Thread by @FanaticRealist

Here's the problem with @bbclaurak's #Panorama on #Partygate. Johnson may well be - from a Conservative perspective - politically gifted and an election winner, but the programme actually describes the character of a narcissistic sociopath… ➡️

… who is able to post-rationalise their own actions to make them appear as if they conform to the "truth" as he sees it.

That's inimical to being able to adhere to objective ethical standards in public life which the programme didn't even mention. ➡️

Other things the programme chose not to mention were things like Arcuri (not the salacious bits, but the conflicts of interest and handing her large amounts of public money) or the saga of who paid to redecorate No. 10 and when. ➡️

The facts are that Johnson is a (recurring) ethical accident who - even according to his apologists - is both unwilling *and* unlikely to change his character to become someone capable of operating within conventional norms. ➡️

Somewhere in that hour, someone - I think one of the anonymised contributors - says they think he'll throw everyone (presumably including anyone and everything) under the bus to maintain his own position. ➡️

That's just another symptom of Johnson's sociopathy; in his world, everything and everyone - incl. the public - merely exist to serve Johnson's ambition and can be disposed of or sacrificed for the same cause.

I don't want to live in a country led by that kind of personality. ⏹️

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