Thread by @fascinatorfun

“Behind him there was a wall of silence, which will have been much more disconcerting than the shouts of Labour MPs in front of him. The men and women of the Conservative parliamentary party gazed at him. Their golden goose was laying diseased eggs.”
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“ The great guarantor of electoral victory was tarnished, seemingly beyond repair.

There was no moral dimension to their calculation and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. They gave up any right to that word when they allowed him to become Prime Minister”

“Boris Johnson has lied and bent the truth throughout his career. “

“And today, we were treated to the new lie, hastily erected as the last one falls to dust, this time so absurd that even a child wouldn’t dare to use it: that he was unaware that the party he organised and attended was in fact a party.”

“ It is a lie wrapped in a lie wrapped in a lie, a pitiless drop into the oblivion of hypocrisy. An administration which has a sorry relationship with truthfulness, crumbling under its own contradictions.”

“Tory MPs must have known about these things, but it appears they did not care so long as Johnson maintained his electoral popularity. Now that is gone, blown away by an act of deceit which speaks profoundly and directly to people’s sacrifices during the pandemic.”

Exactly

“A new leader will probably provide a short-term rise in Tory polling, but it is not a true solution. What’s happened here is bigger than the person in charge. It is a hole in the heart of the Conservative party.”

“What does the Conservative party stand for after two and a half years of Johnson’s leadership? Levelling-up or fiscal discipline? The Red Wall or the Southern shires? Responsible economic management or the rip-it-up national adventurism of Brexit?”

“Sober government or flashy showbusiness? No-one can tell you, because in truth the party gave up on values and committed itself entirely to an empty focus on popularity. Without it, there is no ground left to find purchase.”