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Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".
Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.
"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.
"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:49PM (4 children)
It wasn't really that, he picked it up in Vienna when he was younger, antisemitism was one of the few areas in which the lower classes like Hitler could exchange ideas with the upper classes, who would normally avoid them like the plague. The crap stuck, and he carried it on into German politics even though the Lieutenant who recommended him for the Iron Cross was Jewish. He was ideologically opposed to communists and other groups, but the anti-Jewish thing was mostly a mixture of his past history and having a convenient scapegoat for many of Germany's ills.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @04:14PM (3 children)
My understanding from Ian Kershaw's "Hitler, a Biography" is that Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf to develop his anti-semitism while in Vienna, but there is little evidence that this was the case. For example, he preferred to work with a Jewish partner in his painting business and there is little aside from his self-serving (and often outright false) claims in Mein Kampf to support an early conversion to virulent anti-semitism. It's likely he harbored some level of those feelings like much of the population, but his postwar experience -- particularly spying on and then joining the group that became the NAZI party, on behalf of the military -- was probably when he went from a mere bigot to an evil SOB. Although it does say something about the culture at the time, that Hitler felt compelled to embellish his early levels of anti-semitic thought as if that was a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @04:43PM (2 children)
hmmm ... wasn't anti-semitism something existing "nebulously" thru the whole (dark) middle-ages?
it was probably "ripe" for it to condense into something solid. my guess is that the "solidification" had to happen one way or another.
it could probably have gone "better" but not much worse.
it was probably herr hitler who made the "nebulous" latent antisemitism (in europe) into something "solid".
but let's not forget the "laws" that forbade people of jewish religion (*grin*) any classified jobs, like masonry, or painter or carpenter, leaving them
with the risky "money lender business" thru the middle ages.
also, everyone else being christian and the main hero of their religion being treated unfairly by the dominate religion in his area probably also didn't shin a golden light on the semits; but one could argue that it would have been a golden opportunity to demonstrate christian virtues of forgiveness and cheek-turning?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @05:15PM
Jews and Aryans (and everyone else they've ever subversively invaded) have been fighting for thousands of years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @07:46PM
Yes it had been going on for ages -- there's even a word for it: pogrom. My great grandparents fled E. Europe in the early 1900s due to such happenings. Anyway, it is probable that Hitler possessed a baseline of antisemitism in his prewar years although it was insufficient to keep him from preferring to do business with Jews (he would paint, his partner sell). There was something about his postwar experiences that condensed what was a pedestrian level bigotry into an ideology that could support the most massive pogrom the world had seen. Historians will ponder over what changed for centuries, but it appears that there is no simple or definitive answer regarding what sparked the change.