UK prime minister Boris Johnson missed his calling in life: he belongs in the circus.
Who can doubt that Boris And His Amazing Talking Backside would be a hit with audiences across the country, if not the globe?
And let’s be honest, it would be a far more appropriate place for him to make the kind of utterances he does.
There can be little doubt that most of Johnson’s conversation comes, not from his mouth, but from the other end.
He tends to give vent to short bursts of hot air with very little real content. And such content as there is, stinks.
A prime example of this verbal flatulence is the moment he claimed that all Covid-related contracts were “on the record for everyone to see” after Matt Hancock had been found to have broken the law by failing to publish them.
And were they?
Challenged about the ruling in the House of Commons on 22 February, Mr Johnson said: “All the details are on the record.”
The prime minister added: “The contracts are there on the record for everybody to see.”
But three days later, in a written legal response to the Good Law Project, seen by the BBC, government lawyers admitted 100 contracts for suppliers and services relating to Covid-19 signed before 7 October had yet to be published.
So they weren’t. And nobody is surprised because we all know that Johnson’s words don’t come from his mouth but from somewhere much lower down.
The other Tory claim about this – that the government has been “working tirelessly” to deliver protection for health and social care staff – was disproved the moment it was uttered.
We all remember that health staff had to fight Covid with no personal protective equipment at all when the first wave of the pandemic broke over the UK.
And social care staff actually carried it between homes, infecting – and killing – 30,000 residents.
When the High Court made its judgement against Matt Hancock last month, he was ordered to publish details of his contracts and pay £85,000 towards the costs of the Good Law Project, whose members brought the case.
The government hasn’t published those contracts. Shouldn’t Hancock now suffer a stronger penalty?
Source: Covid contracts still unpublished despite Boris Johnson’s claim – BBC News
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