The spectacle of the Game of Thrones style election of a new leader for the Conservative Party throws into stark light the drivers behind party politics. Choosing a leader who is honest and exhibits the values of the party takes a back seat to who can get the party into power by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
The fact Boris of House Johnson (which itself is riven with spits) rides roughshod over every single, traditional Conservative value does not seem to bar him from the race, as it should for any right-minded person - it stunningly makes him the favourite. The fact he's a liar, a philanderer, has not shown financial prudence, has told business to 'Eff off', etc., seems to make him even more electable in the eyes of the Conservative Party. It's hypocrisy on a truly industrial scale.
It's almost as if the Blue Rinse brigade secretly fancy a quick knee trembler with Boris in the butler's pantry. It's like voting for a funny and bumbling version of Philip Green. The phrase 'the end justifies the means' comes to mind.
Those defending his £350m a week lie and the impending lawsuit maintain that the Remain camp lied with regard to the jobs to be lost with a hard Brexit. For a start, the job losses were a forecast about something that hasn't actually happened yet, whereas Boris was trumpeting about something that was a known fact at the time, bearing in mind the only figure available was that of 2 years previously. It was not a forecast, as evidenced by his use of the word 'send', not 'will send'. The amount of revisionism going on currently is worthy of Stalin at his best.
Perhaps Boris is just misunderstood. As a democrat he's poison, but as a dictator he'd probably be quite benign - a bit like a dictatorial Mr Bobby. We deserve the government we vote for...
Boris' best election strategy is to do and say absolutely nothing.
Those defending his £350m a week lie and the impending lawsuit maintain that the Remain camp lied with regard to the jobs to be lost with a hard Brexit. For a start, the job losses were a forecast about something that hasn't actually happened yet, whereas Boris was trumpeting about something that was a known fact at the time, bearing in mind the only figure available was that of 2 years previously. It was not a forecast, as evidenced by his use of the word 'send', not 'will send'. The amount of revisionism going on currently is worthy of Stalin at his best.
Perhaps Boris is just misunderstood. As a democrat he's poison, but as a dictator he'd probably be quite benign - a bit like a dictatorial Mr Bobby. We deserve the government we vote for...
Boris' best election strategy is to do and say absolutely nothing.
We watched Stephen Poliakov's Summer of Rockets in a binge-fest last week. If that's not a commentary on Brexit, then I'm a monkey's uncle.
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So you are not an advocate of Boris then I sense? Who would you prefer then out of the running contenders?
Rory Stewart, by a country mile.
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