The Tories are all stabbing each other in the back, and the Labour opposition is kind of just sitting there, by the looks of things. Meanwhile, the cost of living has skyrocketed, and it doesn't look like it will be coming down any time soon. Wages on the other hand, still aren't rising in line with the cost of living, and a recent pay rise may have put lots of low-income poeple into a higher tax bracket, which means that they are worse-off in real terms. We're heading for the cool zone certainly, if not already there.
I must admit, I haven't been following Johnson's woes too closely. With all the talk af mass shootings in the States and the collapse of the Democrats, I didn't see that Sunak and Javid, two of the top Tory cabinet members, had resigned yesterday; besides which, it just seemed like more people complaining about him having a party during lockdown, which I personally just can't get that angry about. All of the things he has done, and that's the one the public can't stand?
However, it's looking like he won't survive to lead the party in another election because of some more recent allegations about hiring a known sex pest as the Deputy Chief Whip, then lying about it, and because of the loss of safe Tory seats in the recent by-elections.
If he's ousted before the end of the year, we could even end up with another general election - the third in 6 years (I feel like another election would probably happen in 2023 though, which upsets the statistics a bit). It would also mean that neither of the last two Prime Ministers have managed to complete a full term.
What do you guys think?
Edit: as some have pointed out, I was wrong about tax itself, but means testing thresholds are usually the same which means that benefits could still be cut off as wages rise even marginally in line with the cost of living.
I think it's more than that, most politicians actually give a fuck about the goals of the political right, ideologically speaking. Because they give a fuck about that they would resign in his circumstances because they would understand it's politically necessary for the tory party and the interests of the right.
Boris seems to not give a fuck. Boris holds his own ideology of "exhaust every single institutional strategy available to advance oneself". He holds his own ideology above the interests of party or right wing politics in general.
I kind of admire it if I'm going to be honest. He's being a tenant that refuses to leave despite all the notices and is going to smear shit all over the walls if he's forced out.
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That's what being brought up on the ruling class side of the education system does for you, and being groomed for rule through Eton and so on.
We are disadvantaged by lacking this on the working class side of society.
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Plenty of them are like him, they just also happen to be competent actors.
When those people do crop up on the left they have a tendency to shoot themselves in the back of the head multiple times and then light themselves on fire
Death to America
when you put it that way, comparisons of him to Trump seem a lot more compelling than in the past
Boris is much worse. The man is calculated evil. His entire bumbling persona is manufactured and what lies beneath it is an extremely well educated evil shitter who knows exactly how the world works, understands ideology, and understands geopolitics.
Trump on the other hand legitimately has no idea about tonnes of things. Same behaviour but Boris is much much more dangerous.
that's exactly why I have resisted those comparisons in the past.
it's the similarity in not being loyal to the party in the same way and putting your own individual advancement ahead of any real ideological commitment that strikes me as actually being alike.