It was Enoch Powell who once said, in connection with Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal and later Conservative politician, that: ‘All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.’ Boris Johnson’s political career is a failure not at the end of it, but in the very beginnings of it. He has messed up the handling of covid spectacularly badly and he is losing trust of those who voted to leave the EU quite rapidly and many now expect some sort of betrayal by Johnson to the EU, the question only is this: What form will this betrayal take?

Boris Johnson’s government has been characterised by more than the usual number of lies being told to the public. We’ve been lied to about the nature of the evidence, the effectiveness of the measures taken against covid and even been lied to about the death tolls. This guy, Timothy Hallett commenting on a video on the We’ve Got a Problem channel sums up this culture of lies created and sustained by this government.

We’ve been lied to so many times about Covid, nothing surprises me any more. I can’t remember a christmas when the NHS screamed about not being able to cope, and this year they’ve already cancelled millions of cancer screanings, thousands of operations, yet they and the care homes are the source of 1/4 of all current covid cases. GPs around the country seem to no longer want to provide the service we pay them handsomely to do. The country has had enough of catastrophic lockdowns which a) do not stop the disease, simply postponing its spread, b) cause mass unemployment, c) cause huge public debt as the government borrows hundreds of billions we will have to pay back for a century. The last man to cancel Christmas in Britain was Oliver Cromwell, and we dug up his dead body and hanged it in disgust, after we’d removed his disgusting, puriatnical and preaching government. Does Boris not read History before Churchill? He’s a student of Classics and he should recall what disenchanted people did to dictators in ancient Athens and Rome. He’s going the same way … loved one day, despised the next.