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Johnson resigns as UK PM, politician plays country in 'democratic crisis'

2022-07-07T09:47:52.103Z


British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to resign as British Prime Minister, according to Bloomberg. 10 Downing Street confirmed that Johnson will make a statement to the nation. Only hours ago, Johnson insisted he would not resign


British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to resign as British Prime Minister, according to Bloomberg.

10 Downing Street confirmed that Johnson will make a statement to the nation.

Only hours ago, Johnson had insisted that he would not resign.

So far, at least 54 government officials have resigned after losing confidence in Johnson.

The political upheaval in the UK caused by the "Partygate" scandal, the deputy whip of the Conservative Party, continues to ferment. There is no doubt that this "overwhelming mutiny" (overwhelming mutiny) has caused Johnson's "mortally wounded".

Johnson has set a new record since 1979: he has been in office for a short time, but his ministers have resigned the fastest.

It is understood that the rate of minister turnover came close to this level only during the time when former Prime Minister Theresa May was in charge of the Conservative Party divided by Brexit.

And, another figure shows that more ministers resigned in a single day on July 6 than did former prime ministers David Cameron and Gordon Brown in their entire tenures.

"Desperate, deluded," is how the left-wing Guardian newspaper describes Johnson's situation.

The headlines of "Daily Mirror" and "Metro" directly borrowed Johnson's original Brexit slogan "Get Brexit done", calling Johnson: Get exit done!

It's not all scandal that got Johnson where he is now.

At the end of 2019, Johnson led the Conservative Party to win the biggest victory since Margaret Thatcher, which is not without pride.

In less than three years, what happened?

johnson is empty

A British media article described Johnson's government as a "Ponzi scheme that drained investors".

Johnson made more and more wild promises to keep MPs on board; his circle of cronies and cabinet talent shrank, eventually flooding with a growing number of speculators that most knew they couldn't count on Others come for opportunities for promotion.

Yes, Johnson's "marrow" is empty.

What Johnson has relied on from the beginning to the end is to see the wind at the rudder: to accumulate success in the ballot box by seeing the wind and the rudder, and to make people believe in his own useable value through repeated performances.

In fact, in the crisis after crisis of the past six months, the only rhetoric and promises that no longer take seriously has been his only response to staying the same: reiterating that he is good at winning elections.

British elections have both the "winner takes all" tradition and the "ratio-to-worst" way of thinking. On the one hand, the Conservative Party has been able to stand for hundreds of years, and on the other hand, it has also enabled Johnson to make Everyone thought his competitors were worse than him.

Johnson's take-off in those years was completely achieved by relying on the huge opening brought about by Brexit. More precisely, it was the mess of Brexit that caused extreme boredom in British society, coupled with the outrageous performance of his opponents.

But it soon became apparent later that Johnson did not possess the political will and tenacity to be truly resolute.

All of Johnson's decisions come from the wind he smells at the last minute.

For a politician seeking to gain power, that ability may be laudable, but for a sitting prime minister it means that all his promises are not credible.

Yes, this is a "Ponzi scheme".

Social boredom intensified when those who had high hopes for him found that Johnson's performance was no way to get them out of the quagmire.

Three years of lackluster results

During Johnson's three years as Prime Minister, the Northern Irish border, negotiations with Europe, refugees in the English Channel, Johnson failed to solve any of the problems.

Similarly, because of the concern about the "red wall" area, the Johnson government has issued one regional revitalization plan for the north, but none of them have actually been implemented.

In order to revitalize the North at the same time, fill the holes accumulated over the years, increase investment in various industries to cope with the economic losses caused by Brexit and the epidemic, and even repay the national debt that flew up during the epidemic, the Johnson administration had to choose to hold Mrs. Thatcher's The signboard has raised taxes significantly, which directly affects the interests of everyone from the industry to the working class.

In the wealthy south of England, including the Greater London area, due to Johnson's ideological and policy priorities are deliberately inclined to grassroots populism (the vote of the year), and also due to the Conservative Party's long-term tightening of medical and social security investment, and catch up with catastrophic consequences of the pandemic.

Structural contradictions are prominent, all of which have caused social grievances.

After all these structural problems, it is the "partygate" scandal.

Johnson's handling of the "partygate" has done a great deal of damage to his government.

(AP)

Although the media made a lot of articles about the "partygate" scandal, it was not enough to overwhelm Johnson.

It has long been an open secret that the political world hides filth, and none of the people who voted for Johnson back then voted for him because they thought he was virtuous.

However, Johnson's handling of the "party gate" has done more damage than his own partying: breaking his own laws, lying to Parliament, being accused of rigging an internal investigation led by a senior civilian and the Metropolitan Police's justice Investigation... Now these charges have basically been confirmed.

British politics depends on politicians abiding by basic unwritten rules. After Johnson's series of scandals broke out, true conservatives, apart from despising his personal virtues, also began to worry that continuing to let him be at the center of the government might It will pollute the world's oldest tradition of constitutionalism and rule of law.

That said, in less than three years, Johnson has lost the trust of all Conservative voters.

Britain is going through a 'democratic crisis'

According to the "Independent" report on the 6th, the survey showed that a series of high-profile resignations have shaken Johnson's prime minister status. The majority (54%) of Conservative voters support Johnson to step down, only 33% said he should stay.

UK pollster YouGov said it was the first time the Conservative Party had more people calling for Johnson to step down than wanting him to stay.

Regardless of party affiliation, the proportion of Britons who believe Johnson should resign has reached 69% nationwide, an increase of 11 percentage points from the previous month and a record high.

After announcing the full lifting of the epidemic prevention ban, the British once had expectations for the Johnson government, but the "Brexit" brought about a severe shortage of labor market personnel, the rising cost of living caused by poor logistics, and the high oil price crisis caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war. , hit the British economy one after another.

For most Britons, they can put up with Johnson's personal conduct mistakes in epidemic prevention policy, but no one wants to endure high prices and low incomes with his government all the time.

The recent strikes in several basic industries are a reflection of this public opinion.

"Brexit" has had a huge impact on the British service industry, from bankers and lawyers to musicians and chefs.

The picture shows the Queen visiting Lloyds Bank.

(Getty)

Today, the political situation in the UK is very bleak.

The domestic social and livelihood problems in the UK are still deteriorating.

The possibility of another referendum in Scotland and the crisis of Irish independence will be issues that must be faced by British domestic politics.

In terms of diplomacy, the direction of diplomatic development is still unclear.

The bilateral relationship between the UK and the EU is facing many complex challenges.

When dealing with China, the United States and other relations, the United Kingdom also failed to understand the real interests.

Next, no matter how the British political arena changes, the structural contradictions in its existing political system will still be a challenge for the country's political leaders, and no one can escape it.

In fact it is.

Even if Johnson is ousted, the infighting will not end there.

Britain is going through a "democratic crisis" similar to the US under Trump, as former Conservative education secretary Nick Gibb put it.

Senior cabinet officials jumped ship to force the British constitution early decision that Johnson can't just die British media: British Prime Minister Johnson will resign but will stay in office until October Report agrees to resign, sterling rises to 9.4102 against the Hong Kong dollar in the short-term

Source: hk1

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