The con man with the keys to the kingdom

[Soph0571]

[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-independent-daily-cartoon-a8575981.html|

he deed is done. The Conservative Party has imposed upon Britain, at a time of profound national crisis, a prime minister who is spectacularly unfit for the job, both morally and politically. It has installed in an office once held by the likes of Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee a liar, an adulterer and a pedlar of fantasies who is so utterly lacking in principle and integrity that he is willing to sacrifice the nation’s future on the altar of his own ambition. Boris Johnson’s arrival in No 10 is a mortifying development for the once-proud United Kingdom, one that has astonished a world that used to regard Britain as a model of caution and common sense.

Johnson gained access to Downing Street through a travesty of an election that even Vladimir Putin mocked (though both he and President Trump would have cheered the result). The Tory leadership contest was like a slow-motion coup d’état. It had the trappings of democracy – hustings, a televised debate, policy platforms, opinion polls, endorsements. But 99.75 per cent of the electorate was forced to watch impotently from the sidelines, as in a banana republic, while the candidates shamelessly pandered to the tiny, anonymous cabal of 160,000 predominantly older, southern, white, wealthy, male right-wing Conservative Party members that chose the country’s new leader. And many of those 160,000 were recent Ukip infiltrators.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/con-man-keys-kingdom|

Much more a the link - it is long read that does an in-depth analysis of BoJo and what this all means... On this analysis we should be rather worried!

[madaboutharry]

1. Please read the entire article at the link for the New Statesman.

It is long, but important. I have always had great respect for the journalist Martin Fletcher. He puts it all on the table and outlines the horrific disaster awaiting the UK under the "leadership" of Boris Johnson. The impulsive, lascivious, and first class liar Boris Johnson, minus the allegations of sexual assault and rape, is surely Trump's long lost twin. The free world is in great danger.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. School report: he thinks he "should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else"

“Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies,” he wrote to Mr Johnson's father Stanley Johnson in April 1982.

“Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half).

“I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-23/boris-johnson-who-the-man-really-is-according-to-those-who-know-him/

The story of his life. Even in a privileged environment, he stood out as one whose sense of entitlement, and lack of understanding of others, had no bounds.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend. This is fantastic article about a catastrophe.

Brilliant writing.

[Soph0571]

4. Sometimes you read an article that you just want to reach so many people...

...but...sometimes that means it doesn't reach many at all! Hey ho!