Part 3: Fuck off Boris, now what UK?

Hi guys, welcome back to the third installment, my perspective from London as we tell Boris to fuck off. I can see from the statistics that you guys are clearly interested in this topic and so I'm going to answer a few more questions in part 3. 

Q: Boris Johnson is no newcomer who came out of nowhere to run for the top job in the UK, he has been a politician for a really long time. He started out as an MP way back in 1999, then became mayor of London twice before entering the cabinet and then working his way to the top. The fact is, he is no stranger to British politics and so like seriously - what took you guys so awfully long to realize he is so despicable, dishonest, corrupt and all that? You all had over 20 years to know what Boris is like! Did you not notice anything all this time?

A: For the record, I hated him from the start. I never voted for him when he ran for mayor for London and I thought he was a terrible mayor. He is a good campaigner, he knows how to drum up support for his party by telling his supporters what they want to hear. So the narrative he told poor, working class people about Brexit was that it wasn't their fault that their lives are shit and they are so freaking poor - no, it is all these Eastern Europeans coming to take their jobs so we can blame the immigrants. Rather than admitting to them the truth behind why the working class here are so poor: the education system has suffered from chronic under-funding for generations. Rich people are not affected because the rich parents can buy their way out of any problem by sending their kids to expensive private schools, but the working class have no alternative but to send their kids to the terrible state schools where they get a lousy education - whose fault is that? I say that's definitely the fault of the government for failing to facilitate any kind of decent route to social mobility for those who are working class. On top of investing in education, you need to give young people proper training, internships, opportunities to get work experience and career guidance so they don't end up in poorly paid work - all that's a lot of effort so it's just easier to blame Eastern European migrants stealing your jobs. Uneducated voters want a simple solution, these are simpletons who want a simple story line, not a complex twelve-step plan to improve social mobility and Johnson knows what buttons to press with such uneducated voters. He lied to them all to get them to vote for him. 

Q: Yeah I get that, but surely he has to follow through with those promises and deliver what he said in his manifesto? Wouldn't his voters hold him to account all these years, checking his track record?

A: Well-educated, politically astute intelligent voters like me certainly do that but you have to realize that the majority of the people in this country are for want of a better word, stupid. They are not that educated, certainly they never went to university and they are probably doing some kind of working class job where they don't have to use their brains. There was a cake shop near the office where I used to work in Mayfair, there was always that same young man at the counter serving the customers. You tell him which cake you wanted, he asks you if you're having it there or to take away. If you are eating it there, he puts it on a plate. If it is for take away, he puts it in a box. He then scans the bar code, tell you the price you have to pay and takes payment from you. It is extremely routine and repetitive, he doesn't have to use his brain. The boss of the bakery would never ask him, "so which cakes are more popular and which cakes do the customers like?" No, instead the boss thinks, "you're a uneducated idiot and that's why I'm paying you as little as possible to do this kind of work." If I may be cruelly blunt, do you think he would be doing a job revolving around very repetitive, simple tasks if he was capable of doing something more challenging or complex? Thus how do you expect people like that guy from the cake shop to understand politics and do any meaningful evaluation of Boris Johnson's track record vs all the rhetoric he has spouted during his campaigning? So for them, the choice to support Johnson and vote for him is based on, "yeah I think he looks friendly and he tells me things I like to hear." It is really that simple and shallow with this type of voters. 

Q: You're just being mean to working class people now. I get it, you're more educated than them but you're not being fair to them. They represent the majority in this country and politicians need to court their vote. 

