Boris Johnson calling for ‘common sense’ is classic Tory gaslighting – he’ll blame you when it all goes wrong

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Boris Johnson calling for ‘common sense’ is classic Tory gaslighting – he’ll blame you when it all goes wrong
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by Louis Staples As Boris Johnson waffled and blustered his way through defending his bizarre new “stay alert” message this week, he has appealed for us to use “good, solid British common sense” in

, his remarks suggested that he, a very clever man who knows some Latin, would have known how to survive in that situation. The responsibility for innocent people being incinerated in a building wrapped in flammable cladding was, by his logic, partly their own.

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