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> He did so against the weakest opposition, overwhelmed with infighting and a lacklustre leader All of which was also present in 2017 when May squeaked to vict

> He did so against the weakest opposition, overwhelmed with infighting and a lacklustre leader All of which was also present in 2017 when May squeaked to victory > Campaigning solely on the notion of “Getting Brexit Done” which ... was effective and led to the largest landslide in 40 years. I think he’s been a crap PM but the idea that he’s not a sharp political mind with a keen sense of the political mood is insane.

sbuk 6y ago
May squeaked by because hardline brexiters (Johnson/Rees-Mogg/Farage acolytes, of which there are fighteningly many) saw her a someone pandering to Brussels and remainers. She was an unpopular PM on all sides, where as Johnson is just a populist. > ...he’s not a sharp political mind with a keen sense of the political mood is insane. He's a chancer. As an example, he refused to go on the Marr Show, relenting to only to capitalise on a national tragedy so that he could wave his populist flag. You could call that 'sharp', I'd call it cowardly. His saving grace was Cummings, and with him mercifully out of the picture, we'll see the real Boris.