Boris the Clown Redefines Democracy

His Coup d’Etat is New Democracy, Clown-Style

Boris the Clown, formerly Court Jester to the UK Conservative Party and now Joke In Chief, recently told Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel that any attempt to avoid sending Ireland back to The Troubles would be “anti-democratic.”

Boris the Joke knows all about democracy. He’s fixated on crashing out of the EU in a few weeks and taking the UK into the deepest recession since the 1930s, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, causing chaos across the business community, and returning Britain to the dysfunction and poverty of the 1970s. All without having been elected to do so.

Very few of those gullible enough to have voted for Brexit imagined they were voting for this (clever people, of course, did know, which is why clever people voted to remain in the EU). So really there’s no “democratic mandate” or “will of the people” behind this monumentally stupid act of national self-destruction. The gullible Brexit voters were told it would be painless, cost-free, and instantaneously yield an additional UK Pounds 350 million per week for the National Health Service. No one voted for self-immolation.

Boris the Joke was not elected by popular mandate. There was no general election. Nope, out of a population of 67 million, Boris the Joke was elected Prime Minister by…