Boris Johnson’s first year — an honest assessment

So, here it is. The first year of Boris Johnson’s premiership has come and gone, and it’s now time to start doing some honest assessing of his performance so far.

Let’s start with the good, of which thankfully there is plenty of. Firstly Brexit, the biggest constitutional crisis of modern times, has finally been tackled. We left the EU on the 31st of January this year, and boy didn’t it feel good? It showed that eventually the liberal elite of Britain had to finally listen, and it worked. We achieved long awaited and deserved independence, and proved that democracy is still strong, despite well-funded campaigns and organisations that sought to crush it. It also seems that also the government is deciding to play hard bargain with the EU, especially with no deal being back on the table and certain aspects (especially fishing) being protected. It’s what this government stood on, and it’s a good thing that they’re not backing away from it.

Meanwhile, there have been other good minor things to emerge as well. The ban by Liz Truss for transgender operations for those under 18, as well as the binning of rules making it easier for people to self-identify, are big wins for social conservatism. The new points-based immigration system, if it works, would be a welcome change to years of uncontrolled mass migration that most British voters never…