A Twitter masterclass in Churchillian national & global leadership.
By Alexander “Boris” The Great Malevolent Fraud. 1/n
No one warned me breaking the law was illegal.
2/n
No one warned me an illegal gathering in the garden was an illegal gathering in the garden. But I was only illegal for 25 minutes. So in a limited & specific way. Which, as Churchill wrote in the Magna Carta of the UK, is every PM’s right according to [fake Latin reference].
3/n
A surprise birthday party in the Downing Street Cabinet Room, organised by one’s live-in partner, is & always has been regarded as an essential work event, for key workers.
No one ever told me otherwise. During the whole 10 minutes I was there.
Anyway, it was a surprise.
4/n
No one warned me the insane Brexit deal I demanded - which every honest person who knew anything always explained would create a GB-NI customs & regulatory frontier, undermining peace & the UK - would create a GB-NI customs & regulatory frontier, undermining peace & the UK.
5/n
No one warned me that I had a parliamentary private secretary, personally appointed by me, whose sole tasks, under my direction & directly reporting to me, are to represent me & act on my behalf.
6/n
No one warned me they were wine bottles.
7/n
No one warned me that my defining policy was a deranged, vicious attack on the UK - trashing its constitutional order, its security, prosperity & well-being - a national betrayal for which I’ll go down in history as an evil, disastrous failure. And quite possibly to prison.
8/n
No one warned me I had to understand words.
9/n
No one warned me I had been ambushed with a cake.
Which makes me the right leader for “Global Britain” & the Euro-Atlantic alliance as President Putin keeps 100,000 heavily armed troops at battle readiness on the borders of Ukraine.
10/n
No one warned me I was Minister for the Civil Service.
11/n
No one warned me they were dogs.
12/n
No one warned me I needed to understand warnings about things I’m warned about.
13/n
No one warned me I was demanding & signing a demented, destructive deal with the intention of reneging on it.
14/n
Nobody warned me my entire life so far made me unfit to run a whelk stall let alone a city or a government department, still less a country.
Or to hold public office of any kind.
Or to be seen in polite society.
OK, they did.
But they’re nobodies.
I’m The Special One.
15/n
No one warned me the putrid taste of national betrayal would be so arousing.
16/n
No one warned me the coloured papers marked “TOP SECRET - STRAP”, followed by further designations indicating the most extreme sensitivity & danger to lives & national security, contained information I couldn’t casually share with Carrie, her friends & the decorator.
17/n
No one warned me my extremely dangerous friend would be so idiotic as to say the quiet part out loud.
Even I try to give the impression I think ministers must be held accountable & use their quasi-monarchical power over vast financial & human resources to get the job done.
18/n
No one warned me being mired in a midden of unparalleled scandals - of my making, driven by my fatal character flaws & darkly hilarious incapacity for discipline, analysis or leadership - would prevent me making the phone call vital to me single-handedly saving the world.
19/n
No one - except all the people who told me not to do it - warned me using parliamentary privilege slyly to defame Keir Starmer’s prosecutorial record on Jimmy Savile, would lead to a backlash. Or the reheating of conspiracy theories about my own connection to Satanism.
20/n
No one warned me that crime going up by 14% is the opposite of crime going down by 14%.
21/n
No one warned me employing as a top advisor someone closely associated with “Living Marxism”, genocide denial, “Spiked” & my criminally destructive Brexit, & who thinks racism an “exaggerated” problem, might prove I was unfit to hold public office.
Now even she realises.
22/n
No one warned me Carlsberg was probably the best smoking gun in the world.
(“I held, but I did not sip. Anyway, Starmer … curry … paedophile … nothing personal … sorry … not sorry … Corbyn … lieBrexitdonelievaccineliepeoplesprioritiesliebestinG7liemorejobslie”).
23/n
No one warned me photographers took photographs.
24/n
No one warned me it’d become a neat excuse to claim I accidentally wrecked the country because a woman led me astray, & I could fix everything by “just being Boris” & abandoning yet another partner & family.
Get Brexit undone?
Sure.
As long as I’m World King.
