Boris ‘stupidity’ easily explained
What is going on here? Boris Johnson says he “misspoke” after being criticised for the mixed messages his Government is sending out, while Education Minister Gillian Keegan told an interviewer she couldn’t answer a question about new virus rules.
How incompetent do they have to be before either Johnson resigns or the country starts to revolt against what has to be the worst government ever?
It is shocking that we have to put up with these nonentities being in power. More than 42,000 people dead and probably a few more to add because Johnson is totally out of his depth. What have we done electing such a hopeless bunch? Keith Bowman Chesterfield, Derbys
We shouldn’t be surprised at our Prime Minister’s failure to understand his own lockdown rules. In his brilliant 1940 essay The Lion and the Unicorn, George Orwell wrote that government by the English ruling class is notable for its “stupidity” and “an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing”. Orwell was right. Since the turn of this century the UK has been led by two wealthy old Etonians – David Cameron who called the EU referendum and failed to win it – and now Boris Johnson n who exhibits a frightening g lack of basic leadership in n the face of the nation’s s biggest crisis since the e Second World War.
Paul Methven Winscombe, Somerset
Isn’t it about time that t Boris Johnson started to take e
his position seriously? I am fed up seeing him on TV laughing and joking as if being PM is a big game.
The country is in the middle of a serious crisis yet whenever he responds to a serious situation he lacks gravitas. I wonder if those who voted him in are now realising their mistake.
We need a PM we can believe in, not one we are expecting to put on a red nose and size 24 shoes.
Phil German
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Can someone out there please explain the new Covid-19 measures as our Prime Minister doesn’t seem able?
Just who is making these rules? I think maybe Dominic Cummings or some other aide lurking in the background. Whoever it is, we are being led further and further into the mire.
M Tuplin, Ulceby,
North Lincs
The new Covid-19 restrictions introduced to slow s low down the
spread of the virus are too confusing for people to follow.
There needs to be much more clarity and an endeavour by the Government to get the public on board. Common sense must prevail or we will be in for a winter of discontent.
Ken Pennington Stalybridge, Gtr Manchester
“I am not aware of this”, “I don’t have the figures at hand”, “I can’t comment on this as it’s not my department…” are typical replies politicians give when faced with a tough question.
It begs the question what are these people doing running the country?
G Hadley, Tilbury, Essex
Won’t someone please give Boris Johnson a job? He obviously isn’t happy being prime minister.
This week he was trying his hand a as a bricklayer, although no one in their right mind would live in a ho house in which he had laid even a single brick.
Pleas Please someone give him a job where he h can do less damage than he is at No 10.
John Newsinger, N Brighton