Pick your poison: political incorrectness or economic ruin
Boris Johnson is far from perfect. It is undeniable that some of his past comments have been unwise, particularly those made about single mothers. One could argue that over Boris’ journalistic career, he has consistently written with a healthy dose of sarcasm and comedy that undoubtedly straddled the lines of Political Correctness and perhaps at times ventured too far.
In an ideal society, people would be judged by their actions rather than quotes from two decades ago. But alas, in the age of faux outrage-generating journalism, it has become apparent that the latter are the only headlines that partisan sell-outs are willing to print. To accuse Boris of racism, sexism or Islamophobia, all one has to do is cherry-pick quotes from a 20-year career in the public eye. To prove such accusations to be true, however, would be much harder and require those sitting upon their pearly throne of judgement to deny our current reality.
If Boris is a racist, then could Owen Jones please explain to me why one of his first acts as Prime Minister was to appoint Sajid Javid to the lofty position of Chancellor of the Exchequer? And if Johnson is a sexist, then why would he have appointed one of the modern heroines of the Conservative movement, Priti Patel, as Home Secretary? To top it all, Boris’ own ancestry includes a Muslim great-grandfather.
Whether Labour are accusing Boris of the latest “ism” or of selling our NHS to Donald Trump, their accusations share one thing in common – they don’t stand up to even basic scrutiny.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, these accusations aren’t the only thing that don’t hold up to basic scrutiny. Make no mistake about it, Corbyn’s Socialist economic agenda would doom the UK to the same fate as Venezuela.
Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Now, Venezuelan citizens are on the brink of starvation and teetering on the edge of a violent revolution to depose their government. A government that nationalised consumer industries, constantly demonised the wealthy and continues to peddle conspiracy theories about American interference… sound familiar? The rhetoric is the same, the policies are the same – why would the results be any different?
Nationalisation will do nothing for industries but decrease quality and increase price. Find me a single bureaucrat that knows more about Internet infrastructure than an executive at BT/Virgin/Sky and I’ll eat my hat.
Our country’s billionaires provide goods and services which we use every day. Yet Jeremy wants to steal their wealth and cripple their businesses. When they flee our country, taking their capital, jobs and innovation with them, can we truthfully say we would do anything differently if we were in their position?
And the outrageous claim that Donald Trump wants to buy our NHS has been proven to nothing more than a conspiracy theory, as covered in my previous article.
Voters need to decide what they would rather stomach. A ruffle-haired caricature, with two first-class degrees from Cambridge and a successful stint as Mayor of London behind him, who occasionally forgets we live in the Ultra-PC era, or a man who achieved two Es in his A-Levels and espouses economic theories so archaic that even Communist China has abandoned them. I would urge voters to think wisely, but I’m not sure conventional wisdom is even required in this case!
https://tpointuk.co.uk/2019/12/03/pick-your-poison-political-incorrectness-or-economic-ruin/