One year on

A year ago, Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson was elected Leader of the Conservative and Union Party.

It has been quite a year.

Lost at least the first seven Parliamentary votes in the Commons.

Gave the Monarch unlawful advice in proroguing Parliament.

Promised to die in a ditch if the UK did not leave the EU on 31st October 2019.

Agreed to a WA with the EU that previous PM, Theresa May said no UK Prime Minister could ever accept.

Was elected in December on a ticket to implement the WA and PD he had agreed to. Johnson claimed it was an oven ready deal.

He scrapped the pandemic response team.

Celebrated taking the UK out of the EU on 31st January 2020. Without a plan.

Refused to extend the Transition Agreement, thus ensuring that a hard or no deal Brexit will occur on New Year's Eve.

Failed to attend 5 consecutive COBRA meetings on the impending COVID crisis.

Failed to implement the recommended lockdown until 10 days after SAGE said to. This cost an estimated 20,000 extra deaths.

Was Government policy to empty hospital A&E of infirm and elderly patients to care homes without COVID tests having been carried out and/or notes passed onto care homes.

Instead of participating in an EU scheme to procure PPE, tried to go alone, bought an aircraft-full of Turkish PPE that was useless.

Bought millions test kits that did not detect the visus.

Instead of participating in an EU scheme to procure ventilators, tried to get F1 and vacuum manufacturers try to produce them from scratch. Supplying them with the wrong specifications.

Lied when he said there would be no new border infrastructure at NI ports for the NI Protocol.

Gave guidance on social distancing and lack of contact with others, ignored them himself meaning he, Cummings, the head of the Civil Service and head of PHE all tested positive. At the same time.

Made Dominic Raab "designated survivor".

Put Liz Truss in charge of international trade.

Put Priti Patel in the Home Office.

Tried to get Chris Grayling to be chair of Intelligence committee.

Hid pillar 2 figures for testing from local authorities.

Has refused to publish figures on number of people tested since the middle of May.

Massaged number of tests carried out to double count tests on single individuals who had throat and neck swabs, and then included poteal kits as they were sent out, not when returned and tested.

Did not sack Cummings for driving to Durham contrary to lockdown rules, and then drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight.

Changed rules on masking to excuse Michael Gove photographed buying takeaway food.

Blocked medical experts, chief nurse, CMO and head of PHE when they failed to confirm they would not criticise Cummings.

Claim time and time that policy was lead by science, when it wasn't. Herd immunity always seemed to be the policy.

Loosening of lockdown started when data and the Governments self-imposed rules said that lockdown should remain.

Told people to go to the beach once lockdown partially lifted.

Shocked when people went to Durdle Door on the hottest day of the year so far.

Failed to realise that without a UK Single Market and Customs Union, it would be impossible to negotiate trade deals. Now has to impose such legislation, reclaiming powers from the devolved administrations.

Preparations for cross Channel trade checks only began in middle of July 2020 by cmpulsary purchase of a site in Ashford, against local planning permission. Also, see Manston.

50,000 Customs Officers need to be recruited, trained, have offices and an IT system up and working. By November. 2020.

Trade to NI will be subject to customs declarations.

400,000,000 customs declarations will need to be made next year, and every year costing, on average, £32.50. Each.

Business has been told to prepare. But no details as to what.

UK to introduce new UK standard accreditation, no details yet. But more additional costs for manufacturers.

All trade to the EU will have to be to EU standards. Still. And the UK will have no input into those. As a third country.

If the UK allows UK goods into the country with no checks, it will have to do the same to all goods from all other third countries or be in violation of the WTO preferred nations regulations. Or probably face prosecution.

Undertake negotiations with the EU in bad faith, not intending to honour the agreements made.

Cummings rewriring Whitehall, removing the Civil Service and replacing them with political appointees. 64,000 additional death over the COVID outbreak.

Spunking £400,000,000 on a bankrupt satellite company, which will be unsuitable for GPS.

Which was necessary as the UK pigheadedness locked them out of the EU's.

This is off the top of my head. There are dozens, hundreds more. I could list, but you get the picture. But looking at the press, listening to the BBC, you would think all is fine. The PM has done a grand job and everything is under control.

The next 12 months could see a second, and maybe third wave of COVID, ending of the transition period and, well, that might be enough. As this Government, this Prime Minister is barely capable of doing the basics of attending Parliament and keeping its MPs in line.

As things go really shot, and harder choices still have to be made. Well, then we shall see. We are about to live though "interesting" times. Again.