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Fṛm Đ Ny Yorc Tîmz │ Boris Johnson is a terrible leader. It doesn’t matter.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and President Biden in Cornwall, England, on Thursday. Despite all the havoc Mr. Johnson’s Conservatives have caused, the party is in a stronger position than ever.Credit...Pool photo by Toby Melville
Prîm̦inistr Boris Jonsn v Britn n Prezidnt Bîdn in Cornẉl, Ñgḷnd, on Ʈrzde. Dspt ol ɖ haṿc Mr Jonsn’z Cnsrṿtivz hv cōzd, ɖ parti z in a strongr pziśn ɖn evr. Credit: Pūlfoto bî Tobi Mlvil

Boris Jonsn z a teṛbl līdr. It dz’nt matr.

(Transcription of a New York Times article of June 11, 2021)

LUNDN — Boris Jonsn, Britn’z frīẃīlñ, clǎniś prîm̦inistr, z abt t ple host.

Saḿl R̋l, Jūn 11, 2021

On Jūn 11, ɖ de aftr a prîṿt mītñ wɖ Prezidnt Bîdn, Mr Jonsn z scejld t welcm uɖr Grūp v 7 līdrz t Cornẉl, on ɖ sǎʈ-wstn cǒst v Ñgḷnd, t dscus clîṃtćenj, ɖ globl pandemic rcuṿri n ɖ rtrit v libṛl dmocṛsi arnd ɖ wrld.

Yt Mr Jonsn me hv uɖr ʈñz on hiz mînd. Ovr ɖ past fy munʈs, a siriz v scandlz n aḷgeśnz hz pt ɖ prîm̦inistr undr unyźl preśr. Ɖr hv bn akześnz v c’rupśn, rports v bitr rîvlriz on hiz closist tīm n, t top it of, xplosiv tstiṃni fṛm hiz formr ćīf advîzr, Doṃnic Cumñz, ɖt leid rsponsbiḷti fr ɖ hanḍlñ v ɖ pandemic in Britn — ẃr ovr 125,000 ppl hv daid v Covid-19 — sqerli at Mr Jonsn’z dor. Stori bî stori, scandl bî scandl, Mr Jonsn hz bn xpozd az a slapdaś, vīnl, incompitnt līdr.

Bt it dz’nt sīm t matr. Ɖ Cnsrṿtivz, dspt ɖ cntrovsi, r stl cumftbli ahd in ɖ poulz — n īvn manijd t dfit ɖ opziśn Lebr Parti in a rīsnt bîilex́n, clemñ ɖ norʈīstn cnstitẏnsi v Hartḷpul fr ɖ frst tîm. N Mr Jonsn, fr ol ɖ ǎtrej n acriṃni, cn grīt hiz felo globl līdrz in a spirit v trîumf. Wɖ hlʈi apruvlretñz n at ɖ hlm v a parti bostñ an 80-sīt mjoṛti, hiz pǎr z aśurd.

Gvn Mr Jonsn’z inaptitude fr ofis, bresñli iluṃnetd bî Mr Cumñz’z tstiṃni, ɖt’s qt rmarcbl. Spīcñ t Parḷmnt fr ovr sevn aurz on Me 26, Mr Cumñz, hu mastrmîndd Mr Jonsn’z ilex́n win in Dsmbr 2019 — bt hu wz ǎstd fṛm hiz rǒl az ćīf advîzr a yir lêtr — tòr intu ɖ guvnmnt’s caṭstrofic mshanḍlñ v ɖ pandemic, iviṣretd ɖ prîm̦inistr’z caṛctr n dclerd him “unfit fr ɖ job.”

Mr Jonsn’z iniśl fełr t tec ɖ vîṛs sirịsli z wel dokmntd, bt sm v ɖ dītelz wr stl astoṇśñ. Acordñ t Mr Cumñz, Mr Jonsn iniṣ́li clemd ɖt ɖ c’roṇvîṛs “z onli cilñ 80-yir-oldz” n wontd t b injctd wɖ ɖ c’roṇvîṛs lîv on teḷviźn t śo ɖt ɖr wz nʈñ t wuri abt. (Az it hapnd, Mr Jonsn cntractd ɖ vîṛs in lêt Marć n spent a wīc in a hospitl.)

Ɖ reṿleśnz cem agnst a bacdrop v rports xpozñ ɖ Cnsrṿtivz’ doji dīlñz jrñ ɖ pandemic: Covid-19 contracts wrʈ biłnz v pǎndz gwñ t frendz v Cnsrṿtiv lwmecrz wɖ no xpirịns in ɖ hlʈsectr, biznistîcūnz wɖ d’rect lînz t ɖ prîm̦inistr t pś ɖer inṭrests n a laviś reṇveśn v ɖ prîm̦inistr’z rezidns at Dǎnñ Strīt ɖt involvd a sīcrit dneśn bî a Tori bacr. Tōc v slīz n Britn’z “ćumocṛsi” hz prmietd īvn ɖ tipicli loyl pejz v ɖ rît-wñ pres.

