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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson was subjected to boos from onlookers as he entered St Paul’s Cathedral in London for an event to mark the jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth.
Johnson arrived at the cathedral in a black Range Rover and walked up the steps with wife Carrie Johnson to attend the service of thanksgiving on Friday.
But while a number of people could be heard applauding and cheering as the couple ascended the staircase, others could be heard booing.
The PM was also heckled and booed more as he left the service, with one person saying “f*** off Boris”.
Spectator Clement Jacquemin said he booed Johnson leaving St Paul’s Cathedral in London because “he is a disgrace”.
He said Brexit and partygate were behind his objection to Johnson, and said the Prime Minister should have “stayed home, made himself forgotten, and let the British public enjoy this day”.
The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd@BBCNews pic.twitter.com/rHbBgX8Jzh
— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) June 3, 2022
It comes after months of controversy for Johnson and the Tory government following a number of rule-breaking Number 10 parties during lockdown.
Johnson, his wife Carrie, and the Chancellor all apologised in April after the Metropolitan Police handed them fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for the party in the Cabinet Room on 19 June, 2020.
In her recent report, senior civil servant Sue Gray also found boozy drinks parties were held at the heart of Government on 16 April 2021, the eve of the Queen’s husband’s funeral – albeit not attended by the PM himself.
As part of their investigation into lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street and Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police deemed that coronavirus restrictions were breached ahead of the funeral.
However, the force did not specify which events led to fines being received.
At the time, socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed and meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households.
An increasing number of Tory MPs have publicly urged Johnson to stand down – although not all have revealed whether they have submitted letters to the 1922 Committee calling for a confidence vote to decide his future.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has told Tory MPs pushing for Johnson to resign to “forget it”, that writing letters of no-confidence in Johnson was a “sideshow”, and the party should be focused on “real challenges that we have to find solutions to”.
This week, Johnson again came under criticism from the standards watchdog after he refused to give his adviser on the rules for ministers the freedom to launch his own inquiries into potential breaches.
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Cue the Stoners defending drug use and wanting it legalised.
@Abdul Abhaile: Can you give one good reason why it should remain illegal?
@Tomaldo: Did you even bother reading the article and you want a reason why it should remain illegal?
Jeez, Stoner’s brains really are wired differently.
@Abdul Abhaile: I read it twice. Jim Walsh (Dept of Health) said we should treat it a as health issue, not justice, the guy from Portugal said we’ll never have a drugs free society and there never has been. 6 out of 10 deaths were caused by benzodiazepenes (legal), twice as many as cocaine, 3 out 10 Methadone (legal) and more from prescription drugs. There are no plans to ban any of them and rightly so. Can I have some of what you’re smoking.
@Abdul Abhaile: btw you didn’t answer my question, you mentioned the article which backs up my opinion that they should be legal.
@Abdul Abhaile: the only thing stoner, is your Stone Age attitude . Why not suggest burnings at the stake or tarring and feathering .
Alcohol poses more danger .. oh wait, but they are well looked after by lobbyists
Why are so many resorting to drug taking, are their lives so miserable that they are trying to escape reality some of the time. Past generations suffered wars, sickness, hunger , poverty lack of opportunity , forced emigration and they coped , what’s wrong with people. Why do they think it’s ok to make criminals rich by buying the stuff.
@Aine O Connor: they didn’t cope, they used alcohol, drugs , food , sex and lots of other things to take away the pain . Drug use isn’t some new thing, drug use has been around as long as humans have been around
@Aine O Connor: they didn’t cope, they used alcohol, drugs , food , sex and lots of other things to take away the pain . Drug use isn’t some new thing, drug use has been around as long as humans have been around Cee
@Aine O Connor: Enjoyment is the reason. I don’t think it’s ok to make criminals rich, that’s why I’d love to see legalisation tried.
@Aine O Connor: Many of the addicts you walk past in the city every day are child abuse victims. Children of generations of abuse victim unfit parents, etc. It’s a part of our cultural heritage.
@Aine O Connor: This is a reflection of the vast minority, the majority of recreational users move on with their lives.
While speaking, an individual proposed that only those with expertise in the field should have a say, and the issue should not be politicized. However, I respectfully disagree, as it is a crucial political matter.
Must be FG FF and The Greens fault that people use cocaine and heroin
@Peter: well their policies have directly lead to deprivation, criminality increasing and all the things that make up the ingredients of drug misuse.. so yes FFG are directly responsible. Martin and Varadkar do not give two hoots about us Irish
The reason why cannabis was made illegal was by fake news by the rich newspaper magnets in America long ago who owned forests so they could print their papers and didn’t want the hemp plant to be used
No one has ever died from a cannabis over dose, yet because it remains illegal in this country it gets first mention in terms of toxins found. The language around this is almost embarrassingly bias, especially when “excluding those attributable to alcohol alone”… completely ridiculous, propaganda almost.
Funny how alcohol is left out of the debate, the biggest killer of them all. Your a criminal for smoking a joint at home but its OK to drink 10 pints and fall around the streets abusing people. Hardly an independent forum either with the make up of the panel. People take drugs including the biggest of them all booze because they enjoy them. We should be concentrating on making them safe, ensuring kids don’t get their hand on them (although we failed on the alcohol front) and having controlled sale via head shops where the state will get tax from the sale of same and at the same time take the market away from the mafia.
The report clearly refers to the cause of such deaths as poisonings, converting them to overdoses is wrong and inaccurate. If someone injests Paraguay,for example, intentionally or accidentally it is not an overdose.
@Pato: agree, they are just inflating the figures to justify their forgone conclusion.
Judge’s are putting dealers back on the street with lenient sentences. Time to cut the head off the snake.
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