All aspiring politicians have the same three goals.

The first goal is to achieve a position within parliament and then eventually within government. Without achieving this there is no way to make your mark and the journey is over before it has begun.

The second goal is to hold onto the power you have achieved for as long as you possibly can. That is, in most cases, not very long. Political careers have a high mortality rate and a politician is always aware that a change of national mood or a personal faux pas may suddenly and dramatically end their career.

The third goal is by far the hardest to achieve. To leave a lasting legacy of change or achievement is a laudable goal but remarkably hard to do. Indeed, most political careers no matter how dramatic or glittering they may seem at the time are almost entirely forgotten within weeks after the politician falls from grace.

Boris Johnson is an excellent politician. He has plotted and planned a career in politics with extraordinary clarity and determination. Anybody who has ever studied or met the man will know that it was always his aim to become Prime minister and he proceeded to achieve that goal with remarkable adroitness. Every step of his journey from his school days to his early parliamentary career, his journalism, his Mayoralty of London was planned to bring him to this point. Contrary to the carefully nurtured image Mr Johnson is certainly no bumbling buffoon.

He is a great example of the ambitious man who never lets a good crisis go to waste. He jumped onto the Brexit bandwagon as soon as he realised that it had serious momentum and that his rivals for the leadership of the Tory party were in a difficult position due to their avowed pro EU credentials. He worked hard at creating the impression that he was a passionate principled Brexiteer realising that amongst senior Conservative MPs that was a fairly unique selling point. After Cameron flounced out of office in a childish tantrum and Theresa May was ruined by trying to reconcile the will of the people with her own desire not to be more than semi detached from the EU, Johnson was the obvious successor.

With the Labour party in an historically bad position and no real organised opposition to speak of the second part of the Johnson’s ambition is relatively assured. It would appear almost impossible for him to lose power any time soon despite huge errors in the handling of the pandemic and a running feud with the psychotic but extremely effective Mr Cummings.

So now it is time for him to look to stage three, the legacy. Many of us had hoped that Mr Johnson’s lasting legacy would be an effective and successful Brexit. However, it would appear that the jury is still out on whether his assorted deals and discussions with the EU have resulted in a genuine and optimistic Brexit or whether the betrayal of the fishermen is merely the tip of the iceberg and the whole project has been hamstrung in some backroom deal. In any case it would appear Mr Johnson has his heart set on a far greater legacy, a global one.

Yes, the mighty Boris is determined for his legacy to be literally saving the planet. At least that’s how he and perhaps more importantly his fiancée seems to see it. Boris is going to save the world from global warming, he will be the one we can thank when the splinters of icebergs don’t float down the Thames and the world as we know it is not consumed in the flames of Greta’s dark imaginings.

This may seem an ambitious task but don’t forget this is the man who has realised you shouldn’t let a good crisis go to waste. In the aftermath of the global Covid panic and millions of previously free people accepting deeply disturbing levels of state control the opportunity is there for real change. The ruins of the western economies, decimated by lockdowns will be the ashes from which Johnsons green phoenix is to arise.

Build Back Better is the clarion call from world leaders as they all prepare to join with Green Boris and Sleepy Joe to change the world. No more will we, the ordinary people be allowed to aspire to property ownership and world travel. No more will we be able to expect growth in our economies and living standards. Those selfish days are past for us, although the world’s Billionaires will of course continue to be able to do as they wish and continue to get ever richer and more powerful.

Boris Johnson’s attempt at creating his legacy will indeed leave a lasting effect that future generations will remember him for. Unfortunately, whilst he and his fiancée fantasise about saving the world from catastrophe, they will instead help to create a catastrophic future for millions of people around the world with declining living standards and freedom becoming a thing of the past

The Prime minister famously used the term “die in a ditch” in the past and as always with his rather problematic relationship with the truth and honesty he decided to swerve the ditch in order to keep his career on track. Any of us who really care about future generations and want to hand on to them a functional economy and a free society should make sure that the “Build Back Better” / “Green Reset” ditch is rather too uncomfortable for good old Boris to make a stand in.

This man’s legacy will be the ruination of our economy and the theft of our liberty all based upon horror stories of rampant viruses and wild fantasies of global extinction from climate change. The time to cut short this particular dream for Mr Johnson is now. It is vital that we no longer concede to fear and prophecies of doom and start to stand up for liberty, prosperity and future generations