It is usual in politics to find disagreement. But, by and large this is disagreement about the means to reach generally accepted ends: we all want to live in a pleasant country, in safety and security, with enough to eat, education for our young people and care in our old age. All, that is except Johnson and his cronies: they want to live in an entirely different UK, and to achieve it they are prepared to destroy pretty much anything and everything, including the UK itself. They have a different vision.
The question arises then, whether that vision focusses on the country taken as whole or their own grasping selves: do they want to make the UK a better place for us all, or simply to smash, and grab all they can?
I cannot think of a prime minister who has not been motivated by the good of the country as he/she saw it. With one exception: Johnson. Consider:
1. he has lied, lied and lied again. His lies are too numerous to list, so let me just take one of them: “Brexit,” he said, “will give the British people back control.” And yet he does everything in his power to disable every form of decision making, or oversight other than his own.
2. nepotism: he has promoted to seats of governance, his own brother and those with questionable allegiance to our “norms,” (eg those who support terrorism, those who support hostile powers… ).
3. he has signed a deal that he now says has handed over the power to “carve up” the Kingdom; to avoid this he proposes to break international law, thereby at one move transforming the UK to a pariah state no better than Russia, China, Iran, Iraq… you name it.
4. his actions (and inactions) have resulted in the loss of health, and life, of ten of thousands of British citizens. They have also driven the Scots to the point where it is becoming increasing hard to imagine that Scotland will remain a part of the UK for many months to come.
Are these the actions of a prime minister working to improve the country; or one who has set out to destroy it?