Doris the Dictator?

THE AUTHORITARIAN STREAK

The clues have been there in front of us for long enough, ever since Doris squirmed his way into Downing Street on the crooked backs of a few ageing southern reactionaries.  His efforts to avoid parliamentary scrutiny; his avoidance of serious media question (Hide in a fridge?  Why not?); the repetitive lies and cheap slogans (No, brexshit will not be "Done", it will just be the beginning of an interminable and impoverishing process.); the video editing, the fake news, the constant deflection tactics, the desperate attempts to create a counter narrative, even if it simply means making shit up.

The latest scandal has everything you could possibly want to show why Doris is totally unfit for any form of high office (as if his shambolic efforts as Foreign Secretary, corruption as London Mayor, suppression of the Russian interference dossier, embarrassingly insulting behaviour towards other European Prime Ministers, and cowardly avoidance of all forms of scrutiny weren't already enough for you) is the story centring on the boy photographed on the floor of a Leeds hospital.  The "good friend" who was a "senior nursing sister" never existed.  But it was a clever ruse, and it's allowed Doris to give the media a bodyswerve over what should be the real story in this sorry tale.  The reasons why that boy may have been on the floor have become the issue being discussed, but the real controversy, the real anger, should be about the behaviour of our erstwhile leader in the interview with the TV journalist.  He stole his phone!

Do I need to say that again?  His first thought was to take the phone out of the journalist's hand and put it in his own pocket.

Not to face up to the question being raised.  Not to seek to engage with what might be a real concern.  But to resort to baltant theft to try and suppress something he didn't want to talk about.  Add in some of the abovementioned characteristics - the refusal to face (right winger!) Andrew Neil, his illegal attempts to prorogue parliament, the threats to clamp down on broadcasters dare who criticise him - and there is only one conclusion.  Doris Johnson, purchaser of the unusable water cannon, is an instinctive authoritarian.  Never mind the vile, amoral Cummings, this is a man who had a private meeting with one of the world's most prominent white supremacists, a known fascist.  Do not vote to put this nasty charlatan in power.

The water is waiting in the trough, how many will be too stupid to drink?