THE revelations from Dominic Cummings that Boris Johnson sought to have Tory donors pay for the renovations to his Downing Street flat and sought to squash a leak enquiry are not surprising. Boris Johnson has a Christopher Columbus sense of entitlement and no regard for the rules, truth or morality. This would have been inculcated in him at Eton and the Bullingdon Club.
Cummings has proven there is no honour among Tory thieves. When Cummings broke lockdown rules, Johnson said his Rasputin had acted “responsibly legally and with integrity”. Now Johnson is being taught a harsh lesson in trusting and doing a deal with the devil.
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Johnson’s ploy all of his political life is to lie his way out of every situation. He lied to illegally prorogue parliament, he rewrote an official report that found the Home Secretary was a bully, He banned publication of a blog that said Scotland would flourish as an independent country. There are many more examples of Johnson ignoring reality when it contradicts his belief system.
Johnson twists and destroys everything he touches. It’s entirely plausible that he thinks it’s OK to use a secret slush fund paid by Tory donors to fund his lavish Imelda Marcos-mimicking lifestyle.
The Tories are controlled by a parasitic billionaire class. These corporations are the ones who pushed Boris Johnson to go for his “herd immunity “policy on Covid-19 to avoid a lockdown. There is growing anger against this billionaire class.
Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee
BORIS Johnson is a massive liability that neither the Conservative party nor the British people can afford.
His political inexperience shows through repeatedly; he is little more than a jumped-up journalist. His lack of any real political background has encouraged and enabled the current climate of corruption and sleaze to proliferate through the Covid PPE and Test and Trace debacles.
The Old School Tie is strangling the government’s credibility and dragging it deeper and deeper into the mire of sleaze and corruption.
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Former minister Johnny Mercer recently described Boris Johnson’s government as “the most distrustful, awful environment I have ever worked in”, adding: “Almost nobody tells the truth.”
Johnson’s former boss Max Hastings, who edited the Daily Telegraph, said Johnson “would not recognise truth, if confronted by it in a identity parade!”
He continued that Johnson “is unfit for national office because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification.”
Hastings was prophetic in saying “his premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability.” Remember his government has repeatedly tried to break the law, even international law.
On PPE contracts, cronies have been enriched with million-pound contracts, and a recent report on race was reputedly rewritten by No 10, and greeted with disbelief by expert bodies quoted in the report, who were not even consulted.
Andrew Milroy
Trowbridge
I HAVE noticed lately that there is a new way to spell corruption, being liberally used by the Tories in Westminster. It is a spelling often associated with helping friends. This is what I mean: c-r-o-n-y-i-s-m, and when we put it all together we get helping your pals get rich.
Now while previous Prime Minister David Cameron was using his good channels to help his company by “lobbying” on their behalf for a loan from the Chancellor so they could re–lend to others, our present incumbent was being approached by his pal regarding the tax situation of his employees.
This was just another of the Covid contracts that were handed out to friendly supporters without any competitive tendering. Normally when the government seeks to place an order for equipment and the likes, they will put the request out to tender. This way they get the best price for the supply they need. No tendering means they just pay whatever is asked. Is this just another way to define cronyism?
Now I hesitate to call this corruption, but it is definitely abuse of power by those in Westminster. Is it also possible that this is what is driving the use of private healthcare companies in the NHS, where they pay more for additional nursing staff than they do for regular staff? I wonder who owns the companies, or has an interest in them?
Ian Rankine
Milngavie
WILL Boris Johnson sweep the Dyson sleaze affair under the carpet?
WJ Graham
East Kilbride
BORIS, A vacuum of integrity? So says Sir Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General. But is he a SHARK or a DYSON? PLEASE TELL!
Robin Maclean
Fort Augustus
PATRICK Harvie is being presumptuous when he talks about a coalition (Greens hint at red lines in case of coalition, April 23).
The Greens, after all, are the only party that can damage the SNP’s possibility of winning a majority in the constituency ballot when they are standing in 12 seats on a supposedly independence ticket.
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In 2016 they stood in only three constituencies against the SNP, splitting the vote in Edinburgh Central and electing a Tory, Ruth Davidson. Independence voters, wake up and smell the coffee – the Greens are NOT the SNP’s allies. That’s why on May 6 I will be helping to put one of those almost one million wasted SNP list votes to good use, by voting ALBA for INDEPENDENCE and ensuring indy MSPs not Unionists get elected.
Jo Bloomfield
Edinburgh
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