They must think we are all idiots

It's unbloody believable. Do they really think that we are all idiots?

Both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have claimed that they've lost all of their WhatsApp messages from the Covid pandemic period. Conspirancy theorists would say that it's strange that this coincides with the time when they caused the premature deaths of thousands of people by allowing the virus to spread like wildfire in care homes, and squandered billions of pounds in fraudulent covid contracts and support schemes.

Now, pretty much anyone who has ever got a new phone knows that it's easy to transfer app data such as old WhatsApp messages as these are stored on cloud servers and not locally on the phone. So their excuse that the messages were lost when swapping phones is absolute twaddle. Furthermore it's beyond belief that they're seemingly going to get away with conducting government business via WhatsApp and then overseeing the destruction of the records of what they were up to.

Imagine if ordinary people like you or I had caused even one death, or lost a thousandth of the cash the Tory government wasted on covid fraud and dodgy PPE scams, then tried to escape responsibility by insisting all of our communications from that time period somehow got "lost". We wouldn't just find ourselves up in court on charges like manslaughter or fraud, they'd probably throw perverting the course of justice at us too for the deleted messages.

But somehow the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time are seemingly getting away with nothing more than a ticking off from the covid inquiry for their outrageous behaviour and subsequent deletion of crucial records, because the whole system is rigged in favour of well-connected establishment elitists. Where is the challenge to what they've claimed to be the case? Where is the report from the forensic IT specialists? As is so often the case, it's one set of rules for ordinary people, and another infinitely laxer set of rules for the establishment insiders who actually have the power to destroy countless peoples' lives and waste billions of pounds in public funds.