https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/15/the-guardian-view-of-boris-johnsons-crisis-blunder-after-blunder
“The prime minister is right in a sense that he presides over a “world-beating” performance: with 64,000 excess deaths, that is one excess death for every 1,000 people, the UK has recorded the largest global spike in deaths compared with the average yearly death toll; and the country will suffer the deepest depression of any developed economy.”
Guardian Editorial
June 15, 2020
johnson: World Beating
May 25, 2020
The Buck Stops Here
It’s Johnson who should go.
Johnson appointed Cummings and Priti Patel and tries to defend both.
The problem is Johnson; the buck stops with him
Read the long article from the Times (A Murdoch Paper)
ttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-weeks-of-dither-and-delay-on-coronavirus-that-cost-thousands-of-british-lives-05sjvwv7g.
UK the worst coronavirus managed country in the World barring the US
May 20, 2020
Johnson as Henry V111 again
Henry V111 (Johnson) will get ride of Thomas Cromwell (Priti Patel) once she has completed the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Tory Immigration Bill) for him. May be escaping beheading, but being sent back to Kenya.
May 4, 2020
Boris Johnson or is it Henry VIII
Henry VIII with Cardinal Wolsey or is it Thomas Moore, or even Thomas Cromwell; their time will come.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/02/the-british-charlatan-style-has-been-sent-packing-by-too-much-reality?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR2OKqoV9jeIzx8ZZbGqaau1-ZdNrIHv5DlUQ4FTVHI3wvfmI7qQoPIxp3Y
April 21, 2020
Johnson must GO and Now
In 1940 Winston Churchill deposed Neville Chamberlain.
Who will depose Boris Johnson as Parliament returns today
I certainly hope none of any of the present Cabinet.
But Depose THERE MUST BE: A name Please and Now.
I accept it has to be a Tory
April 13, 2020
Government throws away opportunity to get PPE for Nurse and Doctors
Yet again the Tory obstinacy to joining with the EU procurement of PPE is costing Doctors and Nurses lives in the NHS.
No doubt Johnson’s own nurses were fully kitted out.
December 28, 2019
The Observer View
A short summary of the year ahead by the Observer.
It would be nice to follow Antony Newley’s ‘Stop the World I want to get off’
But that’s not in our gift.
We all have to do what we can to work towards a more democratic and tolerant world.
December 25, 2019
The Trail of Charles 1
A three-part series on BBC 4 on the Trial of Charles 1.
The Trial comes to a climax on the decision as to whether Charles 1 raised an army and a bloody civil war against the people of the UK (well mainly England) and against his oath on his Coronation to protect the people.
He is found guilty, as we know, by what were in effect a chosen selection of the Proletarians. Charles 1 had ignored the will of Parliament and had ultimately gone to War to prove that he was King by Divine Right and was therefore omnipotent.
Charles was ultimately defeated by Cromwell and Fairfax, captured and had to be put on trial – the series makes no attempt to show that the trial was a show trial; rather it makes the case that the King is Not Above the Law and as such it set the precedent for the numerous examples across the World since. We shall see whether, as claimed by the lawyers interviewed, the Trail affected UK Parliamentary Democracy ever since. A bold claim and one that looks dubious in the light of the recent UK Election where the Executive has assumed the mantle of the Devine Right of Kings .
As at 25th December the Series is still available on BBC4
December 22, 2019
An Independent Scotland or 10 years under the Control of Boris Johnson
Two articles in today’s Scotsman on Sunday (22/12/2019) by Euan McColm and Dani Garavelli
McColm berates Nicola Sturgeon on yet again pressing for a 2nd Independence vote. McColm makes the point that the votes of SNP together with the Greens in last week’s general election didn’t make the 50% mark ie taken together they wouldn’t win the vote for Scottish Independence. In any case he stresses the point that even with the matters derogated to Scotland the SNP has made a mess of them eg Education and the NHS
Read Euan McColm here:
Dani Garavelli comes from another direction. We have Johnson for 5 years at at least and probably 10 years. During that time, he is likely to move the UK drastically to the Right. Already he has gone back on allowing child refugees entry into the UK to meet up with their parents. He is also considering making appointments to the judiciary on a political basis (as in the US). And Heaven knows what will happen to working conditions.
Read Dani Garavelli here:
Comment
In my view McColm is correct in that the SNP Government has not made a good job of the opportunities afforded to it over the last 10 years. But his article dwells on the SNP continually pressing for a 2nd referendum which is unlikely to succeed and, in the meantime, the SNP failing to tackle the outstanding Scottish problems; rather than the devastation that a Johnson Government could make to the UK Social Fabric as a whole. Surely it is better for Scotland to go its own way, free from the Social destruction under Johnson. As the expression goes, Scotland ‘to take back control’.
Johnson’s Vacuity
Ken Clarke on Johnson’s Vacuity
Clarke said Johnson’s policy vagueness was particularly acute on Brexit: “I could never get out of Boris – and nobody so far could get out of Boris – what he has in mind for the eventual deal. To say they’re generalities is an understatement
Remember: Roger McGough
I wanna be the Prime Minister
I wanna be the Prime Minister
Can I be the Prime Minister?
Can I? I can?
Promise? Promise?
Yippee I’m the Prime Minister
I’m the Prime Minister
OK what shall we do?
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