Boris is new foreign secretary

[Muck Spreader]

Initially I thought Doris as Foreign secretary oh dear. But it could be an inspired choice, as much of his actual job will be to sell whatever deal they can get out of the EU as a great success to the British people, no matter how good or bad it actually is. And we know he will be very good at that.

 

[Campbell]

The Old Duke and now Boris, the best of British diplomacy. Love it

 

[bluegreen]

Boris will be fine, and TM has surprised me with her total ruthlessness. She has booted out ALL of Rothchilds puppets from the cabinet and brought their one world government fantasy to a brutal end , deservedly so I might add.
George Osbourne hasn't been seen since the weekend !! I wonder why

 

[Top Tip.]

I think Theresa is sticking to the old adage `keep your friends close and your enemies closer` with Boris at least.

 

[JP1]

 

[JP1]

Boris Johnson's 12 most outrageous quotes about places, people and cultures as he becomes Britain's Foreign Secretary

• 18:11, 14 JUL 2016
• UPDATED 18:28, 14 JUL 2016
• BY STEVE MYALL

Cripes, he does put his foot in it

Reuters

Boris Johnson has had a political resurrection of astonishing proportions to get one of the great offices of state in the form of Foreign Secretary.

His job will be to represent Britain and its interests on the world stage, and it requires great diplomatic skill deal to deal with the likes of China and Russia during tricky negotiations.

So let's not forget that perhaps Boris' greatest talent lies in causing offence whenever he opens his mouth.

Here are just some his low points:

1) Israel
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Flag of Israel
In November 2015 his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories was cut short by his hosts in protest after a series of strongly pro-Israel remarks.

They included a speech in Tel Aviv in which he said that a trade boycott of Israeli goods was “completely crazy” and supported by “corduroy-jacketed, snaggle-toothed, lefty academics in the UK”.

2) The EU, Hitler and Napoleon
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Adolf Hitler
In May this year, during the Brexit campaign, he said in an interview that the past 2,000 years of European history had been marked by repeated attempts to unify Europe.

He was quoted as saying: “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically,”

“The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.”

He drew criticism for likening Nazi Germany to the EU.

3) Papua New Guinea
Sky News

Boris Johnson on Sky News
Writing in his Telegraph column in September 2006 he criticised internal fighting in the Labour Party and in doing so offended the people of Papua New Guinea by calling them cannibals.

He wrote: “For 10 years we in the Tory party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour party .”

Apologising for any offence caused he joked said he would be happy to “add Papua New Guinea to my global itinerary of apology”.

4) Turkey insults
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
This year again. In May he won £1,000 in a competition for a limerick he composed and sent to the Spectator magazine.

In the piece, he described the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat and calling him a "wan*erer", to rhyme with the Turkish capital, Ankara.

The dirty limerick read:

“There was a young fellow from Ankara

“Who was a terrific wan*erer

“Till he sowed his wild oats

“With the help of a goat

“But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”

5) Broken China
Barcroft

Nude woman seen playing a naked Ping Pong game at Bounce in London, England.
Ahead of the Bejing Olympics in 2008 he visited China and offended officials by saying table tennis wasn't invented by the Chinese - but had in fact been developed from a Victorian English game called "whiff whaff".

He is a keen player.

6) Hillary Clinton
Reuters

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles during a campaign stop
In 2007, in another column for the Daily Telegraph when he was commenting on the US Presidential race, he described Hillary Clinton in less complimentary language.

He said: “She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

7) FGM

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The British Government has been clear on its opposition to the practice of female genital mutilation so it will be hard to reconcile his words in a 2002 Spectator following a visit to Uganda.



US State Department spokesman told Boris Johnson is Foreign Secretary tried his best to keep a straight face


He said: "Almost every dollar of Western aid seems tied to some programme of female emancipation — stamping out clitorectomy, polygamy, bride-price, or whatever. And while some readers may feel vaguely that the African male should not be stampeded into abandoning his ancient prerogatives, one cannot doubt the care — bordering on obsession — with which Western workers pursue their ends.”

