Apparently we can't put a windfall tax on the likes of BP because they don't want it. Even if that weren't a monumentally stupid line to take (I don't want to pay more National Insurance but I don't recall being consulted about it, nor was it in the manifesto of 2019), the BP CEO more or less said the other day that it was fine and it wouldn't impact on any of their investment plans if it happened.
Oh and he's taking credit for Crossrail, which was a Blair (not even Brown) initiative and was put on the statute books two months after he became London Mayor. He had nothing to do with it whatsoever, although it's been broadly under a Tory Government that it's massively overrun and increased in cost. Plus a load of the initial investment came from....<drum roll>....the EU. And it's more money chucked at London, which already has the best transport in the UK by a monumental distance, which doesn't do much for the supposed "levelling up" agenda.
He's a shambling fool.
George Eustice did try to outdo him this morning by suggesting that everyone start buying supermarket own brand products to deal with the cost of living crisis, but you just can't compete with the sheer volume of total bollocks that Johnson spews.