It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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I think you would have fit in well back in the Europe of the 30s...
Populism is a sham, plain and simple. We have extremely rich, narcissistic individuals claiming the know what's best for the 'working class'.
In a democracy the government is meant to represent the people not the leader ruling like a king.
I think it will. His own backbenchers seem quite keen on this bloated tumour being excised as they know their chances at the next election are being trashed on a near daily basis now.
More controversy about Boris now, looks like he was ran a quiz last year in 10 Downing Street. I wonder will any of this stick.
I've actually been on the receiving end of quite a lot of that, so I can certainly relate.
But we also cannot deny that these kinds of psychopathic traits, which Johnson and others undeniably possess, won't disappear if Johnson is to go.
It's part of the political system of large countries that those with these kinds of trait rise to the top - irrespective of whether we're talking Left or Right.
One of the defining characteristics of Psychopath's is their ability to convince people that they need that their goals are aligned, that they are committed to achieving the same things, that they're in this together. Then when a different goal appears they drop their former partners without a backward glance.
They seek out and flatter those they can use for their own benefit. The problems accumulate as they continually leave the people that believed they were partner with behind, leaving broken promises and betrayed former colleagues behind.
I believe Johnson is part psychopath and part psychopathic liar all wrapped up in an extremely callous and calculating person.
Even here, this would be resigning material. The days when we looked at the UK as somewhre where politicians resigned compared to brazening it out here are long since over.
Both sides. Again.
Of course lying is common in the Johnson Administration.
But that's the point I'm making. It wouldn't make a difference who is in charge, they all lie - to some degree or other, to maintain power.
Once we accept that deception, psychopathy, and narcissism are unavoidable factors in the politics of large and important countries, we have to decide who is the least worst option.
I didn't think you meant it in the mass murderer sense either. Psychopaths are not always violent, but a common trait is that they are very good at manipulating others to get them to do what they want them to do to further their own personal interests
Psychopathic leaders will manipulate public interests to further their own private interests if those interests are not exactly aligned.
The problem with the UK, is that the interests of the public, and the interests of the ruling classes are very far from aligned. And to remain as prime minister, a psychopath doesn't need majority support, they need the support of a small number of very influential people, who can be brought onside by pandering to those interests.
We have seen in the Johnson administration, that he is fully prepared to lie to everyone constantly, to use public resources to bolster those lies, and to sacrifice millions of people's livelihoods as long as he can maintain just enough support to maintain his access to power.
Yep, I like a human being with a fair chunk of altruism to be my country’s leader tbh.
I don't mean "psychopath" in the commonly believed "mass murder", Hollywood view - but rather in the clinical sense of someone who, yes, acts in their own interests, but who knows what to do to achieve that (i.e. populism).
But powerful countries will always attract leaders with what are called psychopathic qualities.
To boil it down, would we rather have Tony Blair or Theresa May in power?
You think that strong countries should have psychopathic leaders?
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You then say that these types of leaders will do what the 'Majority wants'
Why do you believe this? Narcissists and psychopaths do exactly what they think benefits them personally, and they manipulate others to act in their interests.
I find your faith in the leadership skills of psychopaths to be quite unsettling
No. You've just followed your proclivity for fawning over individuals with no virtue. Johnson has no ideology, no capacity to work and no interest in anything except producing illegitimate children.
The end is night for Johnson. One of multiple illegal gatherings at No 10 it seems.
I did.
I answered that it's not Johnson who provides policy, but that it's policies widely held by the public that he latches onto.
You didn't answer the question, presumably because you know Johnson has no redeeming qualities or positive qualities of any kind.
I'm a big believer that strong countries should have leaders with "qualities" that include narcissism, charisma, and psychopathy.
Think of the wet dishcloth, Theresa May. She is precisely the opposite of all three qualities.
Narcissistic psychopaths tend to follow what the majority wants - what's called "populist". They do it because they want to be liked, too; a kind of political symbiosis.
Wet dishcloths, like Theresa May, never achieve anything. They come and go like a bad cold.
The above three qualities are irrelevant if you're a non-country such as New Zealand or Belgium. All you need to do is sort of show that you have a heart, then you'll succeed.
Starmer has neither of these three qualities and so he'll never succeed. Tony Blair had a whiff of all three, and he worked reasonably effectively. Anyway, you get the gist - it's the personality that delivers what the majority want, rather than the policies they claim to have come up with.
Why?
Which Johnstonian policy do you think deserves a chance to succeed?
If anyone, Sunak is the most capable - articulate, smart, proven track record, and can connect.
I think Liz needs to read The Wealth of Nations by Smith so she can learn what comparative advantage is or else ask a secondary school kid studying economics. She really is a fine example of how it is possible to fail upwards in politics, its actually astonishing that someone of such low caliber is the Foreign Minister.
In any case I cant see her being a contender to replace Boris, Sunak, Javid and Gove are all ahead of her in that queue.
The Tories have no intention of Boris leading them into the next election, I suspect they never had. They know Boris better than anyone else, they know how the more exposure the public get to Boris the less they will be impressed no mind to say the likelihood that something daft from his background could sink him at the wrong time.
I believe Boris was due to be shunted aside 12 to 18 months before the next election to allow a new leader, preferably one without the stink of any negatives from brexit off them to lead into the next election.
Liz Truss or whoever will be the first stalking horse, someone that won't categorically deny they are interested in the top job. This will get the narrative out there that a heave is coming. I suspect Boris will cling on into mid '22 and then will be knifed in the back.
Funnily I think the parties leaks etc is more a dig back at Boris' wife from the Cummins rump. This looks like revenge from Cummins on the woman who got him and the team leave press crew ejected from Downing street. Allegra Stratton was Carrie's pal and choice for PR Spokesperson. The fiasco that's been the response to the recent scandals show how dysfunctional the p.r. and press office in Number 10 is. Although if Boris' advisor is the one in the spotlight it might explain why deny deny deny is the mantra. It was also interesting that Cummins big pal Laura Kunnesberg that revealed his identity as handing out awards at the party.
You may claim that, but it doesn't make it so.
Personally speaking, and I'm well aware that I'm a minority on this, I would like to see a Johnsonian Era in British politics - in exactly the same way that Thatcher became renowned for her era in politics.
Johnson certainly has the charisma to carry this out. Though perhaps he should act less hastily in some cases, and not be prone to casual errors of judgment.
I see this Christmas party saga as an unnecessary drama, and I hope that it resolves because, if Johnson isn't at the helm, there are precious few similarly charismatic leaders to carry the Conservatives into the next General Election against the political equivalent of a breeze block, Sir Keir Starmer.
Such ambition. Formerly the greatest industrial and innovative nation in the world, now a sad husk of what it once was, and they want to grow more pears. That'll do the trick.
They're currently destroying our right to protest here and all some people care about is that the upper caste being shielded from harsh language. Pathetic.
The Tory party are the biggest threat to Peace and prosperity on our Island, so the 'venom' is warranted.
They could go in an extreme direction, by either keeping Johnson as PM, or by replacing him with an even more dangerous character.
There are some leadership candidates that offer a degree of moderation, but they have a lot of hurdles to leap to bypass the ghouls who appear to be running the show in that party
The venom you spew against the Conservative Party is borderline obsessive.
That has to be my favourite Liz Truss moment, its a disgrace!
this..^^^
Johnson’s staying power is in no small part to the lack of quality opposition especially their leadership..Starmer as leader has been practically invisible...
do a google news search for Keir Starmer and you get practically nothing current... it’s like the guy is invisible....
Blessed are the cheese makers...
We could end up in Edwin Poots territory soon enough
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