I know elections are not exercises in logical consistency but @BorisJohnson's Telegraph article does seem to contain an unusual number of internal contradictions. The supposed thrust of it is that Johnson leads a One Nation party, promising decent funding for vital public...
services and infrastructure. But is it One Nation to compare Labour candidates and activists with Stalin's henchmen who murdered hundreds of thousands of kulaks? That is surely to divide the nation, not unite it? Is it One Nation to stand on the side of billionaires, after an...
era in which many of them have conspicuously NOT been paying their way and when even Tory supporters query whether the fruits of economic growth are shared fairly? An election which was called by Johnson ostensibly "to get Brexit done" risks descending...
into an unedifying slanging match between a Tory and Labour leader who have only one thing in common, namely their mutual contempt for each other. It is very difficult to see how this ends well either for them or us. And as I said earlier, it is hard to discern a disciplined...
and focused electoral strategy from the Tories, whereas Labour's seems rather less formless (even its Brexit ambiguity is deliberate and meant, if deeply frustrating for those who simply want to know whether Labour is for or against remaining in the EU) itv.com/news/2019-11-0…
