Afghanistan exploding the Conservative Government’s myth of a Global Britain leading the world.
Retreating after the US withdrew destroys the illusion that our country is a powerful military power with clout in Nato.
The fall of Kabul and rapid Taliban takeover emphasise the expensive, frightening lies behind false propaganda that a deadly 20-year mission changed the Asian mountainous land.
And the lazy, chaotic, woeful responses from Boris Johnson and deputy Dominic Raab reveal the terrifying depth of the Tory regime in London’s incompetence, deceit and shamefulness.
Ignored by the US, weak in Nato and marooned friendless off the coast of mainland Europe, Great Britain’s reduced to a mocked Little Britain.
Johnson, architect of Brexit national self-harm and shunned by US President Joe Biden, will never be forgiven for enfeebling our country.
Draping himself in the Union Jack and singing Rule, Britannia! underline the enduring observation of an 18th Century Tory Johnson, Dr Samuel Johnson, that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Because Johnson’s systematically hurting, damaging and wrecking a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
No interest in Afghanistan and refugees who’d risked their lives working for Britain was typical of a work experience Prime Minister interested in PR stunts rather than the heavy lifting of good governance.
Brexit lies encourage Johnson to create a fantasy world in which he stays on top by misleading enough people on enough occasions.
The Covid disaster, with its tens of thousands unnecessary deaths and crony scandals, was another result.
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Voters who cheered aid cuts for the world’s wretched will include folk cheated at home by Universal Credit cuts and abandoning the state pension triple lock.
Tory MPs know Johnson’s a charlatan, one Conservative who spoke in last week’s emergency Parliament debate ringing to tell me the PM’s lost the confidence of his Westminster troops.
But the PM didn’t only get it wrong in Afghanistan. Johnson’s a calamity in Britain too. We’ve reached the beginning of the end for a terrible leader. Nobody’s laughing any more when he clowns.
