@Seemslikeagoodidea I have never, ever voted Tory and but I really thought they made a massive fuck up with Rory Stewart. He called the pandemic, very early on, and he was proven right. He is all round, analytical and excellent at both communicating and critical thought. We would be in a very different position, as a country, if he was PM. We wouldn't be a laughing stock, there would not be this much sleaze and he would never have allowed the culture that Johnson actively encouraged. It is a crying shame the leadership race was so agendered.
This 'their all as bad as each other' is so reductive. They certainly are not. Johnson's argument that he was too stupid to know and follow his own rules, is embarrassing as hell for a PM. There are MP's in every party who would rather have dug their eyes out with a blunt spoon than say in public, a statement of such utter stupidity and transparent bollocks which Johnson spouted at PMQ's. There are decent, eloquent, moral, hard working and honest MP's in every party. Ask their constituents. This partisan, football like, vote for the personality, 'we love the lad, legend, got brexit done Boris' attitude isn't just daft, it's harmful. The government are public servants who should safeguard, decision make and analyse what is best for the public, using our money and our needs as guiding principles. Not popularity, not polls, not ego. There are politicians who are capable of this but they have been resoundingly rejected or ignored. I do think we, the general public, have to take some responsibility for that.