The Prime Minister must go now

The blame for Boris Johnson becoming Leader of the Conservative Party lies with the 160 MPs who chose him.
The blame for him remaining Leader and Prime Minister lies with over 250 of them who lack the spine to submit letters of no confidence in him.

They have let the country down yet again, with a few honourable exceptions.

They have no excuse.
They knew before they voted for him the manner of man he is.
They knew he used racist and homophobic language when a journalist.
They knew the American Jennifer Arcuri regularly visited his flat. They knew she received public money and went on trade missions at his insistence.
They knew he promised not to become an MP while Mayor of London. He broke that promise, like so many others.
They knew the water cannons he bought for the Metropolitan Police without the Home Secretary's permission were never used. And then were sold for scrap.
And so on and on and on.
They know European newspapers hold him in contempt. This reflects on all of us.
They say he's vain, fickle, a hypocritical opportunist, calamitous, bumbling, an elastic relationship with the truth, a snob with a lack of interest in the state of the country. He doesn't govern, he plays at being Prime Minister.

"BoJo the clown" the prestigious Washington Post called him.
And it's not just the great, the good and the foreigners .
A resident wrote to me: "I have lived through at least 12 Prime Ministers and I have never known the office brought into such disrepute."
He taints us all. He must go now.

Robin Ashby

(This is part of a speech he would have delivered at Newcastle City Council if that meeting had not been guillotined by the ruling group to cease discussion. Nevertheless, the Liberal Democrats' motion was passed nem con)