Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Boris Johnson endures high-stakes grilling over 'partygate'" video.

  1. It appears if you take the country to war based on a dodgy dossier, and cost the country lots of money and get its service men and women killed, you get away with it. If you serve food and drink after work, to boost the morale of No 10 staff, who are working long hours dealing with a national pandemic emergency you get sanctioned. It is worth asking, if the covid protection measures were not followed sufficiently well, why did the UK government not stop working as No10 staff all succumbed to a local epidemic? Were No10 staff so ignorant about the dangers of covid infection, that they were prepared to be reckless not only with their own lives, but also the friends and family? Did the virus male a distinction between the working day and the time shortly after. Only infecting staff after meetings had ended? Would those working at No 10, been so keen to work long hours, if some effort had not gone into making their working conditions a little more tolerable. It is understandable that those who were not allowed to visit loved ones dying in hospital of covid, should feel aggrieved at the percieved hypocracy of those in government who made the covid rules, might not have been following them to the letter. But the situations are not really comparable. Visiting someone severely infected with the virus is a very high risk of carrying the infection outside the hospital. Similarly bring together pale from diverse locations for social gatherings, even funerals, is a high risk of spreading the virus. Those working together all day do not greatly increase their risk of infection by spending a short time together after work, even if food and drink is involved. It is good management practice to do your best to improve the working conditions of your work force, if you are making great demands of them. It is pragmatic management to reduce stress. Boris Johnson may be guilty of many errors, but this is not one of them. Political opportunist are seeking to use poorly directed public anger at the pandemic to remove the former PM from politics. If such a sanction is to be applied, let it be for the right reasons, particularly as a former Labour government should have been subject to similar senture, for claims about iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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