...but as a consequence, they've convinced myself (and doubtless innumerable others) that...
they're completely wrong...
Sure, they're utterly terrified of being on the losing side, I mean, ye proverbial 'hiding to nothing'...
So, to take a step back (a mo), just prior to the results of the leadership ballot of the Tory rank and file for Great Britain's/the [Dis]United Kingdom's next Prime Minister being announced in the not too distant...
...let's briefly, as succinctly as this verbose individual knows how, 'compare apples with oranges', in this case the two remaining leadership contenders for the UK's top job...
On the one hand/side we have someone who's a polished political performer...though lately weirdly (visually) reminiscent of a certain former recent Prime Minister...in terms of his (i.e. Tony Blair's) 'demon eyes'...as he clearly seemed to have done a facial 'makeover' in prep for this major contest.
This (like so many others, *conveniently) recent convert to the United Kingdom exiting the European Union, has shown himself a sure, steady and sensible hand in other matters, in particular his entrusted portfolio of foreign affairs, both with the recent on-again, off-again Iranian crisis...
...and especially with his speedy and courageous response to the genocide of Christians in the Middle East, of/about which I blogposted in detail some (number of) weeks/months back...
And so if for that one reason alone I'd personally give Jeremy Hunt the benefit of the doubt...
*Though perhaps that is unfair. For in the aftermath of the referendum result of June 23rd, 2016 it was surely right - if democracy means anything at all to one and isn't merely a useful, politically expedient catchphrase and piece of jargon one bandies about every election cycle then relegates to the backburner once the electors are no longer breathing down one's neck - of Conservative Party ministers and MPs to get behind the mandate entrusted to them by the peoples of the British Isles.
And therefore to 'back Brexit'. In any case, as the great Winston Churchill 'rejoined' to an opposition politician who pointed out to him that Churchill'd adopted a different position to an earlier one he'd held - **"And what, prithee, do you do sir when you get new [more pertinent and convincing] facts [upon a particular matter]?"
And meanwhile, in the other, opposite corner stands, every bit the bulldog, schoolyard scrapper that he is, one former London mayor, Boris Johnson...
What can we say? Most has supposedly already - long since - been said, and it clearly ain't pretty!
No, this ain't ye average, run-of-the-mill, superbly airbrushed political wannabe...freshly minted, scented and perfumed, emerging from the shower for some modern-era cutesy-wootsey palaver...
Stumbling, bumbling, 'take-me-as-you-find-me', irascible and endearing, good ole Boris...
...prepared to go all the way with the electoral mandate delivered by Britons on June 23rd, 2016 ...whatever the cost...and whatever the flack from the EU Pontificate...
to fulfil - to the letter - the true meaning/essence of that fragile 'thing' so meaninglessly bandied about and arguably employed as a cynical ploy by one and all, especially the mainstream media, Political Punditry Incorporated, and the Sophisticated Set, whenever it so happens to suit their particular political purposes...
Of what do I so speak? Oh, a little thing called democracy...
And so, for what it's worth - yes, and despite him having words with his partner, yes, and despite his refusing to buy in to the media game of feeling compelled to discuss personal/private matters with the inquisitive, in-your-face media - such as those, for instance, who for years actively covered up a serial paedophile, yet were unafraid of pursuing and persecuting a number of high-profile folk whose lives were effectively torn inside out if not wrecked with nothing proven, but rather the reverse -
my money's on Boris...and yes, describing the hijab in the way he did ain't no hanging offence...
Give me a true, warts 'n all democrat anyway over a mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy clone...
No, Foreign Secretary Hunt in his undeniably honourable heart of hearts may not deserve those high epithets, but sadly he has temporarily lost sight of, even momentarily subsumed such worthy and noble qualities in the quest to lead the once great nation of Britain...to others (his newfound acolytes and assorted hangers-on) who doubtless deserve those aforementioned epithets a whole lot more...
But grandstand as various 'respectable as' U K Government Ministers might well now do, as they seemingly fall all over themselves in an unholy scramble and even scrabble to outdo each other in a desperate and misguided bid to distance themselves as fast, furiously and thoroughly as possible from both Boris and the Brexit - in particular, the 'when push comes to shove', last best hope of a 'No Deal crash out' that pretty well looks to be the only real way the British will to brexit will ever actually be realized...
...my money's on the people's choice - that of the British people, that is, not so much that of the rank and file of the British Conservative Party, who as has oft been stated constitute only around .26% or so of the British electorate - those who voted in a well-canvassed referendum with a long-running lead-up...
to leave the European Union...
End of story - or, to use my original blogsite's inimitable subtitle: Nuff Said.
Yes, the people have spoken...long since...and in case you're still wonderin' about it...
it's a little thing called democracy, folks...and it means that the people themselves, not those who patronizingly, condescendingly believe they know what's best for everyone else and feel fit to decide for everyone else, ultimately decide...
...hey, that is, unless you're really a secret believer in and follower of Big Brother...
who, as I've of late been voraciously rereading *George Orwell's ever-acclaimed 1984, also featured a fellow by the name of Winston, who became BB's inveterate enemy and foe...
*Eric Blair in real life, and no, in case you're understandably wondering, no relative of that other 'outstanding' champion of true democracy...who was awhile ago, at a major public inquiry into the lead-up to the Iraq War, exposed - in the view of many - as a flat-out liar, like his American fellow-traveller in belligerence, 'George Dubya'...
**Admittedly a rather awful 'transliteration' of Sir Winston's famous utterance, which I'll correct when I locate my (literary) reference thereto...
they're completely wrong...
