UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

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Tony Blair attacks the United States's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.

Tony Blair, the British prime minister who deployed troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, says the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country has “every Jihadist group round the world cheering.”

In a lengthy essay posted on his website late Saturday, the former Labour Party leader said the sudden and chaotic pullout that allowed the Taliban to reclaim power risked undermining everything that had been achieved in Afghanistan over the past two decades, including advances in living standards and the education of girls.

“The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours,” said Blair who served as prime minister during 1997-2007, a period that also saw him back the U.S.-led war in Iraq in 2003.

“The world is now uncertain of where the West stands because it is so obvious that the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in this way was driven not by grand strategy but by politics,” he added.



Blair also accused U.S. President Joe Biden of being “in obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending ‘the forever wars’, as if our engagement in 2021 was remotely comparable to our commitment 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Then you foot the bill and send your young Tony.

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So this happened. Protestors storm a library and film and shoot obscenities at children. It was only a matter of time. Much of the TERF online chatter had been moving in this direction for a number of months.

Wow. Absolutely horrifying that the rise in Anti-LGBT violence is happening even over there. The worst among us are absolutely being emboldened.

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https://twitter.com/vanillatary/status/1561642291873435648?s=20&t=fZGoOQMIsk...

This can't be true.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

https://twitter.com/vanillatary/status/1561642291873435648?s=20&t=fZGoOQMIsk...
This can't be true.

It *is* true, but its much more an expression of disdain for his proposed replacements than a belief that BoJo is wonderful (see also back in the day, Corbyn J) Yes there are diehard Johnson cultists, but they amount to about half that 46% at most.

I suppose it matches with the 50 vs. 50 percent matchups you see between Trump and Non-Trump candidates in the GOP for instance, too. Johnson is no Trump but he shares a similar bombastic type of leadership.