June 27th, 2021.
There were supposed to be relaxations of the lockdown restrictions last week but, as usual, Boris Johnson fudged the issue and has deferred a decision until mid-July. The general public are getting thoroughly fed up and disenchanted with Boris Johnson and he is becoming that great danger for a politician, a target for ridicule.
Politicians can handle hate, but once a politician becomes a figure of fun, they are in trouble. It is becoming obvious that he is under the influence of Mrs Johnson and her woke policies, and this is causing rumblings within the Conservative party in general and the public at large.
Fresh from his triumph at chairing the G7 summit, Boris Johnson is now finding he is again under pressure from one-time favourite chum Dominic Cummings. He is also under pressure from his new chum Mrs Johnson, who has surrounded herself and the Prime Minister with a coterie of woke, greenie supporters in Downing Street.
He is now moving towards a Green/woke agenda in policies, shooting from the hip and waffling without thinking things through.
Given the success from the government’s point of view in enforcing the loss of normal civil liberties during the Covid lockdown, get ready for the climate change lockdown now that the practice run has happened.
In the aftermath of the G7 summit, BBC political commentator Andrew Marr contracted a mild form of Covid (he had been double vaccinated as well) and Cornwall, which had the lowest incidence of Covid in the country suffered a 700% increase in cases.
G7 coincided with the half-term holidays and there was a flood of tourists coming into the county who flouted all the lockdown rules. Yesterday, there was a queue of 24 ambulances at Treliske hospital in Truro, the main hospital in the county.
Johnson’s Northern Ireland policy is in tatters with danger of a great sausage war breaking out between the EU, Northern Ireland, and the UK. Ever helpful, the deputy Taoiseach of Eire disclosed that his ambition was for the total unification of the island of Ireland, commenting that nearly one million of the population of Northern Ireland is British. The population is 1.885 million. What he meant to say was that the majority are Unionist Protestants and the balance are Catholic Republicans. All the population of Northern Ireland are British passport holders if they wish to be. This was particularly unhelpful in the middle of the sausage wars between the UK and the EU.
There was a by-election in Chesham and Amersham resulting in a hammering for the Conservatives. They managed to lose a majority of 16,000 and turn it into an 8,000 majority for the Liberal party. There is another by-election coming up this Thursday in Batley, which is currently a Labour seat. The accepted view is that this is going to go Conservative, but the current political situation is so fluid and dissatisfaction with Johnson growing, that the only thing stopping the Labour party retaining this seat is that they are so hopeless it’s embarrassing. (In the Amersham by-election, the Labour party scraped just over 600 votes).
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock resigned after being caught on CCTV breaching social distancing with a female advisor. It is thought that this breach also involved breaking the social distancing guidelines in a horizontal manner. In later revelations, it was disclosed that her brother works for a company that was awarded large NHS contracts. It also came to light that Hancock had been using a private email account for government business thereby avoiding his emails being recorded in the civil service system.
Meanwhile, a report into the investigation of a 35-year-old murder case accused the Metropolitan Police of being institutionally corrupt. The commissioner refused to resign. The commissioner, Cressida Dick, was the Gold commander when an innocent, unarmed Brazilian was chased and shot to death by police years ago. She had a limited involvement in the infamous, discredited Operation Midland investigation into child abuse by politicians and is held in low esteem by the public.
In the Midlands, a PC was convicted of manslaughter after he tasered an offender for 33 seconds and followed it up with two kicks to the head. The recipient was an ex-professional footballer who had a history of mental problems. The subject, Dalian Atkinson died shortly afterwards. Police guidance is for tasers to be deployed in 5-second bursts.
Elsewhere, a PC from the diplomatic protection squad admitted kidnapping and raping a woman who was walking home late at night; he deferred a plea on a murder charge until the first week of July.
Given the performance of the police towards the public during the lockdown they have lost a lot of respect. The general goodwill towards them has been destroyed because of the number of conflict contacts they are having with average members of the public. It is the attitude of the police that is grating. A friend of mine commented that when he was younger if he saw a police officer in trouble, he would sprint towards him and get stuck in in support. In a sad comment, he says that today he would just cross the road and walk on by. How on earth have we arrived at this situation?
There is just a feeling of general despair and helplessness in the UK and a total lack of trust in anything that the government is doing. No one believes Boris Johnson anymore. Unfortunately, the Labour party is so inept that there is no alternative. Does this situation in reverse sound familiar to New Zealanders?
This just leaves one question. What on earth is happening to the UK?
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