Boris Johnson promoted ‘well beyond his level of competence’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Gerald Hodgson, Spennithorne, Leyburn.
What is your verdict on Boris Johnson's leadership?What is your verdict on Boris Johnson's leadership?
What is your verdict on Boris Johnson's leadership?

IT is a well-known syndrome in organisations of all kinds that people tend to be promoted one stage above their level of competence.

The super salesman who is promoted to become a rotten sales manager is the archetypal example and the parallel with the situation at the top of our government is all too apparent.

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In the case of our Prime Minister, we have a man promoted not one but two stages beyond his level of competence. Having been the most disastrous Foreign Secretary in living memory, famously not reading his briefs, it was clearly a big mistake to promote him to the top job.

readers are becoming frustrated and confused by Boris Johnson's mixed messages.readers are becoming frustrated and confused by Boris Johnson's mixed messages.
readers are becoming frustrated and confused by Boris Johnson's mixed messages.

He denigrates the democratic process by sidelining MPs. He then goes on to so alienate the Civil Service that six very senior officers have resigned in the last few months.

One perceives the sinister hand of Dominic Cummings in both these areas. What is his hold over Boris Johnson?

The need to respect democracy by listening to our elected representatives goes without saying.

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As for the Civil Service, it 
has a reputation envied throughout the world for impartiality and absence of corruption, qualities which should be treasured, not rubbished.

We must have sympathy for any Prime Minister dealing with the hideous problems of Covid-19, but our present incumbent is clearly not up to the job.

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

“FEARLESSLY but with common sense” – yet another “mis-speak” by Boris Johnson perhaps?

Your editorial (The Yorkshire Post, October 5) clarified “fearlessly”. Hardly a day goes by without a plea or two for “common sense” to prevail, but what is it?

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Back in 2016, an unsavoury combination of gullibility and xenophobia was sanctified by the chanting of this legendary panacea by many members of my own generation. This left the nation’s children and grandchildren – many of whom had no say – lumbered with Brexit and, quite possibly, Donald Trump. Could we please have a definition?

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

THE missing of data entry of over coronavirus positive patients surely tells the central track and trace that they really should devolve their activities to local laboratories so that contacts can be more easily found? Time for a change, Dido Harding.

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