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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...servatives
"Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away
Marina Hyde
Who would think a lying, hypocritical degenerate was the answer to this crisis? A large number of Conservatives, apparently
If you feel physically breathless at the current state of British politics, that’s just Boris Johnson immediately sucking all of the oxygen out of the room again. Is the dignity vampire coming back? Unclear. But I know we’re all big fans of lettuces now, so be advised there could be a monstrous 16-stone slug waiting to crawl out of this one and burrow straight into your brain stem.
With a poll this morning putting them just the 39 points behind Labour, a genuinely tragic number of Conservative betas seem to think that only Johnson can fix this/save their jobs.
For now, we must bed in for days of Conservative MPs openly hissing about the damage other Conservative MPs are doing to “the party”, as though the crisis-convulsed country were some distant afterthought. That’s not just a hideously revealing way of talking but a profoundly warped way of thinking. It’s precisely this level of Conservative solipsism that got us here, and we all know the old lines. They simply can’t lose their reputation for competence. If they’re not careful people might just stop looking to them for stability.
Out there in the real world, though, is where the serious fires are raging. Stories of child hunger pour in from teachers every day. This week an elderly patient died after hours in the back of an ambulance outside a Manchester hospital because there were no beds. There are vast black holes in the public finances, and the markets have demonstrably put the UK on suicide watch. Half the country doesn’t work properly any more, and all of the country knows it.
Of the MPs who can surely see all this yet are still going ahead and backing Johnson today, what can honestly be said? Other than: their struggle is finished. They have won the victory over themselves. They love Big Boris."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...servatives
"Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away
Marina Hyde
Who would think a lying, hypocritical degenerate was the answer to this crisis? A large number of Conservatives, apparently
If you feel physically breathless at the current state of British politics, that’s just Boris Johnson immediately sucking all of the oxygen out of the room again. Is the dignity vampire coming back? Unclear. But I know we’re all big fans of lettuces now, so be advised there could be a monstrous 16-stone slug waiting to crawl out of this one and burrow straight into your brain stem.
With a poll this morning putting them just the 39 points behind Labour, a genuinely tragic number of Conservative betas seem to think that only Johnson can fix this/save their jobs.
For now, we must bed in for days of Conservative MPs openly hissing about the damage other Conservative MPs are doing to “the party”, as though the crisis-convulsed country were some distant afterthought. That’s not just a hideously revealing way of talking but a profoundly warped way of thinking. It’s precisely this level of Conservative solipsism that got us here, and we all know the old lines. They simply can’t lose their reputation for competence. If they’re not careful people might just stop looking to them for stability.
Out there in the real world, though, is where the serious fires are raging. Stories of child hunger pour in from teachers every day. This week an elderly patient died after hours in the back of an ambulance outside a Manchester hospital because there were no beds. There are vast black holes in the public finances, and the markets have demonstrably put the UK on suicide watch. Half the country doesn’t work properly any more, and all of the country knows it.
Of the MPs who can surely see all this yet are still going ahead and backing Johnson today, what can honestly be said? Other than: their struggle is finished. They have won the victory over themselves. They love Big Boris."
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