It’s your responsibility to find out the rules and abide by them - @BorisJohnson
@drphilhammond @BorisJohnson Don't forget the concept of 'bubbles' which applied in many situations. Plus, despite what most think, practically, there absolutely had to be exceptions at the heart of gov't.
@drphilhammond @BorisJohnson Yes but this rule doesn't apply to Boris Johnson because Boris Johnson
@drphilhammond @fleetstreetfox @BorisJohnson Ignorantia juris non excusat
@drphilhammond @jenniww @BorisJohnson Well spotted
@drphilhammond @BorisJohnson He believes rules don’t apply to him – Johnson’s classics master, Martin Hammond criticised Johnson for acting as if he were “free of the network of obligation that binds everyone… believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception". 🤬😳
@drphilhammond @BorisJohnson How many people who paid fines will have gotten away with them if they tried the "I didn't know" defence? "You wrote the rules and read them out to the nation!"