If we get revolutionary Sir Keir for a decade, we’ll look at Johnson’s years as a Golden Age

WHAT would you like to happen next? I ask this question because I remember the ghastly days of John Major and remember how everyone joined in with the derision, just as it is now the done thing to denounce Johnson.

I don’t like Johnson. In fact, I think he is terrible. But here’s why I won’t join in. Because things could be a lot worse.

Much of the mockery of John Major was well-deserved, as is the jeering at Johnson. Mr Major was not much of a Prime Minister and I have never been convinced that he was a ‘decent guy’ either.

He slithered into 10 Downing Street by the use of what looked very much like low cunning. He cost us billions with his wild attachment to the Exchange Rate Mechanism. I should say this lunacy was

a mere spree compared with Johnson’s decision to close down the country for months on end.

By the end of his time in office, Major was just a target. Cartoonists drew him wearing his underpants outside his trousers or as a corpse surrounded by bluebottles. I can’t even remember the petty supposed scandal that dogged him through his final years.

But there was no arguing about it. He was doomed.

And then remember what happened when we got rid of him. The Blair Revolution irreversibly changed the country for the worse, breaking up the nation itself, raping its constitution, spending great piles of money we did not have to remarkably little effect on the public services he was supposed to be saving.

The whole nature of life changed. The remnants of Christianity were bulldozed aside to make a new official religion of Equality and Diversity. Marriage and the traditional family were turned into eccentricities. The futile and damaging expansion of the universities raised the school leaving age to 21.

It also put a generation in debt without actually producing more educated people. We developed the national habit of hurling ourselves into foreign wars where we had no business. These idealistic conflicts did nothing but harm.

At the same time we gave up defending ourselves from our real enemies. A bloody terrorist dined with the Queen at Windsor Castle. And all because we thought it was time for a change and joined in with the jeering crowd.

Well, here it comes again. Do you have any idea who Keir Starmer really is? Did you know he belonged to a Marxist faction, obsessed with Green policies and sexual revolution, well into his adulthood – and has never said he was wrong?

Do you really think all revolutionaries look like Jeremy Corbyn? No, they look like Starmer and Blair and Mandelson, and it is that lot who are now back in the saddle in the Labour Party.

Here’s a simple thing for you to ponder. Starmer has very little chance of getting a majority at the next Election. His only realistic route to No10 is by forming some sort of pact with Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP. She will demand a new referendum in return and Scotland could be gone from the Union within a couple of years.

SO LABOUR needs to devise a way to stay in office after Scotland has gone. Votes at 16? Very likely. But I think they will also want to push through major electoral reforms (the SNP won’t mind helping, they’ve done the same themselves).

And who will be surprised if those reforms mean there is a permanent majority at Westminster for the hard Left, the sort of people who, if in power now, would have us all muzzled and locked down for the rest of our lives?

Ten years of that and you’ll be looking back on these times as a kind of Golden Age.

Despise Johnson all you like. Things could be much worse than this.