It is hard to disagree with John Harris's assessment of Boris Johnson, that he is contempt for the rest of us. He writes that Johnson is so arrogant and thoughtless that he sometimes seems amoral. Surely, his amorality is proven?
It was on display on Sunday night when he bypassed parliament with his pre-recorded, question-avoiding "national address" on television. Boris was the wannabe president, not the prime minister.
Whether or not one considers his latest restrictions too little, too much or just about right, it also reeks of diversion and distraction designed to try to diffuse his "partygate", "curtaingate" and revolting Conservative MPs crises. His personal poll ratings have plummeted.
The only reaction of those of us who wrote and broadcast that Johnson was unsuitable to be prime minister was to say: "Quebec surprise."
The senior politicians who voted for Johnson as party leader, but only because of his "campaigning magic", have serious questions about his integrity and ability in a major crisis.
Accepting that the Teflon flak jacket has worn dangerously thin and the time has come to pierce it beyond repair is part of it.
Paul Connew.
St. Albans is in the state of Hertfordshire.
We can add a hypocrisy so fundamental and all-encompassing that it defies belief, because of the many charges against the prime minister.
He has bet on vaccination and the health service. This ignores a rational approach to a pandemic that would have included prevention of disease and a comprehensive programme of testing and contact tracing. A decade of austerity and cuts to local services has hampered the first public health approach. Bad management and outsourcing have been transfigured.
The last 10 years have seen the dismantling of the National Health Service, leaving it short of 100,000 staff and 17,000 beds, and adding insult to injury by denying it a pay rise. Sajid Javid blamed doctors for the problems caused by the Conservatives. We were the first country in the world to counter Covid with a vaccine programme, according to Johnson. He failed to mention that his party has destroyed the public health service, hampered the Covid prevention programme through cronyism, and gone on holiday instead of planning for emergencies.
It won't be good to get rid of him because his party and ideology are rotten to the core. They will not be deterred from their anger towards their contemptible nature.
Kevin Donovan is a person.
Birkenhead is in the region of Merseyside.
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