A Bamboozler and a Cockwomble

Bamboozler (noun) – A person who deceives or gets the better of people by trickery, flattery, hoodwinking, pulling the wool over someone's eyes, or the like.

Cockwomble (noun) – A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and importance.

World-beating porkies

Sins of pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth are fake news folk 

PM Johnson announced in May that we would have a 'world-beating test and trace system' by the start of June. We discovered on Wednesday that it will not now be ready until September. On the same day, 3 June, his alma mater, Oxford University showed that there were 359 deaths in the UK  compared with 332 in the remaining 27 countries in Europe. He bamboozled MPs and the media by insisting that "he remains proud of the government's response to coronavirus".

In the United States, the backlash following the murder of George Floyd and the USA reaching 100,000 deaths through COVID received no immediate response from the king of the tweets. He subsequently ordered the police and national guard to clear demonstrators using tear gas and rubber bullets so that he could walk to the St John's Church and fondle a Bible as a prop for a photoshoot. As my Australian cousin said, "What a Cockwomble". As well as millions of American citizens, two former Generals, his Defense Secretary, a Republican Senator, and the Bishop of Washington have all denounced President Trump for being prepared to order the police to suppress demonstrations by mainly peaceful protesters to allow him to wallow in an act of fake Christianity against the backdrop of the President's church.

It would appear that the chickens are coming home to roost for the Bamboozler and Cockwomble.  They have both lived charmed lives bolstered by their inheritance, enormous egos, craven contempt for facts and an ability to wing it in an era when knowledge and collaboration with others have been semaphored as a weakness to those most damaged by austerity and inequality. How much longer will they be able to hang on to their egos? I know there's an answer.