It is certainly true that some individuals (from all major parties) took criminal advantage of expenses. I am not sure who you mean by 'a few, inconsequential, sacrificial lambs' though.
However, your comment has a similar 'populist' inclination to the one expressed by @wehatepalace .... that...
Unfortunately, whether or not you intended it, this comment reads a bit like 'all politicians are the same' and 'visceral language' is unfairly being used against Boris Johnson as well as between posters who hold different views on this one man. In answer to the first I say that is wholly...
Goodness, I really hope you are right... He certainly is no great politician, but he is a successful cult leader and consummate chancer. I try not to speculate on the future but fear he is constitutionally unable to leave politics entirely.....
Thanks.... and sadly I agree with your last sentiment.
Shockingly I also find myself agreeing with the Brexit loving Isabel Oakeshott (for the first time) on this matter.....
I am not sure....
I am talking about the lying, entitled, corrupt, former (and unlamented) PM who goes by the name of Boris Johnson although in reality his first name is Alexander. My apologies if you were commenting on someone else.....
In the world of Boris Johnson there would be a lot more 'deserved' gongs ... for those who have 'relentlessly maintained evidence free support for Brexit and/or Boris Johnson's lost and corrupt causes'
Johnson did what Johnson habitually does... run from consequences. Remember......
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/15/controversial-trip-by-boris-johnson-on-day-of-key-vote-cost-20000
and no doubt there are more. The man is cowardly, totally unfit to associate himself with his...