Understatement of the Year:
“He’s a different kind of a guy but they say I’m a different kind of a guy, too.”
– Donald Trump on Boris Johnson
Today, Boris Johnson was elected as the new leader of the Tory party and will thus become Britain’s next Prime Minister.
Johnson is a right-wing anti-intellectual who does possess impressive skills as an entertainer of the masses. He has demonstrated no true convictions; only raw ambition. While he has become the face of the UK movement to leave the EU, he only became pro-Brexit when he saw it as an opportunity to gain power. He has never hesitated to tell outright lies, incite violence, or spew racist taunts to fire up his base only to laughingly brush off such actions once the damage has already been done.
To our friends across the pond: We hope you will accept our sincere apologies. We didn’t realize we were contagious.