Justin Webb managed to ask mostly the wrong questions and draw wrong conclusions during #R4Today’s item on PM’s self isolation
Doing his usual innocent abroad routine he asked in effect what’s the point of social distancing? No 10 is Covid Secure he asserted

Seriously Justin?

Evidence of posed photos of Johnson with at least 2 Red Wall MPs indicates it's unlikely Justin's assertion that No 10 is Covid Secure is sound or PM was fulling observing social distancing

Obvious question #R4Today isn't asking is who else was at meeting with Anderson?
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Why given Lockdown and working from home was PM's meeting with Anderson taking place in No 10 at all?

Who else was at meeting?

Who else - MPs or officials - is infected or having to self isolate ?

Andy Carter was there . So who else?
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In 1st Lockdown No 10 Team so lax in social distancing key players were out of action with virus more or less simultaneously

Johnson , Cummings - we know how that went - Sedwill all had to isolate . Leaving we hear now Lee Cain effectively in charge

- Seriously?
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Looks like Johnson Team have learned nothing and despite today's WhatsApp from PM are still behaving like rules are for everyone else

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Final point it looks like purpose of meeting which spread virus was pretty party politically sleazy

From Lee Anderson's post he was promised investment in his constituency .Remember Jenrick and Berry's backscratching ?

Money for Tory constituencies irrespective of need?
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Johnson's self isolation and meeting which spread virus underlines 3 things about Johnson's govt

1) Arrogance - Lockdown and WFH rules don't apply

2)Incompetence - posed for pictures flouting rules

3)Sleaze tipping into corruption- mtg about money for Tory constituencies 7/

Worrying characteristic of Johnson Govt is that it consistently behaves as if usual rules don’t apply

In particular the Nolan 7 Principles of Public Life

The Procurement Scandal , the Jenrick/Desmond Planning Fiasco, Appointment of Cronies , Jenrick/Berry Backscratching etc 8/

Disturbingly the Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life used a recent lecture to pose the question- are we living in a Post Nolan Age ?

That he asks the question tells us we are in a dangerous place

We are paying a heavy price for our crisis in accountability 9/ https://twitter.com/publicstandards/status/1327882713634889730

When spotlight is shone on sleaze and corruption public response is clear

Look at Parly Expenses Scandal . Telegraph published detailed info and public were appalled

Claiming for Duck Houses and flipping homes is small scale compared with what Good Law Project is exposing 10/