Owen Jones: Johnson hopes Putin’s war will save him, but don’t be fooled – ‘Partygate’ still matters
‘That Johnson reportedly leaves top-secret papers strewn across a flat he shares with his wife, Carrie — who is known to be close friends with journalists who visit their residence — shows he is an unserious, lazy man who thinks consequences are for other people.’
Now that the Metropolitan police have issued 20 fines to British government officials for violating the Covid rules they were tasked with drawing up, there are two things we can conclude about Boris Johnson. Either, when he declared less than four months ago that “all the guidelines were observed”, he was completely ignorant about the laws he was directly responsible for — or he repeatedly and shamelessly lied. There is a third possibility — he had no idea what was going on in the prime minister’s official residence — that is too insulting to anyone’s intelligence to even bother indulging.
Which of the two options is true is interesting as an academic debate, but both provide the same answer to the basic question: “Regardless of your political standpoint, is this person fit for high office?”
