It did happen so fairytales about what if are ridiculous. He was ill, tough, he struggled for the first time in his life, welcome to our lives. What he has done is get his incompetence in quicker than any one thought. Green Revolution, great, just what we need at this time from a government that can’t build a railway line from London to Birmingham for less than 100 billion pounds but we are going to change our entire country in 9 years, really? Can’t do law and order. Can’t stop illegal immigrants Can’t send back foreign child molesters Can’t stop destroying lives with never ending lockdowns. Probably about to betray us with Brexit, he has no fidelity with his wife’s or girlfriends why should we think he will with our country? Boris Johnson is a spitting image puppet of Winston Churchill without the moral fortitude or foresight. Any what it’s are just nonsense, what is counts
Your also forgot to mention the pernicious influence of Princess Nut Nut. She is obviously the one behind ( to use David Cameron’s words) “all this green crap”.
FB
Fraser Bailey
3 years ago
I am relatively unconcerned as to what Covid stole from Boris. I am more concerned as to what Boris’ chums and the chumocracy in general managed to steal from the rest of us via Covid.
PS
Peter Scott
3 years ago
Alternative-history fantasising can be a poignant and sometimes instructive endeavour. For instance, what would Germany have become if the Emperor Frederick III had lived (not succumbed to throat cancer within a few months of his accession). He married Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, was an ardent admirer of Britain and wanted to transplant British parliamentary democracy into his country. He was a classic 19th century Liberal; so different from his hysterical son and heir William II.
But it seems pointless to consider what a Chinese-WuFlu-free first year for Boris would have been, when we already have a full raft of actual historical evidence to tell us. It would have been sell-out after mitigated sell-out.
Boris acquired his ‘stonking’ majority on December 12/13 last year (2019). For three months he did not suffer from Covid-19 and had a completely free hand in government.
He championed the idea of keeping Huawei involved in our I.T. – fortunately unsuccessfully.
He championed – alas, successfully – that utterly crazy scheme HS2 going forward.
He did not abolish the Supreme Court, even though it had tried to upstage a thousand years of British constitutional development, replace government by Parliament with government by judges, made a nonsense of the Crown’s role in our system, and caused Boris himself to look ridiculous.
He did not set about clearing out all the Dido Hardings from our forest of quangos and replacing them with competent people who are not schmoozers on the Shami Chakrabarti circuit.
He did nothing ‘conservative’ at all.
Why peer into a misty crystal ball when you can read 3 months’ worth of newspapers?
Not sure, if Frederick was a British liberal. He seems to have valued the Prussia military culture whilst abhorring the war mongering of Bismarck. He was also confident of his ability to rule, which would’ve been a change compared to his son. I think an authoritarian constitutional system would’ve been the result. And the world would be better for it.
Story “If The emperor Frederick had not had cancer” in If it Had happened Otherwise. Must say felt sorry for his son in that,whatever Frederick and Vicky’s merits,they were lousy parents!
b****r Boris. It is what he has stolen from us that matters.
SL
Sean L
3 years ago
*Plandemic* based on the Drosten PCR test which according to Dr Reiner Fuellmich and Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is the product of a criminal conspiracy.
It was Wodarg who prevented the previous plandemic of 2009. A YouTube video of a Jon Snow report: “Channel 4 News Exposes Swine Flu Scandal in 2010” serves as a reminder.
And unlike Fuellmich’s ‘Crimes against humanity’ video which was censored from 49 minutes to 5 minutes it’s still there all 3 minutes of it. Another video by Professor Sucharit Bhakdi was deleted, in the words of YouTube CEO, for “contravening WHO guidelines.” Dr Fuellmich merely accuses WHO of crime.
Needless to say not a word in the media either about his allegations or the class action based on ‘criminal PCR tests’. For if what he says is true, Covid is an almighty hoax: in his words “a PCR test pandemic”.
The greater object is for this to be a test case that can be replicated worldwide. Judging by what he’s saying it’s not inconceivable that British journalists as well as politicians could find themselves in the dock. Something to look forward to.
People think judges are as bent as journalists and politicians. And that might be true in many cases. But what Martin Heidegger called “the peculiar dictatorship of the public realm” is peculiarly contingent.
