We’ll all be victims of Boris’ Brexit balls-up
BREXIT is the biggest and most absurd waste of money in history, splurging billions of pounds to make Britain poorer.
The £700million splashed on Brexit border bureaucracy, with the Government secretly buying a patch of Kent to check lorries, is a bill that’s rapidly mounting.
And the expensive campaign preparing for a New Year’s Eve no-deal crash out of Europe reinforces how Boris Johnson didn’t “Get Brexit Done” when he partied in Downing Street at the end of January.
What the cynical liar did do, when toasting himself with English sparkling wine and celebrating his
Vote Lie Government’s vandalism, was let Covid rip.
The link between Brexit deceit and negligence over the spread of coronavirus becomes clearer every day.
Johnson’s poisonous narcissism, valuing what’s advantageous for him personally over the national interest, made him take his eye off the ball.
Confirmation of the first UK virus cases in York came as Boris patted himself on the back before hiding away in a country mansion with his pregnant girlfriend.
His failure to react faster to the crisis is central to the enormous death and financial tolls weakening Britain.
Johnson and his partners in crime Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings will, unless exposed, hide Brexit’s self-inflicted economic damage in the Covid-19 mayhem.
And the Tory troika might get away with inflicting ideological damage when Labour’s strategy is to say as little as possible about Brexit.
Keir Starmer is a general who wants to fight the next war, not the last one.
The Europe enthusiast is putting on a mask and gagging himself, social-distancing from his own record on the EU. Labour tied itself in knots when Jeremy Corbyn was pushed by Starmer into embracing a second referendum, then refused to declare how he would vote in it.
The party’s internal inquiry into December 2019’s fiasco showed it lost a double-whammy 1.9 million Remain voters and 1.8 million Leave supporters from the 2017 election. Blue bricks in Labour’s red wall are the result. Alarm bells warn Starmer away from Brexit but one wise old Labour head believes it’s central to Johnson’s incompetence over the virus. The MP asserts that what enabled Johnson to sneak a referendum two elections ago – fibs, distortions, false optimism and dismissal of verifiable facts – demonstrate his unfitness to govern. And by focusing on Brexit above everything else – picking a Cabinet of docile nodding dogs and deploying 27,500 civil servants on the madness last March as Whitehall struggled to contain the plague – he condemned folk to die unnecessarily.
If history is written by the victors, Johnson’s 80-seat majority allows him to carry on writing lies.