It takes more than a brave face, Boris
BORIS is under attack from all sides, while the real issues are brushed under the ever more dictatorial carpet.To those who are baying for blood because he engaged in a text-exchange with James Dyson over the supply of ventilators, all I can say is frankly, my dears, I don’t give a dash. This was Boris at his best, the same Boris who ordered humungous supplies of vaccines before even a single one had been produced let alone approved. We needed ventilators and he was prepared to cut through any amount of red tape to get them and so he should have been.
Nor do I care if he said “let the bodies pile up in the streets” because I am bright enough to know that it was a metaphorical not a literal statement, borne of extreme frustration. Had he said “I would rather death by a thousand papercuts than approve another lockdown” who would have taken that literally?
Downing Street looks silly taking the allegations so seriously.
Then there is the matter of the flat.The man was an ass not to have said “no” when Carrie moaned that perfectly adequate accommodation did not suit her modern taste. But he had a lot of other stuff to think about and if rich friends were prepared to treat him, so be it.
HE SHOULD, of course, have declared it but it is still a sideshow compared to the real drama, which is a collapsing economy under increasingly unnecessary restrictions. There never was any good reason to limit funerals to 30 persons. The deciding factor should have been the size of the church or crematorium and its ability to accommodate social distancing, which is the criterion used for normal church services. That is only one small example of the numerous inconsistencies in lockdown policy.
The vaccination policy has been a roaring success and were Boris really following the data not the dates we would now be almost back to normal. Yet still he cowers in his bunker.That is the real scandal.
JOHN Lewis has announced that its female changing rooms will be available to men identifying as women, a voyeur’s charter if ever there was one, to meet the needs of a minuscule number of customers. Perhaps it should have three sets of fitting rooms: his, hers and either’s.