- Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:45 pm
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John Crace lacerates Johnson.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... are_btn_tw
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... are_btn_tw
You can sense the growing disbelief and anger. All his life Boris Johnson has been told that he is the Special One. A person for whom all rules are there to be broken. He is a man who has consistently managed to fail upwards. Sacked from one job for lying or incompetence, he has always effortlessly moved on to a better one. Friends, family and children have only ever been collateral damage in a ruthless pursuit of an entitled ambition.
Yet now there is no hiding place. Boris has achieved his narcissistic goal of becoming prime minister and from here the only way is down. And it’s a lonely place to be because even he can’t escape the fact that he’s just not cut out for the top job. It’s not just that it’s too much like hard work and he is basically lazy: it’s that he’s not that good at it. Lame gags, bluster and Latin free association just don’t cut it.
Put simply, Boris isn’t as bright as he has come to believe he is. In fact, he’s quite dim.
The truth is that Boris is a beaten man even before he stands up to speak at the dispatch box. He knows that. Keir knows that. Worst of all, the country knows that. The shouting is all just empty, white noise. A distraction from his own limitations. And at a time of national crisis you can’t get away with putting that on the side of a bus.
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For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.