A: Allow me to put things in perspective for you this way: I went to work today, I am currently working on an advertisement this week for an American client. I was picked up from my home in the morning by my driver who took me to the studio in West London where the ad was shot. I met loads of people on the project from the technical crew handling the sound, lights, camera, costumes, make up etc to the catering staff who kept us all very well fed. When I finished work, I was driven home once again by my driver and as I was exhausted, I fell asleep in the car. So for all of these people I encountered, we were all very busy today doing our jobs. The key factors that affected our work (whether we had a fun day or a difficult one) didn't come from the government, rather it was from the people immediately around us. So for example, there was one scene where I had to stand very close to some lighting equipment and it was very hot. The temperature hit 28 degrees in London today and it was like a sauna in the film studio but the crew were really understanding. They were like, "Alex, you can sit down away from that heat source until we're ready to shoot. Let me get you a cold drink in the meantime - would you prefer a diet coke or an iced coffee?" Yeah, my day was very pleasant not because of anything the government did but because of the kindness of the crew who took such good care of me. So when I got home, I told my husband I had a wonderful day and I was treated like a VIP on set. My point is simple: whether or not I had a good time had work was thus directly related to the people I was working with and how they treated me rather than what the government is doing for me today - what the government is doing is so far removed. 

So let's put yourself in the shoes of a working class woman who works in a supermarket - if she has a difficult day at work, say a child vomits in the middle of the supermarket, then her manager demands that she cleans up that mess and even after she does that, some of the customers complain that there is a really horrible smell in the supermarket so the manager berates her for not getting rid of all the mess quickly enough. So she can blame a number of people for her horrible day: she can blame the child for throwing up, she can blame the parent of the child who allowed this to happen inside the supermarket instead of taking the sick child outside, she can blame her manager for making her to the horrible task of having to clean up that mess. But she is far more likely to blame the people who participated directly in her horrible day at work rather than the government for having created a social system which condemned working class people like her to lowly paid jobs like that, for denying her social mobility. Note that she would be far more likely to blame the child or the parent of the child because quite frankly, that was just bad luck, it was a one-off and unlikely to happen again. As for an uncaring and unsympathetic manager, she knows she can always go work for another supermarket. But if she confronted the fact that the Conservative government is only interested in helping the rich and doing absolutely nothing for the poor, then oh boy that's a depressing thought as she can do absolutely nothing about that situation. She would choose to avoid blaming the government even if this government has done absolutely nothing for people like her. 

This is why a lot of very poor, working class people turn to religion, especially in third world countries. Imagine if you're living in a tiny little shack in the shanty town, you have neither electricity nor running water yet you have a big family to feed. I visited Panama recently and the amount of poverty I saw there was staggering. Your life really sucks, the suffering is real as you must work from dawn to dusk to barely put enough food on the table. Some people in this situation might think, what have I done to deserve all this suffering? If there is a god or divinity, then I am being punished for being evil in my previous life. But no, these people would go to church every Sunday and pretend that their god loves them; because when life is so fucking awful, you need to pretend that you have a big brother (in the form of a 'god') who is actually on your side because in reality, there's nobody on your side, not even the government. But hey, inventing an imaginary benevolent friend in the sky helps give them the moral support to get them through the hard times. Now if you think that's pathetic, well the working class in the UK are doing the exact same thing with Boris Johnson - they believe that he is doing everything he can to help them when all he has done was made the rich richer (especially when it comes to his close friends and inner circle) and kept the working class in the gutters. But the working class go to sleep better at night believing that Boris Johnson is their best friend, it's a fantasy that's completely false but when life is so fucking awful for the poorest in the UK, they need to cling onto that fantasy or else they may as well just commit suicide now by throwing themselves in front of the next train as their futures are so freaking bleak. Yeah life is very cruel, but you knew that. 

Q: But surely not all working class people like Boris? 

A: Thankfully no. Don't forget, Boris Johnson represents the Conservative party and there is a whole generation of working class people in the UK who grew up bitterly hating Margaret Thatcher. Thus by association, they don't trust Boris Johnson because of what Thatcher did to the working class here in the UK a generation ago. Oh she well and truly fucked them over. But my point is simple: you need to have a decent understanding of the operations of the government before you can evaluate if a government is doing what they are meant to do and unfortunately, a lot of working class people simply are not educated enough to do that and so they are focused on far more basic matters like how they are being treated at work by their colleagues and managers whilst often just giving the government the benefit of the doubt. 

