No one knew what kind of terrible PM Truss would be but she was voted in ahead of Sunak, or what a disaster Boris would be ... ... the trouble, as is often said, the whole thing is becoming a dumb American style popularity contest. Boris became PM despite never having had a proper job or any business experience, not ideal tbh ... ... he's very good at scrounging and spending money but terrible at managing it.
I still cant believe he was the leader of our country. He was, like you say, a personality, and never qualified. Imagine working for him! I read his book about Churchill and enjoyed it and thought it was well written. I suspect that is his real calling in life. I was waiting for his Shakespeare book to read, but I cant claim to be surprised to read it is on the back burner while he chases bigger fees elsewhere.
IIRC he was sacked from the Torygraph? for making stuff up ie lying.. So fiction is maybe what he should concentrate on, perhaps updating the Flashman books?
Boris Johnson was a journalist. That's a proper job. He done a great job with the vaccine roll out, finally making Brexit happen, furlough and providing assistance to Ukraine.
He'd be a decent PM if things were going great, people weren't struggling and he didn't surround himself with the likes of Dominic Cummings ... ... TBF though none of his gaffes were as bad as Sunak and the poor homeless lad.
Much easier than actually finding out the truth and writing about it ... ... just another Jeremy Clarkson who says whatever he thinks will make him money and increase his popularity. People who admire them generally have a weird man crush or wish they could be them.
The same people who kept repeating the mantra "It would have been worse under Jeremy Corbyn" as the Tory sleaze was constantly being uncovered, are now saying "Oh they're all the same" when it became impossible to defend them any more without looking stupid. Well, which one is it? Because both statements can't be true. Either they are all the same or it would have been worse under Corbyn, it can be one or the other but not both
They are the same in that both werent fit to lead the country. They are different in terms of the level of ability they would have brought to the table. It is possible to always find someone who would be worse than the current failure. Corbyn probably did more to give Johnson his majority than anything Johnson ever did, at least in my opinion.
I think that is about the best opinion on Johnson I have read. I would be really interested to jump into the future and see how history judges him. Will it be partygate or vaccine rollout that is his legacy.
No, either one is worse than the other, or they are the same. If one is worse than the other then by definition they are not the same, one is worse.
Astra Zenica/ Oxford who had a vaccine on the stocks as it were, plus all the nurses and volunteers who stuck the jab in our arms, deserve the plaudits (but not a pay rise, apparently). Politicians are very quick to claim successes even when they had very little to do with it. Unsurprisingly not very keen about failures eg the PPE debacle which was all due to tories given their mates a hand-out. The new tory chairman (last one cheated on taxes) seems to have given a mate of his £25m for a company that did not exist, who eventually produced unusable kit.
Mid century American, meaning someone whose job doesn't require them to think. Perfectly appropriate for Pavlov's Poster.
