Present participle and letter T are Extinct in new politico-media Argot
A rapidly standardising New Zealand dialect has now overwhelmed the diction of broadcasters and politicians. It has caused to disappear the spoken alphabet consonant “t” and without the substitute Estuary glottal stop. The discarded letter “t” simply emerges as a “d” as in the frequently spoken “baddery” or “budder,” i.e. battery, butter.
Duty is rendered as “doody,” and not as the glottalised “doo-ee,” the Cockney-Essex version.
The absence of the glottal stop as in for example “buh-uh” for butter isolates this new semi-received politico-broadcast dialect or patois from any inherited stem in Cockney and Estuary English.
Wadda and Godda (what a… and got to…) are two other elided examples of the vanished Estuary-Cockney-Essex glottal stop with now the all-purpose “d” sound filling the gap, vacuum.
“Warder,” similarly uses the “d” to replace the old glottal stop for water (war-uh in Estuary-Essex.)
In this evolving Antipodean politico-broadcast patois there is too an emphasis on the second vowel in words, a characteristic of Romance or Latin languages. Examples are “halth,” and “walth” for health and wealth.
The letter “e” is heavily extended as in “Wheat and Forgeet” for the heavily branded Wet and Forget
Transposing the letters “a” and “e” as in Alvis for Elvis or Ellis for Alice and vice versa is another unexplained and now accepted standardisation. Another such localisation is “halp” for help.
The broadcast disappearance of the present participle “ing” does share a traceable and noble lineage to the old English clipped “huntin’, fishin’ & shootin’.”
The routine rendition of a broadcast television programme as “Fear Go,” instead of Fair Go emphasises this firewalling from Estuary English.
The word air is now routinely delivered in any word syllable component to sound like ear. Now standard or received is for example “ear conditioning.”
New York Born British Prime Minister has a claim to the White House
Boris Johnson’s co-premiership with his wife Carrie introduced into the Westminster zone the trans-Atlantic concept of a shared connubial political leadership of which President and Mrs Clinton remain the outstanding Anglosphere exponents.
This might now be taken a stage further with the No.10 Downing Street duo repeating this role in the White House.
Mr Johnson was born in New York. Other than being born in the United States, the other Constitutional pre-requisite is that he lived there for 14 years.
He appears to have lived as a child in the United States for five years. So given his present age and the nine years left to reside in the United States Mr Johnson could announce a candidacy on or around his 67th birthday.
This would still make him around a decade younger than the current two front runners president Joe Biden 79 and the former president Donald Trump 76.
So in this theory which until a few weeks ago seemed entirely dotty a President Boris Johnson could serve two full terms and still be younger than either of these are currently.
Polls in the United States focus on Mr Johnson’s proven track record in fund raising and vote raising notably his 80 seat majority garnered for his Conservative government in the last British general election.
Also cited is his political personality modus operandi deemed to be more appropriate for the United States than the United Kingdom.
Above all there is Boris Johnson launching himself from an already high plateau of name recognition combined with proven fund and vote-getting experience as two time mayor of London and then prime minister.
He sees at home his Brexit capital evaporating hourly.
In the United States in contrast it is accumulating. The reason is that Brexit translates there as anti-globalism.
How could the West have failed to see that the EU “powerhouse” in the form of a united Germany still remained vulnerable to extremist ideologies and which this time took the form of relying on its enemy for most of its fuel?
How could the United States have similarly outsourced its manufacturing to another foe?
Mr Johnson based in the United States, the land of his birth, the man who got Brexit done, would become the go-to guy for presidential calibre answers to these globalist era mysteries. How did the theory of pacifying self-declared enemy powers by enriching them at the expense of your own economy achieve such traction, and for so long?
The concept of connubial presidential power sharing is accepted in the United States. Think also the Carters, Reagans, and Obamas. Neither is there any requirement for a spouse to be born in the United States. Think Melania Trump.
Mr Johnson’s biography of Winston Churchill, The Churchill Factor, has attained institutional status in the United States. Churchill’s own mother Jennie Jerome was similarly born in New York.
Mr Johnson would need to hide his party allegiance until the very last moment.
Under this hypothesis he is “drafted” by one of the main parties in a situation similar to the one that exists now in which one of the two parties, in this instance the Democrats, has no obvious campaign standard bearer.
Britain’s doctrinal media’s vituperative pursuit of the departing prime minister characterises him as a one man crime scene. This is even after the greening of Mr Johnson following his marriage to Carrie.
Should Mr Johnson see a political destiny for himself in the United States this indicates an association with the Republican Party. It is here too that his war-leader instincts demonstrated on the advent of the Ukraine invasion will render the biggest dividend.
