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Fuck you Moonshi'ite!!
While France and Germany vacillate, Boris Johnson looks like the only grown-up in the room... The Prime Minister has become a hero in Ukraine and is a pivotal figure in how this tragic conflict will play out eventually.
A pair of Tory canvassers came to our front door last weekend asking if they could rely on my support in today’s local elections.
They had a battle-weary look about them. I sensed they had already suffered some difficult doorstep encounters.
I told them that I happen to know Boris Johnson, as we worked on the same newspaper for many years.
So I know him to be intellectually brilliant and personally brave, but that he always operates within a microclimate of chaos of his own creation.
I conceded that even I was getting fed up with the drip-drip of stupid, self-inflicted errors perpetrated by the hapless Downing Street operation.
My gripes included the failure to shake off ‘partygate’, the economically incoherent tax rises in the Budget, the abysmal calibre of his cabinet ministers, and the lack of any sort of grand Tory vision.
The odd thing was that the Conservative canvassers immediately started agreeing with me.
I said that though I personally could not get exercised about the breaching of silly Covid rules during lockdown, I understood why people were furious. They replied: ‘That was terrible and we were also furious.’
They were painfully polite and we parted on terms that left it open that I might abstain in today’s vote.
Then, this week, events intruded, as they so often do. One showed up Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s manifold inadequacies, the other Boris’s latent strengths.
It would be disingenuous to deny there is a certain magnificence about Mr Johnson’s theatrical displays of defiance in the face of Vladimir Putin’s brutal desecration of Ukraine.
This Prime Minister — and, let’s not forget, biographer of Winston Churchill — immediately grasped the importance of symbolism in the conduct of this war.
And on Tuesday, he became the first foreign leader to make a video address to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion began.
In a stirring display of oratory, he announced a further £300 million in military aid, telling the parliament: ‘You will be free.’ In a less than subtle resort to Churchillian rhetoric, he added that this was their ‘finest hour’.
To an English ear it might have sounded a bit too much, but the Ukrainians responded with a standing ovation.
Characteristically, the BBC chose to emphasise the domestic political scepticism to this charismatic intervention.
An obscure LibDem called Layla Moran suggested the timing of the address could be ‘deeply cynical’, with elections this week. Well, she should know.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...ny-vacillate-Boris-looks-like-grown-room.html
Fuck you Moonshi'ite!!
While France and Germany vacillate, Boris Johnson looks like the only grown-up in the room... The Prime Minister has become a hero in Ukraine and is a pivotal figure in how this tragic conflict will play out eventually.
A pair of Tory canvassers came to our front door last weekend asking if they could rely on my support in today’s local elections.
They had a battle-weary look about them. I sensed they had already suffered some difficult doorstep encounters.
I told them that I happen to know Boris Johnson, as we worked on the same newspaper for many years.
So I know him to be intellectually brilliant and personally brave, but that he always operates within a microclimate of chaos of his own creation.
I conceded that even I was getting fed up with the drip-drip of stupid, self-inflicted errors perpetrated by the hapless Downing Street operation.
My gripes included the failure to shake off ‘partygate’, the economically incoherent tax rises in the Budget, the abysmal calibre of his cabinet ministers, and the lack of any sort of grand Tory vision.
The odd thing was that the Conservative canvassers immediately started agreeing with me.
I said that though I personally could not get exercised about the breaching of silly Covid rules during lockdown, I understood why people were furious. They replied: ‘That was terrible and we were also furious.’
They were painfully polite and we parted on terms that left it open that I might abstain in today’s vote.
Then, this week, events intruded, as they so often do. One showed up Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s manifold inadequacies, the other Boris’s latent strengths.
It would be disingenuous to deny there is a certain magnificence about Mr Johnson’s theatrical displays of defiance in the face of Vladimir Putin’s brutal desecration of Ukraine.
This Prime Minister — and, let’s not forget, biographer of Winston Churchill — immediately grasped the importance of symbolism in the conduct of this war.
And on Tuesday, he became the first foreign leader to make a video address to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion began.
In a stirring display of oratory, he announced a further £300 million in military aid, telling the parliament: ‘You will be free.’ In a less than subtle resort to Churchillian rhetoric, he added that this was their ‘finest hour’.
To an English ear it might have sounded a bit too much, but the Ukrainians responded with a standing ovation.
Characteristically, the BBC chose to emphasise the domestic political scepticism to this charismatic intervention.
An obscure LibDem called Layla Moran suggested the timing of the address could be ‘deeply cynical’, with elections this week. Well, she should know.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...ny-vacillate-Boris-looks-like-grown-room.html
