The PM is incapable

Can there be anything more nauseating than the sycophantic worship of our current crop of parliamentary politicians by Geoffrey Brooking (A pointless Tory civil war, December 23).

Inevitable perhaps, but hardly pointless. Boris Johnson is transparently incapable of discharging his duties of the Queen’s first minister.

His government’s recent crime week began with the prime minister wearing a police costume and ended with the governing Conservative party being fined by the Electoral Commission.

His major failures are clear for all to see. Proroguing of Parliament and its overturn by the Supreme Court. The inevitable consequences of pretending to get Brexit done

– the curtailing of trade, more bureaucracy (not less), reduced growth, loss of jobs and economic downturn.

The mishandling of lockdowns and every other aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic except vaccine. His constant broken promises and brazen lies. The huge corruption at the heart of his government with no resignations.

His lamentable blustering performances in PMQs. His pathetic investigations for misrepresenting or lying about his finances in the redecoration of the flat at no.11 Downing Street.

His freebie holidays, the unlawful Downing Street parties.

The list appears endless.

Despite the current vacuum at the heart of government with Johnson being held to ransom by his own backbenchers and ministerial rivals, the Labour opposition is incapable of getting its act together to set out a clear, convincing, alternative way forward for our country.

For Mr Brooking to blindly accept and condone the morality of mismanagement and corruption by the current government and the failure of parliament to hold it accountable, speaks volumes about his own maligned political interests and judgment.

R Thomson Gosport