Boris Johnson

• IN three words Boris Johnson’s first year.

Yes, those celebrations.
Government’s great achievements.
Preoccupied with Brexit.
Pandemic/self-quarantine (1666).
Populism denies complexity.
Infantilising the populace.
Save Our NHS.
Hands Face Space.
General Indecision and…
Major Moonshine and…
Captain Hindsight combined.
First digital pandemic.
Cost-benefit analysis.
Furlough, quantitative easing.
Conjecture, immunology, virology.
Any other ology.
Acute respiratory syndrome.
Infection fatality rates.
Lockdown, curfews, climb-downs.
Social distancing and…
Contact tracing and…
“Covidiots”, remote working.
Unmuted zooming obsessions.
Incremental level tiers.
“Levellin’ up” back-burned.
Every stone unturned.
Thriving conspiracy theories.
Erosion of trust.
Rolling up sleeves.
Bumps in road.
Down t’wire.
Searchlights of science.
Serious medical research.
An international collaboration.
Shot in arm.
Foot off pedal.
Vacuous inflated inanities.
World-beating whatever.
Fake patrician bombast.
Reassess our priorities.
Social democratic welfarism.
Populist Keynesianism reappears.
Unashamed Little Englanders.
Economical with truth.
Pre-existing inequalities.
Socio-economic inequity.
Worst economic mess.
There’s always Brexit.
Which is cooked.
So are we.
Happy new year.

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2