Boris the crisis freak

So far Boris Johnson’s year and a half tenure as Prime Minister has seen two major crises. The constant media tightrope that was the Brexit negotiations and the seemingly endless crisis that is the coronavirus debacle complete with what seem like daily briefings from the coronavirus lectern.

It is clear enough that the Boris Johnson style is to pump up the nearest crisis to a kind of wartime fever pitch and focus everything on that. What next?

Maybe we’ll see an economic crisis due to the coronavirus debacle, another health crisis next winter and somehow the green industrial revolution will generate a range of green crises. The green crises could even be genuine if one benefit of sustainable power turns out to be blackouts. Somehow I think Boris knows all that. It suits his style.