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re: Boris Relaxes & Paints in £25k-a-WEEK Villa as UK Crisis Grips
Boris Johnson Relaxes and Paints Picture in £25k-a-WEEK Villa as UK Crisis Grips
The country’s in crisis and his deadly mishandling of Covid is being condemned by bereaved families and MPs... So where’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson? >He’s playing with his paint set at his billionaire pal’s villa - having fun Boris?
Daily Mirror 13 OCT 2021.
Boris Johnson painting at the Goldsmith’s Ranch in Benahavis, Marbella, Spain. 12.10.2021 The PM is reportedly in a 'super bubble'
As Boris Johnson stood at his easel trying to emulate his hero Winston Churchill, at home he was being condemned for failing to lead the nation through its worst crisis since the Second World War.
Families of those who died of Covid-19 were calling on the Prime Minister to apologise for his Government’s appalling failings during the pandemic, after a devastating report by MPs.
And as Mr Johnson relaxed in the Spanish villa owned by his billionaire pal, Zac Goldsmith, who he made a peer, industry chiefs were warning soaring energy prices could shut factories, costing thousands of jobs.
The country was also tackling labour shortages, price hikes, and a brutal Universal Credit cut, and with Cop26 less than a month away, the PM was advised to “get off his sun lounger and start being a statesman” amid warnings he needs to take the climate talks in Glasgow seriously to avoid a “greenwash” summit.
But Mr Johnson carried on his holiday with wife Carrie and their year-old son Wilfred regardless, leading the Spanish press to react to his sunshine break with disbelief. The El Pais newspaper said: “Boris Johnson spends a week in Marbella with his family while the United Kingdom tackles its greatest crisis since the pandemic.”
Mr Johnson has failed to comment on a report on ministers’ handling of the pandemic by the Health and Social Care and Science and Technology committees.
It concluded that 20,000 lives could have been saved if the country had gone into lockdown earlier in March last year.
Cabinet Office Minister Steve Barclay, who was sent out to defend the Government, admitted he had not even read the report and refused more than a dozen times to apologise – even though 150,000 people have died.
Asked if he wanted to say sorry for the failings, he said: “We’ve followed throughout the scientific advice. We got the vaccine deployed extremely quickly, we protected our NHS.”
Another Tory minister George Freeman said: “It’s too early for any proper discussion about blame and fault. This was a biomedical Battle of Britain and I suspect mistakes were made.”
Rivka Gottlieb, 49, believes the decision not to lock down earlier last spring cost her dad Michael, 73, his life in April.
She said: “I remember at the time, so many voices clamouring for an earlier lockdown, including from the scientific community.
“So the finger pointing, and the blaming the scientists, I just don’t accept it, I don’t buy it.
“Ultimately, the buck stops with the Government. They are responsible for the decisions and they made very poor decisions.”
"Everybody is entitled to a holiday, including the Prime Minister, but Boris Johnson has had 3 or 4 this past year that we know of. Now he has undeniably chosen a particularly bad time to escape a worried country by booking this trip to Spain.
While he enjoys painting pictures in the sunshine, back home many millions of workers, families and businesses are fighting serious crises on multiple fronts.
While he indulges in the luxury of a grand villa in Marbella courtesy of a Conservative Government Minister gifted a peerage, companies in the glass, steel, ceramic, paper and cement industries are concerned soaring crippling fuel bills could shut them down.
While he relaxes abroad, shortages of lorry drivers and agricultural workers are emptying supermarket shelves and making life tougher for those who couldn’t go away.
While he decides whether to swim or play tennis, households he callously hit hard by snatching £20 a week Universal Credit face choosing between hearing and eating.
And while he contemplates life, mourning relatives are asking why he isn’t apologising for the thousands of Covid victims needlessly killed by his and his Government’s incompetence.
The angry public voices raised about this ill-judged holiday are entitled to be heard and in a democracy it is demonstrably in the public interest for voters to read and see what their absent Prime Minister is doing while they grapple With making ends meet.
Yes, Johnson’s suffered Covid himself last year and his mother died recently so he could do with a break like everybody else.
Yet when he’s contributing to the woes of those hardworking grafters, families and businesses rather than giving them a break at what is a stressful time, Britain screaming our for incisive leadership, Johnson’s reinforcing growing evidence that he’s a trivial figure when a serious Prime Minister’s required.
The picture he’s painting by abandoning Downing Street this week isn’t pretty.
A good PM would be at work, not on holiday. Going awol tells us much about Johnson that is disturbing."
What the PM thinks he looks like - British statesman Winston Churchill painting a view of the Sorgue River while on vacation....
...whilst the nation Sees...
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