Tag: Boris Johnson

Senior Whitehall civil servants are up in arms because Boris has rowed back on a commitment to bribe farmers to grow wildflowers instead of crops. Doesn't he care about the future of the planet?

Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.

The talking points in this week's episode of London Calling are Boris's survival prospects, Prince William's attempt to channel Greta Thunberg and the sheer, unadulterated joy of Top Gun Maverick.

It's clear from the confidence vote that the only way Boris can survive is to tack to the right. So cut taxes, scrap the NI protocol, ditch 'Net Zero, lean in to the culture war and star fracking.

For lockdown sceptic Tory MPs wondering whether to back Boris, there's a powerful two word argument: Jeremy Hunt. The favourite to succeed the PM was one of the most zealous lockdown enthusiasts in the House of Commons.

Boris Johnson faces a vote of no confidence among his own MPs today after the threshold for triggering a Tory confidence vote was hit following the lockdown Partygate scandal and its aftermath.

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the attack on the Mona Lisa by a green nut job, Boris's chances of surviving a confidence vote and whether the country would be worse off if he was replaced by a chimp.

Former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption has weighed in on Partygate to say it exposes both the moral deficiencies of Boris Johnson and that those writing the lockdown rules clearly didn't believe their own hype.

Boris Johnson is guilty of misleading the House of Commons and, even more seriously, of putting the lockdown laws on the statute book in the first place, framing them in such a way as to criminalise everyday interaction.

While the Government is keen to 'move on' from partygate, the public can hardly move on from the lockdowns when we've been misinformed, taken for a ride and then taken to the cleaners by the partyers in No 10.