Things went pretty well when, to divert attention from their own decline, Boris Johnson and his licking party decided to do a great thing out of the cost of living crisis – a crisis, mind you, aggravated by cumulative effects on food and other prices. which is a direct consequence of Brexit.
The worst crisis in the cost of living in the memory of most people, which is believed to be coming to save Johnson? The chance to claim that you are mitigating it with measures reluctantly taken by a chancellor who has previously made sense to reduce the real value of social benefits? “Moving of”? Yes, this is the lowest point of British policy that the Brexit charlatan has led us to.
Nevertheless, credit when the loan is due. Chancellor Sunak has listened to think tanks such as the Institute for Fiscal Research and the Resolution Foundation, a number of charities, and last but not least, Labor shadow shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves. His £ 15 billion package of financial aid to the majority of the population affected by the energy crisis is to be welcomed, even if it is temporarily appropriate to continue the show.
However, the list of charges against Johnson stretches outside the courtroom and along the corridor. As a classical scholar, he knew, along with Seneca, that his entire career, first in journalism and then in politics, was a contra bonum morem, “against good customs.”
Historian Lord Hennessy complained in the Financial Times last week that Johnson had a “fire of decency” in public life. Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, put it this way: “We didn’t – and shouldn’t – need the Metropolitan Police or Sue Gray to tell us the difference between right and wrong; that it is not acceptable for the prime minister to be a lawbreaker himself, to lead a culture of breaking the law and to stand in parliament and lie about it.
It is painfully obvious that, with a few notable exceptions, Johnson’s government, including front and rear reserves, is the fifth-largest collection of time servers imaginable. Seeing them come on TV news or hearing them on the radio, chanting the mantra “Time to go on, Brexit is over” means making one wonder how they justify their cowardice to their children or grandchildren, which you should definitely see through everyone. traps.
I continue to believe that the Brexit vote on the Red Wall was more of a protest against the impact of austerity. Until then, Europe and Brussels had not ranked high on people’s concerns
The motivation of these shameless politicians always seems to be to stay in place; the good of the country does not enter into it. They must suspect that behind the perfectly understandable – but alas in vain – calls from Keira Starmer to Johnson to resign is a secret conviction of the Labor Party that Johnson’s continued survival is the secret weapon of the opposition.
When Margaret Thatcher – who, unlike Johnson, was orderly and law-abiding – became a liability, she had a political assassin in the form of Michael Hazeltain, although the crown went to John Major. Johnson is surrounded by employees and women who remind us of Hamlet’s “This is how conscience makes us all cowards” – although this implies that they have a conscience.
But, alas, I consider it my duty to announce that wherever I go, I meet people who are disappointed in what they consider to be poor performance. It is becoming increasingly clear that Brexit is a disaster and that the Labor Party must seize the opportunity. But this seems to be a no-go zone, with Labor still terrified of voters on the so-called Red Wall, who lost in the last election.
I continue to believe that the Brexit Red Wall vote was more of a protest against the effects of austerity and the result of a successful fraud operation by Johnson and his ex-boyfriend Dominic Cummings. According to opinion polls, Europe and Brussels have not been at the forefront of people’s concerns so far.
I meet Labor politicians who say that Red Wall voters would feel ‘betrayed’ if Labor became more openly pro-European. So we have the Johnson government, which is leading the Brexit disaster, and the opposition, for which the idea of launching a campaign to re-join the European Union is anathema.
Meanwhile, there is very little chance of fixing the fences with the EU while Johnson and Sim. remain in office. It seems that French President Emmanuel Macron, who would like to at least start work on this, sees no chance as long as Johnson remains in power.
Labor leaders must acknowledge that although there have been many external shocks to the economy – the impact of the war in Ukraine is recent – Brexit is the biggest example of self-harm since returning to the gold standard in 1925. Labor must choose to lift the ball and run .
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