Boris - a leader for our times? I don't think so

No ‘world leader’ has covered themselves with glory with their handling of the Covid-19 emergency but we must all be confused about Boris Johnson’s flippant, contradictory and confusing example.

And that’s quite apart from the fact that it’s almost impossible to take the man seriously.  After all, he’s essentially a TV wit.  Now, inevitably, the poor bloke’s caught the dreaded virus.

Are we surprised, after those breezy press conference with the UK media crammed in with Boris and the robotic Prof Chris Whitty?  Boris and Whitty preached ‘social distancing’ but failed to lead by example.

Claiming we had to rush towards herd immunity the PM, flanked by chief medical officer Whitty, and chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, ruled out mass testing and a UK-wide lockdown, measures recommended by the WHO.

Then Boris U-turned on both measures.

But his example, as in the way he lives his life, is terrible.  Earlier he told us he’d been at a hospital ‘shaking lots of hands’.  Then he said he hoped to visit his mum on Mother’s Day.  Then he urged us NOT to visit our mums.

I pray he recovers from the Covid-19 disease and the delusion that he’s a great leader.  He isn’t.

·         ** Jeremy Corbyn popped up to helpfully suggest that he’d been right all along and that the Covid crisis shows that the NHS has been woefully underfunded for years.  He may be right, about the underfunding.  But is he seriously suggesting that if the NHS had had enough money years ago, they’d have spent it on 1,000 times more hand sanitisers, facemasks PPE equipment and toilet roll than they needed???