing out we weren't all locked up in solitary confinement.

Many, many people were in situations where they were in solitary confinement. If you aren’t aware of that you really aren’t qualified to have an opinion on this topic.

Well it seems the defender of Boris and his lies has power in Mumsnet HQ

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@Flowertailbird

Well it seems the defender of Boris and his lies has power in Mumsnet HQ

It's very routine for personal attacks to be deleted.

'Power in mumsnet hq'.

I wonder how much money was spent on today’s Conservative party political broadcast and when the slot was booked?

@LilyMumsnet can you explain why you deleted my post please? I didn’t insult anyone or call anyone names or ‘attack’ anyone. On the contrary, I’ve been ridiculed by the same individual several times and yet the posts stand.

Well I'm looking forward to your personal attacks on everyone who has suffered throughout this being deleted because I can't see how else your posts can be described.

That was for JaniieJones by the way. Defender of Boris.

ragtag clowns??
It's amazing what a posh accent and a thin veneer of pomposity can do.

@JaniieJones

Why are the media trawling out all the stories people who lost people. Yes very sad but not comparable situations.

If we find out Johnson attended a funeral with 100 people present fine but he didn't. A brief garden visit with colleagues, he has apologised it was an error of judgement.

They have got a lot right in the pandemic.

If 150,000 dead is getting "a lot right" then I think you have a problem in your perspective on life.

Don't forget they hashed the start up for three months with no reaction and refusal by Johnson to attend and lost billions to speculators on a track and trace system run by Serco which hardly worked at all. That's without ignoring the existence of the pandemic after 12 years on the National Civil Contingency Risk Register - and having no plans in place for mass PPE for any sector of response, be it private or public.

While we're at it, and before you play the standard card from the deck of excuses, don't use the word "unprecedented" here - as it plainly wasn't.

@Flowertailbird

Well I'm looking forward to your personal attacks on everyone who has suffered throughout this being deleted because I can't see how else your posts can be described.

I don't doubt any comments of mine that break TGs will be deleted. That said I've ridiculed Starmer and Ange not specific posters iirc.

Fwiw I'm not 'defender of Boris' either, I have pointed out throughout it was a error of judgement, he has apologised but what he has got right in the pandemic is also very relevant.

While we're at it, and before you play the standard card from the deck of excuses, don't use the word "unprecedented" here - as it plainly wasn't.

It is unprecedented. There surely can't have been a previous time when MPs and Ministers have trotted out so dutifully so many times to defend the lying of their leader?

Can you not see how your defending of Boris hurts people? Can you not see how flippant you sound?

Please share with me what he got right?

Fwiw I'm not 'defender of Boris' either, I have pointed out throughout it was a error of judgement, he has apologised but what he has got right in the pandemic is also very relevant.

It is an error of judgement to break a law that you recently introduced and which one of your Ministers spoke about on national television live from the same building a few hours earlier?

Is the breaking of any law simply an error of judgement.
Sorry your honour it was an error in judgement breaking into @JaniieJones house. I apologise for the upset and distress that may have been caused to Janiie.

If you can't or won't abide by the laws you create what kind of Prime Minister are you?

If you choose to lie or mislead people rather than face the music what kind of Prime Minister are you?

@Flowertailbird

Please share with me what he got right?

Well that is easy.

He made some already exceedingly rich and greedy people much richer because they were his mates.

@JaniieJones

Oh stop being so dramatic. I'm not a Trump idoliser, Jesus the desperation on this thread is ridiculous. Again he made the right call in July, the right call with omicron, the economy is growing. He has done much right through this pandemic

Thats an irrelevance, he broke the law, that he made, he told the daughter whose father died of CV in the no10 garden that he had done everything possible to save lives... missing out that he was having a party a few days later....

He wouldn't have said he was only there 25mins unless cctv could back it up, he wouldn't have said he didn't receive the email if he had as a cursory check could disprove this

err he has said plenty of things over this that have proved not to be true.

'Still comparing people going to the beach with the man who set the rules having a piss up in his back garden?'

Hmm not comparing per se just pointing out we weren't all locked up in solitary confinement. Y'know..to give some perspective

Nope, because these were all independent family bubbles all going to the same few places and none of them made the rules, which were not solitary confinement - pls don't be so dramatic.

I'm not desperate for him to go, in fact it will be great if he stays, people are seeing through him as a liar and charlatan, people who never in a 1000 years would ever consider not voting Tory but they are now... all down to BoJo :)