• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “Disrupter”… Yeah, we need to stop using that word. He’s as much part of the establishment as the Tory members he’s helped replace.

    His party is a corporate entity, and we’ll see how he gets on niw that he legally has to file his financial interests.

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      4 months ago

      He did disrupt the Tories and thus the whole country. He managed to get Brexit done without even being elected, and even precisely in the way he wanted (no-deal Brexit, the hardest of them all).

      Doesn’t mean that he’s not establishment.

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      4 months ago

      The typical playbook is lie until caught, shield oneself with lawyers as long as that works, get a light sentence or none due to being rich, and then tell one’s electorate the whole thing was politically motivated persecution.

      Of course I’m still new to UK politics, maybe the rouble has a different conversion rate here.