Re. The windfall tax.
That is a great example of what is wrong with Johnson.
He doesn't do strategy or long-term policy. He doesn't think, 'I am here to serve my country. What can I do to improve the U.K.? How can I leave it better than I found it?'
He thinks in terms of Johnson, Johnson, Johnson. The Conservative Party is simply a vehicle for himself - he'll set it on fire to warm himself before he leaves. Likewise the U.K.
So he does tactics and manoeuvring - with his interests first and centre. He doesn't do strategy or long-term policy.
And so we come to the fact of him letting the Opposition do the work of developing policy for him.
Sure - it's probably good for the electorate for a government to take a good idea.
BUT
We've all had a boss like Johnson: he's an egotistical nutter, lazy as sin, gruesomely incompetent. And ruthless.
He steals the project you've worked on. He takes the credit.
You grit yourself teeth and tell yourself, 'Well - at least it's being implemented.'
But ... he's incompetent, lazy, venal.
The implementation is shit.
And now - now - he turns around and says, 'It was Cat's idea. The problem was the idea.'
So now your project has been wrecked, utterly trashed, by your venal, incompetent boss.
Just so the Windfall Tax.
It's implementation is already flawed: those who will receive the benefits and how; the loopholes to allow companies not to pay.
It's painful to watch Johnson take a policy idea and do it badly.
Which he does.
Because he doesn't do policy.
He doesn't do research and detail.
He governs like a medieval monarch - capriciously and non-collaboratively.
He's just shit.
Even the Conservative Party deserve better - never mind the U.K.