The tide of Tory thinking turns against Johnson

Last Updated: March 27, 2016By

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There has been a backlash against this by Tories who are desperate to have at least one remaining leadership candidate with any plausibility, but the fact is the Tories really are in trouble now.

We are not seeing transitory divisions over the EU; grievances are coming out that will create bad blood for years to come.

Good.

They’ve spent years talking up imagined problems in the Labour Party; let’s see how they deal with real splits in their own.

Former Conservative MP Matthew Parris has deepened the rift among top Tories by using his Times column to launch a scathing attack on the pro-Brexit mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Parris, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, denounced Johnson for alleged dishonesty, vacuity, sexual impropriety and veiled homophobia.

“Somebody has to call a halt to the gathering pretence that if only you’re sufficiently comical in politics you can laugh everything off,” he wrote.

“Incompetence is not funny. Policy vacuum is not funny. A careless disregard for the truth is not funny. Advising old mates planning to beat someone up is not funny. Abortions and gagging orders are not funny. Creeping ambition in a jester’s cap is not funny. Vacuity posing as merriment, cynicism posing as savviness, a wink and a smile covering for betrayal … these things are not funny.”

Source: Former Tory MP’s scathing Boris Johnson attack deepens party rift | Politics | The Guardian

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6 Comments

  1. Joan Edington March 27, 2016 at 12:15 pm - Reply

    Much as I hate to agree with a Tory, Parris is spot on re Boris. If I was more articulate, I would have like to use those exact words.

  2. roybeiley March 27, 2016 at 12:18 pm - Reply

    Wow! What a splendid put down. Pity Corbyn or McDonnell didn”t say it.

  3. Thomas Walker March 27, 2016 at 1:18 pm - Reply

    Tory’s backstabbing each other,doesn’t get any better than that.

  4. Malcolm MacINTYRE-READ March 27, 2016 at 4:01 pm - Reply

    Unfortunately, one swallow does not make a summer, any more than one Parris makes a “backlash”, but it’s a start… and everything has to start somewhere.

  5. NMac March 27, 2016 at 4:16 pm - Reply

    I hope the majority of people see Johnson for what he really is, an extremely nasty Tory who hides behind a thin veneer of totally false buffoonery.

  6. Terry Davies March 27, 2016 at 6:01 pm - Reply

    tory bullying is a way of life in tory controlled councils too.

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