Tory minister’s inappropriate response to challenge means he should resign
Johnny Mercer: he’ll be grinning on the other side of his face if voters in his Plymouth Moor View constituency demand a higher standard from their representative.
It’s time to demand a restoration of standards among our politicians – and Johnny Mercer simply doesn’t rise to mine.
This Site covered his inappropriate behaviour towards media personality Carol Vorderman earlier, after he denigrated her support for former Royal Marine Fred Thomas’s bid to unseat him in the next general election.
He suggested she has a “shit lonely life” (his words), that “no one normal really cares” about her support for Mr Thomas, that “they think you’re mad”, and finished with a series of “puking” emojis.
This is a breach of at least the seventh Nolan principle of public life – that he should treat others with respect.
Today, we learn that Mercer – who is Minister for Veterans, remember – doubled down on his attack by turning his attention to Mr Thomas himself. Here’s Vorders again:
Johnny Mercer now goes on to insult @FredThomasUK who served as a Royal Marine for 7 yrs becoming a Captain as "having served 5 minutes in uniform doesn't always mean that (sic) integrity the rest of us live by"
Mercer was in the Army for 11 years, so that's about 7.9 minutes… https://t.co/c2Y6AUYqvT
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) December 28, 2023
Again: no respect.
And if he’s not going to respect a fellow politician and former serviceman who rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Marines, then I think we can be sure he has never respected any of the other former servicepeople his job title suggests he should represent.
In the past, when ministers’ behaviour crossed a line beyond what is acceptable, they either chose, or were made, to do the decent thing and resign their position.
Recently, they have scorned the voters by choosing to brazen it out – keeping their jobs and ministerial paycheques in spite of outrage at their behaviour. Bear in mind that James Cleverly remains Home Secretary, nearly a week after his offensive comments about the date-rape drug Rohypnol.
As voters, we need to re-establish our boundaries – and make it clear to politicians that we expect the highest standards from them.
If they won’t commit to those standards voluntarily, then we should enforce them at the ballot box, by removing them from public life the hard way.
Mercer and Cleverly’s inappropriate behaviour make them entirely appropriate candidates for such treatment.
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Corrupt liar Boris Johnson showed his fellow fascist tories that they can be as arrogant and deceitful as they wish and not suffer any consequences. Remember duck Johnson was the man who prorogued Parliament illegally and he was not held accountable. He was also not punished for holding parties during the coronavirus because he like his fellow fascist tories believes laws do not apply to him!
So not surprised that women hating Cleverly has not been sacked despite his male contempt for women and Mercer too is another arrogant fascist tory who believes he does not have to respect anyone because being a fascist tory MP will protect him!
I predict future MPs will display the same arrogance and contempt as their fellow current fascist tory MPs because they see that such behaviour is not being challenged but instead is ignored by the great and good (sic) male political leaders!!
So Johnson is responsible for showing it is very easy to enact the false belief that being a fascist tory MP entitles them to display arrogance and contempt for anyone who dares to challenge them!