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Is Boris Johnson The Most Shameless Politician of All Time?
Just asking….
Yesterday it emerged that Britain’s worst ever Prime Minister — Boris Johnson — nominated his father for a Knighthood.
While we may argue that the honours system in the United Kingdom is irrevocably broken as several Labour and Conservative politicians have abused it to further their own agenda, it must be stated that no politician has acted so cynically in recent times.
And it is for this reason that I must ask if Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is the most shameless politician of all time?
Across the Atlantic, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon will run him very close.
The former’s profound propensity for lying and cheating was off the Richter scale and even when he was caught pants down during the Monica Lewinsky saga, he still sought ways of wriggling out of the mess, which was entirely of his own doing.
Richard Nixon was another class act.
A racist anti-Semite, drunk and wife beater, who rose to the highest office in the world only to commit the worst blunder imaginable, when his paranoia got the better of him.
And those who are reading this post will argue that Donald Trump has outdone his predecessors in shamelessness.