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A Very British Problem
Why the temporary survival of Britain’s incompetent lying Prime Minister is merely a symptom of a more fundamental dysfunction
Anyone vaguely interested in what can happen to a country after it willfully commits national suicide may have noted that on June 6th 2022 the UK’s governing Conservative Party held a vote on whether or not to retain as Prime Minister a certain Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson — a man well-known to be intellectually vacuous, a compulsive liar, and a self-indulgent drunkard who has already broken multiple laws including lying to the British Parliament — an offense hitherto automatically punished by defenestration.
Not surprisingly, however, given the British Disease of never being able to confront any difficulty head-on lest it create embarrassment, the result of the recent vote was that despite all his clear wrongdoings and unsuitability for office, Johnson clung on to power. His fellow Conservative Party politicians — the only ones permitted to vote on the matter — were simply incapable of coping with reality and instead did what the British do best: they fudged things in the hope that magically somehow tomorrow everything will be forgotten and that despite all evidence to the contrary, the Conservative Party will be able to bumble and stumble along in power for…
