How is it possible for Boris Johnson to be so far ahead in the polls as we near the election day? What sections of society are left that he hasn’t offended or discriminated against?
Here’s a list of people that shouldn’t be anywhere near Boris Johnson and the conservatives, and why.

Christians

Boris Johnson and Tory policies are incompatible with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus says: “If you have two coats and another man has none, then give him a coat.” Boris says: “If I have two coats and you have none, how much are you prepared to pay me for this spare one?”

Muslims

Boris is on record for comparing Muslims wearing the Burka to ‘letterboxes’ and the Conservative party has a recurring issue with Islamophobia.

Jews

The antisemitism in the Conservative party extends back throughout its history and would be well documented if it wasn’t for such a right-wing press. One recent example was of a Tory candidate having to step down for calling British Jews ‘brainwashed extremists’.

Ethnic minority communities

Boris doesn’t like black people. If he did, he wouldn’t call them ‘picaninnies’ or describe them as having ‘watermelon smiles’. He wrote in his own column that ‘seeing a “bunch of black kids” used to make him “turn a hair” and run away’. Boris is the embodiment of white privilege and a meritocratic society. Racist prick.

Women

While covering a Labour party conference as a journalist and commenting on the women in attendance, he wrote: “The ‘Tottymeter’ reading is higher than at any Labour Party conference in living memory,” and added: “Time and again the ‘Tottymeter’ has gone off as a young woman delegate mounts the rostrum.” While at the 2012 London Olympics as mayor, he wrote of the “magnificent” experience of watching “semi-naked women playing beach volleyball … glistening like wet otters.”

LGBTQ communities

Boris doesn’t like gays, or lesbians, or anyone in the LGBTQ community given his voting record on opposing equal gay rights and same sex marriage – he’s compared gay marriage to bestiality. He’s also referred to gay men as ‘bumboys’ just to make sure you were definitely offended.

People who use the NHS

Boris is going to screw over anyone stupid enough to not be able to afford private health insurance by selling out the NHS to the Americans. You ask American people what they think about the NHS and they’ll tell you they wish they had something similar. If the Conservatives get into power just make sure you don’t get sick.

Environmentalists

What’s the point of the Amazon rain forest if I can’t spend millions on a new yacht? Boris has voted 8 times AGAINST measures to prevent climate change.

Animal Lovers

Boris wants to kill foxes. That’s right, he wants to reverse the foxhunting ban. He’s a killer. He probably doesn’t even like kittens and puppies. Evil bastard.

Pacifists

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn (and any normal person) Boris likes bombing innocent people in faraway countries. He voted for the Iraq war four times and has voted to replace Trident with a new nuclear weapons system 5 times.

Low income households

Screw you guys. If you’re dumb enough to not go to Oxford and Cambridge or weren’t smart enough to get born into a super wealthy family, then you deserve everything you get – which will be nothing by the way.

Anyone with a moral compass

This is just a catchall for anyone that slipped through the gaps above, but who isn’t a complete arsehole. If you’re still thinking of destroying Britain by voting for Boris then there’s clearly no getting through to you. Enjoy the Armageddon.

Disclaimer:

We’re not saying ‘vote Labour’ we’re just saying vote for whoever you need to in order to keep the Tories out. They are destroying the country on the falsehood of the American dream. It will not end well.

Despite the hyperbole and right-wing propaganda, Jeremy Corbyn will not turn us all into communists. He’s also not a ‘terrorist sympathiser’ (when Corbyn had an open dialogue with the IRA the UK government were meeting them secretly). Corbyn believes in communication, not war. These myths are fabrications to stop us electing someone who will take the rich and powerful to task.

So look deep in your soul and think about whether you fall into one or more of the categories above. The only people that don’t are a handful of rich old white men – and who wants to be on their side anyway?

You can check out the voting records of Boris Johnson and of Jeremy Corbyn for yourself.

Read both and think about which person you’d rather have setting new policies in the UK.

The problem with democracy is that it returns the popular opinion, not the most sensible.

How can we let the popular opinion dictate our lives?  We’re not responsible enough to vote responsibly.  We’ve voted for a dog to win Britain’s Got Talent – twice.  We were asked to name an important new scientific research boat and the popular opinion was ‘Boaty McBoatface’ – interestingly in this case a different name was eventually chosen (so much for democracy).

Families aren’t run as democracies, businesses certainly aren’t (I’m sure there are one or two examples out of millions that are the exception to the rule).  In a family with two parents and three kids you don’t have a democratic vote on what’s for tea/dinner every day otherwise you’d be eating pizza and ice cream non-stop until you ended up on statins and insulin.

