Johnson's apology an Oscar performance

With reference to Sir Robert Buckland's comments regarding the PM's apologies, I watched the episode and Boris, had he been in films, would have been awarded an Oscar for his statement.

Why, he almost produced a tear such was his acting for the nation.

John Oliver

Brooklands Avenue

Swindon

Prime Minister holds public in contempt

We are now almost two years into a pandemic that has so far claimed the lives of over 174,000 people in the UK.

Over this period, the Government has asked us all to make enormous sacrifices to combat the spread of the virus. We have been through lockdowns and restrictions to our daily lives.

So many people have lost family members and close friends without having the chance to say goodbye to them properly. Essential workers in hospitals, GP surgeries, schools, shops and other industries have put themselves on the line day after day. Hundreds of thousands of people have volunteered to help with the vaccine rollout and essential deliveries.

It is now clear that while we were all doing the right thing, Boris Johnson and staff at Downing Street were repeatedly breaching the rules, that they themselves had set, with boozy party after boozy party.

Gradually, the truth is coming out, and Boris Johnson is being exposed as the liar that he is. The contempt in which he holds the British public is plain to see.

Boris Johnson has shown himself unfit to hold high office. He should now do the decent thing and resign.

He won’t, of course: he’s never done a decent thing in his life. However, until 2024, our Wiltshire Tory MPs, who helped make him Prime Minister, are the only people who can remove him from office.

If they fail to act now, then it is a sure sign that they share Johnson’s contemptuous view of the rest of us.

John Barnes

Secretary

North Wiltshire Labour Party

Gaffes keep on coming

The British public has now surely seen enough to know, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Boris Johnson is not fit for the office of Prime Minister of our nation.

More than ever before, he has proved himself to be just a very sad, privileged, lying, arrogant, ignorant, prig.

To claim that he was not told by his advisers that his Number 10 parties were against the rules, is an absolute insult to us, the voters.

None of us ordinary people have advisers to rely on - just our own common sense, to follow the rules, which the vast majority of us did, throughout the pandemic.

His utter gaffe also reflects very badly on Swindon's two MPs who have still to come out against the PM.

Instead, they prefer to hide behind - and wait for - the results of the inquiry, despite the PM showing an utter and complete lack of judgement, yet again.

What more will it take for them to decide that "enough is enough, Prime Minister"?

I remember when the town had two honourable, able, hard-working, trustworthy, Labour MPs in Michael Wills (North) and Julia Drown (South), who were both first elected in 1997.

How sad that the town and also the country, of course, have fallen since those days, just 25 years ago!

Steve Cowdry.

Saddleback Road

Shaw

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