Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’ unique ability to turn everything they touch to chaos and failure is blighting the entire Government Coronavirus strategy. Apple says it knows nothing of the reputed Tracking project the government claims to be working with them. Yet more fantasies! And tens of thousands of vulnerable people continue to die needlessly!
Contracts are out-sourced to private companies, often without competitive tendering; often to companies who contributed to Johnson’s leadership campaign or to Tory Party funds. Companies often with little or no expertise in that business who struggle to meet targets, but still take taxpayers’ money; many managed by Cummings’ Leave cronies. Does Boris Johnson know about Cumming’s siphoning off government contracts to his cronies?That surely is corruption.
All these failures and kickbacks are costIng lives!
The Johnson/Cummings “reign of terror” weed out any minister or civil servant who is not a pathetic “yes”man. Anyone not defendIng Cummings’ drive to Durham was purged.
One high ranking Tory has said “ a reign of terror is followed by a reign of error”. Mistake after mistake by pliable mediocre ministers – fiasco after fiasco, U-turn after U-turn, as empty promises are disregarded and the death toll Inexorably rises. Excess deaths above normal, are now over 60,000!
Who benefits from this destruction of the British government’s credibility? Well, one of the biggest contributors to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign was one of Vladimir Putin’s closest cronies‘ wife. Unsurprisingly Johnson is dependent on Russophile Cummings, who spent three years working in Russia.
The result is the deliberate obstruction in publishing the government Russian report. What are Johnson and Cummings so desperate to cover up? Russian financing of the Leave Campaign? Boris Johnson’s lacklustre response to the Russian Salisbury poisoning as Foreign Secretary? The Tory Party dependency on Russian Oligarch funding? Or what happened when Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson left his protection squad officers behind and flew to a Russian topless Party in Italy? Or is all this just the tip of the iceberg?
The truth can be less damaging than the cover up. But Cummings and Johnson don’t care about reducing Britain’s reputation to tatters, that a formerly great nation is being reduced to a laughing stock. Johnson believes that somehow millions tarting up a military plane or even building special yachts for himself will undo the corrosive mismanagement and undignified, often childishly spiteful retaliation to unflattering press coverage or criticism.
Destroying Britain’s reputation and credibility is obviously the aim. When a majority of Britons rate Trump’s performance in handling the COVID19 virus, above that of Johnson, no wonder Britain is viewed with pity.
Pete Milory
