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According to the DUP Boris had read his briefs and was up to speed.
Now if he can keep this up we may see the clever scholarship boy rather than the lazy leg-over specialist. Even so, I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes in this mess. If he can extract the UK from these present circumstances without too much damage I think that would count as a win of a kind; even given his manifest assistance in getting us neck-deep in the shit.
But let’s be realistic here; reading a couple of briefs to bring you up to speed on a difficult situation doesn’t mean you will be able to sort it out. Boris wouldn’t be the first person to overestimate his competences and abilities.
The stakes are rather high in this situation, however. Weirdly I hope that when Boris fails the UK will awaken from this mad situation and revoke article 50; but that’s just another pipe-dream.
Another slant on Boris’s way of doing things comes in today’s Grauniad by a “Civil Servant”:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/01/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-whitehall-democracy-civil-servants
Now that really is quite scary. I did wonder if Boris had put a government of all the monsters together just to unite the rest of us against what is the most awful collection of frankly bonkers Tories imaginable. I just don’t think the rest of us can unite against anything though; fatigue and boredom have set in, and the monsters will take us out without a deal and then flounder, not knowing what to do afterwards excepting asset-stripping the corpse.
Now if he can keep this up we may see the clever scholarship boy rather than the lazy leg-over specialist. Even so, I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes in this mess. If he can extract the UK from these present circumstances without too much damage I think that would count as a win of a kind; even given his manifest assistance in getting us neck-deep in the shit.
But let’s be realistic here; reading a couple of briefs to bring you up to speed on a difficult situation doesn’t mean you will be able to sort it out. Boris wouldn’t be the first person to overestimate his competences and abilities.
The stakes are rather high in this situation, however. Weirdly I hope that when Boris fails the UK will awaken from this mad situation and revoke article 50; but that’s just another pipe-dream.
Another slant on Boris’s way of doing things comes in today’s Grauniad by a “Civil Servant”:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/01/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-whitehall-democracy-civil-servants
Now that really is quite scary. I did wonder if Boris had put a government of all the monsters together just to unite the rest of us against what is the most awful collection of frankly bonkers Tories imaginable. I just don’t think the rest of us can unite against anything though; fatigue and boredom have set in, and the monsters will take us out without a deal and then flounder, not knowing what to do afterwards excepting asset-stripping the corpse.
