It's official. Boris Johnson is now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And a lot of Britons know who they're getting. Jonathan Manthorpe writes:
Everyone knows — even those who have had no direct experience of him — that the real Johnson is a good deal less attractive than the bumbling, politically incorrect, but ebullient and encouraging image he presents.
Johnson’s entire personal and political history as a journalist, MP, mayor of London, and foreign minister is of total self-obsession, crude ambition, deceit and betrayal. He is one of those people who has mastered the art of failing upwards.
He arrives without being elected to the position:
He got just over 66 per cent of votes from the nearly 90 per cent of the eligible 160,000 Conservative Party members.
Thus just 92,000 people from among the United Kingdom’s 65 million people have made Johnson prime minister.
So Johnson comes to the leadership with almost no national political legitimacy. Therefore, it is likely that he will either choose or be forced to call a general election ahead of the UK leaving the EU.
Besides Brexit, Johnson has a nasty situation brewing with Iran.
The fools have gone forth and multiplied and democracy is failing.
Image: AP News
8 comments:
It's your parade Sergeant-Major.
So 92,000 in a country of over 60 million have selected Britain's next Disraeli. What a find! How long will the people of the UK allow this confused and corrupt political party to carry on with this? There comes a time when you have to either wake up or just give your head a shake. They're afraid of Corbyn? Have they forgot about its origination or just contracted a new and more virulent strain of Socialist Derangement Syndrome from exposure to their dumber American cousins?
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I would add something profound if I could think of something, but Larry nails it on his own. laugh
j a m e s
All of this is a drama from the Theatre of the Absurd, John.
Yes, Larry nails it, James. Boris is really a Jack in the Box.
With Trump and Boris, Iran and Brexit, the balance of the summer should be pure chaos. Two narcissists with supreme confidence in the pure force of their own will. What could possibly go amiss?
The Greeks knew about hubris, Mound. And they knew that it was the source of tragedy.
"He is one of those people who has mastered the art of failing upwards."
A perfect description.
A sinister "Jacques Closeau".
- J.
Well put, J. Inspector Clouseau is now prime minister. And he'll drive all kinds of people crazy.
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