Q: Will all this political chaos affect daily life for ordinary British folks? 

A: Life goes on as per normal. I went to work today like so many others in the country - my plans didn't change because of what happened in the political world and that goes for practically everyone in the country. Unless you actually worked in politics, this whole episode is no more than just something to chat about with your friends and colleagues - we're interested but it doesn't affect us directly. The government doesn't actually micromanage every aspect of our life, so I have running water, electricity and internet in my home because the various departments responsible for that are functioning just fine. This is quite unlike a country like Lebanon and Sri Lanka, where they don't have does basic provisions as the governments in those countries have totally fallen apart. You see, there are the politicians who have to think about the next election, then you have a massive team of civil servants, these people never have to run for office, they are simply employed to do their job in the various departments, They are not high profile like the politicians but they keep the lights on in the country. Thankfully, this country is quite well organized and things will never get too bad for us. 

Q: Given his popularity with the electorate, could Boris still stage a comeback at some stage? 

A: Oh thankfully, this is highly unlikely. Hell no. Whilst he still commands quite a lot of popularity from within his core supporters, don't forget we have witnessed a revolt that was unprecedented from within his own party to oust him. He managed to fight his way to the top by being a part of the Conservative party which has given him a lot of credibility. We certainly have no shortage of outsiders who run as independents in British politics but very, very few of them have ever won an election - the list of those who managed to do that and win as MPs in modern times is very short: just seven since 2000 and they're adding both the Greens and UKIP to that list, which means that these politicians are from smaller and not mainstream parties. This means that the real number of truly independent candidates that ran and won as MPs is just four since 2000 - that's a tiny number and these people never made it to more than anything else. Now the only one who stands out on that list is Caroline Lucas who is the UK's most successful politician as a Green party MP so she has been interviewed a lot for anything to do with the environmental issues and climate change but this has been done in other countries. Emmanuel Macron - he was young, good looking, a relative unknown and when he formed his brand new party En Marche, he was seen as an outsider who gave the country a brand new alternative and thus he appealed to those who were so sick and tired of the same old parties dominating French politics. He stormed to power and won his bid to become president in 2017 by a massive landslide and has just won a second term as president. So never say never, Macron did prove to his critics that he could storm his way to the top as an outsider, outside the main parties. 

As for whether Boris Johnson can do the same, it seems very unlikely. Macron benefited from the fact that he was relatively unknown and thus was presented as a radical, fresh, new alternative to those who have been disenfranchised with the usual politics in France. Johnson is a spent force is British politics, whilst Macron was a relative unknown at the time he was running for president for the first time, Johnson's name has been dragged through the mud in the last few weeks and even people from countries very far away have been reading about his political career ending in a catastrophic car crash. Macron is older today but still has his good looks whereas holy fuck, Johnson is so fucking fat and ugly. Macron has been able to use his looks and charms to his advantage whereas Johnson's morbid obesity is nothing short of gross and allows him to be subject to ridicule. Oh this is not just me being shallow, in politics your image counts as it is a popularity contest. In desperation, he could turn to people like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson for some kind of alliance of the far-right. After all if the right-wing Conservative party has shunned Johnson, it may force him to reach out to the far-right to find any allies at this stage and those on the far right would welcome the fact that Johnson still has a band of hardcore supporters who will listen to him. Such an alliance is unlikely to yield much results in the polls though as British politics has always been dominated by the main parties and those on the fringes rarely get any real power without even winning as an MP. Even if Johnson ran as an independent candidate or a far right candidate at the next general election, then he would probably lose, especially if he is up against a very strong Conservative candidate. 

Q: Could we look at what Trump is doing and see if Johnson might try the same route? 

