If Johnson now sees himself as the UK`s FDR because he plans to "accelerate" the spending of £5bn of old money on schools and hospitals, his distorted view of history clearly knows no bounds (First Churchill, now Roosevelt: Johnson promises "UK New Deal", 30/06/20)! The American president, as your article rightly says, "carried out a wholesale reconstruction of the US economy", while Johnson and Cummings, desperate for improvement in the polls, stick to the basic Tory philosophy of taking the British people for fools.
Presumably, we are expected to think that the New Deal consisted of nothing more than building projects, and know nothing about the heightened regulation on the US financial sector, increased taxes on the wealthy, improved rights for unions and workers, and Blue Eagle awards for businesses which worked not just for profit but for the benefit of the country as a whole.
Can anyone imagine Johnson telling the electorate in 2024 that "the forces of organised money are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred"? They are, of course, the words of FDR from 1936!
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