Boris Johnson, Carrie Johnson and Rishi Sunak are to receive fixed penalty notices for attending lockdown parties, having been found by police to have broken the law. Isabel Hardman at the Spectator has more.
The police fines for breaking Covid laws, which [Johnson and Sunak] created, throw everything around the Prime Minister and the Chancellor into the air. Previously, many Tory MPs had said this would be a resigning matter for a serving PM to be found to have broken the law.
A No. 10 spokesperson confirmed the fines, saying: “The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have today received notification that the Metropolitan police intend to issue them with fixed penalty notices.”
The Prime Minister’s wife Carrie Johnson has also been fined. A spokesperson for Mrs Johnson said: “In the interests of transparency, Mrs Johnson can confirm she has been notified that she will receive a Fixed Penalty Notice. She has not yet received any further details about the nature of the FPN.”
The Prime Minister has now not only been found by police to have broken the law, but he also misled Parliament about the matter, saying he had been assured that there was no party. Now we know the police have concluded that on at least one occasion there was a party and that Johnson attended it.
What will Tory MPs do now? Parliament is in recess at the moment, which makes it harder for them to organise an immediate response. But what it does mean is that MPs will face the reaction of their constituents. Remember that it was the fury within constituency parties and among local voters that tipped many Conservatives into calling for Johnson to resign when the row reached its height.
Keir Starmer has of course called on Johnson and Sunak to resign: “Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have broken the law and repeatedly lied to the British public. They must both resign.”
On the matter of misleading Parliament, Boris may try to argue that just because the police have concluded what he attended was a party, doesn’t mean he was told it was a party or understood it as such at the time. It seems unlikely to wash though.
It makes Boris Johnson the first Prime Minister in history to have been found to have broken the law. Which is probably because no other Prime Minister faced laws banning private gatherings and parties. But as many have pointed out, he has only himself to blame for creating such ludicrous, draconian laws.
For lockdown sceptics there’s a strong argument for keeping Johnson in office as he would find it politically very difficult in light of this to impose another lockdown, and he has committed to a ‘Living with Covid’ strategy. He and his colleagues who wrote the lockdown rules have also shown that they did not believe their own crap and had no fear of the virus which they were telling everyone else to cower in their homes over.
On the other hand, Boris recently said he would impose another lockdown if it “saved lives”. Would a replacement be better or worse? Sometimes it’s better to stick with the devil you know.
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Johnson is not a Conservative or a Unionist, so there is no reason for those that are to keep him in office. Its not just because he broke these laws and clearly lied to parliament, its because he made the laws in the first place. He should also be kicked out for selling Northern Ireland “down the river” and allowing a foreign organisation to have legal control over part of our country. As far as replacements, I would be happier to see Lord Frost as prime minister as long as he made a commitment to sort out NI and release all of our country and control by the EU including removal of any control of the UK from the ECHR.
Doesn’t really matter whether they stay or go, they’ll just be replaced with an equally useless, corrupt Rothschild ‘plant’!!!…They have loads of these complete cretins already waiting!!
It is wholly unacceptable for government ministers to break the law; especially laws which they have imposed of the rest of us. These are not minor motoring offences which we may choose to forgive.
They must resign immediately or, if not, be removed from office.
Posted in the comments in the Telegraph. Copied here because I thought it was well put:
Indulging the temptation to see Johnson resign risks giving legitimacy to the idea that preposterous, illiberal and constitutionally unfounded “rules”, concocted on the hoof by ministers, should carry the same legitimacy as properly drafted and thoroughly considered laws enacted by Parliament via due process
That we had to follow
Hmmm… in theory! ( isn’t Mr Young & Boris Bodies!? ) These guys have worked it out ( well, their Barristers have ) they don’t give a hoot! its a theatre just to pay fine & Carry on Sargent! People wont forget what they did to the nation! The imprisoned all of us knowing there was no danger. Police were issuing fines to the public, Park benches were taped up! What they did , must be paid for & nit by a Circus fine fo a few quid & a Oh I’m sorry but lets carry on. They dod what they did deliberately & they knew.
The real scandal is not that the rules were broken, but that the PM, the Chancellor and the staff at No.10 all knew that there was no great danger and thus that the “stay at home” order was both unnecessary and ineffective. The government knew from the 19th of March 2020 that “Covid-19” had been downgraded from “High Consequence Infectious Disease” status by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens and that the risk of mortality was “low overall”. That they proceeded with a raft of restrictions that have proven to be enormously costly and hugely damaging to physical and mental health, especially that of children is a clear indication that the reason for the so-called “Pandemic Response” was not “to save lives” but was, in fact, far more sinister than that.
TY the shill should now resign!
And yes, do write to your MP and, like me, tell him that we cannot have scum in charge at serious times.
