Covid Won’t Be Gone By Christmas - But Johnson Might

We will not be back to normal in little over three months. Coronavirus won’t be over by Christmas. There’s every chance Boris Johnson might be though. 

My qualifications to make these bold predictions? None. I flunked my GCSE’s. But I do have my own theory, based on what has unfolded since Coronavirus arrived and cut its way through our communities, leaving an unprecedented trail of despair and heartbreak. 

Had the government acted sooner, much like the rest of the world, tens of thousands of lives could’ve been saved. 

While the world implemented a safety blanket around its people’s, Britain, and the United States, doused the elderly and frail in fuel, and let the deadly disease do the rest. 

While global leaders prepared to fight the deadly virus, Boris Johnson quite literally went on holiday. 

Do you remember when he said we would turn the tide on the virus within 12 weeks? 

Do you remember when he promised hundreds of thousands of Coronavirus tests happening every single day? 

Do you remember when he promised the world-beating test and trace app that was meant to be in place by June 1st for schools to operate safely?

Do you remember when he told you to sing happy birthday, twice, while other nations had already locked down and had a cohesive plan in place? 

Do you remember when Johnson boasted about shaking hands with Coronavirus patients in hospital, shortly before needing assistance with his breathing? 

Do you remember when the Prime Minister’s Chief Adviser broke his own lockdown rules to take his family for a birthday trip to a local beauty spot, and they told us he was just testing his eyesight? Once they got away with that one they realised there isn’t that much that they can’t get away with.

So I then get the last few points and I call them “x”. 

Then we look at Johnson’s other multiple flaws and inabilities. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is still in Iran and is said to be facing new charges.

The man was single-handedly responsible for a rise in Islamophobic hate crimes following his deeply racist and offensive comments towards Muslim women. In fact, Islamophobic hate crimes increased by 375% following Johnson’s comments. While his language might be appreciated in the Bullingdon circles, most of us find it disgusting and divisive, much like Johnson himself. 

His homophobia is well known. I won’t even bother repeating it. 

You do have to wonder if a man so willing to abandon his children with such prolific ease is the best person to run our country. Shouldn’t a leader at least have some sort of a moral compass, or are we now so far down the rabbit hole that his philandering and thuggery is seen as a good thing, because it’s just ‘Boris’? Dear old ‘Bojo’. 

Call him Johnson. For fuck sake, call him Johnson. 

How about the oven-ready Brexit deal? The matted scarecrow is on the verge of defecating all over the Good Friday Agreement. His single issue general election victory was achieved on a campaign of lies. Pure lies. 

I can sense your shock.

So I’m calling his past form “y”. I’ve only mentioned a few of his past screw-ups. I could be here for weeks writing down the rest of them. 

Going back to now, we’ve had Matt Hancock on National radio, telling us that he is worried for elderly people on the very same day my child returned to school with more than 1,000 others, bunched-up in the school hall for an hour long assembly. And this scene was repeated across the country. 

We just had Nadine Dorries, another victim of the deadly virus, tell us that NOBODY said Covid would be over by Christmas, and in one sense she is correct, Johnson is a nobody, an invisible Prime Minister. But in reality, she is talking out of her backside. Johnson even used his favoured mouthpiece to tell us how we can look forward to hanging up our stockings on the wall. 

Dorries is a health minister.

So I’ll just call this “z”. 

I did write at length about Boris Johnson’s precarious position just recently, and I’ve seen nothing to change my mind since then. Rumours of dissatisfaction of his handling of the crisis from his own MPs aren’t going away. Rumours of his health not being the best are still out there, and nobody has got a clue whose bed he wakes up in. 

While the opposition leader sends private letters of support to Johnson, and the media just nod along to every Cummings demand, the government will face little scrutiny. The establishment holding the establishment to account? There’s more chance of me being awarded the freedom of the borough of Swindon. 

So I’m going to call that “a”. 

Anyway, x + y + z - a = a higher chance of Boris Johnson being gone by Christmas than Coronavirus. 

There’s also every chance that both dreaded catastrophes will still be with us by Christmas, after all, the Etonian Ewok spent 5 decades preparing himself for the top job. Is he ready to handover to Gove and Murdoch? 

The inabilities of the British government have been blown wide open for all to see during this crisis. They have long since abandoned any pretension of principled global leadership. It was all bravado. They are permanently tarnished.

From lockdown to PPE supplies, and from care homes to track and trace. It has been an unmitigated disaster. So when they tell you it will all be over by Christmas I urge you to look at their track record and I believe you will arrive at a similar conclusion to me. 

Get Covid gone by Christmas? Wouldn’t it be nice? It would be nice if there wasn’t a need for Foodbanks by Christmas, or anyone sleeping on the streets by Christmas, but that’s not going to happen either, under this government, or any other government that is owned by millionaire donors who can afford to influence our political leaders decision-making as and when they please. 

To cure us of Coronavirus, corruption, and Conservatism we need to bring down the entire rotten system and start all over again. No ifs, no buts. 

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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