Those who still support alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson - his coterie of ineptitude and those in the right-leaning press who are fully invested in keeping him in 10 Downing Street - have reacted badly to the Easter sermon delivered yesterday by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Anglican Church.
Justin Welby
told his congregation “
The details are for politics and politicians. The principle must stand the judgment of God, and it cannot. And it cannot carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by Christian values; because sub-contracting out our responsibilities, even to a country that seeks to do well like Rwanda, is the opposite of the nature of God, who himself took responsibility for our failures”.
This calm, even serene exculpation was transformed into a “
Rant” in the retelling by the
Daily Brexit, still called the
Express. The
Mail was equally judgmental. But that was not the only denunciation of Bozo and his pals: historian Peter Hennessy
told that “
The prime minister sealed his place in British history as the first lawbreaker to have occupied the premiership” which had become “
an adventure playground for his narcissistic vanity”.
Evening all
There was more. Johnson had “
broken the law, misled Parliament and has in effect shredded the ministerial code … The Queen's First Minister is now beyond doubt a rogue prime minister, unworthy of her, her Parliament, her people, and her kingdom … If he's not prepared to do the decent thing, why should anybody else behave decently and properly?”
Loyal Tory MPs have denounced both Archbishop and constitutional historian, claiming that either or both are “
out of touch”. But here a problem enters: while papers like the
Mail titles line up to denounce Bozo’s critics, their own polling shows just who is out of touch. And, whisper it quietly, it isn’t Justin Welby or Peter Hennessy.
The impeccably loyal
Mail on Sunday commissioned a Deltapoll
poll which makes grim reading for the Tories. Immigration came out as only the eleventh most important issue to voters: pensions, benefits, taxation, climate change, Covid and especially the NHS were more concerning to them. And way out in front - The Cost Of Living.
Labour had an eleven point lead - by offering, well, not very much at all: they were just not the Tories. The Red Team had an eight point lead on the economy; Keir Starmer led Bozo by seven points on “
best Prime Minister”. And it got worse when inspecting the detail.
That Labour lead was 60 points for voters under 25, 44 points for 25 to 34 year olds, 18 points for 35 to 54s. And while the Tories held their customary big lead among over-65s, by 29 points, it was down to just three points for 55 to 64s. And in seats that the Tories had gained in 2019, Labour was leading by 21 points. Red Wall redux.
Worse still, as Paul Brand of ITV News has noted, is that “
polling by [JL Partners] asking 2000 people to describe Boris Johnson finds the most common word used is ‘liar’”. He concludes “
PM has a job to do to tomorrow to convince the public as well as the Commons”. A job that will veer from difficult to impossible with the certainty of night following day. And with only 17 days to go before a round of local elections.
Then we really will find out who’s out of touch.
And it won’t be the Church of England.
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5 comments:
There was always a reasonable chance the tories would lose the next election. Two reasons:
(a) Intensified thieving from (what remains of) national wealth
and
(b) The Bozo Circus would make (a) too obvious.
Right wing "Labour" would need to do next to nothing. Which is precisely how they have performed. They would win by default, a nationalist call-to-arms war notwithstanding. And then, of course, do next to fuck all to reverse Britain's steep decline. It's the job of all righties to maintain the status quo, for which task the Quisling Gang are eminently "qualified".
Nobody's going to take Welby seriously. He's a rich money changer who threw Christ out of the temple. By comparison, attacking the Rwanda scam is small change.
So....more of the same Westminster-Whitehall far right thievery in prospect, election or no election.
Anyway, apart from all that, Anonymous, can we depend on your vote on the 5th May?
There is still a glimmer of hope when there are posts like this on a non-political message board.
"I know I'm like a broken record about this, but how do people genuinely feel about this government? Are you satisfied with Johnson's stewardship of the country? Angry? Indifferent? Apathetic?
I struggle to get my head around the concept of a once proud nation being led by a shameless bullshitter, a spoilt brat who has never done anything for the greater good in his overprivileged existence. Without even trying, he's dismantling the unwritten constitution of this country which assumes people are basically decent and honest and make their political arguments in good faith. It seems ridiculous to believe this is even close to being true now.
Even now, people defend his barefaced lying, his lawbreaking, his deceitful manipulation tactics, his lack of decency, integrity and compassion. It shouldn't be up for debate that he isn't fit for office, IMO, and I have yet to hear any convincing argument to the contrary. "ooh, there's a war on", "cost of living crisis", "move on". What a load of crap. He made the rules which meant that people couldn't see their dying relatives or attend their funerals, then knowingly broke them repeatedly, then lied about it on numerous occasions. "Partygate" probably wouldn't even make it into the top 5 of the shameless episodes he's been directly involved in. Not sure where the nuance is here, if there is any. He's an out and out ####.
People I like and respect have defended him, I just can't get my head around why. It's absolute madness.
Thank God for Sir Keir bravely abstaining whenever the opposition have to oppose.
I think I have just about had enough of this ridiculous country."
13:42.
Nah.
“All of these Christians who are getting upset about the Archbishop of Canterbury standing up for the poor and the needy are going to absolutely lose it when they find out about Jesus Christ”
Hannah Al-Othman, yesterday
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