Our cowardly Prime Minister Boris Johnson hid in a fridge this morning to avoid hard hitting political questions from ITV'S Good Morning , this following the news that revealed what a callous bastard he really is after he took an ITV reporters phone and put it in his pocket after being asked to look at the photo of a sick boy sleeping in a hospital floor, and after the immediate move by the Tories and their media supporters to distract people from this story and to attempt to rubbish it as fake news.
Johnson has been called by Chris Patten , medacious and incompetent, Mathew Parris launched a scathing attack on him, Michael Heseltine and John Major have also spoken out against him.
To the British public he portrays himself as a Bertie Wooster character, his hair is a mess, he falls into ponds, designed to make people feel sympathy towards him, because of an intimation of vulnerability and a sense that he is fundamentally unserious. But underneath the bumbling facade, there is an undeniable ruthlessness and has been exposed to be a serial liar.
Lets not forget how many times he has been sacked because of this, sacked
from his first job - as a newspaper journalist at The [London] Times. Then also sacked from his second job - as a
newspaper journalist at the Daily Telegraph . Then lied his way into a job, telling the publisher of the
Spectator that he would not pursue a political career. He got the job as
the Editor. When he broke that promise, the publisher called him
"ineffably duplicitous".
Alexander
B De Spaffel Johnson was then sacked from two more jobs for lying -
vice-chair of the Conservative party, and shadow arts minister. He had
lied to the party Leader, Michael Howard, about an affair he was having. He had lasted 6 months as a shadow minister, before being sacked for lying.
He
lied about the action he would take if construction began on a third
runway at Heathrow, having promised to lie down in front of the
bulldozers. He made sure to be out of the country that day, instead.
He
offered help to someone who wanted a journalist beaten up. Then denied
he had done it. (The tape recording of his offer of help is widely
available. So is the Eddie Mair interview in which he denies it).He broke at least three of his key manifesto promises when he was London Mayor. And he broke his promise not to stand as an MP while he was still Mayor.
He
co-signed a letter stating that “the only way to avoid having common
borders with Turkey is to vote Leave” then lied about signing it. He lied about £350 million a week going to the EU. He lied about using that (not actually real) money on the NHS instead.
He
lied about EU rules affecting a Manx kipper factory. The Isle of Man is
not in the EU. And the rules he said were EU rules were actually UK
rules.
He promised
to die in a ditch rather than request a Brexit extension. He requested
the extension. Ditches throughout the land remain untroubled by his
presence, alive or otherwise.
The
Daily Telegraph has recently printed at least one, possibly several,
apologies for lies he told in stories he wrote there this year.
He
looked many members of his Parliamentary party in the eye and assured
them that, no matter what, he would leave the EU on the 31st of October,
so they would endorse him for the party.In short, he lies easily, fluidly, frequently and habitually.
With renewed focus on him, additionally , a raft of offensive insults deployed by Johnson have come to light again this general election.
The
decades of remarks, uttered in public office, scribbled in columns and
penned in novels have returned to dog the Prime Minister, who has been
hesitant to apologise when pressed by journalists.
The
comments that have come up during the election campaign include remarks
accused of displaying of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia,
classism and homophobia, written when he was aged 30 and beyond.
Sadiq Khan says Boris Johnson’s record on racism is far worse than Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism in the Labour party.Speaking on LBC, the Labour mayor of London said Johnson had put
racist and Islamophobic comments on the record 'and been paid for it'.
Writing in the Telegraph in 2002, Johnson referred to a visit to Africa by the then prime minister Tony Blair.
"What
a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that
the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies
her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," a racist term for African children.
Confronted
about the comment during his first campaign for London Mayor, Johnson
claimed that the comments had been "taken out of context."
Boris Johnson was last year reported to the Equalities Commission
after comparing Muslim women who wear burqas to "letter boxes" and bank
robbers.
The former foreign secretary wrote in an article for the
Telegraph that "it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to
go around looking like letter boxes," adding that any female student
who appeared at school or in a lecture "looking like a bank robber"
should be asked to remove it.
Johnson also has a notoriously bad track record when it comes to how
he views women and women’s rights, throughout his multiple careers. As a
journalist in the 1990s and 2000s, he made numerous sexist gaffes.
Lamenting the reaction to Princess Diana’s death in 1997, he wrote that
"we live in an age where feminism is a fact, where giving vent to
emotion in public wins votes". In the same decade, his female colleagues
publicly complained about Johnson pinning a glamour calendar featuring
nude and sexualised photographs of women, even after receiving multiple
complaints that it was making them uncomfortable. In a 2005 farewell
piece marking his exit as the
Spectator’s editor, he advised his successor to "just pat [their female publisher] on the bottom and send her on her way".
This
kind of behaviour continued in his various political roles. During his
2005 campaign to become a Conservative MP he stated that "voting Tory
will cause your wife to have bigger breasts". He also expressed how
"magnificent" it was to watch "semi-naked women playing beach volleyball
… glistening like wet otters" during the 2012 London Olympics which he
hosted as then-Mayor.
