I'm watching Boris Johnson on the BBC

[DemocratSinceBirth]

He's having a news conference with Justin Trudeau and the Dutch prime minister to discuss the situation in Ukraine. He seems like a reasonable fella.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

1. Hope he doesn't try to...

pay for lunch with Russian rubles again. Maybe not as he would need a huge trunk to store his rubles in.

[aeromanKC]

2. Johnson seems to be a mole for Russian Oligarch's money laundering in the UK.

[MLAA]

3. +1000

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. My default position is always to support the left of center party in any election

That being said Corbyn is a hard guy to support.

[Walleye]

6. Not for nothing but his name is Boris

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Wasn't he born in New York?

[Walleye]

10. I didn't know that. Brighton Beach ha ha?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Upper East Side.

[Walleye]

13. That figures

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. His mother is an artist from a family of liberal intellectuals.

His father was studying Economics at Colombia.

[Walleye]

19. I guess sometimes it skips generations

Still wonder why they named him Boris

[JHB]

24. They wanted him to be bad enough

[crickets]

26. *rimshot* Try the veal! Don't forget to tip your waitress! 😏

[aeromanKC]

14. I see what you did there.

[2naSalit]

7. Yup.

[uponit7771]

20. +1,

[lapfog_1]

5. you know, it maybe wouldn't be so bad if the UK needed a close association with

other members of western (and now eastern) europe.

Some sort of an association that would allow for free trade and shared responsibility for general welfare.

This would allow all of europe to act as one people to meet shared goals, provide the basis for mutual security and economic planning.

A sort of union of some sort.

Hey BoJo... what do you think? Good idea, right?

[Walleye]

12. 👍 I see what you did there

[rockfordfile]

9. Not sure

Didn't he hide from the UK public that a number if British politicians were on the payroll from Russia? I think that came out in March of 2020.

[lapfog_1]

18. to the point that they put one of the Russian Oligarchs into the "peerage"

and he now sits in the House of Lords...



Meet "Baron Lebedev"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev#:~:text=In%202020%20the%20British%20monarch,Siberia%20in%20the%20Russian%20Federation%E2%80%9D.

Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev, Baron Lebedev[1] (Russian: Евгений Александрович Лебедев, tr. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lebedev,[a] pronounced [ɪ̯ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪɪ̯ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf]; born 8 May 1980) is a Russian-British businessman, who owns Lebedev Holdings Ltd, which in turn owns the Evening Standard, The Independent and the TV channel London Live. He inherited his wealth from his father, Alexander Lebedev who is a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer.[3][4]

In July 2020, Lebedev was nominated for a life peerage by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a move that drew criticism.[5][6] British security services warned that granting Lebedev a peerage posed a national security risk, but Johnson went ahead with it despite the security service assessment.[7] Lebedev has sat in the House of Lords as a crossbench life peer since 19 November 2020.[8] The New York Times wrote in 2022, "nobody is a better example of the cozy ties between Russians and the [British] establishment than Mr. Lebedev."[3]

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You literally can't make this shit up.

[BlueIdaho]

15. Johnson is a horses ass

He always has been. He is a clown, a buffoon, and the dullest crayon in the box. He failed upward into the PM’s job mostly because of how the UK Parliamentary system works. As far as policies go, he is a weathervane.

Remember that immediately prior to Putin kicking things off he was about to be thrown out of office for hosting drinking parties while the UK was supposed to be in lockdown and while the Queen was mourning the loss of her husband. In a very real way, Putin saved Boris’ job.

He would be ripe for the picking if only labour could pull its shit together and offer a viable alternative - which they haven’t done for about a decade now.

[Bev54]

23. Don't blame his position on the parliamentary system, you got Trump

[enough]

16. Johnson is Trump with an excellent education. NT

[barbaraann]

21. and, due to the British class system, an even greater sense of entitlement. NT

[LymphocyteLover]

25. yes, and a British accent, which always makes you sound smarter

[Ocelot II]

22. TFG with better manners.