Boris Johnson campaigned for Brexit and against the E.U. Now Europe’s leaders are delighted by his victory.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/boris-johnson-campaigned-for-brexit-and-against-the-eu-now-europes-leaders-are-delighted-by-his-victory/2019/12/13/19722124-1d6c-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html
They never thought she would lose
It’s not going to be a senate file
Why Boris Johnson’s huge win has big echoes for America
By Post Editorial Board December 13, 2019 | 8:47pm
Boris Johnson just led Britain’s Conservative Party to a huge victory — defeating two competing philosophies.
The obvious big loser was the dinosaur leftism of Jeremy Corbyn, who’ll step down as Labour leader after having produced the party’s worst showing in 80 years.
Corbyn offered a party platform that looked like a Bernie Sanders dream: free internet for all, spending hikes in the hundreds of billions, re-nationalized utilities and railways. It went over like a lead balloon.
Labour was also hurt by the anti-Semitism that’s come to infest it under Corbyn, and by a foreign policy so far left it’d be pro-Soviet if only the Soviet Union still existed.
Most important, Corbyn also lost a ton of traditional Labour supporters by going wishy-washy on Brexit. The British working class has long, and rightly, hated the European Union as a tool of the globalist, technocratic elite — and that’s where Corbyn’s heart plainly had long been, too.
But much of the modern left, in Britain as here, despises even an honest, openhearted nationalism — insisting it’s inherently racist, homophobic, etc., etc., etc. Corbyn opted not to confront the chattering classes on this overriding issue — even playing along with calls for a second referendum to override the nation’s 2016 vote for Brexit. He wouldn’t even say how he’d vote a second time.
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Of course, Johnson’s predecessor as Conservative leader and prime minister had also been hopelessly wishy-washy on Brexit. That’s why Theresa May put up a far worse showing against Corbyn in the last election in 2017 — and why she was unable to stand up to EU negotiators for a Brexit agreement that could pass Parliament.
That failure forced her from office. Johnson, vowing to Get Brexit Done, won the party vote to replace her in July — then got the EU to bend and agree to a better deal. Parliament still proved sticky, so a new election was called — and now the same promise has won the biggest Conservative majority since 1987.
Just months ago, Brexit seemed politically impossible and the party needed a coalition partner to even control the government. Now it’s in firm control, and Brexit’s guaranteed.
In other words, Boris Johnson has proved that firm leadership, in tune with the people’s wishes, can be transformative. It’s an excellent augur for President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
Notably, the Conservatives built their new 80-seat majority by winning working-class districts held by Labour for decades — such as Sedgefield, seat of former PM Tony Blair and in Labour hands since 1935. It’s an echo of Trump’s 2016 wins in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
For all their many differences, Johnson and Trump are plainly two winning faces of the same realignment — to the chagrin of the left and the globalists alike.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/why-boris-johnsons-huge-win-has-big-echoes-for-america/
>Luke Rosiak
So break it down a little on this guy for me anon.
He is a common denominator but to what end?
What’s your theory? expand a little