We’re all heroes, Boris, for putting up with you

SO, Boris Johnson congratulates the people of Leicester for our “heroics”! ( Leicester Mercury, September 23).

Indeed, we have been more than heroic in putting up with his incompetence, as the government’s treatment of Leicester during the Covid crisis has been nothing less than a complete shambles.

It has been clear for some months that the government is completely out of its depth.

Johnson is a mendacious charlatan presiding over the dual crises of Covid and Brexit.

It is no surprise we are in this mess. The top jobs in government are all filled by people whose only qualification is the proven extent of their Brexit bigotry. Where we are, is largely of their own making.

This government has failed on every aspect of the Covid crisis; from their failure to protect care homes, to its ignoring of medical experts, to its gaslighting lockdown process and to its track and test “strategy” which has proven consistently hopeless.

Brexit looms, where Johnson and his government have lied for four years about the supposed advantages (without providing any) and now have broken international treaties.

They have split the country – families, friends and the nation as a whole. This is perhaps the most upsetting aspect of this Vote Leave regime.

The Tory Party owns this disaster, 100 per cent. Indeed, Brexit and Covid are two sides of the same rancid coin – one in which Britain looks inwards and fails to recognise that our challenges are best dealt with by working with our neighbours and those bodies tasked towards building a greener world; one in which its peoples are at one with nature.

This can’t be achieved by politicians going around promoting childish ideas such as “sovereignty”. What a ridiculous concept!

Supra-national bodies are the only solution if we are to avoid economic strife and further bouts of deadly viruses. Brexit cuts against everything we should be doing to build a safer and more prosperous world.

Britain has fallen. We are a joke nation, both a failed and a pariah state and only the monarchy prevents us from being defined as a banana republic.

These are very dangerous times without any immediate reasons to be cheerful. Austerity and Brexit has racked up the national debt from some £700 billion to £2 trillion, which is approaching half the value of the nation’s housing stock.

Billions are flooding out as investors see Britain as an economic basket case.

Politically we face national break down at the UK level. The Scots have understandably lost patience and will go, there is renewed interest in Welsh independence and the English have once again betrayed Ulster and the Republic with their absurd Brexit in which the Good Friday Agreement is likely to be dismantled with all the associated nasty consequences. The UK looks set to lose Northern Ireland to a united Ireland.

There is one man at the heart of this national catastrophe – Johnson.

As a citizen of Leicester I urge the Leicester Mercury to give him the full cold shoulder he gets, for example, in Liverpool, following his disastrous treatment of the Hillsborough victims. This man has no place on the front of our local newspaper.

The people of Leicester are naturally “heroic” but we are also discerning and we don’t need that hopeless lying chancer to damn us with any faint praise.

Dr Andrew Golland, Leicester