Boris Johnson: The National Humiliation
We’ve got a serious problem with Boris Johnson.
Yes, I know I’m stating the bloody obvious, but even the most ardent Johnsonite knows the writing is on the wall, even if they don’t want to admit it publicly.
Boris Johnson is a national humiliation.
This goes a long way back, before Coronavirus, before Brexit, before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and even before his time as the Mayor of London.
You will read lots of words criticising Johnson. The mainstream media are comfortable criticising him now the threat of a Corbyn-led Socialist government has gone, and the billionaire owners are comfortable with whatever comes next. Whether it be a disingenuous toad such as Michael Gove, a hard-right hatemonger like Priti Patel, or even the new establishment golden boy, the man who stands for nothing, Gogglebox ‘favourite’, Sir Keir Starmer.
That’s the thing here. There is no radical alternative. Starmer believes he is progressive, but there’s nothing progressive about Social Conservatism. Six months in the job, and the best they can come up with is some old nonsense about donkeys in a multi-million field.
Do you think the media love-in is purely coincidental? You do? Bless your cotton socks.
So the alternatives to Johnson are non-starters. I repeat, for the benefit of the FBPE at the back, and I’m even going to do it in bold for you:
Red or blue, Starmer, Johnson, Gove, whoever - they are all part of the problem, not the solution, and the quicker you get to grips with this indisputable fact, the easier it will be to press for the real change a post-Brexit, Coronavirus-ravaged country is going to desperately need. Tinkering around the edges simply isn’t an option. Beige isn’t an option.
Johnson’s latest disaster will do nothing to quash the rumours of his departure. If you didn’t hear what he said today, I will repeat it for you.
“In the North East and other areas where extra tight measures have been brought in, you should follow the guidance of local authorities - but it's six in a home, six in hospitality but, as I understand it, not six outside”.
This was, of course, entirely incorrect.
Whoever does Johnson’s tweets then took to Twitter to clarify what he meant to say. He “misspoke”, apparently.
No he didn’t. The words “as I understand it” show he quite clearly doesn’t understand his own rules.
Every time he speaks he manages to reduce our global stock a little further.
One of the most important requirements of consistent public messaging is clarity. Johnson has gone from one blunder to another, with little accountability, a devastating death toll, an absolutely ruined economy, and the stomach churning support from the leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition.
Johnson isn’t alone in his grotesque inability to provide clear information.
Just this morning, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Education Minister Gillian Keegan was asked if people could meet in pub gardens.
Her reply?
"I'm sorry I can't clarify that.”
"I don't know the answer to that question but I'm sure they can find out the answer to that question."
When pressed further she said:
"I'm sorry I can't answer that question.
"I'm sure there are many people who could. I don't represent the North East."
Absolutely staggering. She is a Minister, and she is paid a handsome salary, with lots of perks. Why don’t you know? Why hasn’t Johnson got even the slightest of a grip on his brief?
Are we not yet sick of their rule-breaking? Haven’t we had enough of the blatant corruption? Haven’t you had it up to the eyeballs with the mind-boggling failures, the subtle attempts at finding a new route for herd immunity, haven’t you had enough yet?
We are a global laughing stock.
German commentators said Britain had emerged as Europe’s “problem child” of the Covid-19 crisis.
Italian media said Britain was “like a nightmare from which you cannot awake, but in which you landed because of your own fault or stupidity”.
They’re both correct.
Greek media described Johnson as “more dangerous than coronavirus”, adding that one of the crisis’s greatest tragedies was that “incompetent leaders” such as Johnson and Donald Trump were “at the helm at a time of such emergency”. Johnson “had gone out and essentially asked Britons … to accept death”. Scathing words from writer, Giorgos Skafidas.
Mike Rann, a former Australian high commissioner to Britain, told the Conservative Sydney Morning Herald that Britain had “handled the earliest stages negligently”, lamenting “a shambles of mixed messaging, poor organisation and a complacent attitude that what was happening in Italy wouldn’t happen here”.
That’s how the rest of the world look at us. Painful, isn’t it?
A Prime Minister that is a greater danger than Coronavirus itself.
Boris Johnson is a national embarrassment. When we needed real leadership, he went on holiday. Quite literally.
Johnson’s catastrophic mismanagement of this crisis, from day one, is why we have just seen the highest confirmed number of Covid-19 infections for a 24 hour period, with 7,143 new cases recorded.
It would probably be a higher number if someone with a degree of competence was running the testing, but we got Serco. And they got up to £410 million to play with, at your expense.
People are going to have to start looking out for one another, even more so than ever before, because there’s more than one killer on the loose.
Boris Johnson will be gone soon enough, but the utter devastation he’ll be leaving behind won’t be going anywhere in a hurry. Some of it is irreparable, much of it caused by gross negligence, quite unbelievable incompetence, and a callous disregard for human life.
Boris Johnson, and his cabinet of millionaires, must be held responsible for their failures, in the same way you would be hauled in at work if you kept screwing up. What’s good for you is good for them. If anything, they should be held to a higher standard.
What an embarrassing time to be labelled “British”. More and more Scots are wanting independence from the Westminster shitshow, and who can blame them? Despite the British media trying to sell you Scottish independence as ‘anti-English’, from my experience, it’s anti-Westminster, anti-corruption, anti-national humiliation, and anti-Conservatism, whether they be red, or whether they be blue.
Sounds alright to me.
Speak soon,
Rachael
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