Help of £15bn is welcome, even from Johnson’s government of charlatans

Hard-pressed Britons will need this money, even though the cost-of-living crisis is seen as coming to the PM's rescue'

Things have reached a pretty pass when, in order to divert attention from their own decadence, Boris Johnson and his lickspittle party have decided to make a big thing of the cost-of-living crisis - a crisis, mark you, aggravated by the cumulative impact on food and other prices that is the direct consequence of Brexit.

The worst cost-of-living crisis in most people's memory seen as coming to Johnson's rescue? The chance to claim you are mitigating it with measures extracted reluctantly from a chancellor who has previously made a point of cutting the real value of social benefits? Moving on"? Yes, that is the nadir of the British polity to which we have been brought by the charlatan who got Brexit done".