He had started his journalist career in 1989 by inventing a quote from scratch. He had to finish his mandate as Prime Minister on Thursday, July 7, after a final public lie. Boris Johnson liked to compare himself to illustrious British leaders like Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill. The three years he spent in Downing Street, if history holds them, will remain as a period of political, economic and social regression in one of the most lively democracies in the world.
By isolating his country of Europe, clinging to the end to power despite the alerts of his own friends and the loss of confidence of voters, Mr. Johnson will have weakened the United Kingdom, and , therefore, the whole European continent.
that the flamboyant “bojo” falls for having taken liberties with the truth and despised the rules should not surprise anyone. These protruding features of his personality were frequently raised long before he accessed in power, in July 2019. His dilettantism and arrogance have long been masked by his skillfully rebellious mop, his anti -conformism of spoiled child, his real talent of ‘amuser and its limitless cynicism.
However, lies registered on his pro-Brexit campaign bus denouncing the “350 million sent to the EU every week”, in 2016, until his refusal to admit that he consented to customs controls in Sea of Ireland by signing the exit agreement of the European Union (EU), passing through its extravagant “suspension” of the Parliament, a reluctance moment, respect for the law and the word given, values which prevails the United Kingdom, has never been its strong.
The resounding victory in the referendum on Brexit marked the triumph, like Trump in the United States, of this cochum opportunism disguised as anti-storage dissent. The mayor of London, a libertarian, which was mixed with cosmopolitanism, turned into a defender, if necessary xenophobic, English identity and state intervention. With the shock formulas and humor of nationalist inspiration, he managed to convince many of his compatriots that the European Union – which he one day compared to the III reich – was A war machine against England.
massive support for Ukraine
brought to power to implement the divorce with the EU, a task where Theresa May had failed, Boris Johnson has never stopped since when fueling the illusion on the “dividends” that the country was going to draw from Brexit . The deception, a time masked by the COVVI-19, appears today in the open: the United Kingdom is doing less well than its neighbors in terms of growth, investment and inflation. Not to mention the risks of implosion of the kingdom that in Scotland and Northern Ireland induces hostility to Brexit. Comfortable, the massive support in Ukraine of the British Prime Minister is not enough to hide a tendency to isolation on the European scene.
The fall of “Mr. Brexit” is not bad news for supporters of a solidarity and strong Europe while threats accumulate, including that of war, on the continent. This departure, if he does not call into question the break with the union – that no British opposition party claims – must make it possible to heal the wounds and to imagine the return to cordiality strongly undermined between London and the twenty-seven. This supposes that the future British leaders, breaking with the demagoguery of Mr. Johnson, cease to use the European Union as a punching-ball.