Such sexist behaviour is also evident in his
voting patterns. As MP, he has continuously abstained from voting on
any sort of abortion legislation and, in 2015, comprised one of the 305
MPs who opposed cutting the tampon tax (where tampons are legally
considered and taxed as a ‘luxury’ and an ‘unnecessary’ product) which
caused the amendment bill to be rejected.
Then there are his homophobic utterances,in a 2001 article in the Spectator.
for example, Johnson condemned a British legislator for voting in favor
of “Labour’s appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of
homosexuality in schools.” In the late ‘90s, he also reportedly referred
to gay people as "tank-topped bum boys" and compared gay marriage to bestiality.
And In case you missed it, Boris Johnson wrote a novel called
Seventy Two Virgins
and it’s even worse than you might think: “Hooked nose” Kosovar
Muslims, Jews who control the media, “half-caste” characters, a
“Chinaman,” hunter-gatherer African immigrants, and all kinds of other
racist tropes feature in this tale of a terrorist attack in London (
The Independent has
a full selection of awful excerpts here).
Even he when asked to comment on the stream of offensive statements during a
Question Time election debate special, the Conservative leader said: “If you go
through all my articles with a fine-tooth comb and pick out individual
phrases, there’s no doubt that you can take out things that can be made
to seem offensive." How could anyone consider voting for this individual with his proven history of racism, misogyny, homophobia and lies. The prospect of Johnson getting into power absolutely fills me with despair.
Johnson and the rest of the Tories would throw most of us under a bus without a moment's hesitation. Please, if you're a decent human being, do not vote Conservatives tomorrow. Remember Windrush, the hostile environment , Grenfell, NHS crisis, deaths by austerity, rising homelesness, food banks, universal credit. The Tories have time again targetted immigrants, the poor and women, who have borne the brunt of their austerity policies.
Tthe British Conservative party is diametrically opposed to the
good of the British public and deliberately acts against their
interests. Their motives driven by authoriarianism designed to
disenfranchise all, unless you are not a millionaire, the Conservative
Party is not your friend, they are enemies of the people. Inhabited by
people with no feeling at all.
Aided and abetted by their friends in the Daily Mail, the
Telegraph and the Scum newspapers. Rags that keep on pumping out the
same disingeous and divisive rubbish. Plus the BBC misleading people
with their parroting of Tory narratives and soundbites. We should not
forget the Tory's ruthless , toxic and unjust policies. Their constant
assaults on the NHS, people on welfare, the disadvantged, the poor,
which include poorly paid workers. As a direct result of their policies
we have got the growth of foodbanks, rising homelessness, dodgy benefit
assessmentsts, the trebling of uniersity tuition fees, a boom in xero
hours contracts, while anti-democratically forcing fracking on people
who have clearly stated they don't want it, while at the same time passng
new laws to ensure the wealthy stay wealthy, taking the side of big
business while eradicating workers rights and continuing their attacks
on young people, single parents, maintaining a hostile environment to
refugees, slashing education and social security budgets, perescuting
the poor for beng poor while at same time they give
their friends the millionaires tax breaks and award themselves pay
rises. The list goes on and on, they are toxic and out of control.
The Conservatives with their feelings of self entitlement
believe they are born to rule. Unconcerned by any principles except
their maintenance of power, they U-turn on positions at a drop of a
hat, betray promises and even sacrifice their own in order to maintain
control.The interests they serve are not yours or mine, but those of the
bankers, financiers, fossil fuel magnates and the elite
The Tory manifesto further threatens to “update” the Human Rights Act to
rebalance rights in favour of “national security and effective
government”. No detail is given, but this could refer to
control orders, stripping people of their
citizenship and
deporting them to places that practice torture. It could also mean curbs on the right to protest, which was recently
upheld by
the courts in the case of Extinction Rebellion. In the event of a No
Deal and civil unrest, more repressive measures will no doubt be
contemplated. For the Tories, rights are not universal protections afforded to the
vulnerable, but a privilege for the right sort of British citizen;
another tool to sow division between “us” and “them”.
This is not the country I love. Vote Conservative 2019 and vote for more death and poverty, inequality and division. A Tory victory, coupled with a Hard Brexit, will give the elite all the excuses they need to strip back all the pay and conditions, environmental regulations as much as they want. The polls show a Tory lead at the moment , but it's shrinking, keep exposing the Tories for what they are, it's not to late to stop them before it's too late. We are on the cusp of changing the course of British history, for the benefit of generations to come.
This election is a real chance to sweep aside the Tories and finally put an end to almost a decade of austerity, protecting the NHS and ending the climate of racism that is currently fostered and to prevent climate catastrophe.Forget about the bloody weather and get out and vote for change and a society, we can all be proud off. Give hope a chance. Kick out Johnson and the bloody Tories. Another world is not only possible, it's within our grasp. Imagine the delight of seeing Johnson become the shortest-serving prime minister since 1827. A labour victory under Jeremy Corbyn, that would leave us with a Christmas we could really look forward to.