Sure, they're utterly terrified of being on the losing side, I mean, ye proverbial 'hiding to nothing'...
So, to take a step back (a mo), just prior to the results of the leadership ballot of the Tory rank and file for Great Britain's/the [Dis]United Kingdom's next Prime Minister being announced in the not too distant...
...let's briefly, as succinctly as this verbose individual knows how, 'compare apples with oranges', in this case the two remaining leadership contenders for the UK's top job...
On the one hand/side we have someone who's a polished political performer...though lately weirdly (visually) reminiscent of a certain former recent Prime Minister...in terms of his (i.e. Tony Blair's) 'demon eyes'...as he clearly seemed to have done a facial 'makeover' in prep for this major contest.
This (like so many others, *conveniently) recent convert to the United Kingdom exiting the European Union, has shown himself a sure, steady and sensible hand in other matters, in particular his entrusted portfolio of foreign affairs, both with the recent on-again, off-again Iranian crisis...
...and especially with his speedy and courageous response to the genocide of Christians in the Middle East, of/about which I blogposted in detail some (number of) weeks/months back...
And so if for that one reason alone I'd personally give Jeremy Hunt the benefit of the doubt...
*Though perhaps that is unfair. For in the aftermath of the referendum result of June 23rd, 2016 it was surely right - if democracy means anything at all to one and isn't merely a useful, politically expedient catchphrase and piece of jargon one bandies about every election cycle then relegates to the backburner once the electors are no longer breathing down one's neck - of Conservative Party ministers and MPs to get behind the mandate entrusted to them by the peoples of the British Isles.
And therefore to 'back Brexit'. In any case, as the great Winston Churchill 'rejoined' to an opposition politician who pointed out to him that Churchill'd adopted a different position to an earlier one he'd held - **"And what, prithee, do you do sir when you get new [more pertinent and convincing] facts [upon a particular matter]?"
And meanwhile, in the other, opposite corner stands, every bit the bulldog, schoolyard scrapper that he is, one former London mayor, Boris Johnson...
What can we say? Most has supposedly already - long since - been said, and it clearly ain't pretty!
No, this ain't ye average, run-of-the-mill, superbly airbrushed political wannabe...freshly minted, scented and perfumed, emerging from the shower for some modern-era cutesy-wootsey palaver...
Stumbling, bumbling, 'take-me-as-you-find-me', irascible and endearing, good ole Boris...
...prepared to go all the way with the electoral mandate delivered by Britons on June 23rd, 2016 ...whatever the cost...and whatever the flack from the EU Pontificate...
to fulfil - to the letter - the true meaning/essence of that fragile 'thing' so meaninglessly bandied about and arguably employed as a cynical ploy by one and all, especially the mainstream media, Political Punditry Incorporated, and the Sophisticated Set, whenever it so happens to suit their particular political purposes...
Of what do I so speak? Oh, a little thing called democracy...
And so, for what it's worth - yes, and despite him having words with his partner, yes, and despite his refusing to buy in to the media game of feeling compelled to discuss personal/private matters with the inquisitive, in-your-face media - such as those, for instance, who for years actively covered up a serial paedophile, yet were unafraid of pursuing and persecuting a number of high-profile folk whose lives were effectively torn inside out if not wrecked with nothing proven, but rather the reverse -
my money's on Boris...and yes, describing the hijab in the way he did ain't no hanging offence...
Give me a true, warts 'n all democrat anyway over a mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy clone...
No, Foreign Secretary Hunt in his undeniably honourable heart of hearts may not deserve those high epithets, but sadly he has temporarily lost sight of, even momentarily subsumed such worthy and noble qualities in the quest to lead the once great nation of Britain...to others (his newfound acolytes and assorted hangers-on) who doubtless deserve those aforementioned epithets a whole lot more...
But grandstand as various 'respectable as' U K Government Ministers might well now do, as they seemingly fall all over themselves in an unholy scramble and even scrabble to outdo each other in a desperate and misguided bid to distance themselves as fast, furiously and thoroughly as possible from both Boris and the Brexit - in particular, the 'when push comes to shove', last best hope of a 'No Deal crash out' that pretty well looks to be the only real way the British will to brexit will ever actually be realized...
...my money's on the people's choice - that of the British people, that is, not so much that of the rank and file of the British Conservative Party, who as has oft been stated constitute only around .26% or so of the British electorate - those who voted in a well-canvassed referendum with a long-running lead-up...
to leave the European Union...
End of story - or, to use my original blogsite's inimitable subtitle: Nuff Said.
Yes, the people have spoken...long since...and in case you're still wonderin' about it...
it's a little thing called democracy, folks...and it means that the people themselves, not those who patronizingly, condescendingly believe they know what's best for everyone else and feel fit to decide for everyone else, ultimately decide...
...hey, that is, unless you're really a secret believer in and follower of Big Brother...
who, as I've of late been voraciously rereading *George Orwell's ever-acclaimed 1984, also featured a fellow by the name of Winston, who became BB's inveterate enemy and foe...
*Eric Blair in real life, and no, in case you're understandably wondering, no relative of that other 'outstanding' champion of true democracy...who was awhile ago, at a major public inquiry into the lead-up to the Iraq War, exposed - in the view of many - as a flat-out liar, like his American fellow-traveller in belligerence, 'George Dubya'...
**Admittedly a rather awful 'transliteration' of Sir Winston's famous utterance, which I'll correct when I locate my (literary) reference thereto...
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