The new Boris machine owes very little to Westminster

It was Boris Johnson in City Hall who innovated, putting together a team of expert outsiders as deputy mayors. He rejected the clannishness that infects Westminster, where loyalists are promoted (epitomised by David Cameron’s notorious chumocracy). Boris chose on talent alone: hence figures as diverse as Lynton Crosby, Munira Mirza and Kit Malthouse joined him in City Hall. He is doing the same in No. 10 and his various advisers will report to Sir Eddie Lister, his chief of staff. This might infuriate MPs, especially those who thought they’d follow their hastily-chosen chieftain into No. 10, but the clannish model has just been broken.

Fortunately, the traditional “clannish model” used by Theresa May has been broken before it broke the Conservative party.

If anyone can come up with a new more successful model, it’s Boris Johnson, former successful Mayor of London and former successful editor of “The Spectator” from which this article comes.

I know nothing about British politics so it may be interesting to follow the new PM and see if he sinks or swims.
If Johnson can put off the inevitable collapse of England (simply too many muslims already there) more power to him.

I cannot take to the new PM of England, he has said some horrible things about Trump previously.

England will rue the day they didn’t chose Sir Nigel Farage to be PM

This dope wants unlimited immigration and amnesty for the approximate 500,000 illegals already there.

He may as well be an American democrat and nothing good can come from that.

Trump and Boris actually get along well with each other, and Trump seems to like him. Trump and Ted Cruz also said bad things about each other but now get along well.

Boris was as good as we could possibly do this time around. Nigel was not running for PM. Not only is he not a member of the Conservative Party, which is currently in power, he is not even a member of the British parliament. So there would have been no possible way in which Nigel could have become PM (the Prime Minister is of course the prime minister of the British parliament, not the European Parliament in Brussels where Farage serves).

What Boris Johnson wants is a radical overhaul of the British immigration system, where people with greater skills, talents, education, and other beneficial attributes are the ones allowed in, instead of the ones let in now who are often drains on the system. The Marxists in the British Labour party actually hate his stance on legal immigration. I agree that he even mentioned the possibility of amnesty for illegals is terrible, but it’s very unlikely he’d be able to do this even if he were really serious about it (which remains to be seen).

On the other hand, it’s a big step forward for a UK pol to criticize the more oppressive aspects of Islam. He is optimistic; he talks up Britain and the capabilities of the British people. He thinks politicians should be working for and accountable to their own people. He talks about Brexit as the right of the British people to govern themselves, and he has promised to leave the EU regardless of the circumstances. Beyond that, I love his law-and-order stance and goal to hire thousands more policemen and to promote stop and search policies.

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