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- Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:56 pm
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I'm just getting really sick of the infantile level of political debate on social media. It is not a pantomime with saintly Goodies and Baddies who are exclusively irredeemably evil - human beans are far more complicated than that. Apart from her understanding and respect for science, the other enormous difference between Thatcher and Johnson is her ideology and sense of duty. She had a plan which I think she honestly believed was good for the country and she worked hard to deliver it. For the avoidance or any doubt, I think she was fundamentally wrong and her plan was bullshit and the consequences disastrous.
Johnson has no ideology, and no plan. His motivations are greed and feeding his own ego. He has zero interest in doing anything for his country or anyone but a select few who he thinks might be useful to himself. he is fundamentally lazy and does the bare minimum to keep himself in the job.
I forget who it was who said Johnson doesn't want to be Prime Minister but wants to be an ex-Prime Minister, playing the elder statesman touring the world delivering the same after dinner speech for thousands of pounds.
Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:24 pm Who on earth would have thought that all these years later, we'd be looking back (sort of) fondly at Thatcher and thinking she wasn't really (comparatively speaking) that bad ?Abers, I know your tongue is lodged firmly in your cheek, so I'm not having a go, but I'm certainly not looking back (sort of) fondly on Thatcher.
I think I'd best abandon my long-standing plan to go and piss on her grave.
I'm just getting really sick of the infantile level of political debate on social media. It is not a pantomime with saintly Goodies and Baddies who are exclusively irredeemably evil - human beans are far more complicated than that. Apart from her understanding and respect for science, the other enormous difference between Thatcher and Johnson is her ideology and sense of duty. She had a plan which I think she honestly believed was good for the country and she worked hard to deliver it. For the avoidance or any doubt, I think she was fundamentally wrong and her plan was bullshit and the consequences disastrous.
Johnson has no ideology, and no plan. His motivations are greed and feeding his own ego. He has zero interest in doing anything for his country or anyone but a select few who he thinks might be useful to himself. he is fundamentally lazy and does the bare minimum to keep himself in the job.
I forget who it was who said Johnson doesn't want to be Prime Minister but wants to be an ex-Prime Minister, playing the elder statesman touring the world delivering the same after dinner speech for thousands of pounds.
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