Johnson knew he was at the ‘parties’. He knew he was breaking the law, laws he brought in to constrain and subdue us. He knew that the Covid laws were a smoke screen and unnecessary to contain a pretend lethal virus. He knew he was lying to Parliament, lying to the Cabinet and lying to the country’s citizens. He also knew the police would find him guilty.
That’s why the Covid restrictions were dropped and he has pretended to be a Churchillian defender of Ukraine. Its all about ‘the optics’ and why his supporters are saying ‘he can’t go now’, look what a great supporter he is of Ukrainians.
It shouldn’t matter. His lies must result in him being removed as PM. Sunak too. And of course, Princess Nut Nuts.
Have we not realized yet that anyone suggesting that Boris Johnson broke the law, lied to the house, or was fined is succumbing to typical Russian disinformation? Covid proved that Johnson, Sunak and the rest of the current political class are the only people who can lead us to prosperity and, of course Democracy™.
What utter b*****cks!
Nothing illustrates the total pointlessness of the personal restrictions better than the absence of compliance in No 10.
To my mind Boris & the whole crew should get medals for demonstrating the vacuousness of the whole exercise.
Those of you criticising them are in a way endorsing the restrictions.
Compliance is collaboration. Always, always undermine.
A strange approbation for Al Johnson et al…..people are critical because of the consequences of the 3 lockdowns whilst the police cracked down hard on people who even inadvertently broke the stupid damaging unnecessary ‘rules’.
People are still receiving fines from breaking lockdown rules imposed by the Government.
What happened to that cinema in Swansea?
And the girl who tried to keep her hairdressing shop open?
No we are not endorsing the restrictions. We are pointing out that the whole of No 10 knew the restrictions were ridiculous, unnecessary and inhumane!
Resign? LOL! Don’t you know who he is? Admitting he was wrong isn’t in his DNA.
He lied to Parliament. That’s either important or its not, but once that principle is surrendered there is no going back.
I believe this is the truth of Covid and lockdowns. If Boris goes the Globalists will replace him with someone prepared to go further. Just look at Javid!!!!
what Boris needs to do is go to the country and tell the truth of the last two years. We do not need an election as it will be rigged. We cannot drain the swamp as it is full of Globalist shills. Johnson has shown his stupidity and ineffectiveness as a leader. He is governed by his wife who is controlled by America.
Johnson could use this to blow apart the lies and propaganda of the last two years. He could start to drain the swamp. Of course he will not. We are in a political mess as is the whole of EU due to the corrupt politicians who will now bring Europe to its knees.
If Johnson resigns then the whole of SAGE has to resign as does Ferguson. Oh whoops….he did resign and was promptly reinstated. This whole debacle shows the public just how corrupt this political system is.
Labour has lied throughout its inception. We have criminals sitting on the Labour benches.
If Johnson goes the Globalist… Read more »
The old days of chivalry and falling on your sword are long gone. The positive outcome as Toby Young said on GB News is that Johnson has no credibility when musing over further unecessary lockdowns.
Found elsewhere. Whoever wrote this should take great credit for their research. Needs to be verified (as they (MSM) now say)
After (sort of) defending Mrs Sunak of her absolute right to legally pay as little tax as possible to the country that supplies her with the house she lives in, I now find out that she was part owner of Lava Mayfair Club Ltd (a private membership Gym), which collapsed last year owing almost £44million to creditors, including £374,000 to HMRC.
Another venture, education firm ‘Mrs Wordsmith’, went into administration last year owing £16.3million – after receiving a £1.3million loan from the Government’s Future Fund.
IT GETS WORSE … Digme Fitness, of which she owns 100%, received up to £635,000 of furlough money before it closed its eight studios in London and Oxford still owing HMRC £415,000.
So …. Mr Sunak introduces the furlough scheme … and the woman he’s sleeping with benefits by up to £635,000.
Mr Sunak oversees the rules regarding non-Dom status … and the woman he’s sleeping with benefits by over £20 million.
Sunak is supposed to be in charge of ensuring that the UK maximises its tax take … yet the woman he’s sleeping with has overseen companies… Read more »
Perhaps he is a suitable candidate for a Tory PM after all, his ability to steal from the taxpayer is impressive (and I bet there is more where that came from).
They’re certainly maximising their own tax take.
Dispicable.
‘i got into politics to help others’ like fcuk did u, u did it to line yours and your mates pockets with easy cash!
Sunak, the man who took £20/week benefits off the poorest families of Britain.
To be fair, having looked myself, Mrs A.M is listed at Digme Fitness Ltd but I do not see her name at Lava Mayfair Club or Mrs Wordsmith!
The arrogance in the breaking of their own laws is one thing. The constant lies and denials afterwards is what is intolerable. These cuts must stand down or be pushed out of office.
