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@theDoctor @zpartacoos
The resounding lack of talent and/or integrity of quite a few of these ministers.
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Boris Johnson misled the British public prior to BREXIT, oversaw a BREXIT deal which is unworkable in Northern Ireland, mishandled the early stages of the pandemic, lied about parties at No. 10, and misled parliament (a resigning issue according to the ministerial code) on at least one occasion.
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Some of the other ministers continue to sacrifice their integrity by supporting the Prime Minister.
A number have a poor track record of their own: Patel, Gove, Javid, and Rees-Mogg, to name just four.
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@theDoctor @zpartacoos Admittedly, I'm somewhat left of centre, but a number of Conservatives, some fairly senior, are now calling for Johnson's resignation.
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@underlap @theDoctor yeah (I'm also, admittedly left-ish), so naturally have more bias towards Johnson. Still, I think it's pretty objective at this point that he needs to go, irrespective of where you are on the political spectrum. Him brazenly breaking covid rules while ordinary people were being fined £10,000 for the same and, in the case of uni students like me, also being kicked out as well. So, if there are terrible consequences for doing something like a regular person but none if you're prime minister, that seems too unfair for me to let go.
