Boris Johnson swept to power in 10 Downing Street with a massive majority only some 6 months or so ago ! His meteoric ascendency driven for the most part on his promise of Brexit or death in a ditch (on his part presumably).
His opponents like myself, a "Remainer" presumably not actually wishing him dead in a ditch, but more likely to be up to his neck in "Brekshit" within the said ditch.
Boris' Etonian sense of entitlement made him absolutely certain that he could remind those damn foreigners of our "Churchillian" sense of Empire and having seen off Johnny Foreigner in two World Wars there was no way they could withstand the might of the Empire !
Then just when it all seemed to be sweetness and light, with the Tory party even making gains into the Labour Heartland of the North of England and the Labour Party tearing itself to pieces over anti-semitism !! Brexit was the mantra and although it was always risking the actual break up of the United Kingdom (?) and producing a United Ireland and an Independent Scotland, it was the one trick that the pony that was Bojo could perform.
Until;
Early into the Coronavirus pandemic, Boris apparently indicated to the Italian P.M. Giuseppe Conte that he'd not be too upset with what is colloquially termed "Herd Immunity", though Downing Street deny this was ever policy ! It may not have been "policy" per se, but we can see that they are not denying that he said it !
Toss into the equation the Machiavellian tactics of his "Puppetmaster" Dominic Cummings with his own version of Specsavers eye testing by scooting around County Durham with or without Covid-19 allegedly and Boris having to put the dysfunctional bunch of nobodies he has for a Cabinet into the daily briefings and suddenly the wheels are metaphorically coming off the bus (the one that had £350 million EU savings per week).
The sum of all this chatter is that not only has Boris' popularity plummeted but that of the Tory party has taken a massive hit and it is just as well that there isn't another election till 2024. The unlikely benefactor of this shambles is Independence for Scotland !
His opponents like myself, a "Remainer" presumably not actually wishing him dead in a ditch, but more likely to be up to his neck in "Brekshit" within the said ditch.
Boris' Etonian sense of entitlement made him absolutely certain that he could remind those damn foreigners of our "Churchillian" sense of Empire and having seen off Johnny Foreigner in two World Wars there was no way they could withstand the might of the Empire !
Then just when it all seemed to be sweetness and light, with the Tory party even making gains into the Labour Heartland of the North of England and the Labour Party tearing itself to pieces over anti-semitism !! Brexit was the mantra and although it was always risking the actual break up of the United Kingdom (?) and producing a United Ireland and an Independent Scotland, it was the one trick that the pony that was Bojo could perform.
Until;
Along comes a pandemic !
Early into the Coronavirus pandemic, Boris apparently indicated to the Italian P.M. Giuseppe Conte that he'd not be too upset with what is colloquially termed "Herd Immunity", though Downing Street deny this was ever policy ! It may not have been "policy" per se, but we can see that they are not denying that he said it !
Toss into the equation the Machiavellian tactics of his "Puppetmaster" Dominic Cummings with his own version of Specsavers eye testing by scooting around County Durham with or without Covid-19 allegedly and Boris having to put the dysfunctional bunch of nobodies he has for a Cabinet into the daily briefings and suddenly the wheels are metaphorically coming off the bus (the one that had £350 million EU savings per week).
The sum of all this chatter is that not only has Boris' popularity plummeted but that of the Tory party has taken a massive hit and it is just as well that there isn't another election till 2024. The unlikely benefactor of this shambles is Independence for Scotland !
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