Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

The diverse party

The response from the left has been vile

issue 03 August 2019

I’ve never voted Conservative and I never will. Having been raised in a working-class home, I can’t get past the fact that had the Labour party not come into being, the Tories would have kept my people serfs for as long as inhumanly possible. But I’m also an extreme Brexiteer; far from the past three years being boring (anyone who says this reveals themselves as such a monumental dullard that we should remove their right to vote), I consider that this nation spent the four decades up to 23 June 2016 sleepwalking into the shadowlands of EU dreariness — and disaster. Only a halfwit could fail to comprehend that the whole repulsive gravy–train is set to run into the buffers very soon and that it makes sense for us to pull the communication cord and hop off ASAP.

Thus I have viewed the rise of Boris Johnson with a degree of cold-blooded delight.

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