Remembering when many of us compared Boris Johnson’s contempt for democracy and the rule of law to that of Donald Trump, and several Very Serious People scoffed at the comparison.
Still thinking about how Boris Johnson’s speech about climate change - in which he claimed the Roman Empire fell due to uncontrolled immigration - was a beat-for-beat remake of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech: “wars, terrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood.”
Boris Johnson, on the eve of a crucial climate summit, made the UK’s endgame clear. Here’s the Rivers of Blood speech, for those who don’t know it; it was condemned at the time by Powell‘s own party leader.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of…
The UK‘s endgame, as I see Boris Johnson is expressing it with his reference to the Roman Empire: the seas are rising, the migrants are coming, seal and protect our borders“. Simple, seductive, utterly dangerous.
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