With shouts of “shame on you” ringing in his ears as he left the Covid inquiry, David Cameron reminded us that Tory incompetence didn’t start with Boris Johnson or Rishi Sunak.
History will remember the five UK Conservative Prime Ministers since 2010 as arguably our most inept series of leaders ever.
From doctors and the TUC trade unions to bereaved families, it is clear that Tory austerity cuts initiated by Cameron in coalition with the Liberal Democrats weakened the ability to fight back when the pandemic struck.
Arrogant Cameron was having none of it, of course – but the truth hurts. Undermining the NHS and public services, as well as choking a promising recovery inherited from Gordon Brown’s Labour, was clearly a fatal disaster.
The vandalism inflicted by Cameron’s austerity was an avoidable strategic error that made him one of the guilty who left the country unprepared for Covid.
Scuttler Sunak
Chickening out of voting for the damning verdict that Boris Johnson is a serial liar was confirmation Rishi Sunak lacks the courage to lead the nation.
Strong Prime Ministers lead from the front, the frightened scuttle away as Sunak did.
Relying on others to deliver the final humiliation for a twister who knowingly, deliberately and repeatedly misled Parliament about Covid parties in Downing Street was cowardly.
The present PM should have buried an untrustworthy predecessor who quit as an MP to avoid facing the music.
Instead he found an excuse to dodge Johnson’s day of judgement in the House of Commons.
Sunak will regret flunking a leadership test.
Elton gone
Elton John headlining Glastonbury on his first trip to the festival for his last ever UK gig guarantees he will bow out to thunderous cheers.
This time it really is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for a true music legend.
