Good calls, PM
IT’S not fashionable to say so, even in the Tory Party, but Boris Johnson deserves credit for being proved right on several major Covid calls.
He went ahead with Freedom Day in July when Labour’s Keir Starmer cluelessly branded him reckless.
And though for a while we had more daily cases than big EU nations, our vaccines kept deaths low while greater natural immunity built up nationwide too.
That, along with the PM then turbo-charging the booster rollout early, gave us protection levels against Omicron many other nations do not enjoy.
Yes, cases are still high. But France — which is weeks behind us on boosters — had even more infections yesterday and, sadly, far more deaths too.
Other nations have not yet felt Omicron’s full force and are having to impose draconian curbs. Boris has rightly kept England open. And his repeated “get jabbed” message has paid off too, with vast numbers boosted and a tsunami of formerly reluctant young people finally getting their first shot.
Our doctors say jabs and natural immunity have kept deaths and hospitalisations down without economy-wrecking restrictions.
Boris has held his nerve so far against a firestorm of opportunist opposition, abuse and cynical fear-mongering from the Left’s politicians and activist scientists.
Not to mention lockdown-loving left-wing Scottish and Welsh governments bent on political point-scoring.
He has had two months of self-inflicted hell. But he has not got everything wrong.
Cut our bills
DOWNING Street cannot just hope for the best on the soaring cost of living.
Eight in ten voters in the key former Red Wall seats say crippling energy bills are among their biggest worries.
Mortgages are rising too. Inflation is heading towards six per cent. National Insurance tax goes up in April. And millions have no rainy-day savings.
Brexit enables us, free at last from EU diktat, to scrap VAT on energy bills.
The rate isn’t huge, at five per cent, but eliminating it would save households about £60. And it would at least show the Government DOES grasp the hardship many working families face.
Rishi, let’s have net-zero VAT on energy.
Sue the gluers
WHY should taxpayers foot the £4.3million bill for policing the face-gluing eco loons of Insulate Britain?
Not only have the public borne the brunt of these clowns blocking our roads, enabled too often by timid or sympathetic cops. Now they have to pay for the entire shameful fiasco too.
Many in this cult are wealthy owners of pricey homes, ripe for remorgaging.
The Home Office should sue them for the vast cost of their sociopathic sabotage.
