The trolling award of the week
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:33 am
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HERE’S BORIS
Keep calm and carry on? Not so much now that Boris Johnson is U.K. prime minister. After being named Conservative leader, he told MPs and party members that his campaign mantra (deliver Brexit, unite the country, defeat Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) should not be abbreviated to DUD, but to DUDE — deliver, unite, defeat, energize.
went to special lead European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who was born in a gulag, and wrote of Johnson’s political stye: “Without comparing the U.K. itself with the U.S.S.R. because it is not comparable, I can’t think of a better golden standard than the U.S.S.R. in terms of fact distortion, reality falsification and blunt oblivions of reality.”
The big question now is whether we are all about to become collateral damage, in a bigger version of one of Johnson’s 1990s Telegraph stories? It’s impossible to tell, but after all the bloodletting inside the Conservative Party — 17 ministers sacked or quitting at Cabinet-level alone — the idea that we are in for a smooth fall looks fanciful. We’re likely headed for a U.K. general election and an even bigger Brexit mess.
Listen to the latest episode of EU Confidential with author Peter May on his Brussels-set book “The Man With No Face” on: Spotify | Apple | Google | Soundcloud | Stitcher
HERE’S BORIS
Keep calm and carry on? Not so much now that Boris Johnson is U.K. prime minister. After being named Conservative leader, he told MPs and party members that his campaign mantra (deliver Brexit, unite the country, defeat Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) should not be abbreviated to DUD, but to DUDE — deliver, unite, defeat, energize.
went to special lead European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who was born in a gulag, and wrote of Johnson’s political stye: “Without comparing the U.K. itself with the U.S.S.R. because it is not comparable, I can’t think of a better golden standard than the U.S.S.R. in terms of fact distortion, reality falsification and blunt oblivions of reality.”
The big question now is whether we are all about to become collateral damage, in a bigger version of one of Johnson’s 1990s Telegraph stories? It’s impossible to tell, but after all the bloodletting inside the Conservative Party — 17 ministers sacked or quitting at Cabinet-level alone — the idea that we are in for a smooth fall looks fanciful. We’re likely headed for a U.K. general election and an even bigger Brexit mess.