Boris and the Bagmen
Apr. 9th, 2020 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootI admit, I have problems believing any of it. But there is one thing of which I am sure; little truth is coming out of Number 10. He is either much more ill or much less ill than reports say. The Cabinet is in a state of purest panic, a Bosch-like cacophony of the unknowing, promoted only because of their readiness to lie for Brexit and with no capacity at all for real statescraft or running the country. They will be lying, not even out of necessity, but because they don't know how to do much else.
Dominic Raab, who is basically a giant confused neck, is technically in charge, but I suspect that Gove will be attempting some form of importance, and, self-isolating or not, Dominic Cummings will be screaming orders down the phone. These orders will be about how to make Boris Johnson seem Churchillian. He could not give a damn about ventilators and PPE.
And on they go, while the death count rises. Brutally speaking, while I genuinely wish BJ a full and speedy recovery, the state he is in reflects his own policy and the state our NHS are in reflect his party's policy. More than most, he has directly influenced his own chances. That's an opportunity few get.
Dominic Raab, who is basically a giant confused neck, is technically in charge, but I suspect that Gove will be attempting some form of importance, and, self-isolating or not, Dominic Cummings will be screaming orders down the phone. These orders will be about how to make Boris Johnson seem Churchillian. He could not give a damn about ventilators and PPE.
And on they go, while the death count rises. Brutally speaking, while I genuinely wish BJ a full and speedy recovery, the state he is in reflects his own policy and the state our NHS are in reflect his party's policy. More than most, he has directly influenced his own chances. That's an opportunity few get.
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Date: 2020-04-15 07:44 am (UTC)Whatever I think of his policies, I would expect more from the President than railing at the Press for not praising him. It seems he feels nothing for the people he is supposed to protect, and I am surprised folk think he has anything to offer. But then, from what Patrizia and I have discussed, I would need time spent in the US to really understand attitudes to tax there. The UK is more contradictory.
We are spoonfed this idea of Churchill being the best we could be, and Johnson presents an easy cartoon version of that. What folk forget is the lives their great grandparents lead between and before the wars. The population of GB would be much poorer, their lives much shorter without Clement Attlee, but then he was no showboat, and their history is all about flag-waving.