British Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be resigning — first as the leader of of his part and then, by the fall, as the leader of his country..It seems all those all those boozy parties in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns that were meant for everyone but the government and corporate elite have finally caught up with Boris. And then there was that matter of appointing Conservative MP Chris Pincher as deputy party whip despite a series of sexual assault allegations — and same sex to boot, Well, it seems the Tory caucus had had enough and the resignations started streaming in by the dozens overnight. Bye, bye Boris..It’s not like the British Conservatives haven’t done this before. They’re adept at it..When Margaret Thatcher, arguably the greatest prime minister of the last half of the twentieth century, had outstayed her welcome she went through the ordeal of being pushed out and replaced like yesterday’s menu..The most famous caucus coup of course was that instigated against Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1940. But these were actually serious, not just hi-jinks against a background of an inflated pandemic. Chamberlain had appeased the Nazis into gobbling up first Austria, then the Sudetenland before annexing Czechoslovakia itself. Then Hitler invaded Poland and Chamberlain realized it had all been for nothing. Winston Churchill was waiting in the wings..There doesn’t seem to be any heir apparent for Johnson. He was supposed to have a longer shelf life than just three years. But look around, Mr. and Mrs. Canada and who do see still standing in Canada? Did you expect to see Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to be looking so eviscerated? Here was a guy who left federal politics to pull the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties together, win a stunning majority and then run a government during the COVID-19 that will be remembered as having put more pastors behind bars than communist China. He just got so enthralled with all that health authoritarianism that he forgot what he was all about. And the voters forgot too..Ontario Premier Doug Ford is fortunate he was re-elected before voters in that province had a chance too think too carefully about his casual alliance with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his endorsement of Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act. Ontario was under senseless lockdowns as much as any sector of the country and Ford was gutless in telling the health Gestapo to go to hell. He won a majority in the June election because his opponents were frankly even more authoritarian than he was, but if he thinks he's going shove a third or even fourth vaccine down peoples’ throats this fall as another imaginary “wave” sweeps through the province, he too can be replaced because as Boris Johnson remarked Thursday, “In politics no one is remotely indispensable.”.Nor is Trudeau. He's entirely dispensable. So what is he still doing here? If Boris Johnson can’t find enough support in his caucus because he was partying too much during COVID lockdowns, doesn’t it make you wonder why the hell so many Liberal MPs are clinging to a useless wreck of a leader like Trudeau who didn’t just blow it during the pandemic, but has been emitting rays of hypocrisy ever since he came to Ottawa?.I mean, let me see. There’s that groping allegation from the B.C. reporter. Trudeau always likes to call himself a feminist who would say women should always be believed. That woman says Trudeau groped her. Trudeau never actually denied the allegation; he just said, in his usual tortured way, that he believed he acted “appropriately.”.Sure, everything Trudeau does is appropriate. Trudeau the feminist also treats his female MPs with the kind of respect the idle rich usually reserve for the hired help. .Then Trudeau can berate Canadians endlessly for being such a racist bunch of illiterates. That was his talking point when he entered politics and it’s continued to be his talking point even after we discovered his history of performing in blackface. He did so many exhibitions that each discovery seemed to confirm that was not a rare occurrence, but an obsession..But Trudeau was really not apologetic about it all — he just blamed the racism of the Montreal he grew up in and passed on it and continued to lecture us for his shortcomings. .Whether he’s praising China because they can turn their economy around on a dime — or send people to concentration camps just as easily — or sending China all our personal protective equipment just as the COVID-19 started, or telling a Jewish MP that she’s in league with Nazis, Trudeau has done a great deal more to alienate his caucus than Boris Johnson. Liberal MPs should be asking themselves today just why they are propping up this “Weekend at Bernies” PM because they might be sacrificing their own seat in the process..I won’t even get into the slew of financial scandals that have mired Trudeau in layers of mud..Trudeau probably thought the parliamentary summer recess couldn’t have come at a better time. We were just beginning to understand RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s role in the Nova Scotia shooting and whether the federal police were actively promoting Trudeau’s gun control policy..We already know that the RCMP treated Trudeau with kid gloves over his trip to the Aga Khan and refused to press any charges because someone decided it wouldn’t be in the “public good.”.Well, here’s something that would be in the public good, Justin: resign. Enjoy the summer but you know what’s coming if you stay in office..You can leave now or you can postpone it until the fall. The decision is yours.
British Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be resigning — first as the leader of of his part and then, by the fall, as the leader of his country..It seems all those all those boozy parties in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns that were meant for everyone but the government and corporate elite have finally caught up with Boris. And then there was that matter of appointing Conservative MP Chris Pincher as deputy party whip despite a series of sexual assault allegations — and same sex to boot, Well, it seems the Tory caucus had had enough and the resignations started streaming in by the dozens overnight. Bye, bye Boris..It’s not like the British Conservatives haven’t done this before. They’re adept at it..When Margaret Thatcher, arguably the greatest prime minister of the last half of the twentieth century, had outstayed her welcome she went through the ordeal of being pushed out and replaced like yesterday’s menu..The most famous caucus coup of course was that instigated against Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1940. But these were actually serious, not just hi-jinks against a background of an inflated pandemic. Chamberlain had appeased the Nazis into gobbling up first Austria, then the Sudetenland before annexing Czechoslovakia itself. Then Hitler invaded Poland and Chamberlain realized it had all been for nothing. Winston Churchill was waiting in the wings..There doesn’t seem to be any heir apparent for Johnson. He was supposed to have a longer shelf life than just three years. But look around, Mr. and Mrs. Canada and who do see still standing in Canada? Did you expect to see Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to be looking so eviscerated? Here was a guy who left federal politics to pull the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties together, win a stunning majority and then run a government during the COVID-19 that will be remembered as having put more pastors behind bars than communist China. He just got so enthralled with all that health authoritarianism that he forgot what he was all about. And the voters forgot too..Ontario Premier Doug Ford is fortunate he was re-elected before voters in that province had a chance too think too carefully about his casual alliance with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his endorsement of Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act. Ontario was under senseless lockdowns as much as any sector of the country and Ford was gutless in telling the health Gestapo to go to hell. He won a majority in the June election because his opponents were frankly even more authoritarian than he was, but if he thinks he's going shove a third or even fourth vaccine down peoples’ throats this fall as another imaginary “wave” sweeps through the province, he too can be replaced because as Boris Johnson remarked Thursday, “In politics no one is remotely indispensable.”.Nor is Trudeau. He's entirely dispensable. So what is he still doing here? If Boris Johnson can’t find enough support in his caucus because he was partying too much during COVID lockdowns, doesn’t it make you wonder why the hell so many Liberal MPs are clinging to a useless wreck of a leader like Trudeau who didn’t just blow it during the pandemic, but has been emitting rays of hypocrisy ever since he came to Ottawa?.I mean, let me see. There’s that groping allegation from the B.C. reporter. Trudeau always likes to call himself a feminist who would say women should always be believed. That woman says Trudeau groped her. Trudeau never actually denied the allegation; he just said, in his usual tortured way, that he believed he acted “appropriately.”.Sure, everything Trudeau does is appropriate. Trudeau the feminist also treats his female MPs with the kind of respect the idle rich usually reserve for the hired help. .Then Trudeau can berate Canadians endlessly for being such a racist bunch of illiterates. That was his talking point when he entered politics and it’s continued to be his talking point even after we discovered his history of performing in blackface. He did so many exhibitions that each discovery seemed to confirm that was not a rare occurrence, but an obsession..But Trudeau was really not apologetic about it all — he just blamed the racism of the Montreal he grew up in and passed on it and continued to lecture us for his shortcomings. .Whether he’s praising China because they can turn their economy around on a dime — or send people to concentration camps just as easily — or sending China all our personal protective equipment just as the COVID-19 started, or telling a Jewish MP that she’s in league with Nazis, Trudeau has done a great deal more to alienate his caucus than Boris Johnson. Liberal MPs should be asking themselves today just why they are propping up this “Weekend at Bernies” PM because they might be sacrificing their own seat in the process..I won’t even get into the slew of financial scandals that have mired Trudeau in layers of mud..Trudeau probably thought the parliamentary summer recess couldn’t have come at a better time. We were just beginning to understand RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s role in the Nova Scotia shooting and whether the federal police were actively promoting Trudeau’s gun control policy..We already know that the RCMP treated Trudeau with kid gloves over his trip to the Aga Khan and refused to press any charges because someone decided it wouldn’t be in the “public good.”.Well, here’s something that would be in the public good, Justin: resign. Enjoy the summer but you know what’s coming if you stay in office..You can leave now or you can postpone it until the fall. The decision is yours.
