Originally Posted by FrankBT:
“Michael Gove should be congratulated for having the balls to get rid of the appalling 'Bojo'. The best thing Gove's ever done as well as proving Boris isn't quite as smart as he and his naive fanbase like to think he is.
Never have I known a case of an MP, so disingenuous and so determined to hoodwink the public into furthering his own career by playing the fool - even to the point of pretending that he wanted to leave the EU while heading the Leave campaign when he really had no intention of doing so.”
It is sad that it had to take Gove doing what he did to make Bojo step away from the race. But it is right that Boris did not win the Tory leadership and that meant preventing him from standing. Boris is to the Tory grassroots as Corbyn is to the Labour grassroots. Unfortunately, with the country as fragmented and split as it is (notwithstanding the issues to do in and with Scotland), neither man is the right person to bring the country together, attend to the Brexit issues, or even to attract enough voters apart from the grassroots to vote for them in any coming election. And I for one am getting weary of the divisiveness created in both parties and the country at large. None of the problems we have (as diverse as they were) are ever going to be coherently addressed in this kind of hostile atmosphere.
I am avoiding all news channels atm (broadcast and radio) until some semblance of sanity resumes.