Boris Johnson – a story of incompetency and lies

He started off with lies about Brexit and a financial dividend of THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION A WEEK.

We’ve already paid out more that we’ve put into the EU the whole time we were in it. It has cost us countless billions.

He called any criticism of Brexit ‘PROJECT FEAR’.

Now Project Fear is becoming reality.

He has now presided over the worst death rate per capita from Covid-19 in the whole world!

He is also presiding over the worst effect on the economy of any country in the world.

He has been lazy and incompetent in every office he has ever held.

When is he going to be held to account?

Boris Johnson in the shadow of coronavirus – cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

We Don’t Believe the Experts Anymore – Poetry

Trump got elected to the chimes of ‘Fake News’. Brexit was wafted in to the chorus of ‘Project Fear’.

Our faith in experts lay shattered by successive failing poles. We no longer believe a word any of the scientists or experts say. Yet by disregarding everything they say we put ourselves at risk.

Now people believe whatever they want and seek out similar views on the net. Who needs analysis or information? We just make it up. If we disagree we shout ‘Fake News!’

We are prone to being manipulators by conniving politicians for their own ends.

We Don’t Believe the Experts Anymore

We don’t believe the experts anymore

We’d rather have fake news!

Who cares if it’s correct

So long as it supports our views.

Even if it allows the manipulators

To give us all the blues.

 

We don’t believe in global warming

Or that Brexit will do us harm.

We don’t believe nature’s being mangled

Or electing Trump sounds an alarm.

No forest are being chopped

No elephants are being shot

And vicious hurricanes are not proof

That the planet’s getting hot.

 

We only believe in medieval texts

And fairies in the sky.

Things that we cannot see

And never question why.

 

We prefer to believe what we are told

By people on the net

For they only feed us with the truth

That we haven’t tasted yet.

 

Scaremongering, lies and Project Fear

Scaremongering and Lies

 

Scaremongering and lies

Scaremongering and lies

Were the substance of their cries.

 

Project fear

Project fear

They made their feelings clear.

 

Independence day

Independence day

Who cares if we will have to pay.

 

Migration

Migration

We’re losing our nation.

 

Islam

Islam

The fear that is a sham.

 

The fascists and nationalists rub their hands;

It’s beyond their wildest dream.

Isolationism and poverty

As the economy leaks from every seam.

 

Heading for a meltdown

In the uncertainty pit.

The rising of the right

The result of it.

 

As the country turned blue

In a day we’ll live to rue.

 

Opher 24.6.2016

 

Right now I am thoroughly depressed. I fear for my children – all four of them at risk.

Interest rate rises will plunge tens of thousands into despair.

Corbyn was the silent man. He has to go.

Cameron has gone.

What now? Blundering, bluff of blustering Boris? Snide viciousness of Gove?

More austerity is inevitable.

How many companies will flee?

How far will house prices drop?

The pound will rise but to what level?

How many billions will the country lose?

How much damage will the uncertainty do?

How will the terrorists exploit the confusion?

And Russia? – more war in Europe?

 

Already the reassurances of Stupid Boris and Gove have proved inept and naïve – perhaps even cynical.

 

I fear for the future of the country. This is a self-created crisis and nobody knows how bad it will get. The saddest thing is that the ones who will be hit by it will be the ones who gleefully voted for it.

All we can do is hope and try to minimise the effects and heal the divisions.

 

Be afraid.