But with Boris Johnson, you get the sense that people really would love to see him do it.
But but but… Boris has the confidence of THE PEOPLE! He’s so very very popular.
It says a depressing lot about some of the rest of the world, sadly.
At least it provides a data point that supports the concept of entropy as a factor in thermodynamics.
So we’ve got that going for us.
As a stupid American I’m not up on all the ins and outs of this, but it sounds like Boris wants a hard Brexit. Why would anyone want that? Wow, that IS a lot like tRump. Does Boris claim he’s being tough and doing what’s best for the country?
Thanks! I knew I was reminded of somebody.
I see that there’s a Liberal Democrat party in the UK, but just Democrat in the US. Why the need to add “Liberal”? Is there a Conservative Democrat party?
I don’t think he is. (I don’t know about Brazil. I’ve not been paying close enough attention.)
But Johnson doesn’t strike me as a temperamental idiot with the attention span of a gnat. He strikes me as a person who is catastrophically wrong about certain things. But at the same time, I think there are lights in the attic. I get the feeling that his persona is carefully designed and choreographed, that he actually has thought some things through, and that he’s not solely guided by abject pettiness.
Not saying I agree with him - but there’s a there there. Could be so, so, so very much worse.
Are you under the impression that British political parties are branch plants of American political parties?
Liberal Democrats are the results of the merger of 2 different parties, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party.
Boris Johnson wanted to be Prime Minister at any cost.
He’d already failed dismally at Foreign Secretary.
He realised that going for a ‘no deal’ Brexit, whilst catastrophic for the country, would enable him to squeak in to the top post with a minority vote (similar to Trump’s strategy.)
So he’s trying to suspend Parliament and push Brexit through - before any general election.
I think that every time we have a general election and someone does not like the result, we should have a couple of years of chaos and disagreement before we decide to vote again and get the answer that the politicians and the minority of the voters wanted.
We should keep on having those elections until we get it right.
We should also sabotage anything we can and act like spoiled children because we didn’t get our own way.
That’s the democratic way.
When I saw the recent picture of Johnson and America’s chief clown together, that’s what I thought: “Looks like Dumb and Dumber”.
Uh, no. Make that fucking hell no.
Because staying in the EU, or going with the deal that May agreed, would mean that offshore wealth would be taxed a lot more stringently. That is why Johnson, Rees-Mogg and such people want no deal; it’s the personal wealth of them and their friends which is at stake, they don’t give a shit about ‘taking back control’ or any of the other spurious crap that they’ve been tickling the xenophobes with.
Oh, now that’s something I can understand since our American Congress does stuff like that all the time! Silly me, now i get it. I should have known.
So heck with the Irish backstop and fuck the British and perhaps world economy. Great.
Some people think that they don’t actually care about the backstop, they’re using it as cover to ensure that the new tax rules aren’t put into force.
if they fuck it badly enough, do you think we’ll need to start calling their currency the British Ounce Sterling?
I think that every time we have a poorly phrased referendum where one side lies (and has no idea of how to solve consequent problems like the Irish border question), we should have three years of chaos, get a new (truly incompetent) Prime Minister (without a proper election) and then keep repeating the mantra “there’s a majority for leaving (and we’re going to leave no matter how much it wrecks the economy.)”
We should not have another (properly phrased) referendum, but just accept that Nigel Farage’s xenophobia is the future.
We should also sell off the NHS to the US, split the Union and restart terrorism in Ireland because of one ‘result’.
That’s the Trump way.
I don’t know exactly how it works in Israel, but the other difference that the UK has with the system I’m familiar with in Australia is that here, party leaders are chosen by elected parliamentarians (of their party) but in the UK they need to win a vote of the entire party membership. In Boris’ case this doesn’t seem to make a huge difference but in theory both parties could get stuck with a leader approved of neither by the population at large or by the people who actually have to work with them