Spreading Political Manure

I've noticed a concerted effort by Conservative MPs and apologists on Twitter over the last 24 hours to spread manure. Must be some elections around the corner.

1. It was not illegal to have an Angela Rayner at a constituency election event in Durham that was permitted under the rules. It may be illegal to have one an another event, but not this one in question.
2. Neither Starmer nor Rayner lied about Rayner's presence - the statement Rayner wasn't in Durham was made by Starmer's spokesperson, who wasn't even present - an understandable mistake, but not actionable. Not only did Starmer and Rayner not lie, they didn't lie in Parliament.
3. The police investigated the event and said no rules were broken. Those present had a break for a meal, as the hotel they were staying at did not serve food due to the lockdown restrictions. 
4. Contrary to popular perception among the Tory faithful, Durham police are not reinvestigating the case - it's open and shut. 
5. The country was not in lockdown on Starmer's birthday, when he is accused by the Tory apologists of receiving a cake. 
6. Boris, however, lies in Parliament on almost a daily basis, with no consequences.

If nothing else, the calls for Starmer to be reinvestigated and fined means that these defenders MUST agree that Boris flouted the rules (he was fined and accepted the fine) and should therefore, as a government minister, offer his resignation to himself, which he will neither offer nor accept, thereby setting a dangerous precedent for all MPs, including Labour MPs.

That's the problem with a constitution that's not codified - those lacking honesty and integrity can flout custom. When lack of honesty and integrity reaches to the top, that's the end of democracy.

I wrote a letter to my local Conservative MP a couple of weeks ago, asking three questions about his support for Johnson. I received back a long letter crafted by Tory Central Propaganda which didn't answer a single question. It was like a rerun of PMQs.

Ref the Conservative MP accused of watching porn in the Chamber - it seems such a stupid thing to do, especially when sandwiched between two female MPs (if you'll forgive the images that conjures up), that I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt until such time as he's investigated. If he was watching it on a website, then that's one thing; if he was sent a WhatsApp meme, then that's another thing entirely - inappropriate memes on WhatsApp abound. I mean, if Nadine Dorries, the Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and one of the brightest minds in government, doesn't know what a website it, what chance to other female MPs have?

However, he's gone and resigned and thus condemned himself, although, with local elections imminent, he may have been pressurised to do so, with the reward of a knighthood or peerage - stranger things have happened and rewards for failure are common under this PM.

He said, in the first incident, that he was looking at tractors - doubtless in support of Ukraine....