“Better to stick with the devil you know” is a typical example of how far our standards have slipped, and we have only ourselves to blame for the crooks we now have in office. The man lied to Parliament, for goodness sake. Do we want a public & proven liar running the country? As for “he’d find it difficult to impose another lockdown, given his own misdemeanours in that regard”, no he won’t, HE’S A LIAR, it’ll come tripping off his tongue at the ‘right’ moment.
On hearing that he had been issued with a fine fishy rishi reactivated his green card and fled to the USA
No.10 is crown property, and the law exempts crown property from the Regs. So I don’t understand how any parties at No.10 can be prosecutable.
Wouldn’t Windsor Castle and St George’s chapel also be Crown Property, and thereby also exempt from the regs? If so, why then did the Queen and other members of the royal family have to abide by the dictates of the regs for the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral?
Just getting rid of Carrie Antionette would be enough. Aah, but she’s not elected, is she?
The Tories have been fully on board the green energy scam long before she came along.
His lack of integrity and wish to be liked by the last person he encountered makes him a risk. The abject performance by his choices of Heath Secretaries and his subservient approach to SAGE remains a threat. The drivel emerging from another scientifically illiterate politician Starmer demonstrates the existential risk of normality that Labour would bring.
On balance Boris?
Will they go where? Barnard Castle?
“For lockdown sceptics there’s a strong argument for keeping Johnson in office as he would find it politically very difficult in light of this to impose another lockdown, and he has committed to a ‘Living with Covid’ strategy. He and his colleagues who wrote the lockdown rules have also shown that they did not believe their own crap and had no fear of the virus which they were telling everyone else to cower in their homes over.”
There is no argument whatsoever for Kim Jong-Johnson not to be fined for imposing lockdown in the first place.
May his face be forever farted in by a herd of elephants, working in teams after being gorged on baked beans and Brussel sprouts
Pointless bit of abuse.
Wasting money we don’t have on the Ukraine is what globalist foreigners, like Fat Zero and Sunak, do. Because they don’t care about borders or countries in the first place. So why would value for British tax payer’s money ever enter their minds?
Does anyone think that the MPs will now wake up to the fact that if they try to comply with pressure groups and activists they will end up in a huge mess?
Activists are bringing our energy system down, killing us with vaccines and collapsing female sport. There is nothing so stupid as an activist on the loose – look at the Scottish hate crime bill….
Sadly no I don’t
Johnson needs to resign as HE is useless to Great Britain. He is a spendthrift with the attention span of a squirrel. He’s not what we need to drive our country to success
Worse, he’s a journalist. But then, so was Churchill.
It is the coming reality of the economic damage caused by lockdowns and the complete delusional fake science driven cult of Climate change and its result, Net Zero, that will finally knock these bubble dwelling greedy elitists from their perch.
Deprivation forces people to protest and these fools have just provided that in spades, change is coming, unfortunately most people won’t fight back until they are left with nothing to lose, and due to these policies that’s where they will find themselves, in the grip of harsh reality.
The Political establishment is in big trouble but I honestly believe they have become so arrogant they expect the entire population to just meekly accept it like their dicatatorial lockdowns, “WRONG”.
Cold hungry people will react strongly.
You would like to think so but from what I can see they will just be scrabbling around for toilet rolls to hoard
The latest ‘save Boris’ is that we shouldn’t require his resignation because ‘Ukraine’.
I contend that, had he done the decent thing and resigned, over the ‘piss taking’ and lying to the Queen and the rest of us, then we might well have had someone leading the country during the build-up to Russia invading Ukraine who, instead of playing ‘Winstons’, offered some wiser counsel to the gung-ho warmongering arms salesmen.
We are closer to seeing London reduced to a smouldering pile now than at any time since WWII with this lying clown saving his own political skin at the expense of Ukraine and those soon to starve across the World who have normally been able to rely on Ukrainian and Russian food staples.
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Dear WHO.
You are an unelected, international bureaucracy. You have no moral authority to concoct an ‘international instrument’ which compels Democratically elected governments to impose your will on the people they represent.
I for one, amongst millions of others, refuse to be bound by instructions issued by you, or by others on your behalf.
Your pandemic response to covid had been lamentable, for which you offer no apology for the damage caused to every country in the world, and to individuals caught up in the hysteria you incited.
You were complicit in bringing to market drugs with no long-term trials which are now being exposed as dangerous to humans. When the dust settles, the world will call for prosecution of the individuals responsible. WHO officials will be front and centre of those prosecutions.
Know your place. You are an advisory body which has dispensed terrible advice, with a pro-China bias. Do the job you are paid to do, and the organisation might partially redeem itself and survive.
It is now clear that President Trump was correct, as usual.
Sadly, RHS, you have exceeded the 250 (maximum) words the WHO will permit you to use in order to comment on its planned pandemic treaty.
But, otherwise, your response nails it!