Must the British Prime Minister resign? Johnson’s political model of lies no longer works
The British Prime Minister is at a current low point as a politician. It is dawning on more and more Brits that he may not have just lied to them about lockdown parties.
Has Boris Johnson reached the end of his political career? For weeks the British prime minister has been struggling from one scandal to the next. So far, as always, he simply sat out the allegations and hoped the media and public would lose interest.
It’s getting harder and harder now: On Wednesday, Johnson admitted for the first time that during of the lockdown in May 2020 at his official residence in Downing Street attended what is believed to be an illegal garden party. For this he apologized himself. Before the lower house of parliament, however, he immediately declared that he had thought it was a working meeting.
Even though the majority of his cabinet has once again put themselves in a remarkable way to protect the ailing prime minister, the public has apparently had enough: A YouGov poll According to the conservative Times of London , the opposition Labor Party is currently ten percentage points ahead of the Tories. Six out of ten respondents think Johnson should resign. Nearly eight in ten respondents don’t believe Johnson is telling the truth about attending banned lockdown parties in Government District.
The fact that Johnson does not have a very close relationship with the truth should have been noticed by most Britons before the “Partygate”. After all, many of them supported him precisely because he set himself apart from typical British politicians with his cunning and unconventional manner. But with his obvious lies in the past few days, Johnson has exposed himself.
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So it’s no wonder that more and more Britons are currently asking themselves what else they could have lied to Johnson about.
But we don’t know just this week that Johnson has no problem telling the untruth if he thinks it will give him an advantage. In the 1980s, he was fired from his very first job as a journalist for making up a quote in a newspaper article. The Daily Telegraph nevertheless made him its Brussels correspondent. Johnson thanked him with an endless stream of texts, which were often ridiculously over the top, but were well received by the newspaper’s EU-critical readers. In the 2000s, Johnson lied to then-Tory leader Michael Howard about an affair. He then dismissed him from his posts as vice-chairman and shadow minister for art. To this day it is also unclear how many children Johnson has (if he even knows).
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As well as illegal lockdown parties, Johnson is currently accused of having lied during a recent inquiry into who funded the costly refurbishment of his Downing Street office. A few weeks ago, an American businesswoman also went public and explained that she had an affair with Johnson when he was Mayor of London. Johnson is said to have retaliated by supporting her small IT company. A clear conflict of interest that Johnson should have identified as a politician. So far, Johnson has responded to allegations that the businesswoman in question gave him “tutoring” on IT at her home.
Empty shelves, pigs shot, spoiled milk. In Great Britain, the Brexit crisis continues to escalate. Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not want to be to blame and is trying to make the economy a scapegoat.
Johnson’s most serious lies have to do with Brexit. After all, in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum, he was the public face of the Vote Leave campaign and thus the most prominent proponent of leaving the EU. It is quite possible that the (then still) popular politician was the decisive factor for the narrowest possible victory on the leave side – 51.89 percent.
Johnson was there drove around the country for months before the referendum in the red Vote Leave campaign bus, alongside which was emblazoned the demonstrably false claim that Britain was sending £350m a week to the EU. An amount that would be better off in the health system. Even when Vote Leave circulated an openly xenophobic poster that suggested Turkey’s accession to the EU imminent, Johnson did not distance himself from this apparent untruth.
In context With Brexit, Johnson promised the British heaven and earth. Meaning: Everything would be better with Brexit, without any restrictions or obligations for Great Britain. The EU would grant the country a great trade deal, he repeatedly asserted. After all, Europe doesn’t want to risk economic ruin if the British simply order their goods elsewhere. Johnson once told an Italian minister that Rome surely didn’t want any slumps in Prosecco Risk exports to the UK. In Britain he was met with plenty of ridicule for his cockiness. Carlo Calenda, the minister concerned, described the statement as “insulting”.
The allegedly so convinced champion of leaving the EU in 2016 only finally decided to support Brexit at the very last minute. It later became known that Johnson even had a secret editorial in his drawer at the time , in which he spoke out in favor of remaining in the EU and warned of the economic consequences of a Brexit. Why did he still support Brexit (and praise it to the skies)? Apparently, Johnson wanted to make himself popular with the arch-conservative Tory base. After all, they choose the party leader and, if the Tories are in government, the prime minister.
In the real world, Brexit has long since proved less glamorous than Johnson promised his compatriots: Britain’s financial sector is slowly but surely losing capital and business to trading places in the EU. The numerous trade agreements with countries all over the world, which should have been signed long ago, are still a long time coming. A recently signed deal with Australia, which Brexit supporters are celebrating, is estimated to boost Britain’s economic output by just 0.02 percent over the next 15 years. In a press release, Johnson’s government speaks in all seriousness of a “Agreement of World class.
British exports to the EU, meanwhile, fell 15 per cent last year, with the rest of the world down 7 per cent. Due to the new Brexit related bureaucracy required since earlier this year, Trucks are currently piling up in Calais for days. There are also persistently empty shelves in UK supermarkets, massive shortages of truck drivers and skyrocketing cost of living exacerbated by Brexit has.
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Not only Boris Johnson is struggling these days to keep his political career riddled with lies alive. The fantasy of Brexit is also looking more and more shaky at the moment.
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