#BorisResign

How quickly the mighty fall.

Last week the country was encouraged to "clap for Boris" when he was ill in hospital, and today the Murdoch owned Sunday Times turned on the PM and has published a damning report on how Johnson and the Brexiteers wasted the six weeks from the beginning of February.

This came on top of two other reports, in the Financial Times on how the decision to order ventilators from UK companies that had never made things before, using a new design rather than building under licence, the requirements for the ventilators were set wrong by the Government from the start, and what was built dd not have certification to be used, but once it was, was found to be unsuitable for use on COVID-19 patients. But otherwise, wonderful.

888 deaths were announced yesterday, just in hospitals. The figure for the whole country is likely to be at least twice as big.

The WHO announced that it was also highly likely that those who had recovered from the virus would not have antibodies, thus torpedoing Johnson and Cummings' herd immunity plan.

But the Sunday Times report claims that Johnson took two weeks off in February to complete a book he had been contracted to write, lest he have to pay the advance back. I can remember writing about that at the time.

But Johnson, already notorious for not having a good grasp of any brief, missed 5 COBRA meetings in a row when he should be leading.

When the Government should have been preparing for COVID_19, it was, instead, arranging for shiny new 50 pence pieces to be minted, blue passports and preparing for no deal Brexit. All of the machinery of Government engaged in a pointless and wasteful taks, like the Heart of Gold trying to make a cup of tea. Brexit will make us poorer, but will also have killed 60,000 of us in the process.

Cabinet Ministers yesterday said, anonymously, there was no plan. The public seemed to want to have a lockdown, so that's what they did. And when the public no longer will accept the lockdown, it will be relaxed. But nothing based on something like science of facts.

Having written about this group of talent-less charlatans for nearly four years, that they have messed up on such a grand scale is not surprising, but what is surprising is how the media and senior reports for the BBC and ITV have just parroted Government lines, no scrutiny, no journalistic endeavour.

People knew what Johnson was like, and voted for him anyway. And the press; he was once one of them, went to school and university with many of the senior reporters, so was one of them and their friends. It wouldn't be British to report accurately on what was going on, best be loyal to the Old Etonion.