20 April (Part 2) - Out to lunch?
Tomorrow
I have a lunch date with an old friend and I fear we might fall out. Whilst our
outlook on life is broadly similar, politics too, I fear I have detected vibes
that he is horrified by partygate. I as usual take a more perverse view. Whilst
Johnson can never be forgiven for imposing a host of ridiculous, draconian, expensive and
illogical constraints on our lives over the past two years and lacked the guts to
question the ramblings of demented medics and discredited mathematicians, I am just a little bit encouraged that
he didn’t really believe a word they said.
All that was necessary was to exercise a degree of commonsense. He ate a slice
of cake with colleagues on his birthday and I invited six adults - not including me - and a child
to mine. I slightly stretched the rules at Christmas too and never did get Covid or even a cold.
Johnson’s rules imposed untold cruelty, hardship and misery on many and such people are
entitled to be very annoyed with him but that is no reason to throw commonsense out of the window. Cake in Downing Street, coffee on a park bench and kids
playing in their own front garden did nobody any harm and we have a corrupt
police force to thank for imagining that such things did.
Former Commissioner Dick said that the Institutionally Corrupt Metropolitan Police did not investigate Covid crimes retrospectively so
with luck I can forget my own transgressions, but why did she decide to spend
millions on a spiteful investigation into two year old parties and working lunches? Was it her doing or Sadiq Khan’s?
There were no prosecutions following numerous other high profile rule breakers. Why not? Because commonsense prevailed.
Would I be able to defend my theory against my friend’s assertion that Boris Johnson is a cake crook? He may well be deserving of the old heave ho but not
in my opinion in respect of birthday cake.
I think I may have an ace up my sleeve for tomorrow. My friend and I both admire the historian David
Starkey, him more so than me; he has paid to attend his lectures whereas I am as
you know far too tight-fisted to do that.
David Starkey has espoused the same views as myself (see YouTube link) but much more expertly.
Could it really be that Johnson’s Head of Ethics was a political plant there to
get him into trouble with bad advice? Once the job was done she left to take up a big job in a Labour council.