Boris Johnson is Arse

[discocrisco01]

The Guardian reports

Boris Johnson has launched a bold bid to claim the mantle of Margaret Thatcher by declaring that inequality is essential to fostering "the spirit of envy" and hailed greed as a "valuable spur to economic activity".
In an attempt to shore up his support on the Tory right, as he positions himself as the natural successor to David Cameron, the London mayor called for the "Gordon Gekkos of London" to display their greed to promote economic growth.
Delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture, Johnson also called for the return of a form of grammar schools.
He qualified his unabashed admiration for the "hedge fund kings" by saying they should do more to help poorer people who have suffered a real fall in income in recent years. But he moved to forge his own brand of Conservatism, which contrasts with the early modernising of the prime minister, by claiming that it was "futile" to try to end inequality.
In highly provocative remarks, Johnson mocked the 16% "of our species" with an IQ below 85 as he called for more to be done to help the 2% of the population who have an IQ above 130.
"Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality that as many as 16% of our species have an IQ below 85 while about 2% …" he said as he departed from the text of his speech to ask whether anyone in his City audience had a low IQ. To muted laughter he asked: "Over 16% anyone? Put up your hands." He then resumed his speech to talk about the 2% who have an IQ above 130.

In my opinion, this guys is major-league arse. He simply does not have deep understanding of poverty, the roots that cause of poverty, and how capitalism creates a permanent underclass without government intervention. I support free-market capitalism as much as Boris Johnson does, but I also do understand that it causes deep inequity that the government needs to deal with.

In addition, what about the concept of worker safety, pollution, climate change, are costs by general society made by the free market that the government has to deal with. I think Boris Johnson is very naive and gross ignorant of how capitalism does not properly deal with inequity without government intervention.

[okaawhatever]

1. I didn't even know who he was when I clicked on the link. The right wingers are trying to take over

everywhere. Canada has a surge in their politics as well. It's a dangerous time politically.

[intaglio]

2. Bo Jo is not an arse

Arses serve a purpose..