Johnson humiliates Labor with no bellows

A year ago he looked like an evicted leader. His erratic handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the initial weeks, including statements of denial bias, led to the popularity of Boris Johnson plummeting. Today the situation is quite different. The British Prime Minister is having a particularly sweet time and, buoyed by the success of his vaccination strategy, sees the Conservative Party inflict such humiliating defeats on Labor as the Scala.

or the House of Commons that was at stake in the local elections on Thursday. For the first time in more than half a century, Labor has lost a fiefdom of very special significance, Hartlepool, in the industrial north of England, where it continues to be confirmed that the once red bastion that seemed impregnable to the Tories today has turned its back on the Tories. socialism. It is impossible from Spain not to establish certain parallels with what has just happened without going further in the autonomous Madrid elections. The results for the Labor Party are so devastating that many voices demand that responsibilities be purged, and even the resignation of its current leader, Keir Starmer, who has only been in office for a year.

Today Johnson and Starmer represent the two sides of the coin, exponents of two antagonistic projects, with the head wind the first and the tail wind the second. British voters are backing the Conservative for effectiveness in fighting the pandemic in recent months – more than 50% of the population has already received at least one dose of the vaccine – as much as they are punishing Labor’s utter indefiniteness on issues. that today most concern citizens. Starmer is blamed for a hollow, empty speech that neither connects with the real demands of the British nor offers alternatives.

Upon his arrival in Downing Street, Johnson achieved something that at the time seemed almost impossible:

, which had become an insufferable labyrinth with no way out for both the UK and the Twenty-Seven. And at least for the moment the prime minister continues to capitalize on that divorce between London and Brussels that, according to the polls, the majority of the British believe positive, all the more so because of the comparison that has been made between the ability of the British Government to adopt its own plan of vaccination and the disastrous management that the community authorities have displayed for months. The China in Johnson’s shoe is still, yes, a Scotland where increasingly strong nationalism demands a new independence referendum.