‘Urgent’ is not within Johnson’s meagre abilities but he does do accidental irony, which is handy in a country that is now infamous globally for the escape from Afghanistan which prioritised pets over people and where it’s the wealthy who benefit most from the state.
For some it came as a surprise that Dominic Raab
(who – as we’ve said many times – didn’t understand the importance of the Dover
to Calais trade route when he was BREXIT minister) did not understand that if
you’ve been promoted – however irresponsibly and recklessly to Foreign
secretary – the least you can do is stop working on your tan when another
foreign policy fuck up is underway.
But then Gavin Williamson – Minister for Education
appeared to be asleep for the whole of covid as far as the state-educated
children of Britain were any concern of his – while the privileged privately
educated – non-tax paying schools were able to function in their wealth bubbles.
The only thing that seemed to happen with any energy
during covid was the handing out of contracts to government mates – which were
“fast tracked” (we know this, thanks to The Good Law Project) so that more
state funds found their ways into the pockets of those with contacts – often
with nothing to show for it as far as the British people were concerned. Free
money then.
Boris Johnson was able to complete his divorce settlement
when it turned out the daughter-age girlfriend was up the duff, however, he
could not really be arsed to do anything about the start of the pandemic and
was in fact far too ‘not arsed’ to attend emergency covid meetings. So, British
tax payers were, in effect, paying for him to sort out who he was going to be
shacked up with next.
He illegally prorogued parliament – because why
should he actually run the country just because he was manoeuvred into the
position of Prime Minister by Dominic Cummings and – getting paid out of the
public purse?
He’s done f’all about the Northern Ireland Brexit
deal disaster despite the fact that he personally created the chaos.
He takes the same lackadaisical attitude as COP26
nears. The self-appointed guardians of this bit of the galaxy we call earth -
wealthy nations who meet every so often to make themselves sound worthy before
doing really nothing that is significantly altering our chances of having a
planet to live on, are due to meet on November the 12th. Johnsons’
government are hosts – though you’d never know. It’s like Boris Johnson is
hosting a tea party for his ex-wives and some of his known children and he’d
really rather pretend it’s not happening.
Unlike urgency, irony
seems to ooze out of him. Most recently he opined that Brits should “not rely
on handouts” when talking about taking the £20 uplift from already mean
benefits that have left many in the UK in poverty. This from a man who has done
so little of any benefit to anyone while in office that one can only think of
his publically funded remunerations as monumentally disproportionate handouts.
While the country sinks and sinks – those still
getting the freebies are all at the top – from the royal family (including
prince paedo) – to the liggers and hangers-on of government ministers getting
the expensive contracts and oiled pathways to power. From those getting the tax
breaks to the government subsidies for so-called privatised industries.
The problem is that unattended problems don’t go
away.
Whatever Faustian pact Johnson has made, so that
almost none of the catastrophes that follow in his wake are ever successfully
pinned to him – the disasters, like the bodies, are piling up.
The financial cost is piling up.
The social harms are piling up.
The damage to the UK’s international reputation is
the only thing that is diminishing fast.
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