Britain | Boris Johnson avoided scandals with the “dead cat strategy”, but now the cat’s nine lives have been used up

British newspaper Published by The Telegraph in March 2013 column, which introduced the so-called “dead cat strategy”. The author blamed the “cold autocrats” of Brussels, who, in his opinion, had ruthlessly tried to divert attention from the financial distress of Portugal, a member of the Eurozone, by blaming the collapse on bankers greedy for bonuses in London.

The author said that he learned the idea from his Australian friend that if a politician who gets stuck in a dinner table conversation is in trouble and the facts speak against him, he should “throw a dead cat on the dinner table”.

“Everybody’s screaming, ‘For God’s sake, there’s a dead cat on the table!'”

And so everyone begins to deliver in a hurry, what should be done with the dead cat and thoughts about the politician’s own mistakes are in their way.

Author was called Boris Johnson, and he served as the mayor of the British capital London at the time. Since then, he became the prime minister of his country, who has been accused of being a master of lying, distortion and obfuscation.

When Johnson has faced difficulties, he has repeatedly managed to shift the focus to something else entirely, a “dead cat,” at least according to media and political opponents. This strategy, in British slang deadcattinghas helped make him a political cat who has had at least nine lives.

In April, for example, Johnson was the first sitting prime minister in British history to receive a criminal conviction and fines. They were given in the so-called Partygate-jupaka, which joined the parties held at Johnson’s official residence and other government buildings during the corona period. To divert attention, Johnson quickly introduced a plan to send people seeking asylum from Britain to Rwanda.

However, on Thursday, Johnson didn’t have enough more dead cats up his sleeve and he had used up the last of his life. After the resignation of dozens of cabinet members, Johnson had to announce his resignation as prime minister, although he had refused to do so the night before.

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, 58, is known in the headlines by the much shorter name BoJo. To the British, he doesn’t really need an introduction, but every Brit would certainly introduce him in slightly different ways. There is so much to say about him.

For some, Johnson is an entertaining political reformer and the hero of Britain’s new independence, known as Brexit – and for others, a cynical and immoral populist and opportunist.

Johnson’s father Stanley Johnson is a writer and former Conservative Party MEP. His late mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl (d. 2021) was an artist specializing in portrait painting.

In 2020 published by Tom Bower in the biography he is writing Boris – The Gambler (gambler) was told that father-Stanley had abused his wife, which would have left a mark on Boris. According to the book, she didn’t learn to trust men, and she didn’t have particularly many trusted male friends, even though she attended the famously elitist boys’ school Eton.

In the same biography, it was stated that both father and son Boris have been “serial cheaters” when it comes to marital obedience. Boris Johnson’s current Carrie-wife is third in line.

Before when Boris Johnson became a politician, he was known as a boisterous journalist for whom the truth was relative. His first employer, The Times magazine, fired Johnson when he was found to have made up a quote in an article about archeology.

In the years 1989–1994, Johnson worked as the Brussels correspondent of The Telegraph magazine, who always seemed to have a little bit more information about the cataclysmic machinations of the Eurobureaucrats than his colleagues. Like the EU creating one-size-fits-all condoms. The reason for this was the smaller penises of Italian men.

“Ruthless and untruthful,” said the London Review of Books in the titlewhich was related to the relationship presented in a book between Johnson and the former President of the United States Donald Trump’s to “moral barbarism” and “attacks on the truth”.

His country Johnson ran for parliament for the first time in 1997, but was not successful then. Four years later, however, Johnson became an MP, which began his political rise: first as London mayor (2008–2016), again as an MP (in 2015) and then as leader of his party and prime minister (from 2019).

His rise to the position of prime minister was intertwined with the most controversial series of events in Britain’s recent history, the exit from the EU, or Brexit. During the 2016 Brexit referendum, Johnson became the most visible face of the Leave campaign.

The most famous claim of the campaign was that after leaving the EU, Britain could give 350 million pounds every week to the country’s health care system, the NHS, with the savings of EU membership fees. The promise has been labeled as false in the media and research circles from the beginning, but according to what Johnson later said, he even underestimated the savings.

Several statements have shown that Brexit was harmful to the British economy. However, making estimates has been made more difficult by the fact that Brexit did not formally take place until the beginning of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began to discipline the world and British economy. leaving the EU was softened in addition, during the transition period that continued until the end of 2020.

Getting from the Brexit referendum to the actual exit from the EU was an extremely confusing and difficult process for Britain and the EU, from which the political victory was recovered with a delay and only temporarily by Johnson.

The June 2016 referendum resulted in a conservative prime minister who voted for remaining in the EU David Cameron’s get rid of Johnson wanted to replace his former friend Cameron as prime minister, but was forced by his ally and another friend Michael Gove to backstab.

Gove announced that he would seek to become prime minister himself, because he did not think that Johnson was qualified to lead the Brexit process through. Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia by Gove’s betrayal was Shakespearean in nature. Johnson, on the other hand, had betrayed Cameron in the spirit of the works of the same author.

Johnson withdrew his candidacy at the time, while Gove failed in his bid to become prime minister. He took the win Theresa Maywhich in turn fell due to the Brexit mess and the lack of confidence of his party in the summer of 2019. May had made Johnson his foreign secretary, but Johnson left the government in 2018 and weakened May’s influence, due to differences of opinion related to Brexit.

When May was gone, it was Johnson’s moment. As Prime Minister, he took the Brexit helm and convinced many Britons that the country is on its way to a new era. In the parliamentary elections held in December 2019, Johnson led the Conservatives to a crushing victory over the opposition Labor.

British were ready for a while to tolerate the uncertainty caused by the pandemic and Brexit. In April 2020, as many as 66 percent of the people thought Johnson was doing his job well, according to the Yougov research institute inquiry told.

But since the summer of last year, the support decreased its count. A serious blow to Johnson’s credibility was caused by the revelations that Johnson and other politicians and officials had violated the strict coronavirus restrictions they had set themselves at their parties.

At the end of this June, 71 percent of Britons thought Johnson was doing his job poorly, and only 23 percent gave him a good rating.

Final the clincher came earlier this week when Johnson had to apologize for his behavior in jupakawhere the former Conservative Party MP Chris Pincher had molested men while drunk.

At first Johnson said he had not known about it. Until it turned out he had known. According to Johnson, he had forgotten that he had heard about it, but he denied that he had lied. As in many other scandals, the collected explanations changed rapidly and came in spurts.

One after another, Conservative politicians and government ministers expressed that they were tired of defending Johnson and called for his resignation. Within a day or so, about sixty of the ministers and other members of the government resigned.

One minister who called for Johnson’s resignation on Wednesday was Michael Gove, the same man who destroyed Johnson’s bid to become prime minister in the summer of 2016. Johnson announced that he had no intention of resigning – and at the same time he fired Gove, who was in charge of housing.

Gove flew out of the government as cold as a cat’s carrion, but it was no longer a big headline amid the frantically advancing events.

Someone from today William Shakespeare would make a decent drama about Johnson’s years as Prime Minister and its final stages. In addition to stabbings and dead cats, it could end up with the chairman of Labour Keir Starmer’s Wednesday’s question in Parliament: “Honorable Speaker, isn’t this the first case in the annals of a sinking ship leaving rats behind?”