Daily Sylheter Somoy

December 31, 2020

OP-ED: Hello 2021, goodbye low hanging fruit

OP-ED: Hello 2021, goodbye low hanging fruit

Online Desk

2020 was not the year we wanted, but maybe it was the reality check we needed

It was not supposed to be like this, 2020 was meant to be more predictable.

But well, you know, pandemic. One word to explain a whole year, and at least the next.

For President Trump, with base intact and defiant, impeachment seemed barely an inconvenience in January. His recklessness in the face of Covid, however, ended his incumbency with the biggest presidential vote in US history for President-elect Biden.

For Boris Johnson, in normal times, just hitting Christmas with any sort of post-Brexit deal was going to be a good result. But with Covid shining a light on cronyism and incompetence across his government, and the schadenfreude of recent global “plague island” headlines adding some bite at the end of a grim year for death totals, he now needs his full majority, and five-year term to rebuild his self-anointed image as a “feel-good” prime minister.


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