(Facebook 15 Dec 2019)
The Conservatives secured a sweeping victory, winning in 365 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons - the party’s largest majority since under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Labour fell to its lowest number of MPs in 84 years
Some remarks :
During the campaign Johnson faced questions about his personal trustworthiness after his repeated failed promises during the year to deliver Brexit by the end of October “do or die.”
He pledged to add 50,000 more nurses to the NHS but, under scrutiny from the opposition and media, he backed down acknowledging that 19,000 were already working in the NHS; he also dodged many issues and some important interviews.
He faced allegations of failing to disclose close personal ties with a U.S. businesswoman who had received thousands of pounds in public business funding while he had been mayor.
He has been sacked twice in his career for lying: once as a journalist for making up a quote, and once as a Tory shadow minister for lying to his leader over an extramarital affair.
A member of the public accused him of peddling fiction by promising a rosy future for Britain outside of the EU and being part of a government that had made cuts to public services.
He oversaw one of the biggest purges of cabinet ministers in modern British history and expelled from his party 21 Conservative lawmakers who had voted against the prime minister on Brexit.
Some voters said they planned to support him even if lack of trust was a factor. He was much less disapproved than Jeremy Corbyn.
But his team were also aware of his often-colorful turn of phrase and a tendency to go off script which was a potential liability.
Exit polls Thursday evening suggesting a major victory for Johnson caught some in the Conservative camp off guard. “I was stunned,” said one member of Johnson’s campaign team.
But it seems that Brexit and to some extent the rise of rightist nationalism trumped everything else , even traditional party allegiances. UK is breaking at the seams and it is a vote for intolerance. The working-class voted for Brexit . Why ? Plain racism, xenophobia-the intolerant UK!!
IT SEEMS TO REMIND US THAT OUR………"Celebrate Boris !"
