Sunday, June 19, 2022

Each day Johnston is only a small step away from yet another scandal, another blunder or yet more corruption.That he continues to survive is no surprise, I think we all understand now the man is completely without shame or any vestige of integrity. Despite a large part of his party voting against him, he continues to exercise a tight grip on them, this is proof once more, that ultimate power corrupts. Each spokesperson who sits in front of the camera or microphone has their own self-interest to protect as a member of the government, however “humble” their position. The odd one has resigned in disgust or more likely been caught and has had no choice but to resign! 

There is still a large public support, those who think he is doing a good job and that we knew we were getting a maverick when they voted for his party. They are entitled to their opinion. As happens so often, they have confused personality for substance and bombast for actual policies! He was helped by an unpalatable opposition but his election has become the disaster we all really knew it would be. The excuse that the pandemic gave him holds no water anymore. The war in Ukraine has affected the West. Global energy and and a post Brexit economy have not helped but it has only highlighted his inability to govern while scandal after scandal has engulfed his office. He claims he has “got the big decisions right” but if you analyse why, they were largely of his own making! He flip flopped over the referendum until deciding that “leave” was his best route to power and he supported that for no other reason. Indeed he flip flops all the time and surely is this most insincere apologising PM of all time. We want politicians who listen and change  their minds when public opinion has spoken, he does so only because he is forced not because he sees reason!

Brexit has turned our to be the disaster many of us said it would, the economic downturn and poverty that besets our country is not the sole fault of leaving the EU but it certainly is a contributory reason. We live in a global economy and no country is isolated or immune to those forces but mismanagement at home does not help.

He is the worse PM ever and his ministerial colleagues are just as bad, what is so depressing, if this is a reflection of us as a people, then we are in pretty bad shape!

Stay well

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