Sad times

I feel you are being naive. A country needs very strong leaders in times of crisis and BJ has been the only politician capable of doing this amongst a sad bunch. You may not like him, most strong leaders are pretty abrasive, but the storm is only in a teacup stirred up by back benchers who are remainers and have always despised BJ. We cannot accuse BJ of lying until the evidence is produced.

This really is a media led campaign to unseat a government. Whilst what happened at No 10 is shameful I really think we have far more important concerns in Ukraine to focus on. Fine them all who attended but let’s move on. Far too much media time spent on this issue. Did we really think they would not take advantage to Party if the option was there to do so???

Don't disagree, but let's have the same playing field always. Did Tony Blair resign? I suggest that what he did was slightly worse.

Well, you're right. What the "rest of the world" perceives is important. Particularly for Britain at this moment, because it's rather dependent on the "rest of the world" for its future. Jingoism and the stereotypical English insular arrogance is nothing new. It's always been seen as a rather innocent and benign part of the "English charm". "Fog in the channel" is an iconic representation of that. But after the events of the past decade or so, particularly the past 5 years, what once was considered the best things about Britain have clearly fostered an impression of disingenuousness, increasing isolationism, untrustworthiness and downright corruption, and the impression of being "economically challenged" as it struggles to cope with loss of trade and having been the most afflicted and damaged by the pandemic. Ironically, this is precisely how the UK has consistently characterised much of the "rest of the world", particularly in recent memory. Although the "rest of the world" seems to be getting on with less difficulty. If Trump were still in power, and the US continued to descend into chaos and corruption, the "rest of the world" would be extremely alarmed, because what happens to the US affects everyone, as demonstrated by the 2008 crisis. That's not to say "Trumpism" is somehow finished - it probably isn't, but for now, the US is relatively benign. While it's a shame to see Britain descend into this mess, it's just Britain, and doesn't really affect "the rest of the world" much. We can only look on with pity, although it's really of Britain's own doing, so sympathy is pretty limited, especially while Britain's politicians continue to insult and denigrate others for the sake of political jingoism, as if the "rest of the world" is too unsophisticated to notice. Still, a little humility would go a long way toward restoring the respect Britain is going to need going forward. But that doesn't seem to be in the cards for the foreseeable future. Perhaps the electorate will see past the tabloid jingoism at some point, and be able to objectively look at their actual condition. We shall see.