Boris’s bluster and braggadocio

FOR how much longer will the nation put up with the braggadocio and bluster of the incumbent of 10 Downing Street? It all sounds like a tired old vaudevillian act which should have been put out to pasture long ago, having outlived its usefulness.

It is all bells and whistles without any underlying substance. Promises galore, yes; delivery in short supply, also yes.

Boasting about the lowest unemployment figures pales into insignificance when many in the workforce are compelled to use food banks (sadly, one of our booming services) owing to the inadequacy of the rewards they receive from working in a low-wage economy.

Boris’s bluster and extravagant promises butter no parsnips when the essentials, represented by parsnips, are in increasingly short supply, though the butter from Boris’s boastfulness never seems to run dry.

Talk about 73 new trade deals, which neither mask nor make up for the shortfall created by the fallout from Brexit, has to be placed alongside the fact that the UK has the highest inflation rate of all Europe.

This puts the pound into a perilous state which eats away at the income of those on low incomes with the rising prices of essential commodities, and at the savings of anyone lucky enough still to have them.

If there is one area which reveals the failure of Boris and his crew in all its tawdriness, it’s the mess he created with the fabrication of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which he is desperately trying to disown and distance himself from as though the EU imposed that condition upon the UK .

Now that the Met has concluded its Partygate investigation, the sooner that Sue Gray releases her excoriating report into the affair, and the results of the two by-elections on June 23 are known, the sooner will the country be shot of this man who has long since shot his bolt.

Denis Bruce,

Bishopbriggs.