Boris Johnson’s Tory racism inquiry has stalled – and he’s demanding moral authority over us
Of course, it would have helped if Boris Johnson wasn’t such an extreme racist himself.
Look at the state of this:
An inquiry into racism in the Conservative Party has yet to begin eight months after it was launched by Boris Johnson, prompting protests that it has been “kicked into the long grass”.
The investigation has still not issued a call for evidence – three months after that was promised – amid criticism of the academic chosen to lead it and doubts over the resources made available.
Johnson persuaded the Equality and Human Rights Commission not to investigate Tory racism because the party was going to carry out its own inquiry, if you remember.
That in itself was hypocritical of the EHRC, which was then investigating Labour anti-Semitism even though that party had carried out multiple inquiries of its own – and shows the level to which that organisation has become just another arm of the Conservative Party.
Now we see that the Tories have done nothing. Perhaps they are worried about the public relations disaster that such an inquiry would create.
Meanwhile, Johnson is throwing his weight around, claiming the rest of us have a “moral duty” to do as he tells us.
But we live in a “leadership by example” world now; if our leaders and their friends don’t meet their own standards, then there’s no reason we should pay any attention to them.
Dominic Cummings’s trip to Barnard Castle and the wholesale discarding of adherence to lockdown rules is a prime example of that.
Boris Johnson has no moral authority. And without it, he has no authority as a leader.
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