“The thing that’s so hard for politicians to survive is the sense that they have one moral stance for the public—one way of talking to us, the voters—and then behind closed doors there’s something different,” a political scientist told IChotiner.
restrictions. On Monday, a British civil servant released a long-awaited report about the behavior of Johnson and the 10 Downing Street staff, which found that they had hosted numerous parties that violated government policies. At least one took place at Johnson’s apartment.now show that as much as seventy per cent of the electorate is dissatisfied with Johnson. Officials across the political spectrum, including nine members of his own party, have called for his resignation.
There is something about lying that appears to be able to go with a kind of sincerity. You can be a sort of sincere liar in that you don’t tell the truth as a politician, but you seem to be who you claim to be—and you don’t pretend that you’re not a liar. The thing that’s so hard for politicians to survive is the sense that they have one moral stance for the public—one way of talking to us, the voters—and then behind closed doors there’s something different.
I think that’s right. I was watching him in the House of Commons on Monday, and, my God, he looked uncomfortable—physically uncomfortable. There was a recent interview where he almost broke down in tears when he apologized about having allowed parties to happen the day before the Queen’s husband’s funeral. And it just didn’t look like him.
Public opinion had been strongly in favor of the regulations, so I don’t think that is what would have got him.
Is there a chunk of the British public and Parliament that is firmly with Johnson, in the manner thatWe don’t know yet. I think that the Conservative Party is waiting partly for local elections that are coming in May, which will test that, and they could be very bad. But he almost certainly has a core of support that, for instance, Theresa May didn’t have.
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