8) Liverpool
SWNS

The motto 'You'll Never Walk Alone' as it appears on the gates at Anfield
In 2004 Mr Johnson was forced to go on an apology tour of Liverpool after an editorial in the Spectator accused the whole city of existing in a “flawed psychological state” that encouraged them to “wallow in their ‘victim status’” and fail to accept that the city’s misfortunes, such as the Hillsborough disaster, were their fault.

9) Trump
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Donald Trump
Bearing in mind he will soon be representing the country abroad Mr Johnson is often keen to open his mouth before seeing the outcome of events.

He has said Donald Trump’s “stupefying ignorance” proved that he was “clearly out of his mind” and was “frankly unfit to hold the office of president of the United States.”

“I would invite him to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city - except I wouldn’t want to expose any Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

It will be interesting to see what happens if Trump is successful in his bid for the presidency.

10) Obama
Getty

US President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith memorial service for victims of the Dallas police shooting in Dallas, Texas
During the EU Referendum Campaign astonishingly Mr Johnson described US President Barack Obama as a "part-Kenyan" who harboured an "ancestral dislike" of Britain, after the president came out in favour of the Remain campaign.

11) Piccaninnies
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Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair
In a column published in the Daily Telegraph in 2002, Mr Johnson mocked the then Prime Minister Tony Blair 's globe-trotting: "What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," he wrote. It also mentioned "watermelon smiles".

The comments came to light to the London Mayoral election and an apologetic Mr Johnson insisted he "loathed and despised" racism and said his words, written more than five years ago, had been taken out of context.

12) Spectator editorship
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LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers blocks a shot by Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on June 19, 2016 in Oakland, California
Mr Johnson has also been criticised for articles published while he was editor of the right wing Spectator magazine.

In one, columnist Taki wrote that "Orientals ... have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole." In another, he described black American basketball players as having "arms hanging below their knees and tongues sticking out".

In a 2008 climb down he said: "I am sorry for what was previously written as it does not reflect what is in my heart."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnsons-12-most-outrageous-8423231

 

[Man_in_black]

Boris Johnson's 12 most outrageous quotes about places, people and cultures as he becomes Britain's Foreign Secretary

• 18:11, 14 JUL 2016
• UPDATED 18:28, 14 JUL 2016
• BY STEVE MYALL

Cripes, he does put his foot in it

ReutersView attachment 363098
Boris Johnson has had a political resurrection of astonishing proportions to get one of the great offices of state in the form of Foreign Secretary.

His job will be to represent Britain and its interests on the world stage, and it requires great diplomatic skill deal to deal with the likes of China and Russia during tricky negotiations.

So let's not forget that perhaps Boris' greatest talent lies in causing offence whenever he opens his mouth.

Here are just some his low points:

1) Israel
GettyView attachment 363100
Flag of Israel
In November 2015 his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories was cut short by his hosts in protest after a series of strongly pro-Israel remarks.

They included a speech in Tel Aviv in which he said that a trade boycott of Israeli goods was “completely crazy” and supported by “corduroy-jacketed, snaggle-toothed, lefty academics in the UK”.

2) The EU, Hitler and Napoleon
GettyView attachment 363102
Adolf Hitler
In May this year, during the Brexit campaign, he said in an interview that the past 2,000 years of European history had been marked by repeated attempts to unify Europe.

He was quoted as saying: “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically,”

“The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.”

He drew criticism for likening Nazi Germany to the EU.

3) Papua New Guinea
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Boris Johnson on Sky News
Writing in his Telegraph column in September 2006 he criticised internal fighting in the Labour Party and in doing so offended the people of Papua New Guinea by calling them cannibals.

He wrote: “For 10 years we in the Tory party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour party .”

Apologising for any offence caused he joked said he would be happy to “add Papua New Guinea to my global itinerary of apology”.

4) Turkey insults
GettyView attachment 363106
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
This year again. In May he won £1,000 in a competition for a limerick he composed and sent to the Spectator magazine.

