Running country is hard work

Graham Beckett is quite right we shouldn’t go on criticising Boris Johnson [Letters, Gazette, August 27].

After all, which other country is lucky enough to have a head of state who finds time to go around the country visiting work places to keep up our morale, while wearing more protective clothing than Lucy Worsley, in her historic dresses. Especially when you consider

that this country is suffering the worst pandemic in living memory, causing massive damage to the economy and much personal hardship! Thanks are also due for his genius in convincing voters in the most deprived areas of this country that leaving the EU was going to solve all their problems, even though they were receiving much of their assistance from the EU!

On the subject of the EU, Boris Johnson is more European than most of us, speaking several European languages. However when the opportunity came to beat his old rival David Cameron he joined Nigel Farage in blaming the EU for all our woes!

Yes I’m sure Nigel Farage has lots of bottle, but I’m pleased to see he prefers to drink his beer in a glass; but not so happy about the cigarette, usually in his other hand!

So with Brexit looming and no deal in sight, we will see what Boris Johnson does come 1st January, when we most likely crash out of the EU. If the recent examinations fiasco is anything to go by, he will do his usual ‘disappearing trick’, leaving his minions to pick up the pieces! Rumour has it that he might even leave politics for good, having realised that running a country is really just too much hard work!

Mike Armstrong

Queens Avenue, Canterbury