Levelling up, my arse

This is supposed to be an update on the situation regarding the rescue of my friend's Ukrainian wife's parents, who are close to the Moldovan border but too scared to travel the last few miles for fear of being killed by Russian soldiers along the route.

He has set out for Eastern Europe today, but does not know his precise destination. There are a number of options for them, the most likely one being a 9 hour bus ride to a city where they can be picked up by their son in law.

On his way to this as yet unknown place, my friend will have to complete several hours of online form-filling on his mobile phone, and even then there is no guarantee of his in-laws obtaining a visa. The new legislation which supposedly allows family members to join relatives in Britain only comes into force today, otherwise he would have applied much earlier. Actually he did apply much earlier and was told that they do not qualify. His wife is beyond distraught. Each day - each hour - that passes, her parents stand a greater chance of being killed.

As with every other bit of legislation which greatly affect people's lives, the rules governing Ukrainians entering this country has been grindingly slow to come into force. How many u-turns have been made to date as a result of public outrage on both sides of the political spectrum?

Boris Johnson's cabinet are not just incompetent, they are squalid. They have treated everyone as fools and cared for nothing but protecting anyone with any clout in the world of finance, and that includes the oligarchs who Boris had been sheltering up until everyone else showed him up by setting examples.

He has survived by sheer luck alone.