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We said similar yesterday. This was particularly true after the vote when he looked at Corbyn with real hatred, seemingly stunned by comments the rest of us saw a mile off. For a so-called historian he hasn’t a clue that if you show weakness in the House you’re finished.
@jwgop John Major looked and spoke like he worked in a bank, which he did, but he could give and take a punch.
In all seriousness that is one of the worst PMQs I've seen. Insults are necessary and question dodging is expected. But I doubt he answered half the questions. What wasn't a slogan was a lie. It was American in the worst sense.
It's difficult but if you look close enough you can sometimes see where Johnson is actually lying and where he just doesn't know and makes it up.
Beware comparisons to Trump in this. Trump fell backward into being president. Johnson has wanted No. 10 for thirty years, but failed in most things he put his hand to.
He became Mayor of London through the outer suburbs. He understands media as well as anybody. He is not stupid. But he's lazy, arrogant, and nihilistic.
For a man with some political instincts, Johnson has never understood the favor trading that makes politics go. He discards people. We saw it yesterday.
If you put his back to the wall you'd probably find Johnson is a closet European. This all seems orchestrated to create a May 1940 moment for himself as Churchill.
His understanding of Churchill, such as it is, is of the facile American type, rather than the whole politician. That's a dangerous, dangerous thing.
Underneath he tries to be the Tory man with liberal ideas, particularly as to spending. There's a real case for that, in a sane country anyway. It could shore the party up. But that's all out the window.
For all Johnson and Rees-Mogg using Latin, it reminds me of what I've long said about leaders: education can strengthen the mind but weaken the backbone. Truman is the best example of this.
Truman was not an uneducated man, at least not how the press had it. They had him as a yahoo. He was largely self-educated. And he used it to great effect. Nobody was tougher. Nobody.
You should be educated as Lincoln was: read as many books as you can about as many different things.
