A healthy disgust for bungling PM Boris

Date22 December 2020
Published date22 December 2020
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
His latest savage blow? To wreck Christmas for millions of people.

As he tried to grovel to the nation from another of the never-ending and boring Downing Street briefings, supported by the scientific wonders Messrs Vallance and Witty - are they really COVID clairvoyants? - Johnson said he is sacrificing this Christmas to preserve those in the future.

Doesn't he realise for many older relatives this could be their last Christmas?

I wonder if this bumbling, ineffective and, for me, failure as a Prime Minister is fit to say: "As night follows day we will beat back this new virus and reclaim our lives."

Also, where do his equally faceless cabinet cronies stand in this latest catastrophic U-turn?

Health Secretary Matt Hancock is not worthy of the name as he failed to anticipate the virus, failed to stock up on PPE and embraced a test and trace system which largely failed despite grandiose promises about its likely performance, etc.

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