The Week  |  2nd April 2016
BEING BEASTLY TO BORIS
“I feel uncomfortable writing this,” said Matthew Parris in The Times, about “my former Spectator editor, an essentially liberal-minded fellow Tory… who has never been anything but friendly to me”. But somebody has to do it. So here goes. Boris Johnson is a “dangerous charmer” who will plunge the Tory party into an abyss if its members elect him as their next leader. It’s not his lust for office, or applause, or susceptible women, that makes one cringe at the thought of him being PM. “It’s the casual dishonesty, the cruelty, the betrayal.” As a wannabe MP, he ridiculed Labour’s attempt to repeal Section 28 (which made it illegal for councils and schools “to promote homosexuality”): now he’s calling on gay people to back Brexit because Britain led the way in dispelling gay prejudice. But the worst thing about him is that he lacks ambition for anything but power – what did he achieve in his years as London’s mayor? Almost
nothing. You may think Boris a bit of a joke, but “incompetence is not funny.
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