{"id":9807,"date":"2019-06-24T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2019-06-24T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:03:07","slug":"don-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9807\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the patterns of contemporary politics is that whatever silliness happens in the US arrives on British shores a short time later. Identity politics was born in the corridors of liberal American academia from which it spread first to the political mainstream and then corporations, probably via the HR department. Now we have the likes of David Lammy ranting<\/a> about white supremacists on a daily basis and British companies leaping on the Pride Month bandwagon and droning on about their trans employees.<\/p>\n

The last few days have shown the British left have adopted something else American: mass hysteria as a method of political persuasion. Donald Trump had been a household name for 25 years when he ran for president, and as such there wasn’t much about him which remained unknown. But as soon as he declared himself a Republican the left branded him a hard-right rapist and when he got elected went into a collective meltdown that’s showing no signs of abating. It’s been almost 3 years and they still haven’t got over the fact Hillary lost and a good chunk of the country doesn’t mind Trump. The Democrats have assembled a collection of lunatics to run against him in 2020 on a platform of white people paying black people reparations for slavery, the idea that Trump is literally running concentration camps, and open borders. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

As befitting the pattern, the British left have now gone into hysteria over Boris Johnson who looks set to become the next prime minister. Johnson is very much a known quantity: he has been a public figure in politics for two decades and was mayor of London for two terms between 2008-16. But the left now want us to believe he’s some sort of dangerous, far-right extremist who goes around assaulting women. The latter claim – which they’ve clearly borrowed from their American counterparts’ campaigns against Trump and Brett Kavanaugh – is based on a couple of lefty neighbours of Boris’ girlfriend having skulked around on the landing outside her door, made a recording of a row they were having, and sent it to the police “fearing for her safety”. When the police turned up and said nothing was amiss, the couple sent the recording to The Guardian<\/em>. And so overnight Boris Johnson becomes an abuser of women, helped along by the self-appointed spokespeople of the Metropolitan chattering classes such as The Secret Barrister:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve lost count of the number of domestic violence cases I\u2019ve successfully prosecuted which only came to the police attention because of the actions of concerned neighbours. These people are literal life-savers. For MPs to discourage this for political point scoring is shameful. pic.twitter.com\/SnZh9gvADu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) June 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n