Thread by @CliveWismayer

Of all the things said about Johnson (liar, charlatan, clown, conman, idler etc.) perhaps the one that should stand out most is: his incompetence. Many have described him thus. It comes from a supreme indifference to detail & a deep belief that the workings of ..

.. complicated things (medicine, engineering, the economy etc) are for little people. They are beneath his giant intellect (as he sees it).

He reminds me of the toff who airily surveys his stately home & claims credit for things with which he had nothing to do. ‘Father built ..

.. the West wing [no he bloody did not] & I put the folly beside the lake [you had nothing to do with it].’

The incompetence is acute & was on display at the beginning of the pandemic when he was dodging COBRA meetings & shaking hands with everyone. It’s the same with ..

.. economics. He may really believe sales of Nissan cars can be replaced by the export of boomerangs to Australia. More likely, he just doesn’t care. Little people can take care of the detail:

‘Build a garden bridge over the Thames.’
‘Let’s put an airport in the Thames ..

.. estuary’.
‘Build another bridge across an ammo dump to N. Ireland.’

He apes Churchill with this crap. Churchill was constantly butting in with bat shit crazy ideas in WW2. He also apes his version of Churchill in believing he is being statesmanlike in ushering ..

.. 10s of thousands to an early grave. He’s fundamentally incompetent & we already see the result in relation to Brexit, the virus & the economy.

And when caught out, he lies, possibly as much to himself as to us.