Nero fiddled while his home burned; Johnson daubed
Boris Johnson on his holibobs: he’s an artist, and while we all think his medium begins with ‘P’, we didn’t think it was paint.
Here’s a good question:
Picasso back from his hideaway yet? 🙄
— Fr Ian Maher SCP🇺🇦🏴🇪🇺🐝#RejoinEU (@IanMaher7) October 13, 2021
At the time of writing, to This Writer’s knowledge, he wasn’t.
If you’re wondering what we’re on about, what with the great Spanish artist having died in 1973, then perhaps the following few tweets will help:
16 days before the G20 in 2009, PM Gordon Brown was travelling the world to get binding commitments from world leaders to help the world economy recover from crisis
16 days before #COP26, with hopes for the summit under serious threat of collapsing, Boris Johnson is also abroad pic.twitter.com/ZLQZxWqLwm
— Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) October 13, 2021
Last week, for the sake of twenty quid, he tipped 800,000 people into poverty. This week, our PM paints in a villa costing £25,000 per week. I feel sick. pic.twitter.com/DD5xtlJZ9e
— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) October 13, 2021
This week 250 children in England will be hospitalised with Covid. 2 or 3 will die. A thousand adults will die. Meanwhile, our PM is "doing the best he can". pic.twitter.com/qKGvisZ8g2
— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) October 13, 2021
Yes. While on an expensive holiday abroad (funded by someone else – possibly Zac Goldsmith?) the prime minister has taken up painting.
Probably painting because the sea is closed. pic.twitter.com/O5tiAeLngq
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) October 13, 2021
Meanwhile, the UK is going to Hell in a handbasket, and Johnson’s absence has come under criticism:
Ed Miliband on #radio4 ‘ imagine if Gordon Brown had been away during the economic crisis’ why oh why are the media not calling him out?
— Queenie – why not! (@LizGibbons15) October 13, 2021
Do I begrudge a Prime Minister a holiday? I do not. Do I begrudge THIS Prime Minister, at this time of crisis – the many facets of which trace back directly to his door? I do. I begrudge thee, I begrudge thee, I begrudge thee. (If you say it three times, he doesn't come back.)
— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) October 13, 2021
We’ve seen this film before, country gets plunged into a new crisis. Johnson clears off on holiday, “unclear” who paid for it, ie it’s likely to be another bung. The BBC and Sky don’t mention it. Johnson comes home. Nothing happens. The end. https://t.co/bcbjAaJLOa
— Devutopia (@D_Raval) October 11, 2021
Meanwhile, the UK is lurching from one crisis to another:
Six major crises going on in the UK as Boris Johnson jets off on holiday https://t.co/hKA48AtK3E
— Clare Hepworth OBE (@Hepworthclare) October 11, 2021
The Mirror lists the energy crisis that cold lead to power cuts; gas price increases that are putting factories on the verge of shutdown; the poverty faced by millions after the £20 cut in Universal Credit; empty supermarket shelves and the threat of permanently higher food prices; and the HGV driver shortage.
To that, we could add the escalating Covid-19 crisis that both the government and the mainstream media are ignoring; the NHS logjam that now starts at our GP practices and Sajid Javid’s lame attempt to divert the blame; the failure of Brexit and in particular the collapse of the Northern Ireland protocol due to Johnson’s lies; Priti Patel’s psychotic determination to cause the deaths of refugees, epitomised by her attempt to ensure her officials don’t take the blame; and the general racism of Tory MPs.
The response from Downing Street? Johnson is “continuing to lead” while still being on holiday in Marbella.
But government is trying to stop you working from home.
One rule for them but another rule for you. https://t.co/n1cE79Tw43— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) October 11, 2021
Never mind that, Diane – This Writer hasn’t seen or heard a peep out of him since he left, more or less a week ago.
I’m not convinced that Downing Street was telling the whole truth.
And it doesn’t change the simple fact:
Before Johnson, PMs would often be told to come home from holiday during a crisis. Now, they go off on holiday during the crisis.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 11, 2021
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