• I don't think we disagree, I don't know if you've heard of Lord Carrington, but that was the world I grew up in, and it seems much more than a lifetime away now!

    At the time it seemd grossly unfair that someone resigned purely because something bad happened on his watch, regardless of culpability, however the swing in attitude to the current mantra of, hang on at all costs if you can, is sickening.

  • I have. Something similar happened with Willy Brandt (although he was apparently burned out by the time he resigned).

    Yes, it used to be understood that politics required honourable behaviour. As he already showed as pretend-Mayor and also last year, Johnson has no honour.

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