But As For (the Lovable Rogue Who Is) Boris Johnson (To Those Who Have Responsibility in These Matters, I.e. Johnson's Parliamentary Colleagues in the British Conservative Party): Be Done With Him Once & For All...Seeing As Eyewitnesses Present Have Verified That the (Covid-19-Defying) Downing Street Parties (One & All) Were Routine (Affairs): Hey, What Remains to Be Understood? - Seems Pretty Much a Slam Dunk to Me (& Surely to Any Other Disinterested Observer)

I find I cannot get past comments of Newstalk ZB's bi-weekly correspondent Rob Little to Mike Hosking the other day...

"Boris Johnson's, in UKspeak/speech, "I take responsibility" "(i.e. for whatever occurred under the now notorious 'Partygate' affair), "means, in New Zealandspeak/speech, I take no responsibility whatsoever!"

Incidentally, "[Labour leader] Keir Starmer didn't even do anything (in the ballpark of what Johnson did). But he made the mistake of calling on Johnson to resign [if he was found to have been in contravention of covid rules]...(and so had no alternative but to (hypothetically) offer his own resignation were he found to be in breach of the same).

Anyhow, surely the true 'smell test' - for PM Johnson, if for no-one else - is *WWCD, i.e. 'what would (Winston) Churchill do? And anyone having to take the time to even consider that question is unfamiliar with that larger-than-life persona, for honour and integrity were central to Churchill's very person, making such a question rather rhetorical and redundant... 

*A bespoke variation upon the classic WWJD, i.e. 'what would Jesus do?'

No, we're not considering mere trivialities of a casual drink or several here, it's a matter of principle and integrity, for people across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom were unable to attend the final moments of dying relatives under the strict (if **understandable) covid protocols instituted by Johnson's Government...  

No, hypocrisy under these rules and regulations - i.e. expecting the common plebs to 'do as we say, not as we do' - is without excuse, and worthy of the direst consequences politically; end of story.

Having said that, however, I would myself be willing to break such a law - and face the inevitable repercussions - were my Mum say to be in her dying days...

...but, just so there's no misunderstanding, like Martin Luther King I would be prepared to face the legal consequences, however unjust, of doing what I considered the right and proper, dutiful and loving thing upon such an occasion...for some laws are just so (i.e. unworthy of dutiful obedience); however one must ever and always be willing to suffer (however unjustly) for what one believes and knows deep down to be the right thing to do...