Boris Johnson’s dishonesty and deceit is undemocratic – Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Ian Richardson, Railway Street, Beverley.
AS we reach the end of this most demanding of years, it strikes me that there is one dominant and hugely perplexing question concerning what exactly is guiding the Boris Johnson mode of governance.
Essentially, for one of my political persuasion, brutal though it sounds, it boils down to this – are we being led by the foolish or the duplicitous?
So frequently have horrendous mistakes been made in the handling of the pandemic, from the fiasco in care homes, through the Cummings debacle, to the vast waste of public money on unsuitable PPE contractors, that the evidence for lack of wisdom seems overwhelming.
I could make the same case for the mishandling of exams and free school meals provision; in fact, for almost everything they touch.
The crucial Brexit deal negotiations also seem to be driven by a fundamental lack of wisdom concerning the power of the UK against a united bloc of 27.
On the other hand, the apparently foolish and ill-conceived may just be a smokescreen for something far worse – a governance that knowingly deceives.
Boris continually hurls hollow phrases at problems – ‘take back control’, ‘guided by the science’, ‘levelling up’, ‘moonshots.’ All deliberately designed to deceive.
Perhaps the truth is the two explanations are inextricably linked, lack of wisdom certainly (fallaciously raised to a positive by populists), interwoven with frequent dishonesty and deceit.
Nobody wins from this type of politics, as the Brexit-induced chaos we are heading for will likely show. Until the people demand far more of our leaders, we will continue to move in ever decreasing, and ever more dangerous, circles.
From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.
WHAT a sour-puss Nicola Sturgeon is questioning whether or not the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge should visit Scotland in lieu of the fact that travelling is not allowed under her Covid rules (The Yorkshire Post, December 8).
I expect the people of Scotland will be pleased to see that this young future king and his wife care about them enough to listen to the problems the pandemic has brought them, and as they later showed during their heartwarming visit to Batley.
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