LETTERS – We would probably be better off

“Africa is a mess”, once wrote the first of the three charlatans most recently inflicted on this country as Prime Minister.

“But it is not a blot upon our conscience. The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge anymore.”

Au contraire, Mr Johnson.

Is it possible to think of any country, including in Africa, got into such a mess as Britain has been through wild lies and irresponsibility disguised as patriotism by its government in the space of three years?

Even the meltdown in Zimbabwe after 1997, covered in loving detail by Johnson’s colleagues at the Telegraph, took longer from much less fortunate and promising beginnings.

If some African regime had deposed Johnson and his colleagues and “taken charge” of this country in July 2019, we would probably now be better off.

G Kent
Mountbatten Avenue
Pinchbeck

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