New deal? No deal! We can’t accept a plan for the future from the failed PM who deliberately wrecked it
Some have suggested that it was a campaign speech – and as such an indication that the Johnson government is rudderless.
Some have suggested that it was an admission of six months of failure and guilt.
Those are the more palatable options.
Man responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of men, women and children, tells you how he is going to rebuild Britain.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) June 30, 2020
To This Writer, it seems far more likely that Boris Johnson has taken advantage of a Hell-sent opportunity to reduce the United Kingdom to helplessness – and is now working out how he can re-mould it for his own personal profit.
I don’t believe any of the promises he made. He mentioned the mythical 40 new hospitals he has been promising us for the last – what – nearly a year, now. Bear this in mind:
At a time when almost every industry other than construction was at a standstill, and the economy could have benefited from a large government investment, not a single stone was laid on any such new hospitals. Not one.
So we must ask: when Johnson says he will “build, build, build” with a £5 billion plan for homes and infrastructure… who will benefit?
Questions have already been asked about the cost. It seems £5 billion is unlikely to cover all the claims he made in his speech. But this is nothing new to those of us with any long-term experience of Johnson.
He talks big but delivers little.
When Johnson mentions an “opportunity guarantee” to ensure the chance of an apprenticeship or placement, I fear for the future of young people.
When he says he wants “to fix the problems that were most brutally illuminated in that covid lightning flash”, I question whether he means problems we faced, or problems for him? Where is the detail that could put our minds at ease? We find it – like Johnson – is sadly lacking.
Look at his promise to change planning laws.
Those laws are in place to safeguard the people and the environment – two things about which Johnson cares little.
How would his changes affect developments like the controversial Westferry plan, that has mired both Housing Minister Robert Jenrick and Johnson himself in a huge corruption scandal?
“Sometimes you have got to get on with things,” said Johnson. To hide Tory wrongdoing?
You can be sure that, whatever happens next, Johnson and his government will be cherry-picking who they help, and who they throw to the wall; which firms he helps, and which go out of businesses.
If I had the money, I’d make a hefty bet that the beneficiaries of Johnson’s “New Deal” will be those that make donations to the Conservative and Unionist Party – and that those who don’t currently make a contribution will be put under considerable pressure to start.
All as a matter of economic necessity, of course. Nobody will catch a whiff of impropriety – especially as this whirlwind of activity known as “Project Speed” is expected to happen so fast.
I’m not convinced – and I’m not alone. See:
Good god. This has to be the worst speech thats intended to inspire there has ever been.
— Con_Dem_Nation #FBPE (@Con_Dem_Nation) June 30, 2020
Johnson's perpetuated a myth about toppling Churchill's statue and repeated his election lie about building 40 new hospitals when it's 6. That's just for starters.
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) June 30, 2020
Glad he mentioned statues. I was worried that he'd focus on the trivial stuff. Like the enormous death toll, the collapsing economy, the looming madness of Brexit and the continuing chaos of the lockdown.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 30, 2020
Not quite sure how Boris is going to do all this in £5bn
— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) June 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/OliverMilne/status/1277907852187877376
https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1277910694327975941
This is a campaign speech. If you're making a campaign speech six months after winning an 80-seat majority, it's fair to say you're making it all up as you go along.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 30, 2020
Source: Coronavirus: Johnson sets out ‘ambitious’ economic recovery plan – BBC News
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