The candidates: Dominic ‘Details’ Raab – the man who can’t recall his own failures
Dominic Raab: As Brexit Secretary, he once admitted he had no understanding of the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing.
At least the Tory leadership race is offering us plenty of comedy.
Dominic Raab, for example, is considered to be a front-runner to be leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister by default – alongside Boris Johnson.
In an interview on The Andrew Marr Show, he described himself as a “details man” – and the nation dissolved into hilarity.
Here are just a few of the tweets in response:
do you mean the "details man" who hadn't realised the importance of the Calais crossing?
— Andrew Mee (@andrewmee) May 26, 2019
Anyway here’s the moment leader hopeful Dominic Raab admitted he didn’t realise that as an island a lot of our food arrives by boat. pic.twitter.com/SriPuiFXY4
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 25, 2019
he’s running for the most powerful position in the UK and he’s only recently figured out we’re surrounded by water 🙈
— Owen (@OwenL_) May 25, 2019
Here are some more details that the “details guy” missed:
Having said he’s “a details guy”, @DominicRaab says a disorderly #Brexit would be fine, because and “we’d have £39bn to put the rocket boosters up the economy”. Challenged by #Marr he admits it might be more like £25bn.
The “details guy” lost £14bn in the space of a minute. pic.twitter.com/wiOmLzsglr
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) May 26, 2019
“I’m a details guy, I’m a lawyer, I spent 6 years in the Foreign Office” – on #AndrewMarr
But somehow he couldn’t find the time to read the 35 page Good Friday Agreement, and was unaware of the importance of Dover port.
Yep, PM material alright.— dermotg (@dermotg) May 26, 2019
Dominic Raab is “a details guy” in much the same way that I am a racehorse.
— Michael Seaword (@Michael_Seaword) May 26, 2019
Raab told the BBC he would go back to the EU27 for a fairer Brexit deal – especially concerning the Northern Ireland border – but if this was not possible, the UK would leave on World Trade Organisation terms in October.
On domestic and other foreign issues, he said – Oh!
It seems he had nothing to say about those issues.
Apparently being prime minister is about nothing other than Brexit, these days.
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Dominic Raab, the nasty Tory who is the son of an immigrant who hates immigrants; the man who resigned in protest at the agreement he himself had negotiated, and of course the character who didn’t know how important the Dover-Calais link is. If it weren’t so tragic for the country he would be a huge joke.
Is the entire Conservative Party full of these idiots? Is there not one, merely mildy competent, individual within their 50-120,000 members who can stand for PM without provoking hilarity, disgust or law suites?
Is the state of our politics soooooo bad, that this is the best they can do?
Not that the rest of the country gets to decide who our nation’s leader is anyway….
What a joke. God help us.