Re: Cue Boris Johnson....
@SVV; Am I the only person who finds the continuing treatment of Boris Johnson as the "bumbling but loveable upperclass English buffoon"- even in gentle mockery such as your own- long past its sell-by date?
This is a man who- judging by his dubious "conversion"- is considered by many not to have believed strongly or at all in Brexit before he saw the opportunity to advance his own political career by jumping on the "Leave" bandwagon. Perhaps he didn't intend to succeed and "merely" risked the political future and wellbeing of the United Kingdom for his own self-serving purposes? You'll understand if I really don't feel like absolving him on that basis.
This is a man who may well have become Prime Minister had he not been stabbed in the back by (the equally odious, but more openly so) Michael Gove.
It's quite clear that he's shrewdly exploited that "likeably bumbling" image to distract attention from his self-serving ambitiousness, and we saw him at it again earlier this year when he tried interfering outwith his designated post as "Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs" to push for NHS funding after Brexit. Because we *all* know that he's concerned about the NHS, and it's nothing to do with the fact that he and his cronies sold Brexit on the "£350m for the NHS claims" and want to keep themselves looking good.
The same guy who- while editor of The Spectator- was happy to approve articles smearing the people of Liverpool as wallowing in post-Hillsborough "victim" status.
This is the same old Tory scum, through and through. Playing along with the "harmless teddy bear" image- even in the form of gentle ribbing- is doing Johnson (and his fellow Tories) a favour he doesn't deserve.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
