Here the language puts an emphasis on the temptations of Symonds: Johnson was smitten by her, as opposed to her being pursued or seduced by him, a notorious serial adulterer with at least one secret love child. 'How Boris was smitten by “Apples” - sexy, clever, ambitious… and barely older than his daughter' smirked The Daily Mail. But it's not just all those bikini pics that could be construed as problematic. You can just imagine the dollar signs lighting up in the eyes of the press when they found her Instagram feed. Unquestionably catnip to the media, Symonds is a posh, pretty political mover and shaker, and in a bikini 80% of the time, according to the papers. Pictures from social media accompanying the story show Symonds, surprise surprise, in bikinis another in a croptop on a boat, as if to suggest the woman Johnson is 'close with' is a wild and carefree gap-yah student who refuses to come home, not a spin doctor working in Westminster. 30-year-old Carrie Symonds, formerly the Conservative’s communications director until just eight weeks ago, found her face across the front pages yesterday morning. Yet it’s his co-star that might actually not be enjoying the spotlight. But no, not even Boris Johnson can rustle up a headline that is more appealing to The Sun than the poetic “Wife Knifes Bonking Boris”. Because, yes, it seems you can plaster lies on the side of a bus, and yes, you can occasionally charm the press with a cup of tea, and perhaps even yes, you can overthrow the Prime Minister from the safe confines of a lucrative column. And while most of the time Johnson appears to enjoy playing with the press, much like the back and forth of a game of “wiff waff”, he was pictured head-in-hand in his Oxfordshire home looking despondent. This is a plausible diversion tactic from Johnson if you a) remember what he said about Muslim women and postboxes, and his apparent comfort in employing Islamophobic language, and b) you believe he’s purposely started civil war in the Tory party, planning his bid for leadership and probably hadn’t banked on being found out right now. Not only does his involvement in the next-level debacle of Brexit mean he’s exceptionally answerable to the British public right now, the former Foreign Secretary has been accused of using inflammatory and racist language to distract the press from the scandal, claiming after the story broke that Theresa May “had wrapped a suicide vest around the British Constitution” when referring to the Chequers agreement. Of course, with Boris Johnson, there’s a whole bonus DVD’s worth of reasons as to why this is more than just mere gossip that might be forgotten by tomorrow. (even though he's still going to be around until the Autumn.The weekend’s revelation that Boris Johnson was 'romantically linked' to a young woman is classic tabloid fodder with a quintessential cast of characters: Old Powerful Man cheats on Long Suffering Wife with Pretty Young Blonde. Now Johnson has resigned it's fair to say that Twitter is having a field day or should that be days. However, his position had become completely untenable thanks to his new ministers also calling for him to resign after just a few days in the job. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter He also claimed that he had been given a mandate by the British public thanks to the overwhelming majority he achieved at the 2019 general election. Johnson stubbornly tried to cling on to power and tried to appoint a new minister but he was running out of people to rely on. On Tuesday, senior ministers Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid both announced that they were resigning from the cabinet, thus triggering a huge wave of resignations with more than 50 MPs saying that they could no longer support the prime minister. After just shy of three years in the role Boris Johnson is finally set to resign as prime minister as his tumultuous tenure, mired in scandals and controversy comes to an end.
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