They call him Britain Trump
So the UK has decided to join us in Crazytown. I don’t recommend it!
Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
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Donald Trump told an event in Washington “a really good man is going to be the prime minister of the UK now,” and Mr Johnson would “get it done”, referring to Brexit.
The president added: “They call him Britain Trump. That’s a good thing.”
No, it isn’t. It really isn’t.
Princess Ivanka was quick to send her congratulations.
Ivanka sends her congratulations to the Prime Minister of the United “Kingston” shortly after Trump praised the Prince of “Whales.” These people are so utterly incompetent and embarrassing even on the smallest stuff. pic.twitter.com/Q5c6v00YYv
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 23, 2019
Kingston’s all right. It’s on the other side of the river from Hampton Court and Bushy Park. Pleasant enough but not much to be Prime Minister of.
No, they don’t. Nobody speaks like that. It would be “British Trump,” if anything. And who is this “they?” They apart from Trump, that is, as “they” is translated as “I” in Trumpish.
FFS.
And of course the American media treats this story as little more than a curious international event, interesting enough to be first page news, but buried far down in the minor happenings.
the stupid. IT’S INFINITE
Headline from Andy Borowitz:
The United Kingston is part of the United Kingston Trio. Didn’t you know that?
I thought it was a Jamaican football club.
The British PM, elected by 160,000 swivel eyed Tory Party loons while the rest of us look on in horror.
What a wonderful day for democracy in a nation of 66 million people. /sarcasm
Where the fuck do we go from here? I do notice that, over the last few months, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (de Pfeffel, I fucking ask you!) has not been above stealing a few sheets from the Trump playbook. Outright denying things that are on record for anyone to access, burbling about “fake news”.
However, Alexander Boris is not stupid. His buffoon image is a carefully crafted persona. He’s a clever, and utterly unscrupulous bastard without a single principle to his name – oh, wait! He does have one: the principle that the right thing to do is the one that makes Boris richer and/or more powerful.
This is a sad and frightening day to be British.
That tweet of Ivanka’s looks like something The Onion dreamed up on a particularly good day. It’s not just the comment itself, but that choice of photo alongside it is just… perfect airhead material.
Also, the Kingston is the very best biscuit.
Sorry Holms, but the Kingston only ranks #2.
Oh I don’t think Johnson is all that intelligent. He went to Oxford, of course and got a moderately crappy 2:1 but seriously, who actually believes that undergrad degrees require a great deal in the way of intelligence? Hard work or a good memory suffice, especially if you don’t have to worry about money. And went to a posh school because you’re posh and rich. High intelligence will work too, but it’s not really required.
I’m willing to believe that Johnson had a good memory and that’s as far as I’ll go. He certainly doesn’t have a good memory now or – perhaps more likely – chooses to forget things he’s said in his “refreshingly forthright” way (ring any bells?) and directly contradict them when it’s politically expedient.
Hey, anyone remember that time 2 days before the Brexit vote when he wrote two articles for his newspaper column, one saying how great Brexit would be and one saying what a disaster it would be and then published the former once he knew the result? Anyone remember him saying that becoming Prime Minister having been voted in by the ruling party rather than the people upon the resignation of a PM was undemocratic and he’d have nothing to do with any such thing?
He’s not intelligent, as far as I can see, but he might be….. I’ll say…. cunning. But I mean that only insofar as he has a decent instinct about how to appeal to the lowest common denominator and is not embarrassed to be a twisty-turny thing if it results in popularity. But we’ve seen with Trump that such an instinct doesn’t require even the slightest awareness of self or the needs of the country. Foxes are “cunning” in that they can find their way into hen houses. But we probably shouldn’t trust them to draft legislation on hen house security.
Johnson and Trump need only a clapometer to devise their policies and it’s clear that clapometers are what they rely on. Get a big clap for being slightly racist? Dial the racism up until you get less claps. Which won’t happen because you are encouraging the racist clappers and in Trump’s case throwing out the people who boo.
Johnson has talked of “pickaninnies” and “watermelon smiles” and “bum boys”. He’s made it clear that he is only interested in appealing to the worst people we’ve got.
Johnson is Britain Trump, right enough.
Oh, here’s another presto-chango Johnsonism. He said he hated Trump when he (Trump) said bad things about London (when Johnson was mayor). That has now evaporated. Johnson did intervene when Trump decided to tell the world that Sadiq Khan was not a good mayor of London. He did so by attacking Khan. He (Johnson) called Khan a “puffed up pompous popinjay” as though irony were not a finite resource.