Mr Johnson is sometimes regarded as Britain’s Donald Trump, whose mother incidentally was born in Scotland. Both started at the top and worked their way up. Both position themselves as outsiders who have wandered into the inside.
Conjecture on a trans Atlantic destiny for Mr Johnson followed on the heels of Washington polls gauging the popularity in United States federal politics of the Duchess of Sussex after Meghan gave indications that this is where she saw her own future.
Similar polls now devolved onto Mr Johnson and they gained currency after exposure in London’s Daily Express which remains Fleet Street’s crusading voice of the Empire and what is left of it.
Curiously the first eight presidents of the United States including George Washington were regarded as British subjects because the United States was part of the British Empire.
In the British Commonwealth the only other example resembling a federal scale co premiership is that of the late Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tamie who deputised for her husband when he was ill and who is considered to have influenced her husband’s views especially in his later years, notably about the United States.
John Howard’s Lazarus Rising is Boris Johnson’s hand book on Conservative Leadership Comebacks
Boris Johnson was served notice because he could not be dissuaded from dragging his Conservative Party and government into progressive minefields which conservatives know they can never successfully extricate themselves from.
Mr Johnson’s determination to engage in activist-grade progressivism became evident when at the Glasgow summit he proclaimed in the manner of a male member of the Royal Family “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.”
This effectively set ticking Mr Johnson’s own Doomsday Clock because it followed months of Mr Johnson’s prattling about sustainable diets, vegetarianism, doing away with open fires and indeed any heat sources at all derived from beneath the earth’s surface.
Nobody is talking about this and Mr Johnson’s ouster is officially attributed to his presence at several morale-boosting staff get-togethers during his own lock downs and then prevaricating about it.
Then more recently to an unlikely tipping point in which a boozy elected minor Conservative official groped his way around a St James gentlemen’s club
The reality is rather more chilling.
At the very moment Mr Johnson made his Doomsday proclamation at the Glasgow summit his cabinet had been on the receiving end for several months and most definitely for the preceding month of Anglo-American joint intelligence to the effect that Russia was building up its expeditionary forces on the Ukraine border to the extent that an invasion was imminent.
Was Mr Johnson deliberately shielded from the Anglo-American intelligence relating to the Russian threat?
Given that former aides and associates have testified to Number 10 being anything but watertight this has to be a possibility especially that upon the invasion a few months later Mr Johnson described it as "the biggest war in Europe since 1945."
Questions must be asked however late in the day………………….
Was he aware by October 2021 and certainly by November of the invasion likelihood?
If so what measures were put in place to boost the United Kingdom’s fuel independence? Stockpiles?
Mr Johnson’s drift into progressive issues was alarming to the Conservative Party just because there is no gain it for the party politically.
There is only the quicksand effect in which the more it tries to fend them off, keep them at a distance, the more the party gets mired in them. This is what happened to the conservatives in the Australian general election only weeks before Mr Johnson’s sacking.
Mr Johnson it is continuously reiterated intends to return to the leadership of the Conservative Party.
He has always savoured the way Winston Churchill voted out in 1945 came back as prime minister in the next general election.
But Sir Winston was voted out, and then back in again, by the electorate. Not by his own Conservative Party.
Mr Johnson’s Commonwealth comeback prototype, earthly avatar, therefore is Australia’s John Howard (pictured).
He was ousted by his party, a conservative one, in 1989 yet came back to lead it to victory in the 1996 federal election.
It is a political party eviction comeback celebrated in Mr Howard’s autobiography Lazarus Rising which details the long serving prime minister’s stabilising and deft application of social conservatism.
Meanwhile the two most successful progressive practitioners in the Commonwealth sphere are Canada’s Justin Trudeau and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
These two Westminster zone Wizards of Woke adeptly juggle native languages, ancestral property rights, flags, place names, holidays, tribes, quotas, orders of precedence, head starts, compensation for past wrongs, affirmative action, and the issuance of scheduled Apologies.
In the United Kingdom these are not the responsibility of Westminster.
Instead these issues belong with the Welsh and Scottish governments with their own parliaments in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
These are actual countries. They are not states in the Australian or North American sense as so many still believe. They are constituted around ancient tribal borders and as such Wales and Scotland are authentic, true, bona fide First Nations.
In Britain therefore the culture wars minus indigenous conflict, minus First Nation imperatives, are on a much narrower and restricted front.
Horrified, the Tory Party now saw Mr Johnson Siren-like unnecessarily yet inexorably drawing his Conservative government onto the rocks of a politico-moral lived experience in which the party didn’t have to live, let alone experience.
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