Bt Mr Jonsn (huz repyteśn fr nt jst svîvñ c’rir-endñ cntrovsiz bt ʈrîvñ on ɖm hz ŕnd him nicnemz lîc “Teflon Jonsn,” “Hūdīni” n, les flatrñli, “ɖ grīst piglit”) hz cǒstd ʈru ɖ trbyḷns. Ingulft in scandl, un’seḷbli popylr — ɖs hz olwz bn ɖ esns v brand Boris. In hiz tstiṃni, Mr Cumñz rcōld cmplenñ t Mr Jonsn ɖt ɖ hanḍlñ v ɖ pandemic wz “ceos.” “Ceos z’nt ɖt bad,” ɖ prîm̦inistr rplaid, acordñ t Mr Cumñz. “Ceos mīnz ɖt evrwn hz t lc t m t si hu’z in ćarj.”

Ɖ ceos me sūt Mr Jonsn, bt fr Britn it hz bn devstetñ. Ɖ ultiṃt prūf v ɖ prîm̦inistr’z felñz jrñ ɖ pandemic lîz nt wɖ Mr Cumñz bt in ɖ concrīt numbrz: Mr Jonsn hz léd Britn t wn v ɖ hîist Covid deʈrets in ɖ wrld, oṿsīn wn ɖ wrst ic̣nomic dǎntrnz in ɖ Grūp v 7 n impozd ɖ ʈrd-strictist locdǎn gloḅli. Ɖ s’xes v ɖ neśn’z vax̣neśnprogram — Britn hz dlivrd mor dosz ɖn eni uɖr cuntri in Yṛp — hz let Mr Jonsn rīfrem ɖs traɉdi az a trîumf. Bt fr tnz v ʈǎzndz v grīvñ faṃliz, it cmz az litl conṣleśn.

Yt fr ol ɖ sṗsific pkliaṛtiz v Mr Jonsn’z prsona — a diziyñ blend v dspśn, bṛvādo n slf-depriceśn — ɖ jarñ diṣnns ɖt dfînz hiz guvnmnt, at wns ilectṛli s’xesfl n soṣ́li dstructiv, z nt ptiklr t ɖ cuṛnt prîm̦inistr. In mni wez, it z ɖ stori v ɖ modn Cnsrṿtiv Parti. Ɖ parti’z fǎndñ promis, leid dǎn in Roḅt Pīl’z Tamwrʈ Maṇfsto in 1834, wz t stop Britn fṛm bcmñ a “ppćl vortx v ajteśn.” Sins ɖ Cnsrṿtivz rgend pǎr in 2010, Britn hz bcm jst ɖt, wɖ tū reḟrenḍmz, ʈri prîm̦inistrz n for jenṛl ilex́nz.

Ɖ Cnsrṿtivz hv fluriśt in ɖz cndiśnz, winñ ć jenṛl ilex́n sins 2010 wɖ a larjr śer v ɖ vot ɖn ɖ last. Bt ɖ spôlz v vicṭri hv nt bn wîdli śerd. Wejz hv nt rizn agnst infleśn fr ɖ longist pirịd sins ɖ Npolionic ira, a ʈrd v ćildṛn nǎ gro p in poṿti, n stetwelfér z nǎ wn v ɖ stinjiist in ɖ dveḷpt wrld.

In Cornẉl, ẃr Mr Jonsn wl host ɖ Grūp v 7 līdrz in a btīc sìsîd hotel, Britn’z sośl n ic̣nomic miẓri z plen fr ol t si. In 2008, Cornẉl wz wn v ʈri eriaz in ɖ Ynîtd Cñdm t sufr amñ ɖ wrst levlz v depṛveśn in Yṛp; nǎ it z wn v sevn. N ɖ numbr v nebrhdz in Cornẉl ɖt ranc amñ ɖ most dprîvd in Ñgḷnd hz mor ɖn dubld sins 2010. Acrs ɖ cuntri, Tori rūl hz cǒinsîdd wɖ a cōrṣnñ v livñcndiśnz.

Stl, ɖ Cnsrṿtivz swagr on, unṗtrbd, mbi īvn eṇjîzd, bî ɖ ceos n depṛveśn arnd ɖm. Ɖ vot t līv ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn in 2016 — léd, oṗtynisticli, bî Mr Jonsn — rīcnfigrd ɖ ilectṛl map n rījuṿnetd ɖ Cnsrṿtiv Parti. Brexit’s “Yir Ziro” ifct, az wn Cnsrṿtiv ministr pt it, alaud ɖ parti t riinvnt itslf az an anti-istabliśmnt fors, ẃl rtenñ its wlʈi bacrz, n t tap intu ɖ drīmz n añzaytiz v Ñgliś naśṇlizm mor pswesivli.

Dspt ol ɖ haṿc ɖ Cnsrṿtivz hv cōzd, ɖ parti z in a strongr pziśn ɖn evr. N Mr Jonsn — ɖ man hu sīmz onli evr t fel upwd, blunḍrñ fṛm wn s’xes t ɖ nxt — z at its bìtñ hart. Hiz felolīdrz, fy v hūm pzes cmpaṛbl s’kṛti, me wel lc on envịsli.

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Mr R̋l z a jrṇlist hu raits ofn abt Britn’z poḷtics n culćr.

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