I must admit that I have been really disappointed with Boris Johnson’s government. After getting such a massive majority in 2019, we should have expected proper conservative policies from him and his party. Instead we got more open borders, a failure to tackle the Left, extreme eco-nonsense, socialist levels of tax and spend and a failure to undo the damage to free speech and free thought that had been wrought by the Labour party, the Coalition and Cameron and May’s Conservatives.

Then came ‘Partygate’ and with it a massive number of accusations of Boris Johnson’s failure to abide by the same lockdown rules that they imposed on the rest of the country. The ongoing leaks of photographs of Johnson and those close to him engaging in activities that would have seen ordinary British subjects harassed or fined by the police have given the impression of Boris Johnson and his government as being massive hypocrites. The perceived hypocrisy of the Johnson government over lockdown rules has quite rightly angered people especially those who were placed in a position where they could not say final goodbyes to dying loved ones because of Covid rules.

But there is another side to this wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Government’s hypocrisy, a darker more cynical side.

Without a doubt, there are some in politics who are still angry about the Brexit vote and Boris Johnson’s part in steering the Brexit cause through Parliament in the face of Remainer opposition. These people would take any course of action they deemed necessary to force out Johnson and have him replaced by someone who is far more friendly to the EU. These Europhiles and Fedarasts despise the people who voted for Brexit and have not given up their cause of getting the UK back into the EU.

Along with the Europhiles, there are others who are exploiting the Partygate situation for their own base political ends. However many of them do not have exactly clean hands when it comes to adherence to the Covid rules themselves. Some of those slinging mud at Boris Johnson over social gatherings do not exactly have clean hands themselves.

In April 2021 the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer himself was seen at a social gathering of Labour workers in Durham in contravention of the rules then in place . Labour MP Zarah Sultana seemed to have little problem in attending a demonstration by the BLM/Marxists in London in June 2020 at the height of the first wave of the Covid pandemic.

Nadia Whittome, another MP from the party that is slinging mud at the Tories was said by the Guardian to have attended a demo in support of Sarah Everard which was organised in part by groups linked to the BLM/Marxists. This demo took place in March 2021 when Britain was still under draconian restrictions because of the massive rise in Covid infections earlier in January 2021.

Also playing fast and loose with Covid rules and taking the view that ‘the rules apply to thee but not to me’ was the Birmingham MP Tahir Ali who attended a massive funeral during the first lockdown where over 100 people attended but which dwindled to just fifteen by the time police had arrived. Mr Ali was called out on this breach by the local Police and Crime Commissioner.

Then there was the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who was alleged to have breached the rule of six rule in 2020 by attending a dinner party where eight people were present.

We also need to take a long hard look at the three Muslim Labour councillors in Luton, one of whom was the mayor of Luton at the time who breached Covid rules that were in place at the time to attend a prayer meeting. This meeting took place despite the postcode that the meeting took place in having the highest Covid infection rate in the Luton area. The furore over the meeting caused the Labour mayor to resign his position.

Whether you agree with the policy of lockdowns or not, it is probably correct to call out the hypocrisy of certain members of the government who attended gatherings that to all intents and purposes were of a type that would be forbidden to the ordinary British subject. However we should not forget or lose sight of the fact that the Labour Party, which is screaming very loudly about the hypocrisy of the governing party, are also guilty of only following the covid rules when it suited them. The people flinging crap at the Tories over this issue are also the ones who have had their arms shoulders deep into the cesspit of hypocrisy.