Boris Johnson is the expression of "Brexitism national will".

What Brexit is..is what Boris Johnson wants it to be today, not what Johnson said it was last year - which could be something utterly different.

That is why you must get rid of Boris Johnson 1st.
All flows from that.
Its hard for many to grasp this.
Indeed especially hard for many remainers who are immune to Johnson schtick.
It seems so..."unbritish".
But that is where we are.

To deny this is to deny the journey this country has been on.

We cannot even begin to roll this back until he goes.
)0% of people dont the difference between free trade, the WTO & a customs union.
Why should they..they have busy lives to lead.

Brexit thus can only "percieved" as a "feeling" or a "picture" thru which hopes/emotions are projected.

It has no concrete meaning beyond this.
Johnson encapsulates these feelings
Brexit itself could be anything now
Absolutely anything.

No one knows where this is going
Not even Johnson.

That is why we are not living thru Brexit
We are living thru "Johnsonism"
Every one of his transitory, emotional reactions ARE Brexit.
Shortages weren't Brexit last month.
They didn't exist, they were "Remainer lies".

Shortages this month "is Brexit".
Indeed it is exactly what Johnson always intended.

Anything is Brexit.
The only determining factor is what Johnson says it is today.
That is why Boris Johnson must go.
It is irrelevant if Sunak is more smooth on TV or Gove smarter.

Once Johnson is gone.
Brexit becomes merely problems that have to be solved.

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16 Oct
+UPDATE+

Matt Hancock to be rejected by the UN after publication of Britain’s disastrous handling of the Covid pandemic.

Boris Johnson had attempted to place former UK health minister Hancock in an top United Nation’s Africa Covid role but UN now look to have turned this down.
Matt Hancock had apparently been advised by Boris Johnson that his appointment was “in the bag” and so announced his position before checking with the UN.
BBC confirms story.

UN nations, particularly African countries, resented having someone who was in charge of one of Europe’s worst Covid response being foisted upon them by Boris Johnson
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14 Oct
OK don’t hate me but I’m coming round to the “world cup every 2 years” idea.

There are more reasons than one might think at 1st glance why this makes sense.
1. The premier league is turning into a super league in itself with 5-6 other European clubs dominating football.

The gap between these and most clubs is widening every day.

International football is now, strangely, a more equalising force in football than club football.
In other words as club football gets more detached from the mainstream - international football is filing this gap by providing genuine completion where money is not the overriding insurmountable factor.
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12 Oct
I see a lot of people utterly dispirited at this poll..however it should be noted that if this was the result in an election…

…Johnson would be history and Britain would now have a Labour-led govt.
Aim should be to get Tories below 310 seats.
Don’t care about the final parliament composition.

The current polls are in this territory- although not convincingly so.
We’re basically at margin of error territory where we know 1-3% green votes shift to LibDems or Labour every GE.
I’m other words everything being equal the current polls suggest most likely outcome a labour led coalition dependent on LibDems & nationalist parties.

Not ideal for labour.
But if you’re looking for most likely context to give UK a shot at SM/CU quite probably the best outcome.
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10 Oct
+UPDATE+

UK civil servants have been told to “workshop a trade war with EU” as the UK govt now believes the current trade deal agreed with the EU is so bad that a trade war might not be as costly in comparison.
In essence the implication is that the trade deal negotiated by this govt is so bad that the additional costs of a trade war might be bearable in the short term in order to achieve the govt’s goals.
There’s also been talk that the EU if forced to retaliate would likely choose “iconic industries” which would not affect local EU supply chains & where local substitutes exit - such as 🇬🇧 whisky or salmon.
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9 Oct
Many people still haven’t got it yet:

➡️ Northern Ireland is the new Brexit.

Because the UK govt realizes it can’t win anything, it can’t gain anything, with Brexit it must invent new wars to fight in order to “beat Europeans”.
The whole “trigger article 16” debate is essentially the “no deal better than a bad deal” meme rehashed.

A Brexit without point, without victory must fight new wars to justify itself.

That point and role is now Northern Ireland.
This is why I “bang on about Northern Ireland” so much as some people put it.

The UK govt (correctly) realizes that the EU cares more about peace in Northern Ireland than the UK govt does. This realization gives the UK govt a point it can lever to create trouble.
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4 Oct
Many people assume elections are won or lost by how many of the other party you "convert" to voting for yours. This is largely a myth.

UK elections are won by winning more swing seats by:
1. Encouraging opposition voters not to vote
2. Encouraging more of your supporters to vote
In UK marginal constituencies (seats with a majority of less than 3%) many seats can change hands simply by one party's voters staying at home more than normal & a few more of another's voters voting more.

In other words govts can change without many people changing their vote.
The way FPTP operates in UK this makes swing voters in swing seats super crucial.
Swing voters are obviously easier to switch to & from voting.

So in theory the next UK election only needs 85 000 Tory voters in certain seats to decide not to vote to wipe out the govt's majority.
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