16 days before the GTO in 2009,Prime minister Gordon Brown was travelling the world to get binding commitments from world leaders to help get binding commitments from world leaders to help the world economy recover from crisis.
Prime minister Boris Johnson 16 days before #COP26 with hopes for the summit under serious threat of collapsing, after emptying the pockets the pockets of the working class and the poor jetted out of the country for a luxury holiday in Marbella, in a £25,000 a week villa ( that is linked to a number of offshore tax havenshttps://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/johnsons-luxury-spanish-holiday-villa-linked-to-offshore-tax-havens-295415/?fbclid=IwAR04OUf-yg61WvpD5FwlQmphZ-bR1IYaNe7sfbX4deyIOM-qsCkaJ01vzQg ) he has apparently borrowed from his chum, Tory peer Zac Goldsmith despite the escalating crises in the UK, and has since been seen relaxing and trying to emulate his hero Winston Churchill but lacks any credibility, any statesmanship and is considered the most untrusted leader in the G7.Churchill painted in the sun, so Boris had to do the same ( and be photographed doing it ) just one day after his government was slated for its handling of the pandemic.
The timing of his jaunt could not have come at a worse time as he went in the same week that the £20 uplift to Universal Credit was cut, that even six former Conservative Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions opposed and which charities warned will push 800,000 people into poverty, this combined with increasing energy prices to damning criticism over how the health pandemic was handled, HGV shortages and empty supermarket shelves, the UK is bracing itself for a "winter of discontent,"
Boris knew what was happening, a savage report was imminent on his handling of the COVID crisis was coming out, which said the United Kingdom's Covid response was slow and "reactive,". Among the biggest failures of the government's approach was an initial policy at the start of the pandemic to try and manage the spread of Covid, rther than stop it spreading altogether. A delayed lockdown was also criticized , failures in the UK's contract-tracing program, and a lack of attention given to the most vulnerable, specifically those in the social care sector and at risk communities, namely Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities. The UK has one of the highest death tolls from the pandemic and more than 138,000 people have died.
So Johnson did the one thing that he is capable of doing, he escaped his responsibilities to avoid the scrutiny and backlash. Meanwhile Johnson despite mounting criticism carried on his holiday with wife Carrie and their year old son Wilfred regardless.In arrogance he was back behind his easel yesterday morning without a care in the world, As Britons struggled with mounting problems at home Boris was busy playing with his paints finishing his picture. Wearing dark blue shirt and casual trousers, with a white tie-up cord, he occasionally scratched his head as he added more brush strokes to his work His actions have only served to remind us all, that he has the same contempt for those that voted for him in, as he has for truth and honour.
On Monday, a Downing Street spokesperson defended Johnson's decision to take a holiday this week but refused to confirm who was funding the stay, The spokesperson also refused to discuss whether there was a potential conflict in interest from Johnson accepting a holiday from a peer whom he ennobled and made a minister. Boris's holiday comes less than two months after he and then foreign secretary Dominic Raab were under fire for going on holiday during the Afghanistan crisis.
Some people think they are above us, as they laugh and treat the rest of us as fools, but it's a joke that is really beginning to wear very thin. It's Swift meets Orwell meets Kafka, and the media are facilitating it. This sad excuse of a man does not give a damn about anything other than himself, What he sees in the mirror is all that he worships and adores, but is the very worst Prime Minister in decades.
My advice to Johnson is if he really feels the need for a holiday in the sun, then perhaps he should never have been PM in the first place (it' truly is such a sad indictment on our society that this shallow, lazy, incompetent and bigoted clown ever was.) May he carry on with his painting if he wishes , on all accounts still on his jolly, but he might be best at trying sticking to crayons and do us all a favour and resign, instead of continuing to take the piss, because many of us who are still stuck back at home would be ever so grateful if he at least did this.
