Boris Johnson is facing increasing demands from his party to step down after having admitted to attending a party in Downing Street on May 20th, 2020, during the UK’s first national lockdown. The Electoral Commission, in its statement, announced an unprecedented counter over the UK’s government’s latest attack on Britain’s democratic institutions. One former electoral commissioner claimed that the Elections Bill, which is set to be debated in the House of Lords on Wednesday, includes measures that are “serious threats to the fairness of all future elections in Britain”. Besides, Conservatives change the way the country is run by increasing the prime minister’s power, mutilating the democracy for their gains.
Irresponsible Prime Minister
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staffers enjoyed at least 12 wine- and cake-fueled parties and discos during the strictest period of Britain’s COVID-19 lockdown last year. He had already announced on national television that Britain has to observe complete lockdown and that every citizen has to follow its rules strictly. Although everyone else followed the President’s order, President himself violated the order. Britain police are investigating this scandal and have questioned almost 30 Boris Johnson’s office participants. The investigations are yet to become out; no one knows where this investigation is heading.
Then after a few months, Boris urged people to return to work despite the rise in the Covid-19 cases and death rates. This was his unexpected move, and people were surprised at our President’s irresponsibility. It didn’t stop there; within a few days, he eased the lockdown and let malls and supermarkets open for the public. Then led to a very high rise in the Covid-19 cases, and the government had to impose restrictions again.
The people of Britain are distraught with the irresponsible behaviours of President Boris Johnson. They had not expected such careless steps to be taken by President, while the people of Britain were dying of Pandemic and Boris was busy enjoying the party and dancing with his mates.
How British democracy is under threat?
Johnson has been facing increasing risks for quite a long time by now, from collapsing poll ratings to violation of lockdown rules and an ill-managed pandemic that has continued to strain the National Health Service. These crises have compromised his moral authority with the citizenry and his frontbenchers.
Former PM John Major has said that Boris Johnson’s behaviour and duplicity undermine the UK’s democracy and reputation. In a report, the Former PM has also made his statement, “In our democracy, we are lucky, we can speak truth to power. But if democracy is to be respected, power must also speak truth to the people – and yet in recent years, they have not been doing so.” He also added that The UK system depends upon “respect for the laws made in Parliament upon an independent judiciary, upon acceptance of the conventions of public life and on self-restraint by the powerful. If any of that delicate balance goes astray – as it has, as it is – our democracy is undermined”.
Every Briton should follow laws for every citizen, but Boris has a history or record of favouring a friend. Johnson is embroiled over who leaked plans for a coronavirus lockdown last year. Cummings accused Johnson of trying to halt the probe to protect a friend of his fiancée.
How are Conservatives increasing the power of Boris Johnson?
The once-proud Conservative Party is rotten to the core. It has allowed Johnson to corrupt it and to corrupt it. It will be tainted and tarnished by Johnson’s disgraceful premiership for a generation, and it thoroughly deserves to be.
Despite all the disgrace and shame Boris Johnson brought to his party; he still gets their back. Almost 90% of his party members think he has been doing an excellent job as PM and want him to remain the party’s leader.
With the party’s recent slump in voting intention polls, more than three-quarters (79%) of Conservative members remain confident that the Tories will win the next general election. And while there have been rumblings in Westminster that some Conservatives are concerned whether Boris Johnson remains an election-winning machine, the party membership continues to have faith: 61% say he has what it takes to win the next general election. This concludes that the conservatives do not bother about the people of Britain and their welfare but are concerned about which member will avail benefits to the party and who will make them rule Britain.
Alongside this, When party members were asked whom they would like to see as the next Conservative party leader if Boris Johnson stepped down, a pack of (33%) of members say Rishi Sunak and some members (25%) voted for Liz Truss.
Why are Conservative Party members holding tight on Boris Johnson?
Conservatives are more into their own needs than the progress of the United Kingdom. Although Mr Johnson was proven guilty of his countless scandals, which took the nation on the knife’s edge, conservative party members kept their eyes on the Boris Johnson election-winning record.
Conservatives shamefully squinted past Mr Johnson’s very well-known flaws as long as he did well at the polls. For many years, in journalism and politics, Mr Johnson has shown a cheerful contempt for ordinary norms, expectations and rules, leaving a scattering of scrapes, denunciations, broken friendships and irate foes behind him.
These range from the comparatively trivial — a blizzard of parking tickets — to the deeply serious, such as his 2019 attempt to truncate Parliament’s sittings during the bitter battle for Brexit, an act that drew the queen into political controversy and that was later ruled unlawful and void by the Supreme Court.
Boris Johnson has always shown a never-surrender determination. He won so many millions of votes, and, like US President Donald Trump in 2016, he performed well in some places that the left usually carried. Alongside the evasiveness and clowning, Johnson has extraordinary charisma and a professional comic’s sense of timing. He is exceptionally clever, including emotionally: He projects the subtle suggestion of underlying personal pain, an appeal for understanding, even love, that so many authoritarian leaders have shared.
Boris Johnson understands the rhythms of political life. He exploited the fierce emotions caused by the referendum to leave the European Union. Then in 2019, he won the passionate support of voters who found conventional politicians pious, dreary and remote.
Conclusion
The election of Boris Johnson in the next round will jeopardize democracy as all the laws are meant for the people of Britain, not for the PM and its party members. The conservative party are into their benefits and barely think of the nation’s progress. The restrictions on the right to protest and freedom of assembly in the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts bill have been well documented.
The legislation would give the secretary of state considerable latitude, in this instance, to place conditions on these fundamental rights. The government introduced a raft of these measures to the bill once it had already passed through the House of Commons, limiting Parliament’s ability to consider them properly. As the UK’s constitutional system becomes increasingly unbalanced, it may have detrimental consequences for the government of the day. Without sufficient checks and balances, those in the office are more likely to make mistakes with an electoral price.
We must exert pressure now to defend our vital democratic protections. Otherwise, we risk letting those in power make themselves truly untouchable – and letting our voices be silenced in the process.
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