Keir Starmer is a hypocrite Boris Johnson is only a player of Games

 

“If I am fined for breaking Covid lockdown rules I shall resign.”

Thus by this manoeuvre hoping to wrong foot the Prime Minister.

I have long felt that attacking the character of Boris Johnson was a

mistaken strategy encouraged by other Political Journalists as BJ had

previously made up stories and they did not want any of the muck to

stick to them! Well that train left the station many years ago. So

do some real hard work instead of taking the lazy and easy way out.

Yes BJ has character flaws and probably is not suited to being PM.

That does not mean that KS has none and is the next best thing to a

saint although he is certainly sanctimonious.

Let's look at his record in Parliament. Well he definitely has a

a dubious past. He thinks he knows better than the voters. He provided

advice and support to a foreign International Organisation in attempting to

reverse the Brexit referendum result. (He would deny it but still stood on

platform in 2019 demanding that it be re-run). He is arrogant, supercilious,

behaved in an under hand way, continues to play low politics and is anti-democratic. Moreover Labour under his Leadership has drifted rudder-less with,

at best, a policy offering so opaque as to be meaningless.

So he is not the sort of liberal democrat that would be recognisable in

intellectually rigorous circles. To refer to Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill

the removal of choice in a democracy is an unfreedom and can only be justified

where there has or will be an egregious removal of basic human rights.

Unless you are of a peculiarly messianic nature there is no way that

the Brexit referendum result comes into that category!

Anyway look at BJ's other character traits: he does not do detail; there is a

trail of incompetence; there is a lack of strategy or if there is one it is

to get through another week of this 'game' and the importance given to chasing headlines, a perennial fault of Political Journalists in the Westminster

bubble

It really is a strange and downright weird world in which having a cake or curry

during the pandemic restrictions qualifies for media space of any size.

There is a war in Europe, an economic crisis (in part brought about by the pandemic) is going to get very much worse and inflation will make many poorer. These are the real issues that need to be addressed not ridiculous posturing by Westminster politicians.