This, I think, is the true Boris Johnson:
Johnson is patronising whilst supporting inequality and the politics of envy which, as he makes clear, are the basis for all Tory thinking.
It's nasty.
And this man wants to be elected prime minister.
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Yet there will most probably be enough people persuaded to endorse him and his fellow sociopaths as the country’s political leaders.
Under FPTP the majority are overly reliant upon the Labour Party to oust the Tories; and, despite a decade of gross, corrupt mismanagement, the LP simply hasn’t been effective (competent?) enough to combat the Tory’s ‘Gordon Gekko’ rhetoric.
As things stand, I can’t see a way out of this predicament. Can you? Maybe another 5 years of socio-economic destruction are necessary to bring about progressive change. By which time the problems will have increased exponentially.
Maybe it’s our national colonial karma.
This slightly more cerebral BJ would, If the tide had not turned and we still unconditionally accepted the transactional ethics of neoliberalism, and if the Conservative party had not escalated EU issues, immigration and austerity to disguise its irrelevance to a new, transformative politics, and if he had not fragmented his party by sending its one nation/ remain wing to Siberia via Change UK and the LibDems. Austerity, brexit, class war and racism would still be the Conservative election offering, but at least its incumbent PM would not need to be as duplicitous as he currently is and would not need to serve the hedge fund billionaires for whom brexit means opportunity for disaster capitalism and the UK stays divided and is renamed ‘treasure islands’ for the vampire capitalists.
Jeremy Corbyn would still be an existential threat to Israeli apartheid and likud-ist land-grabbing, a Czech spy and threatening a return to the 1970s when, even at its worst, economic growth was still strong and benefitting the workers as well as the richest, and he would still threaten to make England the ‘sick man of Europe’ as it adopts German- or French-levels of public funding.
………and that is not all.
Look at this:
http://blog.spicker.uk/boris-johnson-in-his-own-words/
Boris? ‘Bringing the country together?!!!’. Yeah, right!!
More like the rubbing the country together like tinder sticks.
Johnson was a member of the Bullingdon Dining Club.
One of the membership rituals was to burn a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
Think of it as a variation on “riffling” money in front of the poor.
There has been a lot of apologising in this election.
I’d like to hear an apology from Johnson for being a member of the Bullingdon.
(BTW: the Bullingdon “uniform” costs circa £2000+ a pop).
“I’d like to hear an apology from Johnson for being a member of the Bullingdon.”
An apology for being a complete twat would do me.
This man has nothing to say.
If the world had wanted ‘a silent man’ it would have recognised the ‘genius’ of Irritable Duncan Smith.
Soft power?
Britain has already lost its reputation for pragmatism and common sense with Brexit.
I read an article by the former Irish Ambassador to the EU where he says that British civil servants were influential and respected. They have now been withdrawn.
Retiring ambassadors write a personal opinion. Some of these are available. They speak of incredulity in other governments about the whole Brexit process and the ludicrous and unsubstantiated claims made for it.
Besides being a promoter of the politics of envy, Johnson’s apparently uncontrollable tendency to lie ought to be a massive factor in the public’s voting intentions. In case anyone is in any doubt about his mendacity, I suggest a visit to https://boris-johnson-lies.com/ should be persuasive. It’s clearly going to run and run as long as Johnson is active in public life, so the URL is worth saving in Favourites. The site is set up by Peter Oborne , not hitherto a notable critic of the Tory Party, and other political journalists/observers.
It’s good work by Peter Osborne
And he is a Tory