Decency demands that when a boss breaks the law and brings shame on his company he resigns.
When it’s the Prime Minister who made, then broke, the laws the rest of us reluctantly followed, in any decent country it goes without question that they walk. But we no longer live in a decent country.
We live on Planet Johnson where lying and self-preservation at all costs, rule. A parallel universe in which believing you were born to prosper while looking down with contempt on the Little People is the civil code. Where taking responsibility for your actions is an alien concept.
We saw it throughout Covid when Johnson’s government handed bent contracts worth billions to their cronies believing no wrong was being done.
We saw it when Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab ignored the fall of Kabul from a Greek sun-lounger, Home Secretary Priti Patel was found guilty of bullying her staff and Chancellor Rishi Sunak condoned his rich non-dom wife avoiding millions in tax while he raised it to crippling levels for the rest of us. None saw the need to resign.
But why should they when they were brought into Cabinet by someone known to have lied to his boss, party leader, partner, even potentially to the Queen. A man elected to power on the biggest lie of all: That he believed Brexit was best for Britain’s interests not his own.
And now it’s been shown that he lied to parliament, still they support him.
On the back of a cynical fiction that you don’t force your PM out during a war. Even though Herbert Asquith and Neville Chamberlain did the right thing during two World Wars and resigned.
We would be fools to expect any decency from the leaders on Planet Johnson.
