U-turn and u-turn again as Boris Johnson first agrees, then refuses to meet bereaved Covid campaigners
Coward: Boris Johnson hid in a fridge once to evade difficult questions. Now he is resorting to flat-out lies.
How galling for the 14 million who voted for him to realise that Boris Johnson is such a craven coward.
He can’t even bear to meet people who have lost family members due to his mistakes – so he has made up a succession of reasons not to.
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK may not have a snappy name but they do have a good reason for existence – they want an inquiry into the Johnson government’s decisions on the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK.
The organisation wisely distrusts Johnson’s claim that he will hold an inquiry “at the appropriate time” and has already issued a “letter before action”, warning that the group is considering litigation to secure an inquiry.
But a letter before action is not itself litigation.
So when Boris Johnson said, “It turns out that this particular group are currently in litigation with the government. I will certainly meet them once that litigation is concluded,” he was lying.
He had previously promised to meet them.
Perhaps he was hoping that most people would not know enough about court action to tell that he was telling a falsehood in order to run away from the potentially disastrous publicity a meeting would create.
It’s also possible that he was hoping his u-turn would not come to public attention.
This Writer is already on the record as saying it is unlikely an inquiry will take place. Politicians like Johnson say there will be one “at the appropriate time” when a crisis is ongoing and people are demanding it but, the instant the trouble is over, they insist that it would be better to put the matter behind us.
Let’s face it: Johnson is notoriously bad – embarrassing, in fact – when he doesn’t have a script to read out. He may be afraid he’ll say something that may be used against him later.
So he’s running away from a meeting he promised to attend.
And that, dear reader, is the act of a coward.
Source: Coronavirus: Campaigners reject PM’s ‘poor excuse’ for not meeting them – BBC News
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