Here’s the letter I sent to my MP, Mr James Gray on Tuesday 1st February 2022
Dear James,
I hope all is well with you and that you are not taking too much flak on a personal level over the actions of our current prime minister.
I received your newsletter a couple of weeks back and broadly agreed with your ‘wait and see’ approach in relation to judging the prime minister and his actions with respect to ‘partygate’. He has been asked so many specific questions about his knowledge of the many and various parties held within Number 10 Downing Street. These Parties were thrown at a time when the whole country was under Covid19 restrictions, restrictions that his government had not only devised but imposed and implemented on all of us. I really don’t think anyone seriously believes that there were no parties held, even the apologist ministers sent out to do the prime minister’s bidding seem to have the expression of an unsold dead turbot at Billingsgate Market. Yet the prime minister clearly takes us voters for complete and utter fools. He keeps telling us all about what we want apparently, and how he ‘wants to get on with the job and deliver on our priorities’ and expects us to all move on and allow him the space to ‘get on with the job’.
When he was questioned in the House of Commons, he first denied that there were any parties. He then denied that he was at any of the parties. He then denied that if there were any parties, no rules would have been broken. He then ordered an investigation into the parties but had to stand the person who he appointed to do the report down because that person had been, yes you guessed it, at, at, least one of the parties! Now we have your namesake, Ms Gray and the Metropolitan Police investigate whether the prime minister was at the parties, when surely he could either admit or deny It and save all the fuss? These parties exhibit disrespect to every single citizen of this country who had followed the rules, including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who had to follow her government’s rules to the letter and was forced to sit alone at her husband’s funeral.
Is it not important that our prime minister is not seen to follow the rules and not actually break the law? Is it not possible for him to actually tell the truth and not continue to obfuscate and distract every single time he is asked simple questions about anything he does when he has clearly been caught out? Is it acceptable for him to waste yet more public money on investigations all about his actions? This man is dragging our country through the slough of despond. He shouts and preaches about patriotism, wrapping himself in our national flag at every opportunity he can all the while making this country look stupid on the international stage. As George Orwell wrote, “nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.” The prime minister is no patriot, he is a mere nationalist and the culture he has engendered is not one any of us can be proud of.
And so to today. The prime minister, once again bombastic and disrespectful to the mood in the House of Commons, accused the leader of the opposition of ‘prosecuting journalists and not Jimmy Saville’ when he was Director of Public Prosecutions, yet another proven lie. To add more insult to injury, by all accounts, the prime minister’s advisers advised him in advance not to throw another log on to the liar pyre, yet the prime minister went ahead with another absolute lie. When will this man ever learn? He has so much form he makes Norman Stanley Fletcher look like Mother Theresa. When previous charges of moral turpitude bounced off him, MPs in your party told themselves that the prime minister was coated Teflon so thick that nothing would or could stick. Indeed I have heard many of your fellow MPs claim that whilst the prime minister may well be a notorious scoundrel, all of his truly tawdry behaviour was ‘priced in’ and that he was ‘a loveable rogue’.
If you can look every single of your constituents in the eye and tell them that you support Boris Johnson as the leader of your party and as prime minister, then that is your right James. But remember all of us followed the rules, all of us made sacrifices, and all of us know the truth. If you are like us James, you will now join Ruth Davidson, Mark Harper, Theresa May and Andrew Mitchell amongst others and call for the prime minister to show some moral courage and honour and step aside and allow this great country of ours to be led by a leader who will not only respect the position of high office, but respect its citizens too.
Kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Andy Payne OBE
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