I accuse

 

I accuse Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK, of conspiracy to cause the deaths of thousands of people in the recent past, now and in the future. 

 

He did not cause these deaths deliberately. However he allowed them to happen by not taking appropriate actions. The deaths are caused by Covid-19, the climate emergency, insufficient funding of the NHS and by ordering the lockdown too soon and then easing restrictions too early.

 

A precedent to this prosecution is the case of Winston Churchill in WW2. It is said that history is written by the victors. If the allies had lost the war Winston Churchill would certainly have been charged with war crimes and executed as were the leaders of the Nazi regime. Two of the crimes would have been the bombing of Dresden and the Bengal Famine.

 

In February 1945 Churchill and the US president Roosevelt ordered the bombing of the city of Dresden which caused the deaths of about 25,000 people, mostly civilians. Most of the targets had no strategic value and the defeat of Germany was already inevitable. This war crime was the result of a deliberate decision.

 

Another war crime would have been the Bengal famine in 1943 in which an estimated 2 – 3 million people died of starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by unsanitary conditions and lack of health care. The famine was caused by a crop failure but was exacerbated by the British colonial authorities burning farming land to prevent a possible invasion by the Japanese and prioritising food supplies to the British army and civilians who were in India rather than the Bengali population. This war crime is the precedent for my case against Boris Johnson and is described in a Wikipedia article as panicky responses from a government that was spectacularly inept, overwhelmed and in disarray. This also describes the current UK government.

 

Anthony Loukes