BORIS Johnson always wanted to be Prime Minister and like some before him (Gordon Brown) that ambition didn’t come with any plan on what to do once inside No 10 Downing Street. There was no great policy idea or plan to change the UK, it was simply blind ambition to achieve the post of Prime Minister. No doubt he’d be looking for any credible achievement with which to boast about his time as PM. Well, that he has achieved.
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Due to the staggering incompetence of his government and his complete indifference to the welfare of the general public, we are soon due to see more people in the UK die from Covid -19 than all the civilian deaths in the UK during the six years of World War Two. The Office for National Statistics is reporting excess deaths due to Covid-19 to be approximately 60,000, and from Westminster Parliamentary Research Papers the total of civilian deaths in the UK during World War Two was around 70,000. How’s that for remembering Boris Johnson’s time as Prime Minister!
Cllr Kenny MacLaren
Paisley
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