British politics biggest, bumbliest blonde joke, Boris Johnson, has declared his desire to lead the United Kingdom into wilderness for forty years today with a front page Freudian slip.
“I’m not even sure how this is legal?” our democratic health watcher asked, upon seeing the Times front splash, “you have an influential MP in the country’s parliament writing propaganda pieces for off shore, hard right media moguls and being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, on top of his MP salary, to do it?”
Good question to ask. Maybe it should be illegal?
“And you have a prime minister whose husband works for a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, based in the USA? Her every public utterance, and policy decision, can have a massive impact on the exchange rates and other areas of the financial markets, and he has potentially (just asking the question, not alleging) advance knowledge of these and so can adjust his positions prior to it? Isn’t that some serious kind of inside knowledge, giving him (and her, as they’re married) a potentially unfair advantage?”
If it’s not viewed as corruption, maybe it should be?
But the bigger question of the day is of course how Boris Johnson, classically educated, can be so lacking in biblical knowledge.
“I guess he is only ever making word salads so the chain of meaning is secondary,” our watcher mused, “but to relate Brexit to Exodus and to suggest the UK should spend the next forty years wandering about the desert, suffering horribly and slowly dying off? Well, that’s alarmingly honest for Boris Johnson, as regards his intention.”
Of course the key difference is Moses was leading his people out of slavery, where as Boris wants to lead us into it, in service of the Pharaoh across the pond.