Historically shameful
This government today made shamefully bad history, probably unique.
The shocking saga of the ‘us and them’ decision by prime minister Boris Johnson to ignore the strictest laws imposed on Britain for centuries and to celebrate illegally while the country suffered and mourned has reached it climax.
Yesterday came what should be the reckoning, to decide if it we remain to be seen as a sympathetic, democratic, law abiding society.
There should only be one answer - the departure of a man who consistently broke the rules he set for everyone else.
Will he go ?
His reaction, an apology and professed humility to the wholesale fining of him and a bevy of others of his ilk who carried on partying and drinking in Britain’s darkest days is unacceptable, or should be.
But if he acts now as he has done for many years, bluffing and lying, before and in office, I doubt it. He will try to cling on.
He is on a cliff edge, clinging on by the tips of his fingers, but will he drop or will the power of ruling the country prompt his cabinet and members to haul him back from the brink?
The next few days will tell.
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