In an attempt to temper some accusations that he would be a very boring and unattractive politician, Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labor Party and government opponents United kingdom, and the use and abuse of popular culture references during a speech in the House of Commons. This arrived Wednesday the fifteenth British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compares the disgusting character Jabba Hutt in the movie epic star Wars.
“He thinks he can perform Jedi tricks across the country. These are not the robotic devices you are looking for, no rules have been broken, the economy is booming. The problem is that the force is no longer with him,” the politician said, referring to the difficult situation the prime minister is in. that He narrowly escaped the vote of no confidence.
The mechanism is used when members of the British Parliament believe they have sufficient reason to remove the head of government from office, the impetus for this was Johnson’s involvement in the scandal known as “Partygate”, which involved parties in the UK government during the lockdown. Against the Covid-19 epidemic in the country. Johnson was fined by police for throwing an alcohol-filled birthday party, becoming the first person in office to be punished with a felony.
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“He thinks it’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, but the truth is it’s Jabba the Hat. Last week he bragged that we will continue to grow the economy, this week the economy has shrunk for the second month in a row. How does it help the UK to have an ostrich with its head in the sand?”
In the saga, Jabba the Hutt is presented as a fat, corrupt, slug-shaped alien gangster, being one of the antagonists in the story. Obi-Wan Kenobi, a wise Jedi master, is responsible for helping protagonist Luke Skywalker throughout the films.
In response, the prime minister said the country has more employees than countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Canada, and that in the first five months of the year alone, more than 16 billion pounds in investments in technology. Sectors attracted, it is three times higher than Germany and two times higher than France.
But politically speaking, the position of the Prime Minister is far from stable. Despite surviving the vote for the post, this cannot be called a good result for the Prime Minister. He lost the support of a larger proportion of the party than former Prime Minister Theresa May faced when she faced a vote of no-confidence in 2018. It was not removed either, but the tension was so much that, within five months of the result, May abdicated.