25/n
No one warned me that, even if my flat was a dual-purpose residence & workplace, the ABBA party was illegal. Or that, if I wasn’t joining in, I should have put a stop to it. Or that lying is disqualifying. For any government minister. Or that I need a divorce lawyer. Again.
26/n
No one warned me that having a worse vaccine performance than European countries in the European Medicines Agency was the opposite of having a better vaccine performance than them.
Or that, briefed to the hilt as a PM always is, to claim otherwise is to lie.
27/n
No one warned me that I was lying when I gave a false figure about people in employment in the UK.
Or that 1 million is a large number - the difference between 400,000 more in employment (success, but a lie) & 600,000 fewer (failure, & the truth).
No one warned me about this “one rule for me, another for them” thing.
I deeply apologise if anyone feels hurt.
By the discovery that it’s my birthright.
Not theirs.
30/n
No one warned me my fanatical pursuit of a deranged Brexit was just what my friend Vladimir - who sees his survival as dependent on smashing the US-led Euro-Atlantic security order, based on the twin foundations of NATO & the EU - needed.
Still, I’m PM.
So who cares, eh?
31/n
No one warned me you’re not allowed to compare notes with potential co-conspirators when the police are investigating you for alleged criminality.
Which is just as well.
Because it doesn’t apply to me.
World Kings are different.
32/n
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If the US is anything other than fully committed, at great scale and in the pre-eminent leadership role, in NATO, Europe, the US and the world face disaster.
Bookmark that. /1.
More importantly, stop this madness.
There isn’t a way out of this, any more than there is a way of avoiding gravity on the surface of the Earth.
Cutting down US military presence in Europe has been a huge mistake. Successive US administrations are guilty. /2.
That needs to be reversed. It’s a large part of the reason for the mess we’re in. Globally, as well as in Europe.
Waiting a couple of years into a world war before committing to do anything about it is a stupendously bad idea, and grotesquely costly in lives and treasure. /3.
Donald Trump saying “Ukraine is finished” once again, starkly, highlights the question of what the world’s first & only (with the possible exception of Britain), & still remaining, hyper power would do geopolitically under his leadership.
But it isn’t just about Trump.
A 🧵/1.
I’ll be unashamedly Eurocentric.
There’s a broader & deeper story, of course. But Europe is a vital part of it.
The decision the USA has to make, as it did in the 1940s, & repeatedly at intervals after that, is whether it cares about Europe, & if so how much of it, & why. /2.
Does that include all of western Europe? Does it extend to central Europe? And eastern Europe? If so, should Ukraine be part of what the USA cares about (in the 40s that didn’t really play a role, given Ukraine’s status within the USSR)? And if so, how much of Ukraine? /3.
Brexit ripped us out of our $19 trillion GDP domestic market & reduced us to one a 6th of it, thumped our economy, fractured the UK, threw our governance into chaos, & generated perilous geopolitical effects.
And (if you mean it seriously) wildly naive about what actually takes place, legally (although you’d say “in my opinion this is unconstitutional”: good luck!) in the USA.
Still, if we just look at England/UK: yes, there are many concerns. /1.
I never said or, I hope, implied (to a fair, reasonable reader) that there weren’t.
For example (not the subject of my already long 🧵which focused on the way criminal incitement & freedom of expression relate) I personally deeply dislike revocation of citizenship. /2.
But you know that’s a thing in the USA as well, including for natural born citizens.
Involuntary self-revocation (in the guise of “voluntary relinquishment”) of citizenship sounds about as Kafkaesque as it gets.
But there it is, lurking malignantly in the Land of the Free. /3.
Twitter’s full of people trumpeting near zero understanding of English law or of the convictions in respect of the violence of the last 10 days or so.
Nor does the US 1st Amendment mean what many (often Americans) seem to think.
Frustrated? Maybe this will be some use.
A🧵/1.
“Incitement” was an offence under English common law pretty much forever.
In 2008 the Serious Crime Act 2007 replaced common law “incitement” with statutory offences of encouraging or assisting crime.
Incitement in respect of specific statutory offences remains. /2.
“Assisting” means roughly what you probably think it does. But, for clarity, it doesn’t require direct presence at the scene of the crime being “assisted”, or actions which are themselves part of that crime: if they assist the commission of it, that’s a criminal act itself. /3.