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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: 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.