People try to separate their principles from their politics without thinking too hard about it, which is why we get men like Trump and Johnson in power.
Whatever I think of his policies, I would expect more from the President than railing at the Press for not praising him. It seems he feels nothing for the people he is supposed to protect, and I am surprised folk think he has anything to offer. But then, from what Patrizia and I have discussed, I would need time spent in the US to really understand attitudes to tax there. The UK is more contradictory.
We are spoonfed this idea of Churchill being the best we could be, and Johnson presents an easy cartoon version of that. What folk forget is the lives their great grandparents lead between and before the wars. The population of GB would be much poorer, their lives much shorter without Clement Attlee, but then he was no showboat, and their history is all about flag-waving.
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Whatever I think of his policies, I would expect more from the President than railing at the Press for not praising him. It seems he feels nothing for the people he is supposed to protect, and I am surprised folk think he has anything to offer. But then, from what Patrizia and I have discussed, I would need time spent in the US to really understand attitudes to tax there. The UK is more contradictory.
We are spoonfed this idea of Churchill being the best we could be, and Johnson presents an easy cartoon version of that. What folk forget is the lives their great grandparents lead between and before the wars. The population of GB would be much poorer, their lives much shorter without Clement Attlee, but then he was no showboat, and their history is all about flag-waving.