Concerning the recent protests on Clapham Common.

Boris Johnson thinks he can get away with anything. The success of the vaccination programme has let him off so many hooks (so far...)

He employed Priti Patel, a thoroughly devious, dishonest and unprofessional bully. Getting away with it.

He ignored the science and screwed up the lockdowns. Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Getting away with it.

He allowed untested old people to go from hospital into care homes, resulting in thousands of infections and deaths. Getting away with it.

He's reigned over the complete balls up over PPE. Getting away with it.

He reneged on his promise to pay the nurses their agreed rise. Getting away with it.

Etcetera.

And now he thinks he can get away with spending millions doing up his Downing Street pad, and he thinks he can get away with denying the democratic human right to protest. He's behaving in an increasingly autocratic manner, because he gets away with it, and we should be worried. The fact that we have no opposition to speak of (I did try to tell you...) is hardly helping.

When you try to prevent people from expressing their anger and frustration about injustices, as Priti Patel wanted to do (remember her stance on Black Lives Matter?), people take things into their own hands. We see it in Hong Kong and Burma right now and we've seen it many times before. I notice that there is consternation being expressed in high places now about these attempts to vilify and prevent legitimate protest. Let's hope he doesn't get away with this as well.