Instead you, as responsible parents, make the judgement call because you have more knowledge, experience, and information than the kids and you know what’s best for them.  You have more balance of Id and Superego – borrowing Freud’s theory on the human psyche – to make the right decisions.

This is what we expect of our politicians.  To do the right thing for the benefit of the majority of people.

It’s what we expect of business owners, our employers, to do the right things to keep us in a job.  If you want a perfect example of how business and democracy don’t get on then look no further than the break-up of the trade unions by Thatcher in the 80s.

There are politicians who don’t act in the interests of the people.  There are business owners who don’t care about their employees (Thomas Cook anyone?).  There are (sadly) parents who don’t act in the best interests of their children.  But this doesn’t mean that businesses and families should all start operating democratically – nothing would ever get done.

When you allow popular opinion to affect such significant events and actions through voting, the system is open to abuse.  The influence on people’s thoughts and actions can be so imperceptible that people are outraged when you suggest they’re being influenced.  But as any marketer, psychologist, or data analyst will tell you, it IS possible to make people think and do different things.

Nudge theory, behaviour change, big data, NLP (neuro linguistic programming, not natural language processing btw) – all used to make people do things and think things that they might not otherwise have done, or thought.

Now this might all be too much for some people to take.  The outrage you might have that people have fought and died for the right to vote – the right to have a say.  That’s an incredible sacrifice that I can’t possibly understand.  But this right to vote should come with its own health warning.

Even our political system with general elections every 5 years creates problems.  Five years is too short to implement real change in almost all areas of life.  To make many things better, there usually needs to be a period of unsettling change and sometimes a little hardship.  The benefits of real change may take 10-15 years or more to come to fruition.  Not fast enough for a government working on a 5-year cycle to stay in power.

As we stand, several years after an event that might be one of the most defining moments in the history of the UK, there is a minority of politicians acting against the will of the majority to push for an exit from the EU, regardless of the impact on the general public.

This is a flagrant dereliction of duty by MPs – people tasked with acting in the national interest.  There was, and still is, no obligation to leave the EU following the results of the ill-conceived and illegally-contested referendum.  It was advisory.  Taking the ‘temperature’ of the public at the time.  A temperature that has cooled considerably since June 2016 now that the significance of the impact is finally being realised.

People were manipulated in the build-up to the referendum.  Whether that was through targeted Facebook advertising, pressure from friends and family, or through decades of consuming propaganda from right-wing euro-bashing newspapers.

Do we really want to be controlled by popular opinion?  Do we really trust ourselves to choose the right path?  Do we have enough knowledge and information to actually make an informed decision, rather than one that comes from a learned culture and environment?

The solution may well be to abandon democracy once and for all.  To find a genuinely lovely person and instate them as a benevolent dictator over all the world with a grandiose new title befitting of the level of responsibility they’d have.

Dicky McDictatorface perhaps?

You may have heard about palm oil and the devastation it’s farming has caused to the natural environment.   But we don’t often take into consideration those people who rely on farming the produce and the impact that banning or removal of this product might have on them.

For some Indonesian communities palm oil farming and production provides essential jobs and stability and is enabling them to achieve better economic status.

Project Sumatra believes there is another way and has been working alongside the Sumatran farming communities to bring back the natural balance of their beautiful environment.

Initially set up to create an educational documentary the non profit project aims to highlight the issues facing Orangutans and their natural environment in Sumatra.

In conjunction with the Orangutan information centre in Sumatra, the project focuses on the charismatic and well loved Orangutan as an umbrella species to represent the entire eco system.  The project hopes to educate, promote conservation and empower local communities to promote change.

I was lucky enough to be invited to a recent fund raiser for the project which was held at Tampopo (who have been sponsoring the project since 2017) in Manchester’s Corn Exchange.  Guests enjoyed an evening of food, drinks and fund raising activities,  followed by a fantastic talk from the projects founder Jack Wootton – who was fresh back from Indonesia and bursting with passion and enthusiasm for the project’s next venture.

Jack’s vision for the documentary is that of a positive one, aimed primarily at educating the viewer but also at encouraging hope and a focus on how we can change things for the better through knowledge, understanding and active engagement.

The documentary is a completely non-profit project and when completed will be a free educational resource, available for download online. As a continuation of Project Sumatra’s work they will also be touring with the finished documentary on a filming and debate tour across universities and colleges.

This small but incredibly dedicated team really are an inspiration.  They have been fundraising for over two years to make their last trip to Sumatra – so please give them a hand if you can.  Donate, like, or share and help them to continue making a difference.

If you would like to know more about Project Sumatra or get involved contact them via their social media pages, (don’t forget to like and share) and look out for details of fundraisers and their next talk at Reaseheath College, Cheshire later this year.

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