A few perhaps lesser known - but now revealing - quotes from sociopathic liar & Britain's worst ever PM, Boris Johnson.
On his future political career:
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
On Tony Blair:
"It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall."
After being sacked by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard because he lied about his affair with the Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Petronella Wyatt:
"This story about my private life is fundamentally ancient. What can I say? God. It's been a bad evening."
After publishing an article accusing Liverpudlians of "wallowing" in victimhood:
"It may be there are welfare-addicted Liverpudlians who answer to the characteristics we described, but it was wounding & wrong to suggest this stereotype could be applied to the city as a whole."
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Like religious fundamentalism, free-market fundamentalism is a cancer on the earth, its proponents ideological extremists.
The BIG LIE of the twenty-first century is that deregulated free-market capitalism is our salvation, rather than our perdition.
Nobody alive today has ever - or ever will - live in a purely free-market society.
Everyone on earth lives in countries characterised by a mixed economy, where markets coexist with government intervention, necessary to protect citizens from the cancer of free-market capitalism.
It's at this point that free-market fundamentalists & proponents of the BIG LIE start talking about communism or socialism, as though any purely free-market society has ever existed - it hasn't, anywhere, ever. These are usually idiots, often paid to protect an unethical system.
Carrie Symond's dad, Matthew John Symonds, was a co-founder of the Independent newspaper, is executive director of the 'Larry Ellison (just the ninth-wealthiest person on earth, with a fortune of $108 billion) Foundation', & of course, father-in-law to Boris Johnson.
Larrry Ellison is an interesting chap.
In December 2018, he became a director on the board of Tesla, Inc., after purchasing 3 million sharesm & as of December 31, 2019, Ellison owns 36.2% of the shares of Oracle Corporation - the second-largest software company in the world.
Ellison has been critical of Edward Snowden, saying: "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".
In 2014 he hosted Libertarian Republican Senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser at his home.
A short #THREAD on Boris Johnson's time as Editor of the establishment-right mouthpiece, The Spectator, Chaired by failed GB "News" Chief Andrew Neil, & owned by toxic tax-avoiding right-wing billionaire libertarian crank Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph.
Before joining The Spectator as editor, Boris Johnson had worked for Murdoch's Times, & the Barclay Brothers' Daily Telegraph. He had also briefly been political commentator for The Spectator under Dominic Lawson.
From 1999, Johnson established himself as a "colourful" editor.
A campaign to have Johnson selected in the safe seat of Henley saw rivals anonymously smeared as 'gay, alcoholic or suspiciously left-wing', & in the 2001, Johnson was elected MP for Henley. By 2004 he was vice-chair of the Tory party, & in Michael Howard's shadow cabinet.
The Spectator is owned by right-wing billionaire oddball Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Editorship is a 'Tory Who's Who' guidebook: Past editors include Boris Johnson, Charles Moore, Ian Gilmour, Iain Macleod, Nigel Lawson, & since 2009, Fraser Nelson.
Throughout 2021, every right-wing “news” media outlet & politician has regularly questioned, attacked, & undermined OUR #NHS.
They argue those with the most wealth should pay more, via private health insurance, than the less wealthy.
Allow me to unpick this argument.
SOME wealth inequality is inevitable.
With caveats around those unable to work - eg carers, through disability, ill-health, age etc - it is only fair that those who work harder, have specialist skills or more responsibility, or are more creative & capable than others, earn more.
This short, accessible 2013 video about wealth inequality - since when things have got even worse - shows how inequality is at its highest point in Britain for 50 years, with the gap between rich & poor at its widest since the second world war.