Another cold day in Yorkshire. The streets were coated with sparkly frost. Breath hung in the air like a tiny cloud. I decided to postpone my walk until the afternoon when the paths would be less slippery.
I was playing some great Phil Ochs and focussing on editing my Beefheart book. All going well – 112 pages edited now – 108 to go.
Back cover blurb sent into publishers along with updated biography.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland I was hoping that the Sue Gray report might have landed on our resident clown with all the force of a steamroller. He needs to be flattened.
The question has to be asked as to how such an incompetent twerp and seasoned liar managed to rise to this elevated position????
By using family connections he was given a job on the Times and was sacked for lying.
He used connections to get a job with the Telegraph. ‘He was regularly criticised for fabrications and untruths, but Johnson was never one to let the truth get in the way of a good story.’
He is recorded organising the beating up of reporter Stuart Collier.
As Mayor of London he indulged in a number of vanity projects that cost Londoners millions of pounds – routemaster busses, water cannons and garden bridges.
As Foreign Secretary he blundered his way through the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe situation. Doing so badly that she is still being held.
With Brexit he wrote two separate columns for the Telegraph – one in favour, the other against – before deciding which way would be best for him. Never let morality get in the way of a good career move.
He then threw his lot in with the most extreme elements of the Tory Party because he saw an opportunity to become leader.
He ran a putsch of all the moderate elements of the party – Rory Stewart, Philip Hammond, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Heseltine………… all unceremoniously kicked out.
He lied on the side of his bus, lied to the country and used a series of soundbites and lying claims (that he knew to be untrue).
He allowed the ERG to negotiate the hardest Brexit possible just so he could be PM.
He ended up with a disastrous Brexit that has cost us tens of billions and put the whole union in peril.
He was caught out by Covid, at first arrogantly complacent as the virus spread from China to the world and ravaged Italy and Spain. Then he panicked and spent millions on Nightingale hospitals, setting up a VIP lane to award multimillion-pound untendered contracts to Tory donors. He dumped infected patients back into Care Homes – needlessly killing thousands. He shut down too late, opened up too early needlessly killing thousands more. He brought in stupid schemes – like eat out to help out – causing more disease. He left the airports unrestricted so thousands of people brought the Delta virus in from India. Then he did it all again – closing and opening at the wrong time.
The result of this is that we have one of the worst death rates in the world.
We had the worst-hit economy.
He crows about the vaccine (which was invented by scientists). He crows about vaccination which was carried out by the NHS. He crows about having the fastest growing economy – not difficult when you’ve tanked so low. He crows about managing the economy when he has been borrowing eye-watering tens of billions – much more than Corbyn (who was royally ridiculed by our clown and the media).
He supported Patel’s bullying and Patterson’s illegal lobbying.
He has a lavish lifestyle courtesy of many donors (wallpaper, refurbishing, holidays, wine and meals) – who all expect something in return.
He has been offering peerages, knighthood and meetings for cash.
When there is a crisis he is always invisible yet he is always highly visible when it comes to making a fool of himself in some bonkers photoshoot that makes him popular with a section of the electorate. This clownish behaviour might make him popular but doesn’t do as well when meeting with Putin and Xi Jinping. They don’t think it is appropriate for a world leader to have a union jack sticking out his arse.
He’s broken national laws, international laws and lied to the House and the Queen.
It is absolutely no surprise to find that the culture he has established is based on partying, lying, covering up and corrupt, sleazy dealing.
This government stinks from top to bottom. Incompetent, sleazy, self-serving and not to be trusted.
Sunak has lost £4.4 billion with his incompetent scheme to dosh out money to firms. Many of those companies did not even exist before covid. Perhaps a few checks were in order?? Competence???
Hopefully, Sue Gray will spark a wider exploration of the sleazy exploits of Johnson and the whole bunch of greedy Tories.
I believe this sorry bunch are probably the worst government we’ve ever had – and that’s saying something! Their stench is making a mockery of our country.
We need Sue Gray to sanitise the nation.
The Tories are in a panic. They had the toffee-nosed profiteering twit Rees-Mogg on TV to threaten the Tory backbenchers. He told them that if Johnson goes there would be a general election – the implication being that with the current polling they would lose their seats!!
Ho ho!!
So, yesterday there was a big jump in both cases and deaths. 102,292 new cases!! With 440 deaths!!
Tomorrow Plan B ends!
We have a new variant.
The question is – was this ending a political decision not based on science? Are thousands being sacrificed to save the Prime Minister?
Stay safe!! We are in the hands of a bunch of extremist profiteers!!
An appropriate summery! I watched PMQ this morning – a grueling experience – and Johnson’s reply to virtually every pertinent question is, no matter how irrelevant, to crow about his success with vaccine rollout, fighting off the Russians and guiding the UK to the fastest growing economy in the world. The fact that he was prepared spend £850 of anyone’s money let alone his own on a roll of wallpaper, should be warning enough that this guy’s priorities do not belong anywhere the nation’s chequebook.
The sooner this nasty piece of work is kicked out the better. He is a ruthless schemer!!
Heseltine is now founder or one of the top dogs `(nothing changes) in the European Movement.
Yes – I used to think he was a real bastard. Now he seems quite tame compared to this nasty bunch.
Opher – I think we all feel the tension rising regarding Partygate, and all undoubtedly feel frustrated by delays to the Gray report, all of which is compounded by the daily drip-drip of further revelations from No.10, and the senseless coming out to support the defenseless with bullshit! Crazy as a box of frogs! We are beyond the realms of absurdity.
Fact-checking the P.M at PMQ’s finds he lied. Who would have thought? PMQ’s is a fiasco at the best of times, but with a derailed, dysfunctional, dishonest, pathological liar for a Prime Member unwilling to answer questions, what exactly is the point anyway?
I read someplace today that the police hadn’t questioned BoJo in relation to Partygate. That might suggest there is no evidence the P.M broke any of the Met’s ‘flagrant’ rules: that the police will not scrutinise his activity any further. (If he is fined, I don’t think he has to admit this to Parliament.) So there’s always the possibility that he’s already been fined behind closed doors. BoJo could still be named and shamed by the Gray report he requested, but being excluded by the Met’s investigation permits him to deny lying to parliament about him (personally) breaking rules, which would otherwise have forced his resignation The fall-out from Gray’s report is more easily offset than admitting lying to parliament. It could all end up being a sham. Who’d have thought?
Regards Covid: we won battles but lost the war! Plan B instated. From here on the vast majority of us learn to live with it being around our daily lives. This decision will come back to bite us again. To my mind, lifting restrictions is a political decision taken to appease MP’s and save one idiots job whilst putting others in jeopardy. Certainly, Whitty hasn’t been about to suggest otherwise. Perhaps he is waiting on Sue Gray’s report before commenting.
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It feels to me as if the heat is dying down. The clown has mobilised his cabinet. For now they think that throwing their lot in with him is best. We’ll see, first when Sue Gray’s report comes out and then with the May elections. People are fickle!!