Without malice

That is the excuse currently being used to explain why Johnson shouldn't either resign or be sacked.

He broke the law, but not with malice.

I guess the question here is, what law that Johnson could break would be serious enough to be forced to resign; armed robbery, GBH, murder? I mean, we should be told as what level of lawbreaking in our elected officials is OK.

We should expect better of our elected officials, but many will feel as he represents their views on things like Brexit, they will overlook this. But what will this mean in the longer term if lawbreaking by PMs, Ministers or MPs is acceptable, what does this say about the state of standards in public life and its connection with rank and fle voters?

As I have said before, most know Johnson lies, but apparently don't care. How do we get the electorate to care about truth once again? Maybe its "partygate" that will do the trick.

One other thing emerged yesterday, is that before the fines were announced, Parliament was being prepared for recall to discuss possible chemical weapon attacks by Russia in Ukraine, but this was scrapped as Minister felt debate would have been hijacked into "partygate" issues.

So to say this has no real effect on democracy is already wrong, the Government is already changing course to avoid further scrutiny, as it is centred only on self-preservation.

On top of the above, he lied over and over to the public, to fellow Ministers and to Parliament, and we are just supposed to forget that, or to believe that Johnson is too dumb to understand the laws that were passed by his own Government that he fronted, that he explained in multiple addresses to the nation, two weeks after sending a letter of congratulation to a child for cancelling her birthday party he failed to realise party food, a cake and drinks on his birthday were not a party, or that for just 9 minutes is OK?

Johnson had the best education inherited money could buy: Eton, Oxbridge, and straight into well paying jobs, but too stupid to realise laws applied to him as well as small people?