In the piece, he described the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat and calling him a "wan*erer", to rhyme with the Turkish capital, Ankara.

The dirty limerick read:

“There was a young fellow from Ankara

“Who was a terrific wan*erer

“Till he sowed his wild oats

“With the help of a goat

“But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”

5) Broken China
BarcroftView attachment 363108
Nude woman seen playing a naked Ping Pong game at Bounce in London, England.
Ahead of the Bejing Olympics in 2008 he visited China and offended officials by saying table tennis wasn't invented by the Chinese - but had in fact been developed from a Victorian English game called "whiff whaff".

He is a keen player.

6) Hillary Clinton
ReutersView attachment 363110
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles during a campaign stop
In 2007, in another column for the Daily Telegraph when he was commenting on the US Presidential race, he described Hillary Clinton in less complimentary language.

He said: “She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

7) FGM
View attachment 363112
Best Foreign Exchange/Travel Money Retailer: Post Office Travel Money picks up a Silver
The British Government has been clear on its opposition to the practice of female genital mutilation so it will be hard to reconcile his words in a 2002 Spectator following a visit to Uganda.



US State Department spokesman told Boris Johnson is Foreign Secretary tried his best to keep a straight face


He said: "Almost every dollar of Western aid seems tied to some programme of female emancipation — stamping out clitorectomy, polygamy, bride-price, or whatever. And while some readers may feel vaguely that the African male should not be stampeded into abandoning his ancient prerogatives, one cannot doubt the care — bordering on obsession — with which Western workers pursue their ends.”

8) Liverpool
SWNSView attachment 363114
The motto 'You'll Never Walk Alone' as it appears on the gates at Anfield
In 2004 Mr Johnson was forced to go on an apology tour of Liverpool after an editorial in the Spectator accused the whole city of existing in a “flawed psychological state” that encouraged them to “wallow in their ‘victim status’” and fail to accept that the city’s misfortunes, such as the Hillsborough disaster, were their fault.

9) Trump
GettyView attachment 363116
Donald Trump
Bearing in mind he will soon be representing the country abroad Mr Johnson is often keen to open his mouth before seeing the outcome of events.

He has said Donald Trump’s “stupefying ignorance” proved that he was “clearly out of his mind” and was “frankly unfit to hold the office of president of the United States.”

“I would invite him to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city - except I wouldn’t want to expose any Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

It will be interesting to see what happens if Trump is successful in his bid for the presidency.

10) Obama
GettyView attachment 363118
US President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith memorial service for victims of the Dallas police shooting in Dallas, Texas
During the EU Referendum Campaign astonishingly Mr Johnson described US President Barack Obama as a "part-Kenyan" who harboured an "ancestral dislike" of Britain, after the president came out in favour of the Remain campaign.

11) Piccaninnies
Getty ImagesView attachment 363120
Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair
In a column published in the Daily Telegraph in 2002, Mr Johnson mocked the then Prime Minister Tony Blair 's globe-trotting: "What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," he wrote. It also mentioned "watermelon smiles".

The comments came to light to the London Mayoral election and an apologetic Mr Johnson insisted he "loathed and despised" racism and said his words, written more than five years ago, had been taken out of context.

12) Spectator editorship
GettyView attachment 363122
LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers blocks a shot by Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on June 19, 2016 in Oakland, California
Mr Johnson has also been criticised for articles published while he was editor of the right wing Spectator magazine.

In one, columnist Taki wrote that "Orientals ... have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole." In another, he described black American basketball players as having "arms hanging below their knees and tongues sticking out".

In a 2008 climb down he said: "I am sorry for what was previously written as it does not reflect what is in my heart."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnsons-12-most-outrageous-8423231

I didn't think I liked him but now realise I agree with a lot he has to say!!

 

[JP1]

I didn't think I liked him but now realise I agree with a lot he has to say!!

.........but isn't there a difference between tittering down the pub with your mates at a Farage-ism or a BoJoquote and having him on the World stage representing all of us?

