We all knew Boris Johnson was a clown who’d mess up Brexit. What was Mrs May thinking?
![Johnson does not seem to grasp that it takes a mind with a rare degree of finesse to be able to combine humour and diplomacy.’ [Image: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/161126-Boris-Johnson-Anadolu-Agency-Getty-Images.png)
Johnson does not seem to grasp that it takes a mind with a rare degree of finesse to be able to combine humour and diplomacy.’ [Image: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images].
He was appointed as Foreign Secretary by Theresa May, even though we all knew he would make a spectacular dog’s breakfast of negotiating Brexit with the other EU countries.
If we knew it, Mrs May must have known it. So why did she appoint him to the job?
Did she secretly want him to fail, and the UK to suffer as a result?
Or is she simply incompetent?
Find someone who supports the Conservative Party and get them to choose.
Britain can be proud of itself. Once again, it had already shown the world the way. In propelling Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to triumph on 23 June, it demonstrated well before 8 November that Donald Trump was nothing new.
In fact foolishness, vulgarity, inconsistency and irresponsibility seem actually to be British inventions that have been painstakingly copied – once more – by the Americans.
The age of such drab characters as Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron is over. No more, it appears, must we suffer leaders equipped with a brain and a sense of the common interest. The hour of the political clown has come.
In a few short weeks, Boris Johnson… has succeeded in squandering what little sympathy and understanding was left in Europe for a Great Britain embroiled in the mess of this referendum.
It is quite some diplomatic achievement to have succeeded in uniting, as never before, the 27 remaining members of the European Union – including Germany and the Netherlands – who are all now firmly together in deciding to do the UK no favours whatsoever.
Johnson has deeply annoyed his continental partners by displaying, firstly, his complete ignorance of the union (perhaps not altogether surprising if you knew him as a “journalist” in Brussels, as I did). According to his very personal interpretation of the European treaties, it is “bollocks” to say that the four fundamental freedoms (free movement of people, goods, services and capital) are inseparable.
Nevertheless, Johnson repeats his mantra ad infinitum: he is right, and the others are all wrong. The problem, however, is that at the end of the day it is the others who will decide. And if you want something from someone, it is generally wiser to avoid telling them they are an idiot.
But the foreign secretary adds clumsiness to ignorance. Johnson … does not seem to grasp that it takes a mind with a rare degree of finesse to be able to combine humour and diplomacy.
His quip that the Italians would sell less prosecco to Britain if the UK was not able to stay in the single market not only created a diplomatic incident, but underlined the obvious weakness of the British argument: if the EU risks losing access to a market of 64 million Brits, Britain will lose access to a market of 440 million Europeans.
A famous French screenwriter Michel Audiard coined a phrase in the early 1960s that applies perfectly to Johnson: “Les cons, ça ose tout, c’est même à ça qu’on les reconnaît.” This means, roughly: “Fools” (to choose a relatively inoffensive rendering) “will try anything – that’s how you know they’re fools.”
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may doesnt want to leave the eu thou she show shes doing something about it but in reality nowts being done just showing us thats its one big lie
Stripped of his childish and false buffoonery Johnson is an empty vessel.
“Assassinating the character of Johnson”? I think this all sounds like a glowing tribute, compared with the reality of the privileged blimp.
Boris Johnson is one of the most able diplomats in the Conservative Party, to lambaste him in his role as Britain’s representative is simply jealousy. Boris proves that talent exists within the Tories and each and every Tory MP will give their support to his position, whatever that may, otherwise how on earth can there be unity on their well considered policies. We should celebrate May’s appointment of him, as perhaps the savior of our values and the progression of democracy. Or, so the Tories would like to think, yes indeed, that’s how you know they’re fools. The problem with these fools is they are to stupid to realize they are stupid, they are to stupid to know they are wrong, and to stupid to stop being stupid.
Your closing Audiard quote is bang on correct however I would go further than just it being appropriate for their resident Clown it feels it applies to all those stupid Cons fools that are supposed to be running the UK.
Boris Johnson as a Minister of State just demonstrates how unfit the British political system is in an modern world. This out of touch oaf should never ever be allowed within 100 miles of decision making in respect of this countries future and only serves to reinforce my opinion that such a fool is a danger to the country as a whole.