Subject: FW: I have a dream.
For most of us events dictate our lives. We plan a future perhaps in a company, the company is taken over and we are made redundant. We plan for a holiday and the country we wished to visit is placed under quarantine. Illness or an accident plays havoc with our plans. Maybe it would be better to conclude that plans are little more than observations which we hold until told the plan is no longer relevant.
For some people, life is different. They might have money, they may be penniless but they have a belief that they are different and deserve to be where their plan takes them. We could describe them as obsessional, refusing to accept that anything or anyone can get in their way. They will do anything to make their plan come true.
If we consider Boris Johnson as one of those people, someone who even at school was reported as a boy of immense self belief in his own destiny
and yet lacked the composite skills to pull together that parts of a plan, the detailed nitty gritty to make it work. He was a good debater but like all debaters who rely on their skill to manipulate an audience with words and phrases but lack the character to get beyond the words.
Of course he came from a privileged background and went to a school where privilege is rooted in its ethos. He saw himself as powerful and gifted, he believed that he would be Prime Minister one day and coveted the job as if it were his own long before he became the contender to be chosen by an unrepresented anachronism, the Tory party membership.
The problem is that the majority of thinking people don't see him in the same light, his gifts seem the obscure gift for, the Classics, Latin and Greek, hardly the most motivating curriculum vitae for running a modern twenty first century country. Listening to Boris one wonders what his marks were in Logic and Ethics those other pillars of the classical world, did his logic beguile even his lecturers impressing them that the only logic he knew was of his own success. Ethics, well he must have been missed that class as he mendaciously commits one act after the other. His duplicitous, deceitful, disingenuous nature which is openly acknowledged by people who know and have dealings with him would under normal time rule him out of the job, any job but we seem committed in a weeks time to a kamikaze attack on all we thought meaningful.
For some people, life is different. They might have money, they may be penniless but they have a belief that they are different and deserve to be where their plan takes them. We could describe them as obsessional, refusing to accept that anything or anyone can get in their way. They will do anything to make their plan come true.
If we consider Boris Johnson as one of those people, someone who even at school was reported as a boy of immense self belief in his own destiny
Of course he came from a privileged background and went to a school where privilege is rooted in its ethos. He saw himself as powerful and gifted, he believed that he would be Prime Minister one day and coveted the job as if it were his own long before he became the contender to be chosen by an unrepresented anachronism, the Tory party membership.
The problem is that the majority of thinking people don't see him in the same light, his gifts seem the obscure gift for, the Classics, Latin and Greek, hardly the most motivating curriculum vitae for running a modern twenty first century country. Listening to Boris one wonders what his marks were in Logic and Ethics those other pillars of the classical world, did his logic beguile even his lecturers impressing them that the only logic he knew was of his own success. Ethics, well he must have been missed that class as he mendaciously commits one act after the other. His duplicitous, deceitful, disingenuous nature which is openly acknowledged by people who know and have dealings with him would under normal time rule him out of the job, any job but we seem committed in a weeks time to a kamikaze attack on all we thought meaningful.
As he commits the government under his leadership to ever larger promises of ever more billions of pounds directed to some section of the voting public, they must surly know it's all lies, the lies he tells in parliament when at the dispatch box on his first Prime Ministers Question Time, the lies he tells the nation, the lies he has habituated into his character like a second skin to defend himself against the real world, a world he never really knew.
The funny thing is that the public would rather have his 'lies' than the honest concern for their welfare as stated by Jeremy Corbyn. If it weren't so sad it would be funny.
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