 

[bread and jam]

.........but isn't there a difference between tittering down the pub with your mates at a Farage-ism or a BoJoquote and having him on the World stage representing all of us?

If Boris is such a buffoon how the hell has he got as far as he has.

 

[JP1]

If Boris is such a buffoon how the hell has he got as far as he has.

He hasn't got that far. He ran away from the challenge of high office. He is humorous, charismatic but also a serious operator like Mandelson. That doesn't make him a serious top Ambassador for the UK like John Kerry, Secretary of State and he will be facing many of those he has insulted

 

[wanton dwarf]

1) Israel
GettyView attachment 363100
Flag of Israel
In November 2015 his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories was cut short by his hosts in protest after a series of strongly pro-Israel remarks.

They included a speech in Tel Aviv in which he said that a trade boycott of Israeli goods was “completely crazy” and supported by “corduroy-jacketed, snaggle-toothed, lefty academics in the UK”.

I really want to know JP, what is wrong with this statement.

And if you cannot justify it, why did you post it ?

 

[glasshouse]

If Boris is such a buffoon how the hell has he got as far as he has.

its called promoting idiots out of the way, every govt does it.

 

[JP1]

I really want to know JP, what is wrong with this statement.

And if you cannot justify it, why did you post it ?

I posted the 12 as a complete posting from the article. I have no opinion on point 1.

 

[glasshouse]

This is a shocker by boris

 

[wanton dwarf]

I posted the 12 as a complete posting from the article. I have no opinion on point 1.

Ok fair enough, I can understand it's not diplomatic or perhaps common sense in the fact he is putting himself at risk... but both sides have to get on. Trade is a good way to get on. Palestine needs trade and jobs anyway.

And let's face it... the lunatics in the Labour party are predominatly as described...

Anyway.. terror in Nice France... 30 feared dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html

 

[JP1]

Ok fair enough, I can understand it's not diplomatic or perhaps common sense in the fact he is putting himself at risk... but both sides have to get on. Trade is a good way to get on. Palestine needs trade and jobs anyway.

And let's face it... the lunatics in the Labour party are predominatly as described...

Anyway.. terror in Nice France... 30 feared dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html

I'm just seeing that. Terrible

 

[bread and jam]

He hasn't got that far. He ran away from the challenge of high office. He is humorous, charismatic but also a serious operator like Mandelson. That doesn't make him a serious top Ambassador for the UK like John Kerry, Secretary of State and he will be facing many of those he has insulted

He hardly ran away from challenge of high office, after being truly chafted by Gove he couldn't possibly stand. He will sell the UK, not sell the UK down the drain like some of the spineless in Government who are out for what they can get. And as for facing people they have insulted, are they going to really give a toss, you could call me what ever you want as long as I got the deal I wanted.

 

[JP1]

He hardly ran away from challenge of high office, after being truly chafted by Gove he couldn't possibly stand. He will sell the UK, not sell the UK down the drain like some of the spineless in Government who are out for what they can get. And as for facing people they have insulted, are they going to really give a toss, you could call me what ever you want as long as I got the deal I wanted.

Don't get me wrong I can see why Theresa had to find him a role to keep him from being dangerous, I just don't think he's right for this role.

The US are laughing at him and we need to really build bridges that way after Brexit. He can hardly go to Liverpool these days and he won't get so well in to the White House having slated Obama, Trump and Hilary Clinton.

I don't think he believes in anything or anyone except himself. Sorry but that's how I feel. A real man would have taken Gove apart in the hustings. Even if he still lost to May, he could be settling scores against Gove.

I don't believe he was a convincing latter day convert Brexiter and we know he had no plans when Leave won.

 

[Man_in_black]

He can hardly go to Liverpool

And why would he (or anyone) want to??!!

 

[JP1]

And why would he (or anyone) want to??!!

I think he was right to apologise for what he said and he can hardly be a One nation Tory when he makes such crass mistakes there