How fantastic would it be if Starmer started off PMQs like this.
He has no shame and no conscience.I find myself asking, time and again, surely, surely Johnson MUST feel some sort of shame or moral duty or compassion. I mean people do, right? People are generally decent, hard working, civil and compassionate.
And then - a friend usually - reminds me that privileged men like Johnson have led completely different lives to the people I know.
They have never worried about whether the next wage packet will cover the mortgage or bills, or make decisions about where your budget goes. They’ve never had to temporarily put a child into care because post-natal depression was so overwhelming it nearly crushed you. They've never visited a food bank other than for a PR opportunity. They’ve never had to hold down three jobs just to put food on the table. They’ve never known - and will never know - what it’s like to wear two jumpers in the house in winter because you cannot afford the heating costs.
Johnson has spent his life cosseted in wealth and riches and that opens doors. Moral duty and shame and compassion doesn’t exist in these circles because it doesn’t need to. What exists there is a clubbiness, a cosiness, which allows them to forget it. It doesn’t affect them so they don’t need to understand it. They pay lip service to it, but even then it’s with a smirk.
He’s a narcissistic psychopath. He hasn’t got any shame, he feels no empathy and he won’t think he’s done anything wrong. In another life he’d have been a serial killer.While Johnson is clearly lacking in these traits, it's not decency, dignity or integrity that he needs to quit. Those values would have stopped half his actions, if anything.
What's he's lacking is shame. he feels no way about what he's done or how it makes him look because he doesn't feel ashamed of it
You should here what they are saying about you <behind the back of the bike sheds, nah nah na nah naaah>God he makes me sick, being ripped about the pervert he endorsed and of course he the only thing he has to come back with is a quip about Corbyn. Rent free in all their heads!
Javid has basically put a hole beneath the waterline surely?Politics buffs has this ever happened before? Surely to God he's finished? He looks smug but rattled, again surely he's humiliated by all of this??
I'm uncomfortable for him.
Absolutely. Draining away.Javid has basically put a hole beneath the waterline surely?