The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 10th June 2022
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 10th June 2022
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
It seems that Boris Johnson’s luck has finally run out if this week’s vote of no confidence is anything to go by. Although Johnson won the Tory 1922 Committee ballot, it was by such a narrow margin that it is difficult to see how he can long remain leader of the Conservative Party.
Although always good at advancing himself, Johnson’s performance when Mayor of London and Foreign Secretary showed that he was never fit for the highest office in the land. Johnson’s only asset was his ability to get the Tory vote out when needed. He did it to beat Ken Livingstone for the London Mayoralty and he did it again at a national level to “get Brexit done” in 2019.
Had he heeded his advisers and curbed his irresponsible personal behaviour he would have been remembered as the politician who tore up the Treaty of Rome.
Now he will recalled, if at all, as the man who spent a fortune lavishly redecorating Downing Street and partied during the Covid lockdown – much like Nero, to use one of Boris’s classical examples, who supposedly fiddled whilst Rome burned.
Anyone else could have seen this coming and changed course. but not Johnson, which all goes to show that going to Eton and reading Classics at Balliol College, Oxford is not a measure of intelligence at all.