The UK has become a joke, albeit a decidedly sick one. Any nation that would appoint Boris Johnson as foreign secretary deserves nothing but derision. He's not fit to be the Minister of Silly Walks as far as I'm concerned, never mind the face of Britain's diplomacy and international relations. And if that wasn't bad enough, Andrea 'Thatcher-clone' Leadsom has been made environment secretary. Just what the environment and countryside needs, a 'greed is good' free market ideologue to rabidly deregulate and concrete everything over. Where's William Blake when you need him?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Hello Sammy,
ReplyDeleteWe should make the lot honorary US Republicans!
:-)
-Andy
Hello Andy
DeleteI think you've got enough fascists of your own to be going on with, without adopting any of ours, even in an honorary sense. I could say that at least ours aren't (for the most part) christofascists, but that would be a very small crumb of comfort.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B
Johnson was in favour of LEAVE. But it seems to me that the LEAVE side never actually thought they would win, at least any more than the REMAIN camp thought they would loose.
ReplyDeleteThat would explain why neither side appeared to have a plan "B", in the wake of the referendum.
They obviously didn't bank on the stupidity of a large section of the UK's Joe Public, who either couldn't be bothered to vote, because they didn't think it would make any difference, or voted LEAVE, to just spite Cameron, because he was saying REMAIN.
Now, as much as I dislike and distrust Theresa May, I think she knows full well Johnson does not have the necessary skills or energy to succeed, not to mention the diplomacy required.
Probably she's told him : "You got us into this mess, you get us out of it".
I reckon she knows he will make such mess of it, will cause so much offence and disruption with his inept comments and behavior, that the Brexit negotiations will rapidly fall into disarray, and end in tatters. By then the chaos, confusion and uncertainty will have multiplied to such an extent that the whole sorry business will have to be kicked into the long grass, to save face, and avoid global economic meltdown.
Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister might just be the necessary ticket to keep the UK in the EU.
So as one of over 4 million people who signed the petition, because I was not happy with the outcome of the recent referendum, I say - "Bring it on, Boris, do your worst." Long live the E.U.
Warmest regards - Dave
Hello Dave
ReplyDeletePerhaps May is machiavellian enough to want to destroy Johnson by giving him a job he's patently unsuitable for, but I tend to think that it's more likely to be cock-up than conspiracy, given the current shambolic state of British politics. If the outcome is that we remain Europeans, all well and good, but it would very much be an unintended consequence. As for the sheeple who stupidly chose the path of racism and xenophobia - you made the bed, now lie in it.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B