Your first reaction would have been: “Impossible. This is the kind of thing that excitable foreigners engage in. Never the phlegmatic, rational British – and certainly, never, ever, EVER so long as there’s a Conservative government in power.”
Your second reaction would have been: “Oh, I get it. It’s a joke, right? You’re telling me the plotline of some new dystopian graphic novel on the lines of Watchmen currently being adapted for Amazon Prime or Netflix, yeah?”
I still can’t quite believe it myself.
Who exactly is that dishevelled oaf on the rostrum issuing all these fascistic ordinances?
Definitely no relation — apart from the dishevelled oaf part — to the shambolic but benign, witty, amiable freedom-loving figure we re-elected as prime minister in December last year.
Sure many of us may only have voted for Boris’s Conservatives faute de mieux — because, for all their flaws they were infinitely preferable to the alternative — a regime led by Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxists.
But there were at least grounds for hope at the time that Boris was on the side of prosperity, liberty and optimism.
Not any more. How massively he has betrayed all our hopes!
It’s possible that Boris’s brush with death earlier this year — his excessive weight, unfortunately, put him in the Covid at-risk category — may have stolen his mojo and left him a dried-out husk entirely unfit for public office.
Or it may just be that Boris was always going to be exposed for the chancer he is, sooner or later: all that was needed was the crisis which would cruelly reveal just how useless he is — at least where statesmanship is concerned — at rising to the occasion.
Either way, ‘lovable’ Boris Johnson is currently presiding over the biggest assault on the British people’s freedoms since Cromwell’s Commonwealth (which was the last occasion on which Christmas was more or less banned).
But maybe the most shocking part of the tyranny Boris is currently imposing on Britain is the lack of justification for it....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
