Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
I think this is what I said more recently. A month or two ago, when the photos first emerged, I said he should resign. But he didn't.

But yes, that is what I thought. I think the severity of lockdown (and perhaps it was necessary) caused enormous mental anguish for millions. I stand by that. I know what it was like for me and my family and that's why I care more about that than cake gate.

Johnsons social gatherings made me lose a lot of respect for him and exposed him as a liar. Lockdown and WFH made me question the benefits of being here - so thats why I get more exercised about the latter than the former.
I sort of get your point that we all see the lockdown stuff from a personal perspective. Me, being denied access to my incapacitated Mum in a care home for a year and attending my father in law's funeral after his premature death with covid with 9 other people. You with your frank recognition of the impact it had on your mental health, others on the detrimental impact it had on their business.

We all, each in own way suffered. Running through this though is an unfit Prime Minister who's behaviour and hypocrisy laughed at us all until he was caught, then lied when caught because that's what he has seemingly done all his life.

I don't share the view that all Tories are scum that sometimes populates this Board. Personally if someone gave me a choice of a left leaning party losing the next election because the Tory Party came to its senses and ejected Johnson and his immoral cabal and coalesced around decent (there's that word again) people, I would take it every time.

Every day he stays in power demeans us all. No doubt if he does he will come up with ever more populist headline grabbing nonsense like the Rwandan stuff to turn the headlights on full beam into voters eyes.

I think you are a decent person who generally argues his corner well. It will be interesting to see how far you run with his hounds!