I thought he was a very good London Mayor, better than the present incumbent but I have to admit I didn't live in London.
he spent £500,000 on a water canon , the use of which was illegal, so it was sold for scrap £35,000. And the bendy buses which were too long to go round corners? The £37,000,000,000 he paid to his mates for track and trace, which still doesn't work. Any chance of a refund? or for the PPE equipment which cost us £100s millions and then was found to be not fit for purpose? The court found he'd broken the law 72 times in illegally awarding contracts " to donons and supporters" He's paying Pfizer £22 a dose of vaccine when it only costs 76 cents to produce.
He had he last marriage annulled so he could get married in a Catholic church, thus making his own children , wellm some of them, illegitimate.
And then there was Boris's Garden Bridge project that cost £53m even though it never got built. And of course HS2 which is almost a billion over budget already even though they've scrapped the bit that doesn't benefit London as much. Wales was supposed to get £5bn of the HS2 budget for rail improvements here but that has been axed to free up more money for London. Maybe I'm being negative but it's probably much quicker to list the things he has done right. Much much quicker.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
He's paying Pfizer £22 a dose of vaccine when it only costs 76 cents to produce.
That is one thing Boris can't be blamed for. Pfizer set the price with a 'take it or leave it option'. There was a programme about their attitude to the vaccine last week. To them it is purely a profit making product. They refuse to licence it to other countries to produce independantly and only supply to the countries prepared to pay most. I'm just hoping the AstraZeneca can modify their vaccine to eliminate the problems and then undercut Pfizer.
I've tried, but I can't see the attraction. Portly worzel gummidges just don't do it for me. His faculty for procreation is a mystery.. He has an indeterminate number of children and, in addition to being saddled with him as a father, most of them are unlikely to come across another child with the same name.
shall we even mention the money spent on Brexit? Billions paid to "negotiators and lawers" HE signed the deal, HE agreed to the terms and look at the mess. Fishermen unhappy, farmers unhappy, shelves empty, driver shortages , the total shambles in Northern Ireland with the real danger of sectarian anger boiling over. "British jobs for British people" , My arse ! He's stopped saying " no rules were broken" over the parties, now he's saying " I broke no rules "
Well over £22 billion spent on the afghan war looking for weapons of mass destruction which they knew they wouldn’t find. Two world wars didn’t do bad either. Took us 60 years to pay the 2nd war debt off.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Two world wars didn’t do bad either. Took us 60 years to pay the 2nd war debt off.
We didn't start those and had little option but to fight them, as has been the case with covid. Of course there have been other political mistakes in history, some of them very costly. That doesn't exonerate the present administration from responsibility for the self inflicted ones.
Covid isn't Boris's fault. He does have to answer for the choices he's made in responding to it, and certainly for the money - vast amounts of money - wasted. I'd say it's arguable whether any other leader, current or past, would have done better overall in terms of infection rates and mortality. A few countries have come through it better than us, but that has had more to do with geography and population density than political choices, as far as I can see. Other countries that are similar to us don't seem to have fared much better overall, even when they've taken very different actions at different times. But economically is a different question.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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And the bendy buses which were too long to go round corners?
The £37,000,000,000 he paid to his mates for track and trace, which still doesn't work. Any chance of a refund? or for the PPE equipment which cost us £100s millions and then was found to be not fit for purpose?
The court found he'd broken the law 72 times in illegally awarding contracts " to donons and supporters"
He's paying Pfizer £22 a dose of vaccine when it only costs 76 cents to produce.
He had he last marriage annulled so he could get married in a Catholic church, thus making his own children , wellm some of them, illegitimate.
He's the most incompetent politician in decades
You forgot to mention his pilfering of the public purse to the tune of £38 million for his batty blonde pal’s pet project
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/28/garden-bridge-dead-38m-public-money-repaid-boris-johnson
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He has an indeterminate number of children and, in addition to being saddled with him as a father, most of them are unlikely to come across another child with the same name.
Billions paid to "negotiators and lawers" HE signed the deal, HE agreed to the terms and look at the mess.
Fishermen unhappy, farmers unhappy, shelves empty, driver shortages , the total shambles in Northern Ireland with the real danger of sectarian anger boiling over.
"British jobs for British people" , My arse !
He's stopped saying " no rules were broken" over the parties, now he's saying " I broke no rules "
Two world wars didn’t do bad either. Took us 60 years to pay the 2nd war debt off.
Covid isn't Boris's fault. He does have to answer for the choices he's made in responding to it, and certainly for the money - vast amounts of money - wasted. I'd say it's arguable whether any other leader, current or past, would have done better overall in terms of infection rates and mortality. A few countries have come through it better than us, but that has had more to do with geography and population density than political choices, as far as I can see. Other countries that are similar to us don't seem to have fared much better overall, even when they've taken very different actions at different times. But economically is a different question.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”