I can't think of one leader in my lifetime who would have done it worse. Only one that might come close would be Callaghan, and even then he had experience in running state apparatus, and there would have been actual organisation going on, and a plan.
Was thinking a similar thing myself, and I cannot recall a Government in my living memory who could have consistantly messed things up the way this one has. It is one cluster fuck after another, and they seem to learn nothing form their mistakes.
Heard Adrian Chilles today describe Boris as the' boy who cried wolf 'in reverse, in as much as he always tells everyone things are better than they are because he only likes to give good news, but it has happened so often and been wrong that no one is believing him any more. Summed it up for me.
Both Boris and Trump can be held up as a true representation of what can go wrong when a leader/government is elected on an almost entirely populist ticket.
In normal times they can bumble along telling people whatever it is they think they want to hear, they can disrespect the office they hold and in ‘Johnson’s case continually display a lack of mental strength’ safe in the knowledge that the MSM have their back.
When the ‘shit hits the fan’ they are left exposed, bereft of ideas and surrounded by sycophants with nothing of value to offer, their lack of understanding and confidence leads to a catalogue of knee jerk decisions, backdowns and U-turns.
They polarize opinions to such an extent that focus on the actual issues becomes blurred and inexplicably the less sense they make and the more harm they do ‘the more their support rallies behind them.
