When Jeremy Corbyn was Labour Leader, Boris looked World class.

That, for Boris, is the only relevant comparison that we have. Becuase he and Keir Starmer are two different sides of the same damaged political coin.

With Boris’ star waning very quickly indeed, a new Labour Leader who looks prepared, clinical and unlikely to lose his calm whilst jousting with the Prime Minister at the Dispatch Box seems a reassuring sight indeed.

But it isn’t the case.

Sadly we have become used to judging politicians by differences between them that are surface deep. We are not used to looking further at what they represent and what difference they would really make in power.

At a time of national crisis, set to go from bad to exponentially worse, we really should be clear how different the political leadership of the UK needs to be from what we have now.

Boris’ moment was Brexit. He did a good job of appearing to save something the Establishment had concluded we had already lost.

That Boris found himself Prime Minister owes more to the absence of anyone remotely Churchillian in stature in Parliament, than it does to the effervescent Clown show that was funny at a time when we had to accept there was no choice due to the way our political system is sewn up.

Put bluntly, Boris was the best of a very bad choice.

Starmer appears a different beast for sure. He has the mind and experience of a Barrister and the track record of a high flyer from being outside of Westminster too. His early performances at PMQ’s give the impression that lined up against the UK’s No1 Baffoon, this is a man on a mission who will get things done.

Sounds great. But that’s where the differences end.

As far as the Establishment and the broken political system that propelled both Boris and the Leader of the Opposition into their roles goes, both are there to pursue their own ends and ideologies.

So as far as the impact of the changes they have the capability to make on our behalf are concerned, they are very much cut from the very same perpetually disappointing cloth.

A background in Law, running part of the Establishment itself, is no qualification for the good statesmanship that we need in a PM right now.

Like everything else, Law has become all about the money, the contacts, gongs and personal gain, rather than public service and the assurance of a morally correct framework in criminal and civil law for this Country – as it should be.

Starmers’ qualification and experience offers hollow promise. The background he has, as all barristers and solicitors who have been elevated to parliament on the suggestion they make good MPs is fundamentally flawed.

They are adept at using the Law and policy to achieve their political aims. But they are not equipped nor do they have the understanding to ensure that the rules and framework they are using to govern is either morally or ethically right or fit for purpose is any way.

As the UK descends into chaos best visualised by what it would have looked like if the crew and passengers had clapped as the Titanic went down, we don’t have the time or lives to waste on going around the same old political leadership merry-go-round as we have done before.

Keir Starmer is not the man for all seasons that we need as PM.

It’s time to look beyond the usual suspects for the political change that will be required long before 2024, when the people realise that the time is now. 

So there it is. The Lockdown continues. But it doesn’t. But actually it does.

Clear as mud.

This is a Prime Minister and Government living in terror of the monster they have created by responding irrationally to a pandemic that they still don’t understand, now hiding from the consequences of the Lockdown that they never needed to impose.

We are being treated like children at best but more like fools, rather than the adults that we are.

We are being expected to respect and swallow the statistics and the diagrams as if they have been created with guarantees and authority when the people who created them have no better idea of where this is all going than anyone else does.

This whole exercise has become about the self preservation of a Government that is completely out of its depth, led by a Prime Minister who is obsessed with controlling the legacy that he believes it is his right to leave.

The cost of this foolishness and ineptitude is simply too high.

The Lockdown needs to end now without any restrictions on our lives being left in place in any way so that the UK can get up and be ready to face another day.

If this Government continues on the path that it is, people will be left alive but without lives to live.

If the damage that the Lockdown and the lack of financial provision that followed it wasn’t enough to convince us, this Government seems to be hellbent on extending its stupidity and irresponsibility with the aid of the Public Chequebook at every turn.

The hollow distractions that no longer have value like the Contact Tracing App, being talked up and used to keep people thinking the Government are doing something worthwhile is one thing. But now attempting to extend this level of ignorance and stupidity in positions of responsibility into placing restrictions on the way we live once they deign to open the doors back up is another thing entirely.

If you reduce the capacity of public transport by 90%, whether it’s buses or trains, how the hell do they expect everyone to get to work? How do they think the operating companies can break even without significant subsidies from the Taxpayer just so they can continue to exist?

None of this is real world stuff. It’s like Thunderbirds and that means it is a real problem for us all.

The lockdown was unnecessary. They have scared people into fearing death from a virus that is less likely to kill them more than anything else, rather than daring to live each day normally and enjoy being alive.

