![]() ![]() In the grand scheme of the current circus show of British politics, Boris Johnson has some much bigger accusations to face enabling Brexit, stirring up hate, provoking racial attacks, playing politics with people’s lives and jobs. Click through for need-to-know facts on sexism that women face around the world.ġ of 18 Facts about women around the world Remarkably, the paper even points out that “Carrie herself is the product of an extramarital affair” as if to say her involvement with Johnson was somewhat inevitable and infidelity is a gene. Instead, Symonds is characterized as a cunning, beautiful “sexy” seductress - a lethal combination that Johnson couldn’t possibly resist, blind to the “ambition” that drove her to climb the political ladder via a political heavyweight, which plays up nicely, of course, to the cliche that successful women have to trick men into bed to get to where they are (She’s also pictured with other senior male Tory figures but no women MPs, funnily enough). Here the language puts an emphasis on the temptations of Symonds: Johnson was smitten by her, as opposed to her being pursued or seduced by him, a notorious serial adulterer with at least one secret love child. 'How Boris was smitten by “Apples” - sexy, clever, ambitious… and barely older than his daughter' smirked The Daily Mail. But it's not just all those bikini pics that could be construed as problematic. You can just imagine the dollar signs lighting up in the eyes of the press when they found her Instagram feed. Unquestionably catnip to the media, Symonds is a posh, pretty political mover and shaker, and in a bikini 80% of the time, according to the papers. Pictures from social media accompanying the story show Symonds, surprise surprise, in bikinis another in a croptop on a boat, as if to suggest the woman Johnson is 'close with' is a wild and carefree gap-yah student who refuses to come home, not a spin doctor working in Westminster. 30-year-old Carrie Symonds, formerly the Conservative’s communications director until just eight weeks ago, found her face across the front pages yesterday morning. Yet it’s his co-star that might actually not be enjoying the spotlight. But no, not even Boris Johnson can rustle up a headline that is more appealing to The Sun than the poetic “Wife Knifes Bonking Boris”. Because, yes, it seems you can plaster lies on the side of a bus, and yes, you can occasionally charm the press with a cup of tea, and perhaps even yes, you can overthrow the Prime Minister from the safe confines of a lucrative column. And while most of the time Johnson appears to enjoy playing with the press, much like the back and forth of a game of “wiff waff”, he was pictured head-in-hand in his Oxfordshire home looking despondent. ![]() This is a plausible diversion tactic from Johnson if you a) remember what he said about Muslim women and postboxes, and his apparent comfort in employing Islamophobic language, and b) you believe he’s purposely started civil war in the Tory party, planning his bid for leadership and probably hadn’t banked on being found out right now. Not only does his involvement in the next-level debacle of Brexit mean he’s exceptionally answerable to the British public right now, the former Foreign Secretary has been accused of using inflammatory and racist language to distract the press from the scandal, claiming after the story broke that Theresa May “had wrapped a suicide vest around the British Constitution” when referring to the Chequers agreement. Of course, with Boris Johnson, there’s a whole bonus DVD’s worth of reasons as to why this is more than just mere gossip that might be forgotten by tomorrow. The weekend’s revelation that Boris Johnson was 'romantically linked' to a young woman is classic tabloid fodder with a quintessential cast of characters: Old Powerful Man cheats on Long Suffering Wife with Pretty Young Blonde. ![]()
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