Let’s face it, Boris was a cartoonist’s dream. Not just the disheveled appearance but also the shambolic posturing whenever he was being confronted about the inconsistencies in his role as Prime Minister.
Looking back through the blogs I created over the past couple of years, over 50 of them were about Boris’ ham-fisted handling of the COVID pandemic. From the government sanctioned releasing of elderly hospital patients back into care homes without testing, to the blanket application of ‘Do not resuscitate’ notices to elderly and disabled people who were later admitted to hospital. This was compounded by the implementation of the Frailty Scoring System which allowed medical staff to decide who would receive treatment and who would not. No surprise when it became apparent that elderly and disabled patients fell into the ‘no treatment’ category just by being elderly or disabled!
Not content with these discriminative ‘recommendations’ Boris followed up with the Coronavirus Bill which resulted in freeing local authorities of social care support duties, effectively ripping up the 2014 Care Act and its sections 20 and 18 (duty to meet needs of disabled people and carers). Incidentally, does anyone know if this has now been repealed?
Coming back to the present time and watching Boris bluster his way through cross examination at the COVID Enquiry reinforced the fact that he seems utterly incapable of understanding graphs and basic statistical information. He also seemed unable to comprehend the point that if he’d commenced lock down earlier than he did, it could have meant locking down for less time and not, as he stated, let it go on too long for people to cope with! Without Dominic Cummings writing his script he seemed unable to understand most of the questions put too him nor accept that he was complicit in the deaths of thousands of people due to his incompetence.
I’m looking forward to seeing what karma has in store for him!
Description of cartoon for those using screen reading software
Boris Johnson is standing in a circle of large stone slabs which he’s started to topple, creating a domino effect. The first slab that he’s pushed is identified as being the Coronavirus Bill, the second slab is The Care Act, the third slab is Section 20 etc. The slabs will continue to topple with the last slab identified as the COVID Enquiry 2023 which will fall onto him. On the floor at his feet is a piece of paper with ‘6 out of 10 COVID deaths were disabled people’. Standing to one side is Demonic Cummings who is saying to him: “Perhaps we should factor in Karma before we get too carried away?!”
Crippen Cartoons 