Boris Johnson’s Consequence-Free Life
Why the UK Prime Minister is right to display utter contempt for voters
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For anyone vaguely curious about what happens to a country after it commits an irreparable act of national suicide, the present antics occupying the post-Brexit British press are instructive. To summarize: while the UK government (and the ever-obedient media) was telling everyone that only by remaining in isolation at home would they save the nation from millions of deaths from covid-19, the Prime Minister himself was enjoying an uninterrupted string of drinks-and-alcohol-laden parties with a great many friends and colleagues. The precise number of parties has still to be determined, but those incidents already exposed number more than half-a-dozen. They occurred while ordinary people self-isolated, missing family and friends, and often separated from loved ones dying in hospital or otherwise coming to the end of their lives, thanks to government policies rigorously enforced by the police and other authorities.
Johnson thus demonstrated once again, as he has continuously done throughout his bloated life, that he regards rules — even those he’s been instrumental in creating himself — as for “the little people” only. Rules, in Borisworld, never apply to him.
Presented with such a juice story, which contains no difficult-to-understand abstractions that would confuse and bore ordinary people, the national press is feasting on each new revelation. Voters are said to be outraged at the hypocrisy of the Prime Minister and opposition politicians are attempting to use his self-indulgent rule-breaking as a weapon against him. Not so long ago, any Prime Minister — indeed, any politician of any rank — exposed in this way would have resigned immediately in shame and ignominy.
And yet, Johnson has no intention of resigning. He is simply ignoring the noise and telling everyone that he will continue to do what he’s always done: lie whenever he wants, and do whatever he wants, merely in order to amuse himself. This is a man, after all, who confesses to not even knowing, nor caring, how many children he’s sired.
Johnson understands a supremely important fact about modern politics: voters are stupid and have no memory.
