Posted on 05/23/2019 11:12:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
You thought it couldn’t get worse? It certainly can. Britain now faces the very real prospect of Boris Johnson moving into N0 10 (with or without his current girlfriend). He would do so as the country faces its gravest crisis since the Second World War – a crisis of which he was a principal architect – and without having won a general election. He would have been chosen, quite preposterously, by fewer than 120,000 ageing, reactionary Tory party members.
Rules are rules: the party with the most MPs selects the prime minister. But the Conservatives have no overwhelming popular mandate. Indeed, they were emphatically denied one in 2017. Theirs is a minority government sustained only by a squalid deal with the Democratic Unionist Party.
That tiny Tory franchise, utterly unrepresentative of the country as a whole, would impose on Britain the least qualified prime minister of modern times.
Johnson’s only ministerial experience consists of two dire years as foreign secretary – a stint memorable for his gaffes, gratuitous insults, guff about creating a “Global Britain” and constant undermining of Theresa May. As London’s mayor Johnson excelled as merrymaker-in-chief during the 2012 Olympic Games, but at little else: “Boris Bikes” were Ken Livingstone’s idea, the Thames cable car and ArcelorMittal Orbit tower were expensive flops, and his ultimate vanity project, the aborted Garden Bridge, cost £53m without a brick being laid. Before that, Johnson served briefly as shadow arts minister, but was fired by Michael Howard, then Tory leader, for lying about one of his extramarital affairs.
Johnson is also spectacularly lacking in the moral qualifications required to lead the country. He is a congenital liar, serially disloyal, untrustworthy, irresponsible and hopelessly chaotic – as David Cameron, Michael Gove, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, his former wives, and many others know only too well.
(Excerpt) Read more at newstatesman.com ...
I don’t know much about Boris, but I have heard that PDJT likes him, which is probably the reason for this liberal diatribe of venomous vitriol.
In other words, he’s perfect.
Replace ‘Boris Johnson’ with ‘Donald Trump’ and it could have been written by the NYT................
I don’t trust “opinion” unless I’m familiar with the author, so I’ll wait.
new statesman is a leftist rag. Change everything they say to the opposite to understand Boris Johnson.
So what does this mean for Brexit and the future of the EU?
Lol
We should play a game when he’s in.
See if we can tell, without their names showing, whether the article is about Trump or this guy :)
“reactionary”?
Who talks like that?
Commies.
Well, at least the author didn’t accuse Boris of starting Global Warming, all by himself. But maybe that will come later.
Johnson is also spectacularly lacking in the moral qualifications required to lead the country. He is a congenital liar, serially disloyal, untrustworthy, irresponsible and hopelessly chaotic – as David Cameron, Michael Gove, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, his former wives, and many others know only too well.
I like him, i’m willing to bet at the end of the day we can trust him.
same thing the world elites said about Trump and he’s proved them wrong at every turn
Sounds like my kind of guy.
They probably took a stock Trump article, crossed out Trump and wrote in “Boris Johnson.”
Ooooh! Ooooh! Boris Johnson is like Orange Man! And Orange Man bad!!!!
Looking forward to a Labour meltdown.
Compare the EU to the Third Reich or call it the Fourth Reich...either can be argued for. The fact that a politician of any stripe is hated by the EU would be endorsement enough for me.
“..Boris Johnson moving into N0 10 (with or without his current girlfriend)..”
Fine with me, as long as it’s not a husband/boyfriend...
To be dismissed as confused Brits meddling when talking about America and take their opinions with a whole bucket of salt.
Ha! I was going to say the same thing about WAPO.
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