A: Right, that's a good comparison. Trump is counting on the fact that his core supporters will simply come back to him after a term of Biden in office and that he will present the Republicans the best hope of a victory at the next election in 2024. Like Johnson, Trump will always have his core of die hard supporters who will never desert him no matter what he does but that's never enough. But Trump's challenge is that when he ran for president the last time, like Macron, he was presented as an outsider, an interesting alternative as a businessman who is not a politician - someone who can radically change the system for the better. Like Johnson, he has had his chance to prove himself in the top job and he did such a bad job that he lost the next election to a rather uninspired Biden. Trump never thought he could lose and even when he did lose, he refused to accept the election results. Now what might be a more plausible route for Johnson is to hope for the Conservatives to lose the next election (unlikely if they pick a good replacement but let's run with this hypothesis for now), then we have one term with Keir Starmer as a Labour prime minister but Starmer does a bad job (again, another big assumption but let's run with it for now). So by around 2027, that's when Johnson can try to come back and say, "look how you lost power to Labour, now let me help you get back into power. I was the last Tory PM who won an election by a considerable margin. and I still have plenty of supporters." It may seem a bit far fetched for all those events to happen but it does remain true that Johnson did win the 2019 elections with a considerable margin. Would Johnson be patient enough to wait five years or would he just jump into bed with the far right within weeks of leaving office? Of course, there is always also the possibility of someone else bright, intelligent, likeable, charming and popular coming along by 2027!

Q: How soon will we have a new prime minister? 

A: The 5th September - that allows Boris Johnson to stay in power for another eight weeks. A lot of people are not happy about that but it is already a bit of a compromise as Johnson at first wanted to stay on till October. Labour, like so many in the country, want Johnson gone ASAP but the Conservatives want a bit more time to select their new leader. I am hoping for a faster transfer of power, the final two candidates will be known by the 21st July so do we really need to give them from the 21st July to the 5th September to do their campaigning? That's like six weeks. Good grief. Slash that down to four or even two weeks and everyone will be a lot happier. We all can't wait to get rid of Boris Johnson: just fuck off.

Q: You grew up in Singapore where something like that can never happen. How do the two systems compare? 

A: In Singapore, I was brought up to respect authority and that was the culture there - if you disrespect authority be it your teacher, your parents or the government, you were seen as a trouble maker and can expect punishment. But that begs the question, who is going to punish those bad teachers, parents and politicians when they fuck up then? Singaporeans don't have an answer to that question, they often just sweep it under the carpet and give those in authority the benefit of the doubt. That's why when I look at countries like China where they simply have no democracy and no way to challenge the people who are in charge, that allows them to indulge in all kinds of corruption with impunity and that's wrong. That's not the kind of society I want to live in. Singapore is weird as they seem to have a western democracy but in reality, no one ever challenges the authority, thus it is far more like China than the UK and that's a terrible mistake. I can't stress that enough - that's a serious mistake on the part of Singaporeans. This is why I think the world can learn from Sri Lanka, it's a shame that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has finally agreed to resign - I want to see him dragged through the streets by a bloodthirsty mob and executed publicly in the most medieval way possible. I would love to have seen that happen to Boris Johnson as well. There is a special place in hell for the corrupt politicians.  

Q: The situation in Sri Lanka is different as it has been the months of protests in the streets that finally brought down the government there, whereas Boris was ousted by his own party - it is quite different, isn't it?

A: Yes and no. Johnson's colleagues revolted against him not because they had suddenly developed a conscience that alerted them to all his corruption and wrongdoing - fuck no, they're all as bad as him. However, they realized that enough of the voting public are sick and tired of Boris Johnson so if they supported a corrupt PM like Johnson, then by association, they would become toxic and lose the next election. So it was entirely in self-interest that they threw Johnson under the bus as quickly as they could once they realized the tide was turning against him. So whilst the anti-Boris protests in London were limited and cannot be compared to what we have witnessed in Sri Lanka, it was clear that any Conservative politician who still supported Boris Johnson would be severely punished by the voters if they didn't chuck him under the bus. The irony of course is that a major reason why Johnson is deemed so corrupt is because he often abused his power as PM to protect those who were nearest and closest to him in the party when they were guilty of wrongdoing. He probably expected them to return the favour and protect him at a time like this - instead, they were lining up to sacrifice him. It goes to show that Johnson had badly miscalculated all this: he could have hung onto power a lot longer if he had been only too happy to chuck anyone under the bus for their wrongdoing in order to appear righteous to the public, but instead tried help them get away with all their terrible misdeeds. That shows that Johnson isn't that intelligent; this is politics and he is a politician, he doesn't understand how it works and this was a huge miscalculation.

