Seeing a Watford Observer headline online ‘MP breaks silence over Boris Johnson’, I thought at last Dean Russell has seen sense and withdrawn his support for the Prime Minister, to whom he’s remained devotedly loyal despite ample damning evidence stacked up over the past two years showing him to be immoral, unethical, a habitual liar, and not fit to be leader of our country.

But not surprisingly there was no criticism to be seen from Dean Russell in the article, merely his spokesperson commenting that “It’s perfectly normal for a PM to stay on at No 10 while a new leader is elected.”

As if there is anything ‘normal’ about the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the eventual ejection of Boris Johnson following the resignation of 59 MPs, Ministers including the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Health Secretary, all telling him enough’s enough, time for him to go.

Not forgetting, two ethics advisers had already had enough and resigned earlier.

Clearly the Prime Minister can still do no wrong in Dean Russell’s eyes, as he could be seen outside No 10 clapping Boris Johnson on the day of his reluctant resignation speech, standing with the few remaining ultra-loyalist MPs, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries, and Andrea Jenkyns, a newly-appointed Education Minister, soon after setting a bad example by sticking her finger up to the crowd gathered by the gates of Downing Street. That really sums up what the current Conservative Party stands for.

After the astonishing events of the recent tumultuous week in politics it does make you wonder exactly what circumstances would have warranted the Watford MP actually facing the facts and taking a stand.

Sue Utting

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