YABU. He was the one who called the Brexit referendum that led to all this mess. You say it was a pressing question that needed answering: I disagree. The problem was that Britain never used its veto in the EU and kept agreeing to things (eg immigration levels, Bulgaria joining, etc) that the majority of the British population didn’t support. So the Tories started losing votes to UKIP and the Tories were worried about Labour overtaking them. That’s the only reason the Tories called a Brexit referendum. Instead of, you know, actually campaigning and trying to win back the trust of their voters, or adjusting policies to reflect voters’ concerns.
Then, having called the referendum, all David talked about was money. It’ll be expensive to leave he said. Nothing about how amazing it was to be part of the biggest peacetime alliance there’s ever been, or how freedom to travel around sunnier countries and retire to Spain is rather nice, or how the real threats are Russia/China and maybe it’s a good idea to be part of the most powerful trading bloc in the world instead being an unimportant little island outside it, or how frictionless trade and being able to take a ham sandwich to France is quite useful.
Ugh. I miss Tony Blair. He got it. He surrounded himself with clever hard working people and they had an agenda and made the country better. All the Tories have done is impoverished the country, over and over again, through austerity, then Brexit, then foolish pandemic policies, and now they’ve crashed the pound so they can give bonuses to bankers. It almost looks like a plot to let Liz mess up so badly the public don’t complain when Boris reappears, like chewing gum on your shoe you thought you’d scraped off.
For years I’ve been saying that Labour are an unelectable mess, but I think we’ve finally reached the point that no one could do worse than the Tories.
David and Boris: the men who broke Britain. 😭