Q: Do you think the UK would learn its lesson or would you end up with another Boris again? 

A: Oh I don't know, never underestimate how bloody stupid the British public is. Would America elect another Trump? Would we have another Boris Johnson? If we were stupid enough to make this mistake once, then oh yes, we are most certainly idiotic enough to make that mistake again. No, I'm afraid I really don't have that much faith in the British public. 

Q: "Why don't you take over if you think you would do a better job?"

A: I have actually seen this comment on Youtube. Someone left a comment condemning Johnson and I am not sure what the motivation of this person is (is he a Boris supporter, or is he just trying to stir up some trouble and pick a fight?) but the reply to that comment was "why don't you take over if you think you can do a better job?" I certainly think I would do a better job than Boris! His downfall was down to a three big events: firstly, Pincher-gate. He placed a sex predator in an important position then claimed that he had no knowledge of all the allegations made against Pincher, then claimed that he had plain forgotten that he was ever told. Anyone with a bit of common sense (including me) would have never appointed Pincher in any kind of role if there were all these serious allegations against him. Then there was Party-gate: I have news for you - whilst Boris broke all Covid rules and partied away in his office, like most people in this country, I did follow all the rules. Then there was the Owen Patterson scandal when he tried to change the rules to prevent his old friend and colleague from being suspended for wrongdoing - I would have had the common sense to through Patterson under the bus to save my own skin rather than break the rules to save a friend. It wouldn't take a genius to have avoided those three big mistakes but that's the point: the public expects an honest PM to follow the rules and do what the rest of us honest citizens would have done. Johnson keeps breaking the rules because he thinks he is above the law, so I do think I could have done a better job than Boris Johnson, given that it is not actually that hard to do better than him. 

But can I just walk up to number 10 Downing Street and politely ask them to let me take over even if I clearly think that I can do a much better job? No, because Boris Johnson had fought his way to the top by manipulating so many people, telling so many lies and making so many promises he had no intention of ever keeping. He made politics so ugly that he has disenfranchised a lot of people and that's his legacy - politics ought not be so ugly but Johnson made it especially so. Gosh, there are still some honest politicians out there and Keir Starmer is one of them. He is frightfully boring, lacks charisma and sucks at public speaking but at least he isn't a liar like Johnson. I'm afraid Trump has proven that you can just tell lies and get away with it if you're telling people what they want to hear. The reason why Boris Johnson has been ousted from the top job in the country is because even his own party has had enough of his deceit and lies. Anyone who challenges me to take over from Boris Johnson if I think I can do a better job clearly doesn't understand how politics works: the real question is how did such a corrupt and incompetent liar get the top job in the country? Why is our current system so rotten and corrupt that it has allowed this travesty to happen in the first place? What needs to be done to reform this system? Why do you still assume that Boris Johnson is the best man for the job when he has just been forced out of office by his own party in such a disgraceful manner? Johnson most certainly didn't become the PM because he was the best man for the job, but because the current system is desperately corrupt and really needs to be reformed. 

