150 Years of Through the Looking-Glass

150 Years of Through the Looking-Glass
Showing posts with label Napoleon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Napoleon. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Boris is Napoleon not Churchill

There is a focus on Boris Johnson as he promotes his buffoon king to the media proletariat who love and hate him in equal measure. Even the ones who don't like him are not able to ignore him.  The interesting things I think are all the things that he is not.

He is not posh - he a middle class upbring and there was not a lot of money and support for him.  He got scholarships that helped out but he was moving around a lot when he was younger. There are other MPs with wealthier parents and more family support who play that story as a working class person made good.

He likes to look disorganized and lazy. He works hard but only at the things he likes ad the things he believes will advance his cause. In retrospect, we can see what a good Lord Mayor of London he was by the mess the next person made of the same role under less pressure.

He likes to promote himself as Churchill but he's more like Napoleon. An outsider who rises on his merits and has the skill to win campaigns. He's popular with the troops but unlike Napoleon, he is not so popular with his lieutenants and we rarely see anybody who works alongside him rise to a senior position.  Perhaps he chooses mediocrities to look taller in comparison. It is the Boris show and he cannot exist as a team player.

Do we need a Napoleon at this particular point of crisis?