Only crooks change the rules to save their own skin – as Boris Johnson has done
RIP democracy: how true, when Boris Johnson is re-writing the government code of conduct to allow him to act dishonestly and corruptly without any fear of punishment.
Angela Rayner is right – this really is the action of a “tinpot despot”.
Terrified that he’ll be forced out of office for breaking his own Covid-19 lockdown rules – and, more to the point, lying about it to Parliament – Boris Johnson has changed the Ministerial Code to eliminate forced resignation or expulsion as a penalty.
This wretched rat’s rewrite means that, from now on, ministers will not always be expected to resign for breaching the code of conduct. Under new sanctions, they could apologise or temporarily lose their pay instead.
The Guardian states that,
Johnson also blocked his independent ethics chief, Christopher Geidt, from gaining the power to launch his own investigations, and rewrote the foreword to the ministerial code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability.
… because he has none of those qualities and does not understand what they mean, one presumes.
His spokespeople at 10 Downing Street have tried to justify the changes by saying it is “disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal”.
Why?
UK government ministers should be expected to maintain the highest standards of conduct in the world. Any breach of those standards should be met with the sternest penalty.
If MPs like Johnson cannot accept that responsibility, then they should not have even tried to become members of a government, let alone leaders of it.
So let me suggest a response to Downing Street’s self-serving statement, as follows:
It is inappropriate for a serving prime minister to alter the rules by which his conduct will be judged, when his conduct is about to be judged.
Johnson has certainly lived up to Keir Starmer’s appraisal of the standard he sets for himself: “lower than a snake’s belly”.
We can all see that.
And I don’t think the general public will find it in the slightest way amusing.
If the Conservative Party keeps him as its leader, then it is heading for a landslide loss at the next general election – which, remember, is likely to take place after another two-and-a-half years of his corruption.
Some leading Tories have read the writing on the wall and are already calling for his removal.
Will the rest of them please develop backbones over the weekend so we can restore a shred of integrity to our legislature?
Source: Boris Johnson accused of changing ministerial code to ‘save his skin’ | Boris Johnson | The Guardian
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Ministers within the government are supposed to set the standard by which the rest of us endeavour to attain, he’s just lowered the bar so much, that any regard for law and order have been demoted as being a secondary consideration. His example to us all is a “Do as I say, not as I do”, a term in the past meaning double standards for those being preached to by someone who has no standards.
Cynically I believe the public are too apathetic to do anything other than vote the fascist dictatorship into power once again.
Yes convict little fascist dictator duck johnson is a crook and reason why he remains in power is because there are no opposition parties holding him to account. Fake labour MPs continue to remain silent and their tory leader Starmer refuses to speak out. What is Starmer afraid of that he refuses to demand an end to tory fascist dictatorship!
Democracy??? What a joke when we have that little fascist convict duck johnson remaining in power and he’s like super glue – he can’t be forced out because no one has to courage to order him to resign!
Shameful that little fascist dictator convict duck johnson is getting away with rewriting the laws concerning MPs criminal activities and now ‘ honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability’ are irrelevant because being an MP especially a fascist tory one means ‘we can do whatever we like whenever we like and we can commit any crime we wish because the law doesn’t apply to us fascist tories!’
Can we peasants claim ‘we are above the law when we are charged with breaking the speed limit, falsely claim benefits etc??? Of course not – we peasants must be constantly punished and oppressed by the fascist tory dictators!
you just can’t make this up….