PRESS STATEMENT – THURSDAY 7TH DECEMBER – FOLLOWING MORNING SESSION OF EVIDENCE OF BORIS JOHNSON

PRESS STATEMENT FOLLOWING MORNING SESSION OF EVIDENCE OF BORIS JOHNSON

AAMER ANWAR – LEAD SOLICITOR SCOTTISH COVID BEREAVED – A STATEMENT ON THEIR BEHALF

Over two days of evidence, Boris Johnson has failed to show any genuine regret for his failures. He was complicit in Rishi Sunak’s “Eat Out to Help Out” or as referred to by his Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Witty as “Eat Out to help the Virus.” When discussing the virus, he was accused by his Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance of being obsessed with older people accepting their fate,

Boris Johnson was accused of arguing for ‘letting the virus rip’, of saying ‘yes there will be more casualties but so be it they’ve had a good innings.’

As Prime Minister he pushed for increased enforcement including fines of up to £10,000 – yet for his own birthday party the leader of the nation received a token fixed penalty. Today Mr. Johnson offered an apology for ‘Party Gate’ then said, “that what happened in Downing Street is a million miles from the reality of what actually happened in Number 10- he actually described it as a ‘travesty of truth’.

Put bluntly, nobody forced Mr Johnson to party with his officials at Downing Street, under the noses of the Metropolitan Police, whilst across the UK ordinary people were being fined up to £10,000, As our care homes were turned into’ killing grounds’ for the elderly who were treated as ‘toxic waste’, whilst families were not able to be with the loved ones when they died, whilst the bereaved were expected to obey regulations at funerals. Millions of front-line workers risked their lives without adequate PPE, forced to wear binbags, and all the while Johnson and his cabinet were living it up at parties, insulting the dead, the poor, frontline workers and the vulnerable.

Johnson claims he got the ‘big calls’ right, however, on the biggest life-saving decisions, the facts are that Boris Johnson delayed, failed, and sided with death and ‘let the bodies pile up’.