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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: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:19PM (4 children)
That association didn't help, but it was much more than that. When you have an ideology of national supremacy, but in the real world your nation isn't on top, nearer the bottom, you need an explanation for that. Both externally, for propaganda for promotion - but also for yourself, to avoid feeling a fraud. There has to be an explanation, probably more than one, and you need a convincing reason.
And a big part of the explanation that developed was the story that the superior nation was handicapped by the presence of an alien nation which had taken up residence inside of his own centuries earlier, and which worked to it's own aggrandizement, at the expense of Germany.
Of course that was not very accurate, but it matched observable reality well enough that many found it credible and embraced it as one of the main explanations of why the superior nation was not so superior in reality. And once you've picked a scapegoat like that it's easy to start blaming them for all sorts of things. Food shortages, communism, even WWI were all conveniently blamed on the 'alien nation.'
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @07:36PM (1 child)
Starting in the late 1800s tons of Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union into Western countries and brought with them their "revolutionary zeal": Terrorism, bombings and robberies to finance revolution followed. After Germany lost WW1, the leadership of the leftist attempts to turn Germany into a Soviet republic were all Jews. That didn't help to raise the opinion of Jews among the common Germans. On the side, there was the Zionist movement which accentuated a racial difference between Jews and non-Jews, and I would say that Nazism and Zionism fed off each other. Of course, there was the overwhelming majority of Jews that had respectable positions in society and government, and didn't share much but a common faith.
In the end, most Germans preferred street violence and dictatorial government from a conservative side, rather than street violence and a dictatorial government from the communist side.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 25 2019, @01:26AM
Of course it was Russia first, then it later became the Soviet Union.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Nuke on Wednesday July 24 2019, @07:47PM (1 child)
It was not just idealogical.
Hitler's formative background was largely WWI, in which Germany had been successfully holding off three Great Powers on two fronts until Russia collapsed in revolution. Germany was then able to concentrate its armies on the Western Front and unsurprisingly gave the British and French armies a real thrashing. By early summer 1918 it looked as if Germany was winning the war in Europe, it was a good performance and for a time you could say Germany was indeed the supreme continental nation.
Then suddenly Germany seemed to implode, starting from within the homeland with Communist led demonstrations and strikes etc. The front line troops (including Hitler) felt betrayed and mutiny spread to them. At the time it was called the "Stab inthe Back" - even present day historians are hard put to explain that turn of events. Communists, and to a lesser extent Jews, were blamed by the Geman establishment, and there is no doubt that the German Communists were seeking a similar revolution to Russia's. Society became very polarised between Communists and right-wingers in the post WWI period.
Right-wingers like Hitler wanted to punish the Communists and Jews, and for WWI to resume where it had left off, with Germany winning again. That was the origin of WW2.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 25 2019, @02:12AM
It's a secret to everybody.