MARTIN Geissler on Sunday morning told everyone that he had invited every Tory MP, every Tory MSP and other grandees on to the programme and everyone of them said no.
This is the behaviour of Tories learned from the master Ruth Davidson – when the going got tough, she got going as far away from the media and TV studios as possible. It is obviously the Tory way – a very convenient family Covid positive result keeps Boris holed up in Downing Street plotting away and trying to find the latest scapegoats for his lack of leadership and his laissez-faire attitude to all rules and regulations. And as for morality – he has never heard of it.
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The police interviewed the Chief Medical Officer in Scotland when she visited her second home; Boris visited Chequers at the height of the pandemic but that is just one more thing the police in England ignored. How many security police are around Downing Street and how many security cameras are there, as well as the log book of visitors etc, and yet the police do nothing?
He has lost all authority, moral and otherwise, and is not capable of leading anyone. Woe betide us if another variant arrives on these shores and he tries to enforce any regulations – why on earth would anyone believe him? Personally I would not believe or trust him if he told me the time. The longer this goes on the more the reputation of the police, parliament and civil service is damaged.
One last thing: I hope all those fined for in many cases far lesser transgressions (one man sitting in garden with two friends on his birthday and fined £100) are suing for their money back as well as reputational damage etc. And for all of us who followed the rules and were not allowed to be with dying relatives or go to funerals – let us never forget.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
IT is revealing that the Tories in Scotland seem to have been a lost cause in Scotland and a lost, forgotten tribe among the Tories in England.
After being held in contempt by Rees-Mogg and Gove, there does not seem to be a sudden upsurge of support for D Ross and his band from other English Tories.
The answer is simple. The Scots Tories are not even lobby fodder for the Tories at Westminster.
They simply do not count! They are not even useful idiots. They are reduced to huffing and puffing. They do not even choose the Secretary of State for Scotland, he is the PM’s placeman in the Cabinet.
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It must be galling for these upholders of the Precious Union that they are considered worthless in the eyes of their English party members.
No more powers for Holyrood, they chanted. Why are we here not following the English measures on Covid? We must follow Boris Johnson, was the cry from D Ross in Holyrood, forgetting that Boris Johnson ignores them all the time.
The Tories in Scotland are now in no man’s land politically and nationally. Rejected in Scotland, laughed at by their fellow Tories in government at Westminster and forgotten by their party “betters” all round.
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Ironically, the only sympathy D Ross received outwith his party was from Nicola Sturgeon, whose advice was sincere even within the political point she was making.
I doubt if even D Ross grasped the simple fact that in an independent Scotland he and his group can be respected and involved. The Union simply relegates him to nonentity status, so curtly expressed by Rees-Mogg, the leader of the Commons, and Gove. That must have hurt, but the reality is that the disdain expressed was real and deliberate, putting down D Ross into the position the Tories hold him in.
He is a non-MP.
Ironically, his Scottish Tories still support the party and its policies at Westminster, Brexit which Scots voted against and a Union with a mere handful of Unionist MPs left in the Commons.
John Edgar
Kilmaurs
HAVING expressed his contempt for his colleague Douglas Ross, Rees-Mogg went on to offer some advice on the virtues of loyalty. “I think people who hold office within the Conservative Party should support the leader.”
Does he mean the same level of support Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and he afforded to Theresa May when she was the leader?
Peter Shearer
Kirkwall
BORIS Johnson said in his “apology “ that his party was legal because it wasn’t a party but a work event. He really must think our heads zip up the back.
In England at that time the restrictions stated quite clearly that you could not meet with more than one other person outside, even if in relation to work.
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All works meeting should have been held on Zoom unless it was impossible to do the work in any other way.
So all those in attendance could have sat at their desks in the Downing Street complex and Zoomed and chatted and had a glass or two of wine, if they so wished, not flouted the law and taken everybody else in this erstwhile United Kingdom for clowns.
John Vosper
Port Glasgow
MORE revelations about even more lockdown parties within 10 Downing Street. It will be an appropriate and symbolic location for PM Johnson to hold his leaving "do" within the coming months (or days).
Alan Reid
County Derry
IN response to Johnson’s derogatory use of “Scottish Nationalist Party” when he refers to the SNP, I would suggest that, in future, Ian Blackford addresses him as leader of the Conservative Partiers!
Alan Woodcock
Dundee
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