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‘An event can be shocking and at the same time not at all surprising. The dark hours when the Capitol was overrun by a pro-Trump horde, some of the invaders emblazoned with Nazi slogans, were the product of the four dark years of vandalism he has unleashed on America’s body politic. The assault on Capitol Hill was the savage consummation of a presidency founded, fuelled and feeding on division; a presidency that has stamped on democratic norms, fomented lunatic conspiracy theories and made lies the chief currency of its public discourse since the very beginning…

‘The Trump presidency has emboldened autocrats the world over to believe that liberal democracy is in decline and tomorrow belongs to them. It is not just America that has suffered a terrible price for the Trump presidency. The cost is being paid in lost liberty around the planet.’-Andrew Rawnsley, ‘Tyrants gaze with glee at what Trump has done to American democracy’, The Observer, Sunday 10 January 2021

‘Johnson’s sycophancy over Trump has diminished Britain.’

‘Whether it’s over trade, climate change or justice for 19-year-old Harry Dunn, those cabinet ministers have come away with absolutely nothing to show for these public displays of sycophancy except for a diminished reputation for Britain in the world... The special relationship with the US works when it is based on honesty, mutual trust and respect. Ministers were so eager to swallow the Trump playbook of how politics should be done that they abandoned British values, interests and their own self-respect... Britain’s foreign policy must have a moral centre and we should have the confidence to stand firm against those who undermine our values and our interests. Our country is better than this and we deserve a government that shows it.’- Lisa Nandy MP, the shadow foreign secretary

'Donald Trump Is Now a Terrorist Leader', David Corn, Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief and an on-air analyst for MSNBC, and thus, similar to any other terrorist, he is now banned from social media

And this is the man that has heaped praises on the Little English Brexit Agitators and in turn has been loved and admired by them!! 

In the Interest of Accountability to History, Our Humanity and Truth

As 'Trump blows up US democracy', it is time to remember the love, admiration and the slavish support of

the Little English Tory Brexiteers for him. 

A Dark History Never to be Forgotten

'Donald Trump's Tory cheerleaders have brought lasting shame on Britain'

‘Johnson adapted Trump’s birtherist lie when it suited the Brexit cause and declared that Barack Obama’s “part-Kenyan” heritage made him anti-British…

“Imagine Trump doing Brexit,” Johnson cried in 2018 as he schemed to become prime minister.

“He’d go in bloody hard.”- Nick Cohen,the Observer

The Similarities Between Boris Johnson And Donald Trump

Illustration: Bill Bragg, Via The Guardian

‘That is trickier for those who put their enthusiasm on the record. None outdid Michael Gove, comparing Trump to George Washington. The first president had also been misunderstood by Britain, Gove wrote in an unctuous interview with the 45th. He cast Trump as a “force of nature” who did not merit the “scorn and condescension” of his UK critics. To compensate for his countrymen’s discourtesy, Gove posed with his subject, grinning and giving the thumbs-up.

In the gallery of cringing subservience that image can hang alongside Theresa May holding the president’s hand during her first visit to the White House. Later that day, Trump issued executive order 13769 – the entry ban on nationals from predominantly Muslim countries. May did not condemn it.

Some said there was a better man behind the mask, but there was no mask. The racist snarl, the bully’s sneer and the infantile pout were all his. The face of the campaign was true to the character of the candidate. The only way to see a nobler Trump was to mould one from delusion, cowardice and self-interest – plentiful resources in a government embarking on Brexit…’- Continue to read

'They call him Britain Trump': US president congratulates Boris Johnson on being elected

"We have a really good man who's going to be the prime minister of the UK now, Boris Johnson. He's tough, he's smart... they call him Britain Trump"-@BBCPolitics

“He’s a different kind of a guy, but they say I’m a different kind of a guy too. We get along well. I think we’ll have a very good relationship,” Trump told reporters.

The Little English Trump: The Trumpist Brexiteer Bringing Disaster To Britain 

Blond, bombastic and with an eye for the ladies - it's Boris Trump!

QUENTIN LETTS on the similarities between the US President and BoJo

Photo: Daily Mail

Senior Tories are being shown for what they really are after, ‘years of fawning over a known populist who insulted his allies, peddled conspiracy theories

and, by treating authoritarians as his natural allies, undermining democracy everywhere.’

‘Much of this tolerance was due to Brexiteers seeing Trump’s and their own rise stemming from the same ideological well. Jacob Rees-Mogg wrote in the Times in 2018 ahead of one of Trump’s visits: “It is our national good fortune that the president with whom we will develop this new arrangement is Mr Trump. His election depended upon similar factors to those that led to Brexit. He appealed to voters left behind by the metropolitan elite and he exudes confidence about his own nation and a determination not to be a manager of decline, which also inspires the Brexiteers.” 

