For me, one of the stranger phenomena of 2020 has been watching the principle-free suck-ups of the ‘conservative’ commentariat rushing to heap praise on the Worst Prime Minister in British History because of his allegedly amazing Brexit deal.
I’ll reserve judgement on the Brexit deal until the dust has settled and the “guillotine clauses” have all been found. But it’s not looking good for our fishermen is it? Looks like they were sacrificed as expendable bargaining chips.
To me, though, all this crowing looks like an orchestrated distraction, cynically designed to put a positive gloss on the myriad failures of the bloated, vacillating, devious, mendacious, priapic oaf currently posing as Britain’s Prime Minister — ‘Boris’ Johnson.
I put his first name in inverted commas because it’s not really his first name. His family all call him Al — short for Alexander. Boris is the fake name we’ve all been encouraged to use because it’s part of his brand. It sounds at once exotic and comical; it’s one of those first names sufficiently rare for it to be deployed without a surname in the manner of, say, Kylie or Jordan. Boris is all about the brand and he has been working it for years because basically it’s all he’s got.
But it’s a very powerful and intoxicating brand. It certainly fooled me and having known him since university I’ve had longer than most to see through it. I didn’t though, for the same reason a lot of us didn’t: because Johnson has the sociopath’s gift of dazzling you with his charm while masking his venality.
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