The financial package they came up with has addicted workers to free money, condemned businesses to close with the job losses that will follow and turbo charged the UK into a recession which will hurt many more than the few their ridiculous measures will ever save. Yet all they needed to do was live up to their responsibilities in the first place and Stop the Bills

Having politicians running the Country who don’t understand the lives of the very people they govern and think every problem can be solved with manipulative sound bites and piles of cash is the last thing we need at any time – least of all at a time of national crisis.

We need change at the top. We need people running this Country who think differently. We need them right now!

There is no evidence that the Lockdown has saved lives from COVID-19 that wouldn’t have been saved anyway, had the Government chosen to deal with the Coronavirus emergency in a different way.

One of the ways that the Government could have acted differently would have been to follow its own advice like South Korea did and use contact tracing as the basis of its response right from the start, when the Virus was not already circulating after touching 1 in 5 of us or possibly more.

To introduce an App and insist that we must all use it now, will, like the Lockdown, cause much more harm than good.

Coronavirus is everywhere. It is just not affecting everyone in the same way, and of many it is as if the Virus is just passing them by.

To begin policing contact with COVID-19 and treating it like it would be an absolute is foolish at best and wholly malevolent at worst.

The reality is that an App can no longer tell you where the Virus may or may not have come from. It could be on a doorway, a shopping trolley, the pint of milk you pick up or even just floating by in the air.

People who download and use this App voluntarily will quickly become the slaves of its use.

The monitoring will be just like having big brother in your pocket. It could very quickly become a way to provide documentary evidence to the authorities which will be used to keep us locked up on nothing more than the basis of our own honesty, when the accuracy or fidelity of the original information we give them with the intention of helping others may not be in any way accurate and cannot be relied upon fairly in any way. It is not impossible that many could be permanently locked-down in complete quarantine as a result.

The Government doesn’t know what it is doing now any more than it did do when this travesty and the COVID-19 Pandemic began.

The refinement of social distancing and use of false hope in the form of technology that can and so almost certainly will be used for purposes other than what we are being advised are just further ways that Politicians are attempting to control our behaviour and the way that we are responding to their handling of Coronavirus because it is something that they have no way to control.

The only way to get out of this now is to stop pretending that all these devices such as the Lockdown, Social Distancing, the number of Tests they can do each day and now the Smartphone App, can actually bring an and to a problem that needs to be managed and not held back until it can be fully solved.

The Country needs to go back to work and to be allowed to live life as best as people can. And if the Government cannot accept this and stop trying to control us in every way because it can, rather than admitting it cannot control the things that it can’t, it should step aside once and for all and allow us to put in place the people to lead us who can and will.

Getting through and out the other side of the financial catastrophe that will be here very soon is not something that can be dealt with by politicians who are so insecure that they are obsessed with our control.

The Johnson Government created the crisis that is coming and they should stop trying to blag their way through it by compromising our liberty and our lives as they do.

The story isn’t about a Government Medical Advisor meeting his mistress under a Lockdown he helped to design.

The real story is that we have a Government that has now provided incontrovertible evidence that it imposed the Lockdown on the basis of do what I say, don’t do what I do. Or alternatively, that our Politicians really have so little vision that they cannot think through the practical realities and impact of the decisions they are making on everyone’s behalf.

Whilst many will find it much easier to believe that the Government is working with a them vs us mentality, when it comes to making decisions which effect all of our lives, other than it being all too easy to believe, there is very little evidence to suggest it’s actually true.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity applies to this situation as if it were the perfect fit.

So no, there isn’t any reason to think that the Government is deliberately out to wreck our lives, or that there are any grounds to believe that there is a conspiracy at work.

But we do now have the evidence to illustrate that the people we currently have making the decisions that are on the way to wrecking this Country – as well as destroying countless lives, are not even in touch with themselves at a deep enough level to understand how living with what they have unleashed would really be.

MPs really are behaving as if the lives and wellbeing of 66 million People across the UK is just a game and that there is no cost involved to anything that they do.

People who cannot look inwards and understand how they themselves think, why they think it and how influences upon them work, cannot look objectively at the same or similar processes for anyone else. No matter the differences or similarities in the way that their lives work.

Those who are leading us or advising those who are should have this ability, along with the life experience and wherewithal to place themselves in the shoes of the people who their decisions will impact upon as a minimum.

What is clear from the Ferguson Resignation is that they do not.

The UK now desperately needs the Lockdown ended and people running this Country who can and do understand the consequences of every situation they create.