Gloucestershire Echo

We have had enough of the ‘whiff waffle’

- Colin Thompson

✒ THE reasoning behind Boris Johnson’s political posturing goes back to his early obsession with the game of ping pong, or as he called it wiff waff.

This is the art of batting a ball backwards and forwards between two opponents until someone hits a winning stroke.

Since entering politics he has played his own game, based on the same principles.

It is called whiff waffle.

This involves baffling an opponent with bluster and waffle to gain an advantage, which he has done to great effect and has conned the British public into voting him into office, not only as Mayor of London, but also as Prime Minister.

The consequenc­e of this is that the country is now in the hands of an elitist government with a SPAD (special adviser) pulling the strings.

We have seen Johnson not only standing by Dominic Cummings, when everybody could see that he should have sacked him, but denying that Cummings had done anything wrong, saying to us to move on.

The only person he should have said that to is Dominic Cummings when handing him his P45.

After seeing his performanc­e in front of the committee of MPS and other press conference­s, I can now see that he has brought in an amendment to the rules of wiff waff and so the new name for this game is whiff waffle. The reason for this name change is because among the waffle and bluster, the excuses given for supporting Dominic Cummings in his actions stink. There is no question that he broke the rules. Johnson has said that Cummings is of the highest integrity – why has he not resigned? We have a Prime Minister who is ignoring what the majority of the British public and more than 100 of his own MPS want and is jeopardisi­ng the safety of the citizens of this country, because they now think that it’s one rule for us and one rule for Dominic Cummings.

If Johnson continues to ignore the majority, he should consider his own position and maybe go back to playing ping pong and let someone of honesty and integrity run the country. We have had enough of the whiff waffle. Let’s ban it from the political agenda.

Let’s also hope that Johnson doesn’t adopt his lookalike friend’s policy from across the pond, and combine whiff waffle with the claptrap that he employs on a daily basis, or we are all in trouble.

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