After all a few years before he wrote those words the political leaders of his country were charged with crimes against humanity. The comparison isn’t as far fetched as some might think either. Just because those around you are lying including all your colleagues doesn’t exculpate you.
JS
John Stone
3 years ago
I recently wrote to Johnson through the No 10 portal:
“Dear Prime Minister
“What is the position of the government on the policies of the WEF, the politics of its director Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset?..According to this WEF video “8 predictions for 2030” “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”…As our wealth as a nation and as individuals has drained away in the present crisis, the WEF Utopian vision in which propertyless ordinary citizens are subject to a global super-wealthy technocratic class is increasingly alarming, not a source of happiness and not something anyone voted for less than a year ago. Can you clarify the government’s position on this, which is causing widespread concern and speculation?”
The question is whether he is still a Conservative Prime Minister, apart from anything else, or perhaps a neo-feudalist? To be clear the Great Reset was launched in this country by Prince Charles. If the Great Reset is not a controversial constitutional issue I guess it must be policy.
SP
stephensjpriest
3 years ago
Dear James
Note how Dr Sanjaya Senanayake suddenly pauses when asked would he take the vaccine, despite saying it’s a “piece of cake” you tube watch?v=4cg2lUL4e88
From Sky News Australia “Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr Sanjaya Senanayake says the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines is “like a piece of cake”; and, having baked a cake before he is “eminently qualified” to make this analogy. It comes after Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive the Pfizer vaccine in the UK, kicking off the government’s plans for a mass roll-out of the vaccine.”
… lets just see what happens when a few million Brits get it, to see it remains that safe as well. – Dr Sanjaya Senanayake
Will recipients be informed which vaccine of the 3 available is being administered will there even be a choice?
JS
Jeremy Smith
3 years ago
Nothing new about Boris. Simon Heffer his former boss at DT (and Leaver if it matters to the commentators here) has described BoJo as a “serial liar”, “lazy”, “selfish”, “lack attention to details”, “immoral”, “unfit for high office”, “incompetent”…..
These are not, ‘well-known facts’. They are assumptions, based on the author’s opinion. We will never know what kind of PM Boris would have been, without Covid. Accusations are one thing, performance in post, entirely another. The knives are out in this article, which makes it a, ‘vindictive little piece’.
Going ahead with HS2 is nail on the coffin for me covid or no covid
JS
John Stone
3 years ago
Also, I am not sure how incidental the Covid business is to the Johnson plan, for instance he was banging on about “antivaxxers” within a month of taking office and saying he was a proponent of free speech – note my letter ‘Regarding the use of the term anti-vaxxer’ BMJ Rapid Responses 17 August 2020
WA
Warren Alexander
3 years ago
Dateline December 2025: Boris Johnson? Who’s he?
SP
stephensjpriest
3 years ago
Dear UH
You Tube watch?v=jqdvawSUmlA
PCR Vs Rapid Antigen – Safely Opening Up Society – a Rational, Technical Approach
Ivor Cummins
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shinybeast1
3 years ago
I think he’s probably delighted to have the distraction of covid to hide behind. All politicians like him love something or someone else to blame when everything goes wrong and they don’t deliver on any of their promises.
WG
William Gladstone
3 years ago
Boris reaction to the pandemic was up to Boris. The betrayal Boris does as regards Brexit is up to Boris. He deserves to go down in history as a truly dreadful Prime Minister, then again most of them are shite. Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May useless devious corrupt is probably the most flattering thing we can say about them.
The last half decent PM we had was Thatcher and she failed to roll back the frontiers of the state, nor did she manage to stop the heseltines, Clarkes and Major’s selling out the UK to the EU. She was though in touch with the British people and throughout her premiership she did more for the majority than any of the trash since.
AL
Adam Lewitt
3 years ago
This article skates over the raft of path-breaking bills that the Johnson government has pushed through in its first year in office. Immigration, agriculture and fisheries have all be reformed more radically than at any point in the last 30 years, and will CIF on 1 January 2021. Kirkup, as a lobby hack, often rails against the lobby’s tendency to ignore policy in favour of personality. He has done exactly this here.
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It did happen so fairytales about what if are ridiculous.
