This is an email I sent to my MP and explains my position on the situation:
With reference to all I can describe as a witch hunt by the media towards Boris Johnson who has had the most difficult premiership in peace time history. I hope that you are showing him your support.
This is the way I see it:
Boris Johnson catches Covid and still runs the country throughout. Is admitted to hospital on 5th April 2020 and was in such a bad way could have lost his life.
*12th April is discharged from hospital. *
29th April his baby is born.
All through this period the country was out every Thursday evening on their doorsteps holding a clap for carers, me included and from what I could see from events shown on the TV there wasn’t much social distancing going on.
8th May there were millions of people holding parties in their front gardens. Down my road, the front gardens are 12 foot wide by 5 foot, so hard to keep to the 6 foot distance from your neighbours. In the afternoon everybody kept to their own gardens, but as the alcohol started taking effect people were entering each other’s gardens, taking chairs to the outside boundaries, etc. This would have been the same situation for millions of households throughout the country.
*20th May Boris Johnson attends a pre-arranged gathering in his garden with people who all work together, where alcohol was drunk. *
18 months later the media hear about it and there’s lots of heart wrenching stories regarding what the public had to put up with. I could give similar heart wrenching personal stories, but I can see no difference between what he did as to what millions did on VE day and I for one am very grateful to him for what he’s done for the country during the pandemic under very difficult circumstances and plenty of criticism, whatever he had decided he’d have been criticised by somebody. emphasised text
Percy, thank goodness I’ve just seen on Sky News they were just talking about Kier Starmer who had done a speech at something or another today and they did mention that he has also been photographed having a drink in a meeting at the same time as he was accusing Boris.
I think the biggest hypocrites of them all are the actual media. Both Kay Burley and Beth Rigby went to a party, bet there has been plenty others as well, we just haven’t heard about them. One of the parties in Downing Street was a leaving party for the guy who is now assistant Editor or something or another for The Sun.
When they were hounding Dominic Cummings outside his house, there were crowds of the press all huddling together, not a mask in sight.
GB News showed a video of the last press conference of Robert Peston (ITV News) sitting without a mask on and then as soon as the camera went to him to ask his question he put his face mask on.
Everyone should be responsible for their own health and wellbeing, we shouldn’t be taking precautions because Boris has told us to, we should be doing it for our own protection irrespective of what anyone else is doing. I didn’t vote for Boris or the tories in the last elections, but I’m glad he finally got in to steer us through the Brexit fiasco, and it’s turned out okay in the end. Unfortunately there have been casualties in the covid saga, but I believe Boris has done the best he could with the tools and colleagues at his disposal and I doubt whether any other leader could have done any better. If anyone is responsible for the anger and bad feeling at present, it’s the media always waiting to whip up trouble and discrimination with their ill timed party revelations. Either they or the backstabbers have known about the parties since they occured last year but have waited until now for maximum effect. We are all being taken for fools by the media and we just suck it up and react, which is just the outcome they want…This is not news, and you have to ask yourself, what proper news has been swept aside by these so called pillars of society. BBC… I am ashamed to call you British!
Mind you Maree, it is in the ‘independent’…
I think the government should take over all the media outlets and internet feeds like they do in China…Oh! wait a minute, they have…
