To think there’s little point vilifying Boris when he’s only echoing what millions want to hear?

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Boris (I had to stop myself prefacing that with ‘that twat ‘) seems to have become some sort of pantomime villain but isn’t that a bit pointless?
He (and his cronies) are only voicing the opinions that they think will get them elected, the opinions probably held by millions of voters.

The right wing tabloid press are only printing the (vile) stories that their millions of readers agree with.

Much as Trump isn’t the problem, it’s the millions of voters who support him, who agree with his views, that are the real issue.

We’re entering a new era of fear, violence and division. There will be very few winners. Homelessness, poverty and job insecurity is on the rise. Public services are crippled by underfunding and underresourcing.

Personally we’re getting our ducks in a row to be as financially resilient as possible and to live in the most tolerant part of the country. Good luck everyone!

Very true OP. I am surrounded by “hard working people” (they do work hard, but the phrase irritates me!) who seem upset and aggrieved that they a) can’t get a council house b) work too many hours c) never see their kids and put the blame on benefit scroungers and foreigners.... Logically it seems that the answer to their problems would be more council houses (which aren’t sold off!), higher minimum wage and better workers rights. However they seem to think this very posh, very neo liberal right winger is their working class hero. I literally cannot understand it, however hard I try. Total madness to me!

Jean-Claude Juncker is a white male, yes. Is he calling people traitors or making racist/sexist remarks? If not, why are you mentioning him in this context? Or is it just the standard gammon trope of claiming that any criticism of any white man is 'proof' that white men are now the most persecuted minority in the world?

Sure, name-calling and inflammatory language, and the demonizing of whole groups of people are Not Good Things. But it's generally the right-of-centre people who are - or at least like pretending to be - utterly ignorant about power imbalances, semantics and how these things matter when you're discussing manners.

the standard gammon trope

This is “demonising a whole group of people” based on their skin colour. There’s a word for that.

59PEkithelp, it's the old English thing of doffing your cap at your betters eg. People posher than you.