Two years

Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leade of the Conservative and Union Party for 104 weeks. Two years.

And on the anniversary the Conservate Twitter feed proclaimed this:

"Since then we have delivered Brexit, provided £400 billion in pandemic recovery assistance, signed trade deals, boosted defence spending, recruited new police, and more:"

Brexit is not delivered. Not in total. In fact, Brexit will never be delivered, not providing the benefits Brexiteers, including Johnson and Cummings claimed. And what was agreed is now so politically toxic, especially in Northern Ireland, that Johnson wants the NIP renegotiated. Even if Johnson were to accept that, the further the UK diverges, the more negotiations will have to take place, and as NI is in the EU SM for goods, divergance will make the border down the Irish Sea harder and wider too.

The trade deals that Liz Truss has agreed have been, overwhelmingly on the same terms as we had as a member state, one (with Japan) is on worse terms, and the one with Australia throws UK farming under the big red bus. And many of those deals will have to be renegotiated in the next four years.

£400 billion in recovery assistance, mostly needed because of the hopeless way in which Johnson and his Government handled the pandemic. Locking down later, and then harder, meant worse economic hits than would have occurred if down when SAGE recommended. Many times that figure was spent on PPE and other services from friends and relations or Monsiters or their advisors, or Conservative Party donars. On top of that, something like 170,000 excess deaths, and thousands of NHS and care staff died. He clapped for them, then offered them 1% pay rise, which he backtracked to 3%.

Defence spending has increased, on US missile systems that the US holds the access codes for. And have mortgaged our children's futures to pay for.

Even if we accept that last claim, the UK is 30,000 officers down on the numbers the Conservative Party has cut over the last 11 years, and at the same time cut the criminal justice system funding by 40% thus denying the accused and their victims of justice.

Mostly though, it the lies. The bare faced lies.

Giving the Monarch unlawful advice, and there being no conswequences.

Failure to acted on repeated breaches of the Ministerial Code by his ministers and himself.

Until we take this seriously and it matters again, democracy in the UK is on a dangerous slope, while Johnson and his party claim more and more power without scrutiny.

Brexit was never about Brexit, it was about unfettered power. The only upside is that Johnson and his Government don't know what they want to do with it, who comes next will, though.

Happy Anniversary.