WHAT has happened to the UK? Not only has Boris Johnson’s taken away the fundamental behaviours expected in parliament, he has by his actions tainted the civil service, the Met Police and most of all his own Tory party.
What is truly unbelievable is that so many good men and women in the Tory party cannot see what is happening. Surely the last straw should have been his demolishing of the rules covering parliament (the Nolan principles), taking out the heart and soul of the whole edifice.
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Once honesty and trust are not the expected norms there is nothing left and we are heading for a free-for-all or dictatorship.
This, along with some of the legislation being passed, is turning this country away from all semblance of fairness by someone who is only interested in serving himself and his clique and saving his own skin.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
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