Boris Johnson: “It did happen & I’m not ashamed of it”
Angus Deayton: What aren’t you ashamed of, Boris?
Boris Johnson: Whatever there is not to be ashamed of
[LAUGH]
The laugh is crucial
He manages to make people laugh even while admitting his crime
In this 2013 interview, @BorisJohnson admits he’s not really “bumbling”
It’s just an put on act
In reality he’s “hard as nails”
He also tells us “a terrible truth about politics & human nature”
That you can “make a good case for any course of action”
“It’s often useful to give the slight impression that you are deliberately pretending not to know what's going on - because the reality may be that you don't know what's going on but people won't be able to tell the difference." @BorisJohnson #BorisJohnson
"I've got a brilliant new strategy, which is to make so many gaffes that nobody knows which one to concentrate on” @BorisJohnson 2006
In 2018 Bannon rptdly said:
“The real opposition is the media & the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”
The strategy seems reminiscent of that used by Putin’s puppet master, Surkov, who it is rumoured Cummings spent time with
He turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theatre
A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is indefinable
"When Europe's house is on fire, US nationalists will have achieved their goal”
Steve Bannon was Vice President of #CambridgeAnalytica, a company that’s thought to have had a big part in the Trump & Brexit victories
Cummings & Vote Leave also had links with Cambridge Analytica.
”I’ve been talking to him all weekend about this speech”
Bannon calls @BorisJohnson “one of the most important persons on the world stage”
In 2018, Steve Bannon told a far-right crowd in France:
“Let them call you a racist. Wear it as a badge of honour”
In 2015, Bannon told #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies
It worked
The far-right have almost finished pulling off a well-planned, well-funded bloodless coup
“Forget the myths, follow the money”
The parallels btw UK & US, Johnson & Trump aren’t coincidental
It is a global power-grab
Control through data & genomics
And what of the role of #Palantir, founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, rptdly linked to #CambridgeAnalytica
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