Boris Johnson: Reasons and alarms behind the inevitable resignation in Britain

Relief It is a beautiful word that in English means relief. No polls are needed to assume that this sentiment could dominate the UK right now after the departure of one of the most destructive figures in its history. “Toxic figure” e “fallen clown” (Clownfall) while the magazine devoured Boris Johnson without mitigating The Economist.

Such relief, however, could be short and late if it is observed that not only the scandals were the reason for the displacement.

This extravagant character who once had certain liberal and cosmopolitan loves when ruling London, brought to the country the new populist and chaotic forms that grew up in the global North since the turn of the first decade of the century.

Brexit, in 2020, is the highest peak of these drifts in Europe, and Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2016 was its previous equivalent in the United States.

As you point out Guardian: “In the era of Trump and Brexit, being a artist shit, as Johnson had always been, was calling himself a man by the people and its instinctsfree from small precautions, indifferent to boring opponents and their boring facts, ready instead to take a stand against the learned elites, the establishment and the experts.

At least in this respect, the American president was not wrong to recognize in Johnson a kindred spirit, Great Britain Trump.

The man

Almost the entire political history of the fallen premier, like his North American ally, was based on lies or half-truths with the fashionable idea of post-truth justify the sympathetic falsification of facts.

It was with the lie that the historic British divorce from Europe was built, of which Johnson was proud in his last speech. But this is an even heavier road mine today that has not stabilized and remains unpredictable.

The British crisis has two spheres. The fact of chaos as an inevitable condiment of Johnson’s populism forms one of his universes, the most sensational. The other is the decomposition effect of economic variables with their evident effect on society.

The collapse of the conservative prime minister came after a grueling series of missteps whose main showcase data are the parties during the quarantine of the pandemic in which Johnson vividly participated.

If you draw a line on the most repeated concepts on this president’s lips, the The apologies appear insistent for the insult implied by those meetings, after the official had apologized in full act denying them or admitting “sick” to the news.

Then, with cases of corruption on its slopes. And lately with the episode Chris Pincher, appointed head of the conservative bloc by the president despite this legislator having faced a long history of complaints for sexual harassment at least in the last three years and of which the premier was aware of since 2019.

By the way, at the height of the scandal, he denied such information until it was possible to hide it. Sorry again. They were the last.

While it is true that he was on loan (at the beginning of June he escaped the distrust of his own delegates but with 148 legislators against) due to the actual toxicity of the episodes that locked him up, his ability as a tightrope walker broke right in the middle of a new and difficult condition to temper with stories.

The crisis

The economic and social crisis suffered by the country like the rest of Europe is gripping its government. With an unprecedented cost-of-living index of over nine percent, Johnson awarded benefits, but he also pushed for a tax increase which extended to the whole of society but discriminated against lower-level societies. All this combined with an increase in tariffs.

His finance minister, Rishi Sunak, resigned precisely because of dissidence with that program and dragged fifty officials into a stampede who tore the tablecloth from the table Johnson was leaning on.

When he noticed the opposite wall he was about to crash into, he sought relief, but it was too late. Take into account the simultaneous collapse experienced by the euro against the dollar and the pound itself.

Labor has taken over that defect. “In the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in decades, the government has chosen to raise taxes on workers,” protested opposition leader Keir Starmer.

In the background, the political argument was supported with historic strikes by railways and other state entities due to economic stress.

It is genuine to wonder if when conservatives came together to so forcefully repudiate Johnson’s lack of leadership and creativity, they did it less because of his slippage than because of his apparent difficulty in handling this crunch in numbers.

It would be important for many Latin American governments to thoroughly analyze this crisis because it teaches.

The economic outlook was the last rail and it collapsed. These data are particularly important because the global situation shows a gradual withdrawal of sustainability from global leadership. This, apart from the decline of some of these leaders.

Leaders are usually not the cause but the consequence. It is necessary to observe what made them possible and elevate these responsibilities. In Johnson’s case there is, as now, a clear landscape of social anger from the crisis at the turn of the first decade of the century that has deprived the growth of large sectors, particularly the middle classes.

This helplessness has encouraged political extremism that has multiplied in the north and south of the world, each with their own identities but with similar and imperfect management skills. If you look at the debate that led to Brexit, far-right and xenophobic flags appear wielding a non-existent threat of immigration, among other fantasies in tune with the emergence of European sovereignty.

But yes Brexit has always been a bad idea pushed by a fanatical minority, now it is an important stone in the neck of the British at a time when the world economy is twisted by the aftermath of the pandemic but also by the war against Ukraine.

Source: Clarin