More to the point, tho, is the bizarre psychopathology of Tories who aspire to leadership. Cameron thought leading the country was his birthright, & thus became our 1st Gap Year Prime Minister, merely on the way to greater opportunities to make money. Tho the languorous...
...complacency underwriting his whole shtik meant he’s comprehensively fucked up everything he’s touched. Then there’s Theresa May, who thought being Prime Minister was her duty & thus became our first Hobby PM. Sadly, the job is almost wholly about PEOPLE & their beguiling...
...bullying, enchantment, entrapment & all the other dark arts of the highest politics, be it practised by Hitler or Gandhi. Sadly, May doesn’t like people & doesn’t know what to do when she meets one, or even what to say. And so she, too, fucked everything up, constantly...
...trying to second guess what all these people things might like her to do - which she seems to have worked out was essentially be a racist. It’d be tragic if she weren’t so chillingly inept at mastering the basic tools of her chosen calling.
Then we get to the current incumbent, who my indulgent followers will know I’ve been calling out as a KGB sleeper agent for over a decade, on a mission to destroy Britain & all its political institutions from within, at which he is doing extraordinarily well since you ask. But...
...beyond the obvious motivations of fanatical Bolshevism, the lure of Kremlin gold and that they have his real family, it’s clear “Boris” Johnson is just attention seeking & merely wants the adulation of a grateful world each time he pratfalls over his cocks. This is the kind...
...of screaming psycho with a yawning chasm plumbing the depths of hell where his humanity should be they moulded like playdo down in the Lubyanka’s deeper, more muffled dungeons. Nonetheless, his long game requires his role has a few tiny trappings of all that political...
...gravitas shit or something like it, so he pretends he believes in Brexit or levelling up or wars on the wakeful or something, given that Naked theft & narcissism are still, amazingly enough, still thought to be likely to frighten the children. But even then, once you’ve...
...hacked back the blackened carapace of calcified feudal forelock tugging which lies at the heart of the British Constitution, what all three recent Tory Prime Ministers share, from their different standpoints & apparent guiding spirits, is that not a single one of them gives...
...a simpering shit about anyone apart from themselves. True, there was the Big Society Clean up your Local Park & Dig Your Own Grave Austerity narrative, but it was just a narrative justification to try & brush Cameron-Osbornism with even the appearance of meaning. As for May...
...xenophobia & Brexit were what she thought was expected of her, but at heart it remained all about her, madly glowering in total silence at her increasingly embarrassed colleagues. Johnson, of course, doesn’t even pretend to give a shit that he doesn’t give a shit about anyone
...else, even if he understood what other people actually are beyond sacks of meat to fuck and lie to. Which is doubtful, if we’re going to be honest. What’s wholly absent is any hint that anything they do is for the benefit of society, it’s people or, fur that matter, the nation
Apart from wanking into a flag, the Tory party may win elections against a terminally abject Labour Party, but has no programme beyond basically acting as a salvage operating stripping Britain down for scrap to make their rich mates richer, & that’s all it’s been for 11 years...
...making this one of the longest heists in history, & where the mark endlessly helps ripping up the floorboards & pulling out their own gold teeth, thanking the thieves even now on the blower to a chap who’ll harvest their organs too. Ain’t life grand?

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