Allow me to compare this to something that happened way back in 2010. The event was streamed live on the internet by the Olympics Broadcast Service - the gymnastics community was aghast at how utterly awful the commentary for the gymnastics event was. There was this American guy called 'Kent' who knew absolutely nothing about gymnastics and was spouting rubbish - undoubtedly he must have been selected because he was white and spoke American English; but he was still paired up with a local Singaporean (some suspect he is Indian-Singaporean based on his accent) who also lacked knowledge about gymnastics and they did such an awful job, they were mocked by the gymnastics community online for some of the really stupid shit they said. So I complained and one Singaporean guy online attacked me, "if Alex Liang thinks he can do a better job, then why didn't he volunteer to do it?" Well firstly, this is the OBS, they don't ask for volunteers - they are supposed to pay only highly qualified professionals who can do the job properly to do an excellent job, but the OBS fucked up by pairing up American 'Kent' with his Singaporean Indian friend. If the OBS had reached out to the Singaporean gymnastics community, I would have gladly volunteered and I can think of quite a few others who would have been great for the job. But no, OBS fucked up. They didn't ask Singapore Gymnastics for help, they appointed two total idiots for the job. This Singaporean guy who attacked me made the assumption that these two idiots were the best people for the job and that was completely untrue. Of course I could have done a much better job but OBS never asked me. Thus the wrong people get appointed to the job when the system is so corrupt and not fit for purpose.. 

When we get exasperated at someone doing a really bad job, it is not unreasonable to expect the system to have appointed a competent person to do that job properly. Let's take my nephew's experience doing A level economics at a local JC, he had a terrible teacher and when I found out just how awful she was, I took matters into my own hands and gave him private tuition and so if anyone wanted to say, "if you think you can do a better job, why don't you teach your nephew yourself?" Well, that's exactly what I did in that case. However, it is reasonable if we go see a doctor at the hospital, we expect the doctors to know what they are doing. When we buy a plane ticket, we expect to get on that flight and land at the destination at the expected arrival time (or as close to it as possible). I could go on, but when things do go wrong, when the people who are supposed to do their job totally fail at delivering, as in the case of my nephew's teacher or Boris Johnson as PM, as much as we might want to "take over and do the job", in most cases, we simply want the person in question to do their job properly and if it is evident that this person is unable to deliver, then let's get someone else in who is indeed capable to do that job. We need to recognize that yes the system can fail, it can be corrupt, in the case of the OBS, a totally incompetent American was given a job he was not qualified to do probably because he fancied a well paid holiday in Singapore. Thus I wasn't trying to tell the OBS to give me a job, I was merely holding the OBS to account, to be a lot more careful about hiring the right people who are qualified to do jobs like that. 

Q: Why do people react like that then?

A: Now there's a reason why people react so negatively when I try to criticize and point out a major fault in the system: they are embarrassed by it. Let's stay with the story from Singapore hosting the Youth Olympic Games in 2010 - it was a huge source of pride for many ordinary Singaporeans as they really wanted the event to showcase the best of Singapore to people from all over the world who would tune in to watch the event. But of course, many of these Singaporeans weren't actually involved in the preparation or organization of the event, some may have gone as far as to have purchased tickets and were spectators but that was it. Most probably just watched the event online or on their TVs at home so when I criticized this problem that had occurred as part of the event, they were probably thinking, "no shut up, even if you did spot a problem, how dare you complain publicly like that? We want the whole world to have a good impression of Singapore as the host country of the event, but now you're drawing attention to problem that occurred. We're just going to attack you instead and pretend that the problem doesn't exist, so people might think that you're the one at fault rather than the organizers." It's not that they disagree with me that a problem has occurred, but quite simply they weren't interested at all in watching the gymnastics event so this wasn't a problem that affected them and they would rather the world looked back at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore with fond memories and a very good impression of the host city. Thus that's why they desperately want to believe that the event was free of any problems.

Q: Go on, you're going to demonize the working class again?

