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And Boris Says: So Long and Thanks for the Fisheries
And finally it comes to this. Boris Johnson might be a lot of things, but a liar on Brexit he’s not. On Friday, he held a brief conference and said, the UK is out. The EU is not negotiating in good faith and Hard Brexit it will be. Watch below.
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Good for Boris. He’s been an enormous disappointment but in this case Boris Goodenough.
Good news! I’ve always felt a clean divorce was the way to go . . .
Tory,
Finally. You can’t make a good deal with a bad guy. If ever there was a bad guy it is the EU. They are a hegemonistic nightmare. Boris has done the right thing. Now, if he would stop the lockdown lunacy and get rid of that damn mask, Great Britain would be Great again.
Regards,
Jim
They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
I guess it wasn’t just the Bourbons.
Seems like he should have been able to say that without looking down at his notes every 2 seconds.
We need to start seeing “MEGA” hats (Make England Great Again).
That’s good! He’s Megaman!
So Build Back Better isn’t just a Biden slogan but an international motto. Or else, again plagiarism.
Maybe it was a bluff and that’s his tell.
Good post, but the title wins the intarwebz for the day!
He needs a teleprompter.
Before anyone gets too deep in the trading beaver pelts and maple syrup vs spiders and kangaroo nuts jokes.
Trump should do a pure Free Trade pact with Britain. Also with Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, & Japan. An Alliance of the Free.
Without wanting to dampen the cheers, a little context might be in order.
Boris had set the EU Council meeting on the 15th – Thursday last – as a deadline. Having previously done the same back in the summer it was expected he would ‘bottle it’ again.
The minutes of the EU Council meeting showed that the final text was changed from the usual platitudes to something that put the onus almost completely on the British side. The Times’ man in Brussels commented that it was a slap in the face and it would be completely understandable if the official advice given to Boris was to walk. The highly europhile correspondent from the Financial Times agreed.
So if Boris hadn’t had taken a strong line he would have been seen as weak and desperate for a deal as Theresa May. The initial reaction from EU leaders, basically to brush it off as political theatre, did provoke a stronger response with a government spokesman saying don’t bother turning up next week if that is your position. As reported by Breitbart:
As Tony Soprano might have said, it’s straight out of the boss’s playbook. So while most of us Brexiteers on this side of the pond are cheering too, don’t be surprised if this is only the beginning of the end.
I like Boris. However, everytime I see him (and it’s probably just me) I always ask the question, “In all of Great Britain, do they not have a Fantastic Sam’s or Great Clips?”
Definitely a good idea.