Larry, No. 10 Cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, with former Prime Minister David Cameron and former President Barrack Obama.
And that's not the end of the world, contrary to the gloom and doom on Twitter.
I don't know anything about Johnson. A review of his Wikipedia bio reveals a man who has an excessively interesting personal history and pretty bad hair. An immediate calling to mind of Donald Trump occurs for more than one reason, which is why the left side of Twitter, which is the loudest part of the Twitterverse, as well as some of the press, is declaring his ascension to Prime Minister the end of British democracy.
Nah.
Good or bad, it isn't like the British have had a uniform set of excellent PM's before. And the fact that they haven't, and that the United Kingdom's democracy has survived, is oddly reassuring. The fact that its not credibly possible to imagine a Prime Minister causing the UK to end should mean, by extension, that those who feel the current American era of democracy is at a terminal low point would be wrong
Sure, you can pick up a lot of the zeitgeist based upon Johnson's rise. There's something in the political air of the western world right now which is causing governments to go in a certain direction even at the same time that those who claim an allegiance to perpetual "progress" to apoplexy. But no matter what one things one way or another, things keep on keeping on and are more durable than a person might suppose.
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