Not long ago, ‘Boris Johnson said Trump was as worthy of the Nobel peace prize as Barack Obama and described him as a standard New York liberal. In 2018 Johnson said: “I am increasingly admiring Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”  Photos of Michael Gove, the now Cabinet Office minister and prominent Brexit campaigner, grinning thumbs-up alongside the president caught the initial mood.’- Read more

Michael Gove’s sycophantic interview with Donald Trump reeks of neediness

…’Instead, Gove was in New York to serve as a cheerleader, to gloss over Trump’s inconsistencies and outright ignorance on assorted topics – “intelligence takes many forms”, Gove writes kindly – and to pose for a souvenir photograph in which both men give a thumbs up, a framed cover of Playboy just over Gove’s shoulder.’

Michael Gove is simply Donald Trump’s cheerleader, glossing over inconsistencies and ignorance,

writes Jonathan Freedland.- Photo: The Irish Times

More on the Tories who have Praised and Supported Trump: A Dark History Never to be Forgotten

7 times Tories cosied up to Donald Trump despite the warning signs

Here are the British politicians who have backed Donald Trump

The storming of the Capitol in Washington is a wake-up call for states around the world, writes the mayor of London

“Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the [Good Friday] Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period,” Biden tweeted Wednesday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a similar message.

The reaction among some Tories was swift. Iain Duncan Smith, one of the stalwart Brexiters and a former Tory leader, snapped that Biden should worry more about “the need for a peace deal in the USA to stop the killing and rioting before lecturing other sovereign nations.” Others, including former Brexit minister David Davis, piled on too.’- Tories may warm to Biden, but they’ll miss Trump 

Donald Trump’s defeat shows how Boris Johnson’s new Conservatives can be beaten

Here are a couple of good, honest Tories, standing up for Truth: 'Tories no longer party of Churchill and more the party of Trump

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And now a Question for Your Reflection:

Can Brexit Still Be Valid, When We Now All Know Well, Who the First Culprit was to Call For It?

‘The US president calls former Ukip leader ‘one of the most powerful men in Europe’

Nigel Farage, ‘King of Europe’ Fighting for the ‘The American Dream’ alongside his Hero

Donald Trump and Nigel Farage at a Make America Great Again rally in Goodyear, Arizona, 28 October 2020.

Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images, Via The Guardian

Nigel Farage heaps praise on Donald Trump at Arizona rally

Behold Trump's pre-election secret weapon: Nigel Farage, 'king of Europe'

Dinner with the Donald': Nigel Farage joins Trump's table at Washington hotel

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A Selected Postings from the GCGI Archive, I am Proud to Note Them Again:

The Lesson to Learn from Trump’s Chaotic and Shameful Life Journey: Before Becoming Great One Has to be Good

Is this the way to make America great again?

The Bitter Truth for All to See: Trumpism and the Moral Convulsion of the US

The Emperors with no clothes: The Madness of King Donald- A Modern Day King John  

My dear Mr. Trump, You are no Cyrus the Great!

The Myth of the ‘Promised’ Land

Brexit and Dictatorship

The Folly and Ignorance of Brexit to Grasp the TRUTH: EU has always been a Peace Project First and Foremost

Boris Johnson the architect of Brexit is the modern-day Enoch Powell

‘Independence’ and the Lies of Brexit

BREXIT: When England Betrayed Churchill

THIS ENGLISH BREXIT- Canon Dr Paul Oestreicher 

BREXIT Broke My Heart: The Moment that the Milk of Human Kindness Went Sour and Lumpy

I failed to stop Brexit, but I could do my bit to make my country a better place

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And Given the Lessons of Trump, Trumpism, Brexit and Brexitism: There is Only One Path to a Better World

Birds flying in a V formation in collaboration to support each other’s flight. Photo: Pinterest

Embracing 21st century mindset: Collaboration, Cooperation and the Common Good

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‘Boris Johnson and his cabinet are the most incompetent in British history’*

‘The greatest political catastrophe of our time, and all because of a lie on the side of a bus.’*

I wonder if this is what is meant by ‘Taking Back Control’?

Boris’ ‘Independence’, is nothing, but a Tragic Path to Ignorance and Incompetence 

Johnson Cabinet: ‘A Who’s Who Of Cabinet of Inexperienced, Incompetent 'Yes men' (& a very few 'Yes women')’. 

