After ‘Peppa Pig,’ it’s only a matter of time

WE’VE all grown accustomed to Boris Johnson’s 87-seat majority

Tory Government using emotive slogans for promising superlative results, which in fact are little short of bald-faced lies in their nonexistent delivery.

“Get It Done”, “World Beating”, “Turbo Charged”, “Fantastic”, “Marvellous”, “Levelling Up”, “Build Back Better” are but a few of them we’ve been forced to get used to.

It’s unfortunate how many Tory MPs have surrendered to copying this ridiculous propaganda, even to the point of our local government falling into line without a glimmer of protest. A recent prominent example is how the Ministry of Housing, Communities and

Local Government has suddenly been changed to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – this, after the recent Cabinet reshuffle which saw Robert Jenrick (the Secretary of State who forced ‘One Unitary Somerset’ upon us when we voted two to one for two unitaries) suddenly sacked, to become Michael Gove.

Who decided this crass Johnson nonsense, and how come there was no consultation with all those concerned, especially those working in local government, still doing their same jobs but now completely removed from the departmental name?

Although I and my friends knew that any so-called ‘general election’ run in December 2019 on a deliberate proven Brexit ‘race card’ ticket (reference June 2019 Euro Election with Farage’s new Brexit Party sweeping the board) would produce the inevitable Johnson

Tory landslide victory; even now, with the disastrous Brexit far from being done, it is taking Tory party omnipotence and rubbing it in too far in this replacing of ‘Local Government’ in a very important Ministry’s title with Johnson’s fatuous ‘levelling up’ slogan.

That is something which can mean almost anything you want it to, or be as shambolic as Johnson’s pathetic blathering speech to the crucial CBI conference on Monday.

As I and others have said many times, supported by Cummings, the ex-Tory party propaganda guru, Johnson was never a fit person to be Prime Minister and as soon as his arrogance and incompetence makes him an election liability – a time now surely very close – he’ll be knifed in the back, as sure as Thatcher was over the Poll Tax in 1991.

Alan Debenham

Taunton