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

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BoJo really going out of his way to be the absolute worst of the (Tory) Prime Ministers post-Blair/Brown - worse than David "accidental Brexit" Cameron or Theresa "very stupid Brexit" May. Kind of impressive, I must say.

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In sillier news, some old tweets from a Labour councillor have been uncovered, and uh:

https://twitter.com/philipnormal/status/38324028531949568?s=20
https://twitter.com/philipnormal/status/79214225884594176?s=20

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You guys aren't saying that the editor of The Spectator who wrote the acclaimed novel Seventy-Two Virgins is a horrible man who should never have been Prime Minister, are you?

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Forceful Peter Oborne column defending Corbyn on Russia and savaging the Tories and British political establishment in general for their many years of courting Russian oligarch money and turning a blind eye to Putin’s influence in the UK:

Let’s imagine that Corbyn had somehow won the last election. That he had then filled up Labour Party coffers with Russian money; that his party chairman had an office in Moscow to advise oligarchs; that Corbyn personally had repeatedly visited a Russian oligarch whose father had been a KGB agent and close friend of Vladimir Putin, and that he had been reported to have ignored security service objections to secure this friend a peerage, and funnelled government money towards his paper.

For day after day there would have been front-page denunciations of Corbyn. He couldn’t have survived. In my view rightly so. Yet Boris Johnson is the one who’s done all of these things. But Corbyn is the one who’s supposed to be pro-Putin.

This is deranged.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-jeremy-corbyn-right-putin-oligarchs

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Fair enough.

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Well...

In the Telegraph’s apology, published on Thursday, it said: “We accept that there was and is no basis to suggest that Ms Murray is antisemitic. On the contrary; the court heard in unchallenged evidence [in the Riley case] that Ms Murray devoted significant time and energy to confronting and challenging antisemitism within the Labour party while she was employed there. The Telegraph and Ian Austin apologise to Ms Murray. We have agreed to pay her substantial damages.”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/mar/17/telegraph-apologises-laura-murray-corbyn-aide-as-anti-jewish-racist

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It seems like the name of the MP in the latest story is coming out now.

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live footage of Conservative HQ

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"Sad!" that BoJo was finally cucked by his own party. Certainly not the "British Trump" - the opposite, in fact. Though tbf, I do find it amusing that he insists on being a caretaker PM for two more months. I suppose there's few meaningfully less bad alternatives among the Tory candidates to succeed him, are there?

Is there anyone on the Conservative side who would be better in terms of "not actively making a bad situation worse", or has the horse bolted the stable on that? 12 years of criminal stupidity and stupid criminality...

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Tories should have advised Johnson to call a snap election so he could have the chance to prove that he was still popular.

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I’ve noticed that Truss has said some pretty damn reckless things on foreign policy—a fact that might help post-Corbyn Labour’s credibility.

(Not that I’m claiming foreign policy per se is a major issue for most voters. The war in Ukraine’s economic impact is obviously more relevant to most people than the precise details of aid to Ukraine that stops short of directly fighting Russia). 

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I thought the consensus was that Brexit is the Eton pig lover’s legacy.

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Of course these moments of crisis have been common enough in modern British history, though this is the first since Black Wednesday to be to a large extent self-inflicted. It's right to be pessimistic about the short-term, but there's no reason to be for the future beyond that. We've been here before: younger posters might not be aware quite what an absolute state this country's public realm was in for most of the 1990s for instance.

Tories being in power for over a decade isn't a good thing.

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Of course these moments of crisis have been common enough in modern British history, though this is the first since Black Wednesday to be to a large extent self-inflicted. It's right to be pessimistic about the short-term, but there's no reason to be for the future beyond that. We've been here before: younger posters might not be aware quite what an absolute state this country's public realm was in for most of the 1990s for instance.

Honestly for me this is just a cause for further pessimism; if voters don't remember the 90s, there's no reason to think they'll remember these times long-term, and won't learn the lesson that Tory governments bring the country to its knees every time they're in office.

Quite a few do though, and the parallels to now are being made.

Hopefully they will also make the link with a center-right Labour party who will fail to change anything due to being a slave to corrupt media.