@David_Cameron .@campbellclaret on #Newsnight, saying that Johnson and his ministers regularly break all 7 of the #NolanPrinciples - and he finds it "scary" that no one seems, with this government, to care very much about those breaches of public standards, or to view them as scandals.
@David_Cameron@campbellclaret Prof Elizabeth David-Barrett says on #Newsnight that the matters around Cameron/Arcuri are not so much about rule-breaking as "declining [public] standards".
And she gives examples, including those around (lack of) transparency.
If you want to have a diet rich in pork pies and Scotch eggs, and would prefer those to arr`os negre, galtes de porc and callos a la madrileña - best you stay in the UK.
@antartica81 @fascinatorfun And here (1/n) is the transcript:
Is democracy fragile and easily destroyed, or flexible and resilient? We may be about to find out. The planet heats, the clock ticks, and with each increase in temperature, world harvests shrink, famines loom, and fire and flood impact millions.
@antartica81 @fascinatorfun 2/n
When a government fails to deliver basic necessities the result is either the toppling of power or a brutal crackdown. So says history. Democracy, by Margaret Atwood.