This is all the outcome of a political system which has become so badly broken over the last couple of decades, for various reasons. BJ was always a maverick choice, just like seems to be part of the job description for Mayor of London, however this has come back to bite as he’s been found very seriously wanting.
But what was the alternative? The choice of leadership talent on both sides was utterly sewer-grade.
I am increasingly coming to the view that this government is now starting to unravel. Some of the key appointments are so utterly ineffective it’s starting to get to the point where the machinery of government is grinding to a halt. Hancock was giggling like a child on the news yesterday, and with education turning into farce where is Gavin Williamson to be seen?
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find there’s all sorts going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about, probably revolving around Sunak.
They’ve lost control of this now.
One wonders if Priti Patel is busy procuring water canons behind the scenes?
Its certainly striking how little we see of the PM these days, at a time of deep national crisis. Almost as if it it’s a deliberate damage limitation strategy! Cummings is many things, but he isn’t stupid, and he clearly now regards Johnson as an embarrassing lame duck. And quite rightly!
It was a shocking choice of candidates, for sure, but you’d somehow have expected a little more leadership and gravitas from someone who has been Mayor of London, Foreign Secretary and has had such a high personal profile for so many years (certainly compared to his predecessor, albeit she was more experienced in actual government). Perhaps Hunt would have been a better choice (from a Covid not a Brexit perspective).
Hancock is the worst possible person to be in the position he occupies, and is clearly an extreme “locktivist”, to the point where he’s isolating himself from the rest of the cabinet in continuing down the current path.
Sunak seems to be about the best of them! I’m glad he’s had the good sense to go through with winding down the furlough scheme (albeit belatedly!).
Overall, it’s clearly an absolute car crash. I’m still astounded by how quickly Johnson has gone from being a “new broom”, commanding the biggest Tory majority since the 1980s, to such a pathetic low point that I’m sure many of us wonder if TM (let alone Cameron had he stuck around) would have been doing a better job of things.
And they say we get the politicians we deserve...
I don’t even want to think about fate of Brexit, but Johnson has lived and died by it, and must be looking for a political legacy, so will hopefully get it over the line, in terms of a sensible deal. If so that’ll be something to salvage (how confident are we of that!?
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