Like Nero, is Boris fiddling while the virus is still burning all around us?

One thing you can still say about Boris, is that despite his podginess and pomp he can still come out packing a punch, low blows, below the belt so to speak.

A belt in the bollox for all his gathering enemies.

A growing number of us are seeing him squirming circling and snapping like a bad dog, barking and yelping to get out of trouble as trash cans are hurled down the dark, slimy, sticky alleys of power.

It’s all such a mess down in the political world of London, parties and lies, booze and politics, an impending fixed penalty notice for the prime minister – and a flabby fatty future for all the little piggy politicians who still want to go market but refuse to decide who will poke them in the Ayes and No’s and squeeze their trembling voting ham-fisted hands.

It’s all diseased and dodgy and scary and insecure – the world has given us what was once a man of power, a leader called Blondie, a man who shot lies from the hip and told us all to stay home, got rid of Cummings because he took a drive ‘to check his eyesight’.

And then Blondie went on the piss with the lads and lasses!

Now his is the fiddler on the roof of the British parliament, the Nero of ne’er do well, broken strings and sour notes all over the show.

Some people stand up and be counted though, former minister Tobias Ellwood is to send a letter to 1922 committee chair Sir Graham Brady.

That’s a real threat to Boris, but they need 54 Ministerial letters for a full vote. The pledge came at the same time as he was apparently seen arriving at the ‘Winner Takes It All’ Abba party in his Downing Street flat to celebrate the fall of vindictive Dominic.

And now, out of the blue, Brits are told to get on with life, time to look after yourselves everybody!

It’s like we beat Covid overnight! How did we do that?

Anyway, now I’m free to roam – a bit – I don’t have to wear a mask, well not everywhere anyway – I can go to the pub! I can go on a bus! I can go back to my office!

I am a free man! Thank you Boris.

But Boris, you big podgy Blondie bad-ass … are we really safe? Or are you sending us into a spin again?

One so that you personally can get on with barking and squirming and snarling and attacking. And surviving.

Most of us trusted you once Boris, but the question has to be can we trust you now?

Let’s take a quick trip around the world eh and look at some facts!

Beijing has reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases in 18 months, days ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital.

After 20 more cases were reported in the capital, officials announced that some local areas had been locked down with residents being tested.

Separately, organisers of the Olympics reported 34 new infections within the event’s “closed-loop” bubble.

Officials said it included 13 athletes.

A sub-variant of Omicron, known as BA.2, has been detected in 57 countries, the World Health Organization says.

The first versions of Omicron – BA.1 and BA.1.1 – still account for over 96% of all cases of Omicron that have been sequenced, the WHO says in its weekly epidemiological update.

But there has been an increase in cases involving the BA.2 subvariant, which has several different mutations from the original including in the spike protein.

In some countries, the subvariant now accounts for over half of all Omicron sequences gathered, the WHO says.

The number of daily coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic has reached a new high.

Czech authorities registered almost 60,000 infections on Tuesday, with almost 10,000 suspected to be reinfections.

Coronavirus cases have reached a new all-time high in Germany too, with 208,498 more reported within 24 hours.

This has taken it over the 10-million mark for total infections.

The seven-day incidence rate also hit an all-time high of 1,227.5 cases per 100,000 residents.

The death toll rose by 196 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 118,170, the Robert Koch Institute reports.

Meanwhile, France has become the latest European country to start relaxing Covid restrictions amid signs that the Omicron wave has peaked.

The number of Omicron infections in France is still very high – around a third of a million a day – but because the strain is proving less harmful than previous variants, the pressure on hospitals has been contained.

From today, on the street in big towns and cities you no longer have to wear a mask.

Another focus has to be the fact it has just been revealed that the government has wrote off £8.7bn it spent on protective equipment during the pandemic.

Items costing £673m were unusable, while £750m of equipment was not used before its expiry date.

Shoppers have been hit by the highest price rises in nearly 10 years after shop inflation almost doubled over the past month.

Shop price inflation jumped from 0.8% in December to 1.5% in January, the BRC-NielsenIQ price index indicated.

The pandemic, as well as Brexit, have made staff shortages a particular problem in the UK, prompting some employers to raise wages, which can contribute to inflation.

SHAME YOURSELF AND TELL US THE TRUTH BORIS!

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