He was ill, tough, he struggled for the first time in his life, welcome to our lives.
What he has done is get his incompetence in quicker than any one thought.
Green Revolution, great, just what we need at this time from a government that can’t build a railway line from London to Birmingham for less than 100 billion pounds but we are going to change our entire country in 9 years, really?
Can’t do law and order.
Can’t stop illegal immigrants
Can’t send back foreign child molesters
Can’t stop destroying lives with never ending lockdowns.
Probably about to betray us with Brexit, he has no fidelity with his wife’s or girlfriends why should we think he will with our country?
Boris Johnson is a spitting image puppet of Winston Churchill without the moral fortitude or foresight.
Any what it’s are just nonsense, what is counts
In other words a ‘complete waste of rations!
Your also forgot to mention the pernicious influence of Princess Nut Nut. She is obviously the one behind ( to use David Cameron’s words) “all this green crap”.
I am relatively unconcerned as to what Covid stole from Boris. I am more concerned as to what Boris’ chums and the chumocracy in general managed to steal from the rest of us via Covid.
Alternative-history fantasising can be a poignant and sometimes instructive endeavour. For instance, what would Germany have become if the Emperor Frederick III had lived (not succumbed to throat cancer within a few months of his accession). He married Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, was an ardent admirer of Britain and wanted to transplant British parliamentary democracy into his country. He was a classic 19th century Liberal; so different from his hysterical son and heir William II.
But it seems pointless to consider what a Chinese-WuFlu-free first year for Boris would have been, when we already have a full raft of actual historical evidence to tell us.
It would have been sell-out after mitigated sell-out.
Boris acquired his ‘stonking’ majority on December 12/13 last year (2019). For three months he did not suffer from Covid-19 and had a completely free hand in government.
He championed the idea of keeping Huawei involved in our I.T. – fortunately unsuccessfully.
He championed – alas, successfully – that utterly crazy scheme HS2 going forward.
He did not abolish the Supreme Court, even though it had tried to upstage a thousand years of British constitutional development, replace government by Parliament with government by judges, made a nonsense of the Crown’s role in our system, and caused Boris himself to look ridiculous.
He did not set about clearing out all the Dido Hardings from our forest of quangos and replacing them with competent people who are not schmoozers on the Shami Chakrabarti circuit.
He did nothing ‘conservative’ at all.
Why peer into a misty crystal ball when you can read 3 months’ worth of newspapers?
Not sure, if Frederick was a British liberal. He seems to have valued the Prussia military culture whilst abhorring the war mongering of Bismarck. He was also confident of his ability to rule, which would’ve been a change compared to his son. I think an authoritarian constitutional system would’ve been the result. And the world would be better for it.
Story “If The emperor Frederick had not had cancer” in If it Had happened Otherwise. Must say felt sorry for his son in that,whatever Frederick and Vicky’s merits,they were lousy parents!
Oh definitely had they gotten on will wouldn’t have been such a shit. At least when it came to Britain
TThis is very true
b****r Boris. It is what he has stolen from us that matters.
*Plandemic* based on the Drosten PCR test which according to Dr Reiner Fuellmich and Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is the product of a criminal conspiracy.
It was Wodarg who prevented the previous plandemic of 2009. A YouTube video of a Jon Snow report: “Channel 4 News Exposes Swine Flu Scandal in 2010” serves as a reminder.
And unlike Fuellmich’s ‘Crimes against humanity’ video which was censored from 49 minutes to 5 minutes it’s still there all 3 minutes of it. Another video by Professor Sucharit Bhakdi was deleted, in the words of YouTube CEO, for “contravening WHO guidelines.” Dr Fuellmich merely accuses WHO of crime.
Needless to say not a word in the media either about his allegations or the class action based on ‘criminal PCR tests’. For if what he says is true, Covid is an almighty hoax: in his words “a PCR test pandemic”.
The greater object is for this to be a test
case that can be replicated worldwide.
Judging by what he’s saying it’s not
inconceivable that British journalists as
well as politicians could find themselves in
the dock. Something to look forward to.
People think judges are as bent as journalists and politicians. And that might be true in many cases. But what Martin Heidegger called “the peculiar dictatorship of the public realm” is peculiarly contingent.
