Johnson's Crime

Boris Johnson has been hoist by his own petard.  He and Sunak have been issued with fixed penalty notices by the police for having broken his own idiotic Covid laws.  Opportunist opposition politicians are, of course, jumping up and down like excited schoolchildren, demanding Johnson and Sunak resign, which, of course, they won't.

As parliamentary cretins, the worst thing these opportunist politicians can think that Johnson's reactionary government has done, is to fib to them.  Johnson's real crime, however, is to have been such a stupid politician as to have passed the laws he has been found to have breached.  The reality is that the majority of people in the country also will have breached those laws in one way or another, because they were stupid, complicated, unnecessary and unworkable laws.  The majority of people, who drive, also end up breaking motoring laws, at some point, but, at least those laws are based upon a good deal of reason.

The laws on lockdowns were not, as Professor Woolhouse has described in his book, but were, instead, as he says, a manifestation of a collective madness.  What kind of a stupid politician was it, for example, who passes such an illiberal and authoritarian law as to make having a party in your own house a criminal offence?!!  It was Johnson, but then, he did so under great pressure from Starmer and all those now calling for Johnson's blood to do so, and indeed to go even further.

Johnson's real crime is that he is a terrible politician, in a parliament full of terrible, and many even worse, politicians.  Together they imposed a terrible economic penalty on the country, and the greatest attack on workers' and civil liberties in two centuries.  The latter will be used by all future authoritarian governments as they seek to deal with opposition from workers, and that opposition from workers is probably not far off, as the economic consequences of the lockdowns in relation to soaring levels of inflation, of energy crises and astronomical energy prices resulting from NATO imperialism's economic war against Russia, begins to be felt.

The opportunist opposition politicians may get their wish, eventually, and Johnson and Sunak may go.  They face opposition in their own party.  But, the replacements are likely to be even worse than the present incumbents.