Is the Boris government up to it?

I've been trying to think positively about the Boris Johnson government, trying to say well it's early days and it's a really tough time to be governing with the pandemic and lockdown and the economy going down the tubes and exam results to be fixed etc. But there comes a point when you think - just like I'm sure people are in America - do they know what they are doing. The fiasco over exam results was the nail in the government's rapidly under-construction coffin. U-turns all over the place. And still there's chaos. Students who thought they would get good grades for A levels were informed by some robot - algorithm - that they only deserved poor grades, following the cancellation of the real exams because of coronavirus. How could an algorithm have any real insight into how a student might do? Predictions are for teachers, not computers. So after nationwide protests and students on TV looking miserable and crying, the government changed its mind and said, leave it to the teachers. But by then the damage was done and universities had alloted places only to those who had received good grades by the computer. Chaos and more chaos and it was all so unnecessary. What worries me more than anything is that this same government is currently engaged in yet another defence and security review. It was always claimed in the past that defence reviews were solely based on the role the UK should play in the world but we all knew that it was really about money. How much could we afford to spend on the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines. Now here we go again with another interminable look at where the UK wants to be in terms of defence roles and the UK's place in the world. Oh dear, I fear another disaster is coming up. There is already talk about the Royal Marines being merged with somebody or other. The Boy Scouts? Can they seriously be thinking of reducing the size of the Army, already struggling to survive at 78,000? The Navy is happy because they have two huge aircraft carriers to gloat on, the first one due to become operational in the New Year and the second one still under construction. The F-38B short take-off and vertical landing aircraft will be ready sometime in the future. The conclusion of the defence review in the hands of Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, and Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, is almost bound to be off key. If it says we need to cut the Royal Marines, reduce the Army to 65,000 soldiers, abolish all tanks, and spend even more money on the carriers, can we please have another government U-turn?