No one needed this Cummings incident to know that either he or Boris aren't particularly smart, or suitable for office. We all knew it before now. Maybe some people didn't know who Cummings was but they certainly knew Boris was both an idiot and a liar, and they voted him into government.
People have voted for liars before but until the brexit election they had never willingly voted for someone who was so obviously not fit for office, and that marked a very big change for this country.
It told our elected government that people didn't care about holding anything they do or say to account, or how good they were at actually being a government. It's taken 60,000 people dying and an incident like this for people to suddenly and inevitably change their mind, but it's too late at this point to expect it just to change back. There is no way on earth that Boris or Cummings relinquish any power willingly, because doing or saying anyhting they can to grab and cling to power is the only purpose either of them had in the first place. Literally nothing that happens will change that. They don't know how to do anything else
Cummings and co have no idea how to run a government. They are experts at lying and ignorance and that's it. The inevitable outcome when they were elected was a hostile government that is held in contempt by more and more as it fails to do it's basic duties. You can lie about what other people are doing quite easily, but it's quite hard to constantly lie about what you are doing when you don't have a clue what you are actually doing. It'd take a very smart person to do that, and we're dealing with someone who thought it was a good idea to drive 260 miles during a lockdown despite knowing he was in the public eye. Smart people don't do things that thick people would do.
Maybe, but this is a little different. Boris now wont command any respect from anyone, whether it's government officials, unions or members of the public. People might not care but they're certainly not going to listen to him...which at a time when the government needs help from pretty much every collection of unions, business, public services etc. around, is quite a serious problem. None of them are going to forget about this because it's of direct concern to them at the moment whether they can trust what the government tell them or not, and this makes it possible for anyone to think they can.
People have voted for liars before but until the brexit election they had never willingly voted for someone who was so obviously not fit for office, and that marked a very big change for this country.
It told our elected government that people didn't care about holding anything they do or say to account, or how good they were at actually being a government. It's taken 60,000 people dying and an incident like this for people to suddenly and inevitably change their mind, but it's too late at this point to expect it just to change back. There is no way on earth that Boris or Cummings relinquish any power willingly, because doing or saying anyhting they can to grab and cling to power is the only purpose either of them had in the first place. Literally nothing that happens will change that. They don't know how to do anything else
Cummings and co have no idea how to run a government. They are experts at lying and ignorance and that's it. The inevitable outcome when they were elected was a hostile government that is held in contempt by more and more as it fails to do it's basic duties. You can lie about what other people are doing quite easily, but it's quite hard to constantly lie about what you are doing when you don't have a clue what you are actually doing. It'd take a very smart person to do that, and we're dealing with someone who thought it was a good idea to drive 260 miles during a lockdown despite knowing he was in the public eye. Smart people don't do things that thick people would do.
Maybe, but this is a little different. Boris now wont command any respect from anyone, whether it's government officials, unions or members of the public. People might not care but they're certainly not going to listen to him...which at a time when the government needs help from pretty much every collection of unions, business, public services etc. around, is quite a serious problem. None of them are going to forget about this because it's of direct concern to them at the moment whether they can trust what the government tell them or not, and this makes it possible for anyone to think they can.
post of the year