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Jan 28, 2022, 32 tweets

“No one warned me I was prime minister”

A Twitter masterclass in Churchillian national & global leadership.

By Alexander “Boris” The Great Malevolent Fraud. 1/n

No one warned me breaking the law was illegal.

2/n

No one warned me an illegal gathering in the garden was an illegal gathering in the garden. But I was only illegal for 25 minutes. So in a limited & specific way. Which, as Churchill wrote in the Magna Carta of the UK, is every PM’s right according to [fake Latin reference].

3/n

A surprise birthday party in the Downing Street Cabinet Room, organised by one’s live-in partner, is & always has been regarded as an essential work event, for key workers.

No one ever told me otherwise. During the whole 10 minutes I was there.

Anyway, it was a surprise.

4/n

No one warned me the insane Brexit deal I demanded - which every honest person who knew anything always explained would create a GB-NI customs & regulatory frontier, undermining peace & the UK - would create a GB-NI customs & regulatory frontier, undermining peace & the UK.

5/n

No one warned me that I had a parliamentary private secretary, personally appointed by me, whose sole tasks, under my direction & directly reporting to me, are to represent me & act on my behalf.

6/n

No one warned me they were wine bottles.

7/n

No one warned me that my defining policy was a deranged, vicious attack on the UK - trashing its constitutional order, its security, prosperity & well-being - a national betrayal for which I’ll go down in history as an evil, disastrous failure. And quite possibly to prison.

8/n

No one warned me I had to understand words.

9/n

No one warned me I had been ambushed with a cake.

Which makes me the right leader for “Global Britain” & the Euro-Atlantic alliance as President Putin keeps 100,000 heavily armed troops at battle readiness on the borders of Ukraine.

10/n

No one warned me I was Minister for the Civil Service.

11/n

No one warned me they were dogs.

12/n

No one warned me I needed to understand warnings about things I’m warned about.

13/n

No one warned me I was demanding & signing a demented, destructive deal with the intention of reneging on it.

14/n

Nobody warned me my entire life so far made me unfit to run a whelk stall let alone a city or a government department, still less a country.

Or to hold public office of any kind.

Or to be seen in polite society.

OK, they did.

But they’re nobodies.

I’m The Special One.

15/n

No one warned me the putrid taste of national betrayal would be so arousing.

16/n

No one warned me the coloured papers marked “TOP SECRET - STRAP”, followed by further designations indicating the most extreme sensitivity & danger to lives & national security, contained information I couldn’t casually share with Carrie, her friends & the decorator.

17/n

No one warned me my extremely dangerous friend would be so idiotic as to say the quiet part out loud.

Even I try to give the impression I think ministers must be held accountable & use their quasi-monarchical power over vast financial & human resources to get the job done.

18/n

No one warned me being mired in a midden of unparalleled scandals - of my making, driven by my fatal character flaws & darkly hilarious incapacity for discipline, analysis or leadership - would prevent me making the phone call vital to me single-handedly saving the world.

19/n

No one - except all the people who told me not to do it - warned me using parliamentary privilege slyly to defame Keir Starmer’s prosecutorial record on Jimmy Savile, would lead to a backlash. Or the reheating of conspiracy theories about my own connection to Satanism.

20/n

No one warned me that crime going up by 14% is the opposite of crime going down by 14%.

21/n

No one warned me employing as a top advisor someone closely associated with “Living Marxism”, genocide denial, “Spiked” & my criminally destructive Brexit, & who thinks racism an “exaggerated” problem, might prove I was unfit to hold public office.

Now even she realises.

22/n

No one warned me Carlsberg was probably the best smoking gun in the world.

(“I held, but I did not sip. Anyway, Starmer … curry … paedophile … nothing personal … sorry … not sorry … Corbyn … lieBrexitdonelievaccineliepeoplesprioritiesliebestinG7liemorejobslie”).

23/n

No one warned me photographers took photographs.

24/n

No one warned me it’d become a neat excuse to claim I accidentally wrecked the country because a woman led me astray, & I could fix everything by “just being Boris” & abandoning yet another partner & family.

Get Brexit undone?

Sure.

As long as I’m World King.

25/n

No one warned me that, even if my flat was a dual-purpose residence & workplace, the ABBA party was illegal. Or that, if I wasn’t joining in, I should have put a stop to it. Or that lying is disqualifying. For any government minister. Or that I need a divorce lawyer. Again.

26/n

No one warned me that having a worse vaccine performance than European countries in the European Medicines Agency was the opposite of having a better vaccine performance than them.

Or that, briefed to the hilt as a PM always is, to claim otherwise is to lie.

27/n

No one warned me that I was lying when I gave a false figure about people in employment in the UK.

Or that 1 million is a large number - the difference between 400,000 more in employment (success, but a lie) & 600,000 fewer (failure, & the truth).

28/n

fullfact.org/economy/januar…

No one warned me my job was to work.

29/n

No one warned me about this “one rule for me, another for them” thing.

I deeply apologise if anyone feels hurt.

By the discovery that it’s my birthright.

Not theirs.

30/n

No one warned me my fanatical pursuit of a deranged Brexit was just what my friend Vladimir - who sees his survival as dependent on smashing the US-led Euro-Atlantic security order, based on the twin foundations of NATO & the EU - needed.

Still, I’m PM.

So who cares, eh?

31/n

No one warned me you’re not allowed to compare notes with potential co-conspirators when the police are investigating you for alleged criminality.

Which is just as well.

Because it doesn’t apply to me.

World Kings are different.

32/n

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