#USAElection2020 – it’s Biden! so Boris Johnson is in trouble
Joe Biden has beaten Donald Trump in the US presidential election – meaning trouble for UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
Biden topped the 270 electoral college votes needed to take the presidency when Pennsylvania declared for him on Saturday afternoon (UK time – November 7).
This means – hopefully – we will all be treated to the sight of Donald Trump being dragged from the White House by secret service men, kicking and screaming. That’s what he promised!
Trump may well follow through on his threat to bog the process down with litigation. We’ll see.
Assuming such shenanigans are dismissed, Biden’s accession to the Presidency creates serious problems for Boris Johnson.
Once described by Biden as a “kind of a physical and emotional clone” of Trump, he has long been considered hostile to Johnson’s right-wing, populist politics.
Part of this can be traced back to Johnson’s dismissal of Barack Obama. His claim that Obama’s “part-Kenyan” heritage gave him an “ancestral dislike of the British Empire” may be considered racist.
Biden’s team has, we’re told, kept a close eye on the Johnson government, taking offence at the way it has cosied up to Trump.
Dominic Cummings has been likened by some on Biden’s team to Stephen Miller, the Trump policy adviser who contributed to a controversial 2017 travel ban and policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
More tangibly, Biden warned Johnson away from his threat to break international law on Brexit and – potentially – undermine the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Biden’s own heritage is Irish. It seems, when it comes to ancestry, Boris Johnson’s judgement is poor indeed.
So when it comes to trade deals, Johnson may find himself losing any ground he gained by cultivating close links with Trump.
That doesn’t mean we’ll all be saved from eating chlorinated chicken after all.
In fact, it’s more likely to mean Johnson will toss more of our national property in, to sweeten the deal.
Whatever happens, it seems Boris Johnson is heading for even more trouble – and, as usual, it’s all of his own making.
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Biden might be better than Trump but he will still want the NHS and chlorinated chicken on the table in any trade deal. So we are still better off having no deal with the USA at all.
Biden is a seasoned professional diplomat and politician of 50 years.
He promotes freedom and dignity so is the polar opposite of Bojob.
I’m certain that he relishes the prospect of dealing with our Trumpesque PM and his amateur monkey Ministers.