Apologies in advance as this is copied from a below the line comment on the Guardian yesterday but for those who didn't see it I think it sets out Boris's record perfectly. And its worth repeating. I've shared it with people and I would urge people to do the same.
Boris Johnson became PM 10 months ago he's barely been seen by the public.
In that time, Parliament has met for less than 2 months in total.
He started his premiership from Proroguation of Parliament which was later found illegal so he had to reopen the Parliament.
When Wales and the Midlands were hit by floods caused by Storm Dennis, he spent a day at a Manor House in Kent with his gf without visiting the areas.
He didn't care to visit Fishlake, Yorkshire, until 6 day after it had been flooded.
Since then Parliament was closed again for General Election campaign.
PM promised the nation to Get Brexit Done and and on this promise the party was voted back to power.
Then he jetted off to Mustique with his gf.
The Parliament was reopened after Christmas.
Then when the coronavirus crisis started the Parliament was shut down again.
Boris Johnson was caught like a rabbit in the headlights, gave some incoherent speeches,
'shook hands with coronavirus patients' by his own admissions (which turned out to be a lie) and then he fell ill with the virus he himself had let spread.
'shook hands with coronavirus patients' by his own admissions (which turned out to be a lie) and then he fell ill with the virus he himself had let spread.
He went off sick, got hospitalized resurrected over Easter and was discharged to the country residence of Chequers where he spent time with his pregnant gf.
In 2.5 months when his gf will give birth to his umptieth child, he’s already said he will be on parental leave.
And then there will be summer recess.
He has hardly done any work and instead he's been delegating the work to the Cabinet ministers. So far Dominic Raab, Michael Gove, Matt Hancock, Rishi Sunak, Alok Sharma and Robert Jenrick have been taking turns to stand in for him.
And when will he negotiate and deliver Brexit EU-UK Trade Deal?
He's the worst PM this country has ever had.
He wants power but not responsibilities that come with it.
He should resign.
He wants power but not responsibilities that come with it.
He should resign.
A perfect summary of Boris's career as Prime Minister.
He was lazy as London Mayor and he's even lazier as PM. As long as he is in 10 Downing Street we are f****d. Hopefully, Tory MPs are waking up to what a lazy useless tosser he is and will ditch him - but I'm not holding my breath
He was lazy as London Mayor and he's even lazier as PM. As long as he is in 10 Downing Street we are f****d. Hopefully, Tory MPs are waking up to what a lazy useless tosser he is and will ditch him - but I'm not holding my breath
Johnson has, to use British Army jargon, been promoted beyond his abilities.
ReplyDeleteIt's called The Peter Principle:
DeleteThe Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence": an employee is promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. The concept was elucidated in the book The Peter Principle (William Morrow and Company, 1969) by Dr Peter and Raymond Hull.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Never a truer word was written.
DeleteBrilliant! Somehow, English suits to texts like this. If translated into German or to my mother tongue, Finnish, it would lose a lot of its wittiness. But the facts behind are not funny, they are sad. Even scary. / M.
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