Friday 17 July 2020

All Over By Christmas

Boris Johnson had a briefs joke about his opponent, former lawyer Keir Starmer during the week, and he had six question from Keir to shoehorn it in and as each question passed you could almost see the part of Johnson's brain saying 'don’t do the joke now' as he waited to pick the right time to unleash it and as Keir's last question was did Johnson have a message to the families of the 45,000 bereaved, i was the last chance to launch it and powerless to resist, his mouth said 'The leader of the opposition needed to decide which brief he was going to take...', his brain warned 'Don’t do it now. Don’t do it now. Don’t do it now' but his mouth continued '...because at the moment...' Brain now screaming 'please please please don’t do it now', mouth '...he’s got more briefs than Calvin Klein'.
With Starmer slowly shaking his head in dismay, the tumbleweed sailed through the chamber, a lone church bell sounded somewhere and Boris, looking very pleased with himself before going on to make up some stuff about budgets and announcing the Government is to spend £5 billion on something which was already accounted for in the £30 billion they announced last week but said in such a way that it sounded like an additional £5 billion but is actually the same money being produced with a flourish.   
Then there was the question regarding an inquiry into the Governments handling of the Covid-19 crisis but was brushed away as 'the middle of a pandemic is not a correct use of Parliamentary time for inquires' before announcing an urgent inquiry into Public Health England significantly overestimating Covid-19 death statistics by including former sufferers who could have subsequently died of other causes.
While other European leaders were taking action, Boris was attending rugby matches, encouraging mass gatherings to continue and shaking hands with as many sick people as he could find, he doesn't exactly inspire confidence and today he said it will be all over by Christmas, unfortunately with him leading us, for many of us it will, permanently.

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