Johnson and Farage two rats fighting in a sack over Ukraine

Today as someone who is British but living in Central Asia and takes a keen interest in what is going on in the UK I really do have to comment on the ridiculous spat that is going on in the UK over the situation in the Ukraine and all the nonsense being talked by the politicians who obviously think the electorate are complete idiots.

"This is disgusting, ahistorical nonsense and more Kremlin propaganda," said former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. If you think he was attacking Russia Today or responding to something Vladimir Putin said, you are sadly mistaken: Johnson was outraged by the statement from the leader of a party that, according to the polls, is catching up with his own.

Britain goes to the polls in just over a week - and the main intrigue is not who will win, but how badly the current Conservative government will be beaten.

According to the polls, Nigel Farage's Reform the United Kingdom party is hot on their heels - polling not far behind and sometimes ahead of the Conservatives (all around 20 per cent).
Eight years ago, it was Farage's campaign efforts of over 20 years that finally succedd in not only getting a referendum on Britians membership of the European Union but actually triumphed in that vote that took Britain out of the European Union - he was the most popular and only consistent advocate of Brexit. Now he can do it again,this mortally wounding the Conservatives.

Farage's party will not be able to bypass them in the number of seats in parliament. Even if on the eve of the 4th of July its rating is consistently higher than that of the Conservatives, Reform the UK will win very few seats in the House of Commons: the British elect MPs by constituency, and there the Reform Party of Farage simply do not have enough popular candidates to overcome the Uniparty grip on power.
Nevertheless, it looks as if the Conservatives will win not more than 100 seats, and at worst just over 50 - in a 650-seat parliament.
This will not only be a defeat but also a death sentence for the party, leaving it with two most likely options for the future (if it does not take the third - gradual transformation into a small party).
The first is the most successful for the establishment: the party will sit in opposition, lick its wounds and in a few years be able to increase its representation in the House of Commons (but not return to power).
Of course, it will have to change a lot, or completely renew its leadership, or organise a revolution from the top and bring back Boris Johnson, who is unacceptable to many, as leader.
He really is counting on this - which is why he is attacking Nigel Farage so strongly. Because the second scenario for the future of the Conservative Party is its hijacking by Farage, that is, inviting Nigel, not Boris, to play the role of Tory saviour.

It is therefore not surprising that Johnson has reacted so strongly to Farage's statement during the current campaign - here is what he called "Kremlin propaganda":
"It was obvious to me that the constant eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man (Vladimir Putin) a reason to say to the Russian people, 'They're coming for us again' and to start a war. <...> I am the only person in British politics who predicted that this would happen, and of course everyone said I was a pariah for daring to suggest it".

In an interview with the BBC, Farage has now commented on his 2014 statement that the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was to blame for the start of the conflict in Ukraine. "We stupidly provoked this war. <...> He used what we did as an excuse," Farage said. And he immediately drew fire from the British elite. In addition, both Conservatives and Labour members - both Prime Minister Sunak and Home Secretary James Cleverly - attacked Farage ("repeats Putin's vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine") and the Shadow Defence Secretary, Labour member John Healey, who called Farage "an apologist for Putin".
How they all seem to forget the Minsk Agreements and how Anglea Merkel admitted that they were a front for NATO arming and equiping Ukraine to invade the Donbass. ( insert)
But, of course, it was Boris Johnson who was the most controversial, because he was prime minister in 2022:

"No one provoked Putin. Nobody poked the bear with a stick. In 1991, the people of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly to become a sovereign and independent country. They had every right to apply for membership of both NATO and the EU. There is only one person responsible for Russian aggression against Ukraine - both in 2014 and in 2022 - and that is Putin. Attempts to spread blame are morally disgusting and repeat Putin's lies. He seems to forget the coup organised by the CIA and the tape recording of Victoria FECK The EU Nuland

It is strange that the author also suggests that we reduce our support for Ukraine now, when the solution to the conflict is actually clear: Ukrainians must win and repel Putin's invasion. They can and will do it.
( That comment just illustrates what a deluded idiot Doris Johnson is) Lets also remember that it was Johnson's intervention in Kiev that scuppered the Istanbul agreements that could have led to the Ukraine being much better off than its likely to be in the furue

Yes, Farage also suggests the West negotiates with Russia, declares that "the war is at a complete impasse" and gets scolded for that too.
( again these British politicians are believeing all the Westen Media propaganda when the reality is that Ukraine is being beaten worse than a 'red haired step child in an orphanage and its running out of men armaments and equipment as the Russians systematically destroy everything in their path in the slow but successful grind forward.

So why does he keep talking about it?

Because he feels that it is, as they say, "in" with the voters, in other words, Farage is using the Ukrainian issue to score points in the election campaign. By criticising the position of the authorities, he criticises the Conservatives and thereby reduces the number of their voters. It appears that despite the coverage of Elensky is the new Churchill, Putin is new Hitler,Russia wants to take over Europe propaganda of the Western Media the voting public don't actually believe it and want an end to it.
In the UK and across Europe they have all felt the disasterous effects of the sanctions on Russia that have caused unaffordable energy prices, high inflation, rising food prices and a drop in their standard of living. And for what? The Ukraine is not an EU member or even a NATO member and what are we doing on Russia's borders?
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Incidentally, his friend Donald Trump is behaving in exactly the same way, and for exactly the same pre-election reasons. The former and most likely future president recently attacked Biden for his policy towards Russia:
"Russia did not go into Ukraine. As soon as I left the White House, they started lining up at the borders. And I thought Putin <...> was doing that for the purpose of negotiations. <...> Biden said the opposite of what I think he should have said. And one of his mistakes was that he said: "Ukraine will be in NATO." When I listened to him, he said: "This guy is going to start a war <...>."
Head line Trump: Biden NATO plans provoked the Ukraine war

The things he said and is still saying are crazy. I've been hearing for 20 years that if Ukraine joins NATO it will be a real problem for Russia. <...> If you were in charge of Russia, you would not be happy.
This has never been a subject of negotiation, this is a red line. It was always clear that this could not happen".

One may doubt Trump's ability, if he returns to the White House, to sharply reduce support for Ukraine and try to end the conflict, but one cannot doubt his ability to sense the mood of the electorate. He is saying what they want him to say: in America (as in Britain) there is indeed a growing number of people who want to end the proxy war with Russia and who are beginning to understand that the West and NATO really provoked Russia by its continued expanstion eastwards to surround Russia from the Black Sea to the Baltic

The same sentiments exist in other leading Western countries, and they will soon manifest themselves in the elections.
Almost at the same time as the British election, France will hold a general election - and the chances of Marine Le Pen's National Rally winning are very high. In this case, the prime minister will be Jordan Bardella, who, literally on the eve of the start of the Northern Military District, called Putin's demands that NATO not approach Russia's borders very fair and reasonable.
Yes, now Bardella is taking a more cautious position and will not refuse military aid to Ukraine, but everyone in Europe remembers that only recently the National Rally was defamed as a pro-Russian and pro-Putin party.
This year, the elites of the Western countries may not only be greatly updated, but they may also undergo a serious forced correction, an attempt to include the newer non-systemic or even anti-systemic forces in their composition.
In France it can be relatively successful, in Britain there are possible options, but in the United States there will almost certainly be big problems, but in any case the question "Why did our old elites provoke Russia?
This will affect not only domestic policy but also the foreign policy of key Western countries.
Meanwhile the rest of the World looks on in astonishment at the level of the delusion of the Western politicians and their policies towards Russia.