After Johnson’s claim that Putin threatened him with a nuke, it struck me that when historians look at ‘eras’ Johnson’s oven-ready Brexit deal might just be one of those markers they take note of as pre and then post- shit Britain.
The thing is, in ordinary circumstances everyone would be condemning Putin. However, the unspoken issue here – as no one
really comments out loud – is that no one believes Boris Johnson. Johnson
sneered at military advisers who warned him about Putin’s invasion but now
attempts to perfume himself in the Ukrainian invasion whenever his credibility stinks. And that is most of the time.
That is not to say that the Tories weren’t already
making a good fist of wrecking Britain prior to 2016. But far from the glorious
independence we were promised IMMEDIATELY after the June 2016 referendum, we
had instead immediate economic wobbles and the start of the exodus of workers
and businesses and talent – those who could see the immediate/medium and
long-term future of catastrophe for a Britain that had gone doolally and
responded yet again to the xenophobe’s dog whistle.
But then we ushered in a new horror. The man who had
been such a farce as London Mayor (remember water cannon and the garden bridge
anyone?); such a disaster as Foreign Secretary
(remember Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe) was handed the UK premiership. Boris
huge-lie-on-the-side-of-a-bus Johnson quickly consolidated his
lead-by-not-giving-a-shit style by illegally proroguing parliament. Then with
all the flourish of the con man he is he signed the December 2019 Brexit deal that everyone has been trying to fix
or deny since – the infamous oven-ready Brexit deal.
Then we were hit by covid where the same human blob
of need and carelessness and craven venality and uncontrolled appetite and
childish dishonesty and devastating negligence failed to attend COBRA meetings
because he was trying to disentangle himself from his second wife because the
daughter-age gf was pregnant. Britain suffered untold unnecessary deaths while
pals of the Tory party profiteered under the ministerial madness of Matt
Hancock – latterly a reality TV star.
Johnson truly stamped his style on Britain. Evidence
of corruption, scandal, financial irregularity plus more gongs for the grovelers
and plum positions for those helping him financially were dished out. Sexual
abuse by MPs seems to have become almost a requirement of the job.
We’ve just finally seen the back of Nadhim Zahawi
for dishonesty and tax irregularities but the cabinet still boasts Suella
Braverman – previously sacked for ministerial impropriety and since having
boasted about cruelty to migrants. Dominic Raab deputy PM has been accused of
bullying by so many members of staff his inquiry has just had to be extended.
But then Priti Patel was found guilty of bullying under Johnson and kept on
anyway – presumably on the grounds that if Johnson started getting rid of folk
who were unsuitable to govern – where would he be?
Today it has been announced by the IMF that the UK
is more fiscally fucked than any comparable country. The question ‘WHY’ is
asked and the answer hangs in the air like a corpse’s stench. The clear
unequivocal answer is Brexit. Brexit was Boris Johnson wiping his flabby
Etonian arse on Britain.
Fixing Britain means cleaning out the Tories and
re-joining the EU.
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