Photo: The Guardian

‘When the qualification for being a member of the cabinet is loyalty to bad ideas, it is no surprise Britain is badly governed.’- Rafael Behr

‘Johnson and his government are too incompetent and ignorant to deliver radical change post Brexit.’-Patrick Cockburn+

‘The charge sheet is this. The government is led by a clique of toffs who have neither respect for their colleagues, nor empathy with the average voter. Their born-to-rule mentality means they have a greatly over-inflated view of their own capabilities, which deafens their ears to the advice and warnings of others who might actually know better. They are nothing like as good at governing as they think they are. And this, the charge sheet concludes, is now inflicting serious harm on both the country... ’- Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer

A poignant example of when incompetence, inexperience, subservience and not competence and the commitment to serve the common good pays off

Our illustrious and hilarious Education Secretary, better known as Private Pike 

Photo: The Old Grey Owl

Children, Students and Parents Don’t Panic, ‘Private Pike’ is in Charge

Fiascos of Education Secretary Gavin Williamson make him ‘Captain Calamity’

Manchild Gavin Williamson plumbs new depths of stupidity

And this one on when Pike was Defence Secretary:

Private Pike tells all – and gets an early night

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Throughout history Britain’s ruling class has created crisis after crisis – just like now

Britain 'taken over by gamblers, liars, clowns and their cheerleaders'

Our Narcissistic and Egoistic Elites Undermining the Common Good

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Driven and Fueled by the Lies of the Past-

‘Johnson, Gove and Cummings Drive Britain Towards Elective Dictatorship.’

The Posh Boys Destroying this Green and Pleasant Land

A poster in Kentish Town, north London, mocks Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings

and Boris Johnson. Photo: Tolga Akmen, via The Guardian

‘Britain is changing from a parliamentary democracy towards an elective dictatorship faster than people realise after Boris Johnson’s election victory…’-Brexit and Dictatorship

'The nationalists have won – but what have they won?'- Getty Images, Via The Independent+

‘Come the day of reckoning, who gets blamed? No one could call this week’s reopening of England’s local schools anything but a shambles. The prime minister has declared that all primary schools are “safe … very, very important to stress that” and must stay open. That appears not to apply where they stay shut, as in London and possibly Manchester, Newcastle, Slough, Brighton … and perhaps elsewhere as the week goes on.

The appearance is of a man embattled in Downing Street, wholly out of touch with the country he is governing. Inconvenience, cost and stress are inflicted on millions, with Boris Johnson seemingly concerned only for his daily press conference.

No government in Europe has had an easy ride over the past nine months, but none has had a worse one than Britain’s. Indecision on lockdown was followed by chaotic PPE supplies, the “world-beating” test-and-trace shambles, school exam confusion and now the multi-form bureaucratic deterrent to potential vaccinators.

British politics likes to keep blame simple. Politicians are entitled to the pleasure of success and the pain of failure. When things goes wrong, we blame the person in charge – be it Johnson, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove or Gavin Williamson. Damn each incompetent, damn the lot of them. That feels better.

Certainly Johnson’s lack of grasp over his government is distressing to see. He sacked many of his best colleagues from Theresa May’s team and replaced them with nonentities. The nation is paying a high price for a prime minister who puts blind loyalty before ability.

But the current incompetence of British government is due not just to poor ministers. The PPE contract scandal exposed deep-seated cronyism in state procurement. The decanting of sick elderly people from hospitals into care homes showed institutional NHS contempt for private care. Last year’s exams algorithm debacle was the result of officialdom’s obsession with quantification. The multibillion-pound test-and-trace fiasco resulted from Whitehall’s aversion to local government.

Coronavirus has revealed a country so ill-governed that current politicians cannot be blamed for all of it. The traditional model holds that ministers decide on the general direction of policy and officials interpret and implement it. This balance of roles has been eroded at least since the turn of the century, largely by a ministerial craving for headlines that led to a daily welter of central initiatives, interventions and vanity projects. Officials are expected not to challenge but to obey.

This has clearly affected the calibre and morale of the civil service, with high-profile departures from Downing Street, the Home Office and Foreign Office. Johnson also gave too much prominence to scientists, hoping to blame them if things went wrong, and then found himself in perpetual conflict with them. This in turn allowed Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to appear blessed with decisive and clear-sighted leadership by contrast.

Come the inevitable inquiry into the events of the past year, it is not only politicians who should carry the can. All the components of Britain’s government, central and local, should be tested – the constitution as a whole should be under examination.’- **Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist. This article was first published in  The Guardian  on Monday 4 January 2021

*‘Boris Johnson and his cabinet are the most incompetent in British history’

+Johnson and his government are too incompetent and ignorant to deliver radical change post Brexit

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And finally, I did my best to show Boris how he may repent and become a good man.

But, sadly, it is true, 

Dear Mr. Johnson, your Covid-19 survival must become a force for good

Lest We Forget

Goodness is the Foundation of Greatness 

Our ‘Greatness’ consists in our ability to project ‘Goodness’ and apply our power to build Kindness and Fairness

GCGI’s message to an out-of-touch ruling class: Voting against free school meals shames our country and belittles our nation

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I failed to stop Brexit, but I could do my bit to make my country a better place