Boris Bigging Up His Record In Government

There are rumour's going around that Boris Johnson may have resigned as Prime Minster but he will remain an MP because as she was not even the choice of her own colleagues, Liz Truss is not expected to last until the next Election and he will be handily placed to step back into the breech once again, pending everyone forgetting just how awful he was the first time.
He hasn't even left yet and he is talking up his record in Government so maybe we should take a bit of a closer look at exactly what he done compared to his 2019 Manifesto promises.
First up is the 20,000 extra police officers to replace the 21,000 his predecessors cut which currently stands at 13,790 so we can't tick that one off  so not a great start.
What the NHS is crying out for is new Hospitals and Boris promised 40 new ones so with only 3 being built, only another 37 to go although he did change the definition of what he meant by 'new' to also mean a refurbishment but even with the new meaning of new, it's still only 22 so maybe just as well he hasn't got anywhere near the extra staff he promised of 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 more GPs as it is 23,753 more nurses and only 738 GP's.
Maybe the Hospital building is taking a back seat while the 300,000 new homes a year are being built but as 242,000 in 2019-20 was the closest it got to that figure, it probably isn't the reason.
One of the main pledges was to 'Get Brexit Done' and on the one hand he has taken us out of the EU but 3 trade deals to replace the 40 we lost and talking about breaking International Law over Northern Ireland, reversal of the foreign workers exit and supply line crisis and the economy taking a 4% hit to GDP makes it sound as though something got done but it certainly wasn't Brexit.
Towards the end of the manifesto was a pledge of no rise in rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT but we know that wasn't kept as national Insurance went up buy 1.25p for everyone and the promise to keep spending 0.7% of GDP on international aid was quickly dropped as the Government cut it to 0.5% almost before the ink was dry.
As well as pledges, Boris Johnson has made claims about his government's record during the pandemic such as the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe and very true, we were one of the very first but it was due to the NHS independent of Government who handed over responsibility to them for the roll out so bit of a cheek for Boris to claim he was responsible for it.
All in all, not great and that is without factoring in the law breaking, corruption, the scandals, police fines, the lock down parties, the loss of safe Tory seats, wallpaper-gate, the lies and the lie cover-ups and the plummeting poll ratings so if Boris is hoping all that will be forgotten by 2024, he is even more deluded than that time he asked us to trust him that all the rules had been followed in Downing Street during lock-down.