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Mike Hosking: Why Boris Johnson deserves to win the election

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 1:09PM
Mike believes Boris Johnson deserves a 'thumping majority'. (Photo / AP)

Mike Hosking: Why Boris Johnson deserves to win the election

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 1:09PM

I am thrilled for Boris Johnson, and I hope he wins a famous victory on December 12th.

It's hard to know how any campaign will go at the best of times, far less one like this, brought on out of exasperation and treasonous behaviour in the middle of winter. They labour under first past the post as well, and there is a resurgent third party at play, in an otherwise historically two party system.

Bolsover, for example, is a critical seat. They voted to leave 70 to 30. And yet they're a Labour seat. So who do they vote for? And there are at least a dozen critical seats like it around the country, where the result could be skewed, twisted or completely up-ended.

The Scots are at play, not just asking for a vote, but the prospect of a second shot at independence. So are you voting for a Brexit, against a Brexit, for a second referendum, for independence, are you punishing your MP if they betrayed your original vote on the Brexit,.or are you voting on the economy like so many other elections?

And because it's winter and dark at 2 in the afternoon and snowing and two degrees, are you even voting at all? And given what we know of the polls and the pollsters last time, and in Australia and the US, given all the aforementioned variables, who's believing the numbers anyway?

But if justice prevails, Boris deserves to win for several reasons.

One, he has not been the buffoon many thought he might be.

Two, for the first time in three years, he actually owned the deal and went to Europe and told them what was what. As a result, they did what they were always going to, and acquiesced. Oh how different and simpler it might have been if Ms May had shown the same fortitude back in June of 2016.

Three, he's done all he can and more to actually enact what the people wanted. He and all who stood behind him and voted for a Brexit, voted to deliver what the British people wanted and chose, deserve to be recognised for being.

Sadly there was a minority who actually placed the people ahead of their own agendas. And on that basis, if justice is to be seen to be done, Jeremy Corbyn and his rag tag bunch of socialists and communists and Marxists deserve to be sent off into retirement never to bother the constituency again.

The greatest fear, of course, is a split vote. No majority. The Tories, Labour, the Lib Dems, the DUP, the SNP, maybe the Brexit party all get seats, and are faced with some sort of haphazard numbers game where by we end up not a lot better than we are now.

At that point, one would probably conclude Brexit is done, never to be repeated, but written about and studied for generations.

But history, as they say, favours the brave and Boris from day one has thrown caution to the wind. He has remained relentlessly positive and tried more than any other to see the people's will through. A thumping majority and a bit of history to go with it, would be a sight to relish.          

 

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