LAST week I could hardly believe what I was seeing and hearing – Grant Shapps and Kwasi Kwarteng wrote official letters about P&O to the wrong person and had to resend them – hopefully this time to the right person. As Alastair Campbell said: “Is there anything this lot can’t muck up?” And of course when Alister Jack was asked about talking out a bill in the Commons to stop “fire and rehire”, he had lost his memory.
Then we had Rees-Mogg saying partygate was just fluff – tell that to those who lost loved ones and who sacrificed so much to keep others safe, and some who were fined for breaking the same laws Boris Johnson and cronies broke. Will all these “fluff” fines be paid back?
But then we had Boris comparing Brexit to the atrocities in Ukraine. They had only one thing in common: Putin – trying to break up the EU suited him just fine. But of course Boris had time for Tory Party fundraising on the very night Putin invaded Ukraine and at least one Russian donor was present.
He has done more running about since Partygate than he has done at any other time – it is called panic to save his skin and the Scottish Tories are once again confirmed as being spineless and now even toothless.
I thought I was angry before – now I am raging and ashamed.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
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