It was always inexcusable and unforgivable to ban family members from being by their loved ones’ sides as they took their last breath on earth, limit close friends from attending funerals and forcibly stop concerned relatives from helping youngsters being abused by their parents.īut conflating the indignity of Britain’s insane lockdown laws, many of which Boris privately fought against, with this laughable show trial is intellectually dishonest and morally wrong. I spent virtually all of the lockdowns attacking the government and Boris himself for putting us through such anti-social horrors. Now let me be clear, these rules should never have been inflicted on the British public. Instead, it’s Boris – the electorally popular Brexit champion and the great threat to a future Labour government – who found himself in the dock, facing the end of his political career, over ludicrous two metre social distancing rules, nonsense guidance and a wine and cheese night in the garden of Downing Street. Nor has Matt Hancock, the true villain of the Covid-19 era, whose arrogant decision on testing led to positive patients entering care homes and led directly to thousands of deaths. Those statements were made in good faith and on the basis of what I believed at the time.’Įven two decades on, Tony Blair has never found himself facing this sort of parliamentary scrutiny, despite not telling the truth about the motivation behind a war that saw 179 brave Brits killed in action. Without any legal norms or protections, Boris was subjected to over three hours of state sanctioned harassment over the most tedious technicalities of so-called ‘gatherings’ at Downing Street over the course of the pandemic, most of which he didn’t attend or turned up for a matter of minutes to give a thank you speech to a departing member of staff.īoris – the electorally popular Brexit champion and the great threat to a future Labour government – found himself in the dock, facing the end of his political careerĪs Boris stressed in his powerful and well-prepared opening statement: ‘I’m here to say to you hand on heart that I did not lie to the House. I’ve been calling out the deranged witch hunt against the last Prime Minister elected by the British people for a number of months.īut the judge, jury and executioners on the Privileges Committee in Westminster’s Grimond Room – led by Labour’s Boris hater-in-chief Harriet Harman, who decided on a guilty verdict months ago before seeing a scrap of evidence – proved even more of a kangaroo court than I feared was possible. It wasn’t just Boris Johnson on trial today.īritish democracy was too – and I’m sad to say it’s been undermined in the most mortifying and embarrassing fashion, with damning political ramifications that will reverberate for years to come.
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