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Emrys

(8,699 posts)
2. The wisdom of crowds ...
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 07:05 PM
Jan 2022

Current Twitter trends:




Among all this argy-bargy, an adequate dressing down of Johnson by Starmer and a very sternly headmistressly scolding by Theresa May, one contribution struck to the bone:



ITV News
@itvnews

'Does the prime minister think I'm a fool?'

Tory MP Aaron Bell says only ten people could attend his grandmother's funeral in May 2020 - when there were two alleged lockdown-breaching gatherings at Downing Street
https://t.co/gWW0eiMiUQ

[Twitter video]


There's been much discussion of how many people now feel guilty for actually observing the rules at the height of the Covid crisis and not being able to be there for their loved ones.

A more dangerous public feeliing for the Tories - and one that all their blustering attempts to brazen it out and counter-attack will only make worse - is this growing sense that the cocky Rees-Mogg, Johnson and all the excuse-makers being trotted out to spin for the PM till they reel think that the vast bulk of the public were utter MUGS for obeying the rules.

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