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I Still Can’t Believe Boris Johnson Is Prime Minister!

Is This Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?

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Unfortunately, this is very much real life and not just fantasy!

It is just over a week since Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as Boris Johnson, became Prime Minister (PM) of the UK. Just typing these words feels a little surreal.

It is hard to believe a man who has a list of gaffes longer than most people’s list of achievements has become the leader of the country. A man whose flimsiness with the truth is one of his key selling points is now running the United Kingdom.

It is hard to believe!

How did we get to this point? How did we end up with a man who referred to black people as “picaninnies with watermelon smiles” in charge? Where do we go from here?

These are all questions that have been floating through my mind since his ‘election’ a leader of the Conservative Party and by default PM.

Is it a sign of the times that we now favour politicians who play hard and loose with the facts over those who make integrity their main selling point? When Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson can rise to power in a manner of years, there is undoubtedly something broken within politics.

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