Boris And The Thatcher Dead Cat

The Conservatives, under David Cameron, had a technique called the Dead Cat strategy where they would try and hide something unpalatable by saying or doing something less unpalatable to divert the anger towards the 'dead cat on the table' rather than the more damaging thing they were doing at the time.
To many Boris Johnson is just an oaf whose brain and mouth are not properly connected because he does come out with some real gaffs like today in Scotland when he said that Margaret Thatcher's closure of the coal mines in the 1980's was part of the battle against climate change which has got all of the former mining towns devastated by the closures up in arms.
So with everyone now discussing what he said about Margaret Thatcher, or the dead cat he lobbed on the table, we are not discussing yesterdays announcements that energy prices will rise hundreds of pounds for millions of people across the UK in October, right at the start of the cold weather which was a Margaret Thatcher privatisation policy, or we are not discussing the president of the UK's upcoming climate change conference traveling to more than 30 countries in seven months, many of them on the official Government red list, and then used an exemption for ministers to avoid quarantine on his return, the same one Boris tried to use himself recently.
Also going under the radar as we argue about Margaret Thatcher green credentials is the messy roll out of vaccines for 16 and 17 year olds but most likely is the flippant answer avoided him having to answer the question of his parties Climate Change strategy which saw the government scrap its original strategy a couple of months ago and having to admit that his government cut the green homes grant and has fudged the deadline for transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Maybe i am wrong and Boris Johnson is just prone to saying ridiculous things at inopportune moments but as Dawn Butler pointed out in Parliament, Boris Johnson had 'lied to the country over and over again', for which she was asked to leave the chamber while Boris and his cronies were left inside it to carry on deceiving, lying and spouting untruths.