Beware Boris?

Tories have defended their inaction over Partygate by claiming that we need Boris Johnston's steady hand at this time of crisis in Ukraine. But how steady is his steady hand really? A Polish general has just criticised Boris Johnston because during his India trip he claimed that Ukrainians were being trained in Poland on how to use our British tanks. Was Boris internationally throwing the Poles under a Russian bus? Doesn't he know how deep the Polish fears are, that they will be next in line for Russian genocide?

Perhaps we need to keep in mind that Boris Johnson has form in his capacity to make unthinking statements on the international stage. Nazanin Zaghari-ratcliffe was one person who accidentally got thrown under a bus by his careless use of words concerning her.

There is perhaps a case for arguing that poor Boris is a little stupid – if everyone in his office came in with pyjamas on, he would not seem to realise he was taking part in a pyjama party. He is surely either stupid in some way or else totally self preoccupied. His blabbing on about Ukrainians being trained in Poland may have been him focusing narrowly on Falkland factortype propaganda to help ease away memories of Partygate. “Hammer home the theme that Boris walks the world stage as a colossus.”

Unfortunately, Boris Johnston is not inspiring to the discerning onlooker because we see that often in the past he has put the cultivation of selfimage before all other considerations. So is he a steadying hand or an accident waiting to happen?

ANDREW VASS

Edinburgh