A: But we've been talking so much about working class people who support Johnson so allow me to use a real story to make a point about people in that kind of situation. I know all three people in this story so I have changed their names: I knew both Kim and Maria from gymnastics, they used to train together when they were young and thus had been best friends for many years. Some years back, Kim met Gordon and they got married - it was at that time when Maria was looking for a new place to live so Kim had an idea. "I'm pregnant and the baby is due in the summer, why don't you move in with us and you can be a part of this wonderful experience. I certainly could do with a bit of help around the house and we have a spare room - it's meant to be the baby's nursery but I'm sure we can stick the cot in the living room for the first year then you can have the spare room instead." So Maria moved in and everything was great for a while - then as Kim was nearly ready to give birth, Maria saw Gordon kissing another woman in the pub. When she confronted Gordon about it, he simply said, "so what? This is none of your business Maria. Do you think Kim is going to believe you if you told her? She's due to give birth any day now. Here, let me give you something else to tell her." He then took off all his clothes and asked Maria if she wanted him to make her pregnant as well. Maria was so horrified but he calmly told her, "Kim thinks that you're this sad loser who is jealous of her? She is married and pregnant, she is a wife and a mother whilst you're single and left on the shelf - you're a lonely old spinster, unloved, unwanted, unfucked." Maria then ran out of the house.

If Maria moved out just as Kim had given birth, Kim would sense that something was very wrong. But I told Maria that after Gordon had exposed himself to her, she wasn't safe in that house - she couldn't stay there any longer, not even for a day. Maria was forced to choose between her friendship with Maria and her safety, I told her that she had to choose the latter. Kim was very angry with Maria when she moved out suddenly, "how could you abandon me like that just when I need you the most? I am about to give birth and you move out just like that?" Maria had no choice but to tell Kim the truth and sure enough, Kim didn't believe Maria. Kim confronted Gordon who claimed that Maria tried to seduce him and he rejected her advances, so now she feels very awkward and wants to leave for that reason. Thus you might wonder: why would Kim choose to believe her husband instead of her best friend? She has just given birth to her daughter, she wants to believe that Gordon will be a good  husband and father for the sake of the family and that desire for everything to turn out fine has compelled her to turn a blind eye to his behaviour. I have only met Gordon a few times but I instantly believed Maria when she told me her version of the story as he did come across as the kind of man who would be capable of that kind of betrayal. Kim never spoke to Maria again, she is still with her husband now and he is probably still sleeping around all the time, with Kim turning a blind eye to it all whilst putting up a brave front for the sake of her daughter - all Kim wants is for her daughter to have a happy childhood but what at price would she have to pay for that?

You might think that Kim's situation is quite pathetic and she has exercised some really poor judgment when she married that scoundrel but the moment she became pregnant, she felt that she had run out of options and she had to make her marriage work at any cost - even if that meant turning a blind eye to her husband cheating on her and pretending that everything is great in front of her daughter. Kim did not have many options, if she had chosen to leave Gordon, then she would really struggle to bring up her child on her own. Kim herself was brought up by a single-mother after her father had walked out on her family, so she was determined not to have the same fate happen to her own daughter. Kim's rather sad story is a good example of how people who are trapped in a bad situation simply make everything seem okay by choosing to ignore all the problems that are staring at them in the face. Imagine Kim's daughter asking her, "mummy, where is daddy? Why aren't we having dinner with him tonight?" Kim would have to keep a very straight face and make an excuse like, "oh he texted me earlier to say that he had to work late tonight, but he wanted me to make sure that you finished all your homework and he  said he will be checking when he gets in later." What's the alternative then? Admit to her daughter that her father is out having sex with someone else? No, Kim has become so used to pretending that everything is alright for the sake of her daughter and I can just imagine someone like Kim telling her daughter that the prime minister Boris Johnson is taking very good care of the country. Yeah right. The lies she has to tell herself just to be able to sleep at night as a young mother and maintain the illusion she is presenting to her daughter: it's quite sad really. 

Okay, so that's it from me on this topic. I'm off on holiday this Friday so I needed to get this out before I fly off! Who do you think will be the next PM of the UK then? Do you think it will be Rishi Sunak? If you wish to speak further about Boris Johnson's demise, please feel free to leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Many thanks for reading.