It’s over. He just resigned.
Is it bad?
Not for me. Whatever hastens the total collapse…I’m all in.
apologies to the red coats out there if i get this wrong but there was nothing conservative about the guy. Correct?
Well he was pretty much as conservative in the strict sense of the term as republicans are far right... I'm exaggerating a bit but not that much, he was mostly pro liberal globalization bs, not really an isolationist nor a nationalist, and he wasn't known to be anti immigration... He talked about some reforms lately, but it does not reflect his overall stance on it over the years, it was more a move to align with the trend du jour.
So what are you going to conserve with that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Political_positions_and_ideology
>Gimson wrote that Johnson is economically and socially "a genuine liberal", although he retains a "Tory element" to his personality through his "love of existing institutions, and a recognition of the inevitability of hierarchy".[739] His liberal stance on matters such as social policy, immigration and free trade were also commented on in 2019.[740][741]
Hm
"Conservative" emphasis on con
I'm not saying he is the worst of them all, but clearly he's never been a staunch opponent of globalization and the liberal world order
There's no left or right anymore, it has shifted to nationalism vs globalism. Macron understands that pretty well, he's globalist and he's no problem "shifting gears" from left to right as long as it aligns with his globalist side of things. And I'm not saying macron is a genius or great, it's just that he got that right and it pays, despite the fact that he's not popular, but he's where he's at
he's shifted a lot on immigration, being pro in 2016 and almost anti in 2021
it was more a move to align with the trend du jour.
yeh, which is what a career politician is going to do really
Boris's allies are fairly conservative though, like Rees Mogg, and the party is nominally conservative too.
But there are a lot of ministers who just aren't though, it's been quite split for a while now, and way too many MPs running scared of the Left.
It's annoying because they took seats from the Left with vague anti globalist sound bites, while the Left abandoned the working class and sucked black tranny dick instead
There's no left or right anymore, it has shifted to nationalism vs globalism
yep, that's a good take, maybe it remains as a financial aspect? there are still socialist and conservative ways to run an economy, but only Russia is trying a nationalist market approach
Well, talking about economics, I've read a bit not so long ago, I think it was on investopedia or mises institute, which basically stated that there's only one economic system and it's capitalism. And all the so called alternative economic systems, are in reality just capitalism with varying degrees of state intervention. And I believe this is true, because beyond the ideological boundaries and blinders this is exactly what you get in practice, technically speaking, whether it's communism, socialism, national socialism, fascism, liberalism, etc
And in the end, while most people oppose communism to capitalism, in fact it is dumb, because capitalism is "an" economic system while communism is an ideology, and it seems that chinese kind of figured that out before everybody else btw, because while they still define themselves as communist to this day, clearly they have no ideological problem with capitalism, as long as it doesn't go against their national interests of course. In a way, they kind of are closer to national socialists than to communists, ideologically speaking. Hitler went sort of full keynes and nazis didn't have a problem with private entrepreneurship, as long as it didn't promote ideas and values and activities contrary to the ideological line. Chinese are also very race oriented btw. And if you take communist russia, soviet russia, private entrepreneurship was forbidden, you couldn't own a grocery store for instance, it was illegal.
He was a big disappointment, I feel like he wasn't even as "good" as Zognald Trumpstein was. They both were disappointments really.
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