Bulletguy Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 From someone who worked with Johnson. Over the last few months I have found myself trying to reconcile the exhilarating and generous individual I knew so well back then with today's prime minister of Britain. A prime minister who shamelessly lies to parliament, who misled the Queen over the prorogation of parliament, who wages permanent war on the independent civil service and who turned his back on Britain's international obligations by pledging to tear up his own Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. This new policy of flagrantly breaking the law shatters our reputation. Why would any country ever sign a document with Britain again? Only yesterday Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was lecturing Iran that it must abide by international law and "comply with its nuclear commitments & preserve the JCPOA". Farcical. What stinking hypocrisy from the British foreign secretary. And immediately picked up by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who took aside the wretched Raab to inform him that the UK's proposed breaching of the Withdrawal Agreement was "unacceptable". Johnson is scared. He's destroying Britain. He knows it. He will sense that history will damn him as one of Britain's worst prime ministers. It's not just Brexit. The Covid-19 crisis is worse, with his government sending out chaotic messages and overseeing the worst death toll in Europe. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-brexit-crisis-boris-johnson- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les W Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 There There, never mind.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Bulletguy - 2021-03-21 4:03 PM From someone who worked with Johnson. I get the impression that Peter Oborne doesn't like him any more. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted March 21, 2021 Author Share Posted March 21, 2021 malc d - 2021-03-21 5:06 PM Bulletguy - 2021-03-21 4:03 PM From someone who worked with Johnson. I get the impression that Peter Oborne doesn't like him any more. ;-) Many who have known him personally don't. Max Hastings said, "he is utterly unfit to be prime minister".......and he was Johnsons boss. He went on to predict, "his premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability." That's spot on........we cannot say we were not warned. :-| https://tinyurl.com/345x27x8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 malc d - 2021-03-21 5:06 PM Bulletguy - 2021-03-21 4:03 PM From someone who worked with Johnson. I get the impression that Peter Oborne doesn't like him any more. ;-) Oborne is another one who's shown his true colours since being forced to get off the fence :D ........ https://infacts.org/peter-oborne-has-turned-against-brexit-others-should-follow/ He reminds me of a ex smoker who has given up the fags :D .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Here's the Oborne article in Open Democracy: https://tinyurl.com/5bfnexdz Quite a read. Plus another, on Johnson, that may interest: https://tinyurl.com/zwshufuh Also quite a read. It is all, of course, one man's opinion. But it is not an opinion to be so easily dismissed: see Wiki biog here: https://tinyurl.com/6tuyhe32 Difficult for some to accept, but a world away from a happy-clappy follower of party dogma. He thinks. He reasons. He argues. Agree or disagree, he puts forward his arguments with impeccable logic, which is why he's won the number of journalistic awards he holds. To Dave's quip about an ex smoker, he is right. Someone who saw the foolishness of killing himself with cigarettes, and decided to stop. Possibly foolish to have started in the first place, but when realisation dawned, had the sense and reason to change. I have greater confidence in those who change their minds, and can then provide a detailed explanation of why, than those who never do so. Why? Because those who never change have failed to look themselves in the eye, and question their attitudes and motivations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 Brian Kirby - 2021-03-22 12:42 PM Here's the Oborne article in Open Democracy: https://tinyurl.com/5bfnexdz Quite a read. Plus another, on Johnson, that may interest: https://tinyurl.com/zwshufuh Also quite a read. Difficult for some to accept, but a world away from a happy-clappy follower of party dogma. He thinks. He reasons. He argues. Agree or disagree, he puts forward his arguments with impeccable logic, which is why he's won the number of journalistic awards he holds. Thanks for posting those links Brian. Both excellently written and very informative reading....as you said, it's easy to see why he's won many journalistic awards. I'm not sure I see the connection with him being an ex-smoker though as I very much doubt that affected his work, unlike alcohol which certainly does. Though now a Bregretter who thankfully saw sense, for such an intelligent well read man, i'd be interested to know what on earth possessed him to vote Brexit in the first place. If duped by Leave campaign lies, misinformation, and silly soundbites, then what hope was there for the dimwits who threw themselves at Johnsons feet shouting "losers"? :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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