Does Britain’s Prime Minister Have Huntington’s Disease?

Why a genetically inherited illness may go a long way to explaining Boris Johnson’s life to date

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Many people have watched the antics of the British Conservative Party’s official Court Jester Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and assumed he’s merely another spoiled upper-middle-class twat who’s been far too indulged throughout his life and not hit sufficiently hard and frequently enough with an iron bar.

While this may very well be the reason Johnson is such a tiresome and incompetent buffoon, there may be a medical explanation that, if correct, provides insight into what the future will bring for the self-serving simpleton who was happy to sacrifice Britain on the altar of his own ambition.

Huntington’s Disease, while less well-known than Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease, is an inherited illness that causes significant behavioral abnormalities in the decades before the final symptoms make themselves known and ultimately kill the sufferer.

Let’s look at the pre-symptomatic characteristics of a man with Huntington’s Disease.

First of all, those with the condition have little or no impulse control due to lack of inhibition normally generated within the prefrontal cortex. This…