Johnson in charge?

For the third time since he was discharged from hospital, newspapers have been reporting that the PM< Boris Johnson, has taken charge.

It does rather beg the question, that if Johnson has not been in charge thus far, then who has?

Johnson is tackling the issue of the 2m distance for isolation, which one would think has some kind of background in science.

Although some countries have a distance of 1.5m and 1m, so who knows?

But the WHO warned the UK today that no further loosening should take place until the track and trace system is working well enough to track all people who were flagged as being infected, or those they came in contact with.

But rather than face the issues of the day, Johnson would rather deal with a made up issue of the possible removal of Churchill's statue.

And a possible increase in sentencing have again be revealed in a paid newspaper column. In a functioning democracy, such policies would as a matter of course be revealed to Parliament first. It should not leave the electorate to have to pay a subscription or buy a copy of the paper to see the Government's plans.

Government s should not be revealing policy either in newspaper columns or in daily news conferences relating to COVID. If we accept things such as this, then what elese will be accept?

Much has been said of slaves and slave owners. On the surface, statues to slave owners shouldn't be a thing in the 21st century. But like many things, including Naziism, anti-sematism, apartheid, slavery was legal. Protesting against it was against the law.

Slaves were actual property. By law. By English law.

As the 18th century went on, owning slaves in England was subject to the slave's acceptance(!), but trading in slaves was legal and was literally the foundation of the British Empire.

Maybe we should replace statues of slave owners with ones of slaves.

Would that be acceptable?