Re Tim Stanley (“It would be utterly wrong to pin every problem on Boris”, DT 12 June)
When will the commentariat admit what the rest of us know: Boris Johnson was the most catastrophic leader we have ever had. He even managed to make Tony Blair look at least acceptable.
Boris is a true Con-Man. Not a true Conservative, far from it. A dishonest, corrupt, chaotic, incompetent, pathological liar for whom cronyism, evasion and subterfuge were a way of life. Oh, but he called the big issues right, his vassals cry. Really? Huawei? HS2? Lockdown?
He was forced by wiser counsel and force majeure to drop Huawei. In his pig-headed fashion he ploughed on with HS2 saddling all of us with the most expensive white elephant in history. And Lockdown – at a stroke, the panic reaction of an hysterical coward who did more to damage this country in six months than Hitler and the Third Reich did in six years.
Oh yes, and COP 26. What a Boris farrago. A myriad of private jets from the world over descending on garbage-ridden Glasgow, the streets awash with litter because council workers were on strike demanding Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP pay them more. A few days of huff and puff promising preposterous paths to Net Zero before jetting off again leaving vapour trails of their green credentials. Even Boris took a jet from Glasgow to London. Pressing affairs of state? No, he just didn’t want to miss a swanky dinner party at the Ritz with cordon bleu to bust and the finest vintage wines and champagne courtesy of his host and Tory crony Sir Charles Moore.
And now we are saddled with Net Zero, certain suicide for any advanced industrial society with EVs that run out or crush bridges and crash through multi-storey car parks because of the infernal weight of their bloated, unfeasibly huge batteries. Oh, and don’t forget heat-pumps, the most expensive, impractical and ruinous way to heat your home known to humanity.
You seek his monument: Net Zero; The NHS. Our ‘education’ system. Transgender madness; Wokery that has poisoned the well of learning taking our universities back to the Dark Ages; Furloughing; Working From Home? The fissures running through every strata of society after Lockdown. Every pillar of our society wracked by strikes. GB plc bankrupt. Boris is remarkably responsible for the insane levels of public debt that will sink his successors of whatever party.
And he’s planning a come-back? This country is finished if it is deluded enough to think that Boris Johnson is the answer to anything.
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