Peter Oborne raises the alarm about Boris Johnson
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Former chief political columnist of the Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne, expresses grave concern about the direction in which Johnson is leading both the Tory Party and the country.
This follows his essay in December explaining As a lifelong Conservative, here’s why I can’t vote for Boris Johnson.
He fears we have entered dark times…
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Sat 8 Feb 2020. Read the original here.
Boris Johnson is leading a revolution, and this time it's coming from the right
Goodbye to morality, decency, legality and the UN. Welcome to the law of the jungle
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Much as I concur with the analysis of Johnson’s right wing revolution I wonder how Oborne came to miss the right wing revolution of the fascist parties. After all Mussolini, Hitler and Franco espoused a right wing revolutionary philosophy in the open which was more than a rejection of Marxism..
A great writer. Looks like we are returning to the 1930s.
“Consider the collapse of the French Communist Party after the fall of Soviet Russia. Many working-class voters did not shift to the centre-left; they found a new home in the National Front.”
I doubt very much that those joining NF were CP members/ supporters
Sadly, too many were. Says something about acceptance of authoritarianism and the poor political education in the PCF
I was thinking the same as Frank Land. I would also take umbrage with Oborne’s description of the Conservatives as party of tolerance. It’s history belies the absurdity of the claim. I do however rate Oborne as a commentator generally, having read both ‘The Triumph of the Political Class’ and ‘The Rise of Political Lying’. These are dark times indeed, particularly if you are not part of the right-wing project now gathering steam in Westminster.
Media smears by all msm against socialism and the Blairites who wanted to lose a General election to oust a socialist leader popular with the party memberdhip have led to this. You can’t blame Tories for being Tories. X