The bottom line is, the optics, as they say, are simply awful/dreadful: in what can only look like a one-fingered salute to the British people in *their hour of trial and tribulation the national powers-that-be seem to be having a jolly old time, thank you very much, at the expense of the longsuffering masses.
It simply doesn't, to use another phrase much in vogue these days, pass the sniff test. That's all there really is to it folks - it's that simple.
And I 'say'(as in print) **that with a tinge of sadness in my voice (i.e. 'heart'); as someone who has found Boris Johnson a bit of a lovable rogue, an idiosyncratic character and comic if you will, but an endearing one at that.
Yes, for folk throughout the length and breadth of the land to be going through the hard yards, the 'hard yakka' as it were through the ongoing ***'gift that keeps on giving', as in covid, and then to turn on their TV sets/tune in to their radios/open their newspapers - yes, and/or 'google it'/'hear' via the internet in one way or another - and see numerous ****'juicy and salacious' tidbits day after day (as the story is drip-fed into their respective media) showing/revealing a smirking elite knowingly and shamelessly getting away with 'stuff' that the plebs and peasants - "let 'em eat dirt!" - could only dream of (in their state of ongoing restrictions) and in the full expectation moreover that their hijinks and frolics will never see the light of day (as in the public glare)...
...could not but strike any wholly impartial and unpartisan observer as an *****unprecedented degree of arrogance and hubris and overreach heretofore unheard of...
...'stuff' ultimately reaching to the very highest echelons and corridors of power, and necessitating one - and one only - immediate response, one which is so clear and obvious that I'll simply leave you to work it out yourselves, to follow the trail wheresoever it happens to obviously lead...
And that arguably it really requires a mass resignation (of involved ministers and MPs) and/or a snap election to give the British people the chance to start afresh...and asap. (Though I fear for the Brexit, were that admittedly extremely remote and unlikely eventuality to transpire.)
Yes, Labour's (comparatively) new leader is definitely onto a winner (with the people of the United Kingdom) in relentlessly pursuing this (with a zeal befitting Sherlock Holmes in relentless pursuit of the latest clue however labyrinthine the particular tunnel he next entered and explored), and could hardly be faulted were he to press his newfound advantage home without any further ado to the nth degree and beyond...
What else can he realistically be expected to do?
Credulity can only be stretched so far, and it has arguably already been extended well beyond breaking point...
*As they collectively endure one of the worst outcomes of any nation in the global coronavirus pandemic.
**That is, all the preceding (and all the rest of my opinion piece).
***As one (if not various and sundry) wag/s has/have well expressed matters.
****Metaphorically speaking, that is!
*****One of such a serious nature that it makes those of ******'our own' David Clark look like minor misdemeanours in comparison...
******David Clark being the New Zealand Government Minister who hardly ingratiated himself with the kiwi public a year-and-a-half ago or so when he, as Health Minister during the global pandemic that is covid-19, went off mountain bike riding, visiting a local beach, and moving house while everyone else trembled in their boots almost setting a foot out their doors.
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