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It was curious to watch Johnson in front of Harriet Harman's Privileges Committee yesterday with his hired legal team fighting his case that he was an inadvertent contributor to the COVID violations although he acknowledged the offences under COVID lockdown rules. A defence based on semantics!! I think most savvy people who are observing this latest Johnson embarrassment have come to the logical conclusion that, in Johnson's case, when one starts a lie, one continues to compound the same lie and make things worse. That is clearly what he is attempting to do - a serial liar with no shame whatsoever. Just consider the thoughts of 1000s of observing NHS staff who were battling against COVID "on the coal face" saving as many lives as poss during the period when Johnson and his cohorts regarded themselves as "above the rest of the populace" even though Johnson himself was standing on the podium alongside the Chief Medical Officer on a daily basis preaching the rules and guide lines to follow. These people must be rightly seething, together with the 1000s of folk who have lost family members and friends to COVID.