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As Boris Johnson's political career ends in disgrace and humiliation, it's worth returning to this 2019 piece by Sir Max Hastings in The Guardian
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#BorisJohnson #MaxHastings
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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#BorisJohnson #MaxHastings
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
'I have argued for a decade that, while he is a brilliant entertainer who made a popular maître d’ for London as its mayor, he is unfit for national office, because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification.'
'Dignity still matters in public office, and Johnson will never have it. Yet his graver vice is cowardice, reflected in a willingness to tell any audience, whatever he thinks most likely to please, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later.'
1. #MaxHastings needs to bone up before sketchily declaiming ‘#histrionics in the #West’ about #ChineseBeltandRoad #lending, @thetimes 30 July 22, p 33. Becoming, like that #LeCarré, another raging '#nationaltreasure' discharging disaffected drivel. 
2. Surmises of #moralequivalence between #Chinese and #Western rapacity by #MaxHastings are tenuous. #Pakistanieconomists, long critical of the #BRI, would remind him how 27% of #Islamabad’s #externaldebt, $90bn as of April 2021, is now owed to #Beijing.
3. #Pakistan, since 1988, has been bailed out 12 times and in talks for a thirteenth reprieve as it requires at least $41bn to sustain #foreignexchangereserves. #IMF suspicion of #dodgyChinese #powercompanies borne out in recent #reports.
It’s like a recurring nightmare….#Brexit, #COVID19 & now the utterly tragic humanitarian crisis evolving in front of our eyes in #Afghanistan.
@BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet @FCDOGovUK @pritipatel @DominicRaab @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @Ianblackford_MP
#afghanistandebate
@BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet @FCDOGovUK @pritipatel @DominicRaab @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @Ianblackford_MP
#afghanistandebate
The #PrimeMinister doesn’t do detail or preparation.
He doesn’t do emotional intelligence, empathy or compassion.
He does do integrity, honesty or accountability.
He is neither open or selfless & he most certainly is no great leader.
He hasn’t even bothered to brush his hair!
He doesn’t do emotional intelligence, empathy or compassion.
He does do integrity, honesty or accountability.
He is neither open or selfless & he most certainly is no great leader.
He hasn’t even bothered to brush his hair!
The absolute shame of it all.
The embarrassment, the horror, the sick feeling of knowing how many more innocent lives’ll be lost because basically he can’t be bothered & will undoubtedly attempt to lie himself out of any responsibility.
But most of all knowing HE DOESN’T CARE!
The embarrassment, the horror, the sick feeling of knowing how many more innocent lives’ll be lost because basically he can’t be bothered & will undoubtedly attempt to lie himself out of any responsibility.
But most of all knowing HE DOESN’T CARE!