After all a few years before he wrote those words the political leaders of his country were charged with crimes against humanity. The comparison isn’t as far fetched as some might think either. Just because those around you are lying including all your colleagues doesn’t exculpate you.
I recently wrote to Johnson through the No 10 portal:
“Dear Prime Minister
“What is the position of the government on the policies of the WEF, the politics of its director Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset?..According to this WEF video “8 predictions for 2030” “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”…As our wealth as a nation and as individuals has drained away in the present crisis, the WEF Utopian vision in which propertyless ordinary citizens are subject to a global super-wealthy technocratic class is increasingly alarming, not a source of happiness and not something anyone voted for less than a year ago. Can you clarify the government’s position on this, which is causing widespread concern and speculation?”
The question is whether he is still a Conservative Prime Minister, apart from anything else, or perhaps a neo-feudalist? To be clear the Great Reset was launched in this country by Prince Charles. If the Great Reset is not a controversial constitutional issue I guess it must be policy.
Dear James
Note how Dr Sanjaya Senanayake suddenly pauses when asked would he take the vaccine, despite saying it’s a “piece of cake”
you tube watch?v=4cg2lUL4e88
From Sky News Australia “Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr Sanjaya Senanayake says the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines is “like a piece of cake”; and, having baked a cake before he is “eminently qualified” to make this analogy.
It comes after Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive the Pfizer vaccine in the UK, kicking off the government’s plans for a mass roll-out of the vaccine.”
… lets just see what happens when a few million Brits get it, to see it remains that safe as well. – Dr Sanjaya Senanayake
Will recipients be informed which vaccine of the 3 available is being administered will there even be a choice?
Nothing new about Boris.
Simon Heffer his former boss at DT (and Leaver if it matters to the commentators here) has described BoJo as a “serial liar”, “lazy”, “selfish”, “lack attention to details”, “immoral”, “unfit for high office”, “incompetent”…..
That is obvious to anyone who’s seen Johnson open his mouth. He’s like a less unpleasant version of Trump.
i’m green-minded but disgusted at his failures on immigration and law and order.
In other words, incompetent either way. I thought you & he were friends, James? Not, I expect, after this vindictive little piece.
Accusations of incompetence are hardly new.
It is amazing how stating well known facts is “vindictive little piece”.
These are not, ‘well-known facts’. They are assumptions, based on the author’s opinion. We will never know what kind of PM Boris would have been, without Covid. Accusations are one thing, performance in post, entirely another. The knives are out in this article, which makes it a, ‘vindictive little piece’.
Going ahead with HS2 is nail on the coffin for me covid or no covid
Also, I am not sure how incidental the Covid business is to the Johnson plan, for instance he was banging on about “antivaxxers” within a month of taking office and saying he was a proponent of free speech – note my letter ‘Regarding the use of the term anti-vaxxer’ BMJ Rapid Responses 17 August 2020
Dateline December 2025: Boris Johnson? Who’s he?
Dear UH
You Tube watch?v=jqdvawSUmlA
PCR Vs Rapid Antigen – Safely Opening Up Society – a Rational, Technical Approach
Ivor Cummins
I think he’s probably delighted to have the distraction of covid to hide behind. All politicians like him love something or someone else to blame when everything goes wrong and they don’t deliver on any of their promises.
Boris reaction to the pandemic was up to Boris. The betrayal Boris does as regards Brexit is up to Boris. He deserves to go down in history as a truly dreadful Prime Minister, then again most of them are shite. Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May useless devious corrupt is probably the most flattering thing we can say about them.
The last half decent PM we had was Thatcher and she failed to roll back the frontiers of the state, nor did she manage to stop the heseltines, Clarkes and Major’s selling out the UK to the EU. She was though in touch with the British people and throughout her premiership she did more for the majority than any of the trash since.
This article skates over the raft of path-breaking bills that the Johnson government has pushed through in its first year in office. Immigration, agriculture and fisheries have all be reformed more radically than at any point in the last 30 years, and will CIF on 1 January 2021. Kirkup, as a lobby hack, often rails against the lobby’s tendency to ignore policy in favour of personality. He has done exactly this here.