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Why Boris Johnson Should Never Be Allowed to Seize Power Again
As a child Boris Johnson yearned to be King of the World but later lowered his ambitions to being UK prime minister. After years of making his name peddling crap about the EU for hard-right publications, screwing about on TV, screwing his previous wives around and saying lots of outrageous things about Africans, gay men, poor people, Muslims and Liverpool (to name but a few), and being thrust repeatedly, like a noisy oiled pig, up the slippery slope of politics, he made it to Number 10. Where he failed abysmally and has been turfed-out unceremoniously by some of his closest colleagues.
Despite his many failures in a short amount of time, there is something notable about Johnson that makes him highly likely to try to get back into power. That notable thing is an extremely large bubble of narcissism protects him from ever taking responsibility for his failings — let alone coming to terms with the inner damage and cultural and educational failings that caused the bubble. As with Trump and other narcissists, it’s much easier to believe everyone is “meanly” conspiring against you than accept that you are just not good enough — and fundamentally damaged due to a fundamentally flawed upbringing.
Over the past week or so Boris Johnson has refused to say if he plans to get back to Number 10 but a number of things that he…
