As utterly horrific as Johnson is, he didn’t fall from the sky. The rise of this dangerous charlatan was facilitated by so many lazy or foolish people who fell for his cheekie chappie schtick and ignored the ‘nasty piece of work’ who Eddie Mair called out some years ago
In an unserious society that looks on politics primarily for entertainment, and still wants to doff the cap to posh white blokes with polished sherry-soaked vowels, ‘Boris’ was the clown who was always good for a giggle. Who cared whether what he said actually meant anything?
If he was a little racist, xenophobic, or misogynistic, so what? At least he wasn’t boring or ‘politically correct’? If he lied through his teeth about the EU, what of it? The lies were fun, and fun was the point, and the lies were what many people wanted to believe.
Of course the vindictive bullying streak behind Boris the clown was visible - to those who wanted to look. Too many didn’t. Now we are paying a terrible price for this indolence and decadence. We are watching our society being ground to pieces by Brexit and the pandemic
While Johnson and his wrecking crew leech off the country politically and even financially, turning communities and cities against each other, botching even the most elementary things you would expect a government to do,
trashing the country’s reputation & playing insane games of bluff w/ the lives and livelihoods of millions. This is a government so callous that it can’t even find money to feed hungry children, yet pours billions into the coffers of failing companies that happen to be its mates
A government so petty & vindictive that it seeks to demean & undermine those who have shown integrity, competence, & decency, such as Burnham, Rashford, or Sadiq Khan, because no one can be allowed to tarnish the Supreme Leader who suffocates us all like a rancid bleached whale
But his failings are also the failings of the society that cheered him on through every step of his conniving dishonest career, and that, in a way, is even more disturbing and will, in the long run, be more difficult to deal with than the monstrosity that has been foisted upon us
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