The slippery, sane-washing desperation of Boris Johnson as he realises what his whole-hearted backing of Trump means. Excruciating. - ThreadSky

pmdfoster.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The slippery, sane-washing desperation of Boris Johnson as he realises what his whole-hearted backing of Trump means. Excruciating.

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runreadlearn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Boris just says whatever fits his own agenda. Whatever benefits him. Throughout his career, he supported UK membership of the EU. He changes because it suits him. People like him have no principles or beliefs whatsoever. Beyond their own gain, that is.

gaborkovacs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sorry, who is Boris Johnson?

brownest-ant.bsky.social•2 days ago

Very, very much this.

tonykitson.bsky.social•2 days ago

The usual suspects queuing up to explain that what he ‘meant’ was the opposite of what he ‘said’.

alfredinglethorp.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Not supposed to be historically accurate”. He can fuck all the way off to Hell.

garycarter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Johnson’s annoyed because Trump is an even bigger liar than him.

rootlesscosmo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heard this on the news

Utterly disgraceful quote from an utter disgrace

jayneinspain.bsky.social•2 days ago

Of course Boris Johnson is bumping his gums, again. After all, Johnson wanted to be King, just like Trump.

evilwhippet.bsky.social•2 days ago

What. A. Twat.

cheshiredoglady.bsky.social•2 days ago

I see that Zelenskyy is no longer useful to him. He switches sides so easily. Checks notes: see also Brexit.

sharonblady.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can't he just go away?

angelfishdan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well I suppose he knows a thing or two about statements that are not supposed to be historically accurate.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•2 days ago

What bollox, encompassing some truths which he then twists for his own ends.
The similarity between the two is more than perma-tanned skin deep.

colinelves.bsky.social•2 days ago

What about the slippery, sane-washing desperation of every other British conservative as they realise what their whole-hearted backing of Trump means?

pmdfoster.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. See @hugorifkind.bsky.social on this in his column on Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the ARC culture warriors’ convention. Pay off below.

colinelves.bsky.social•2 days ago

Contemporary Conservatism:

dicofrance.bsky.social•2 days ago

Back to the Willows and (the) Mole

victoria1921.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's "help" has bulldozed effective governance in USA and wrecked the jobs, lives of many essential workers. He's dismantled old alliances and demands the wealth and land of other nations.

Johnson, like Trump tells lies for a living. Thankfully, serious people in UK & Europe are now in charge

bumpintheroad.bsky.social•2 days ago

‘Make sure to mention the money Boris, the $300bn, that’s what’s really important here’, a thinly disguised mouthpiece for the new gangsterism

leceawford.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s repulsive and excruciating. Don’t want his face going out on the circuit again.

craigward.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Trumps statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europe into action”
- Boris Johnson making excuses for Trumps lies. Who would have thought it?

How does this work then? As an expert on lying himself perhaps the disgraced ex PM can explain?

nohostages.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, we all know that Johnson does not value the concept of truth. He doesn't really 'get' why people obsess about it.

But he does understand public embarrassment. And he understands that his tribe likes Trump & hates Europe.

So we get this script-flipping.

juneussell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, he wrote the book on historical inaccuracy.

cristian2023.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stockholm syndrome ins full blown

sleepyzane.bsky.social•2 days ago

"he's lying-- but it's GOOD, and here's why you should believe him ANYWAY"

faithjoc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, "not intended to be historically accurate" is what people normally call a lie, something Johnson is quite familiar with.

ajs1977.bsky.social•2 days ago

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Once a traitor, always a traitor. *

*See also: Brexit
https://bsky.app/profile/pmdfoster.bsky.social/post/3lilrfsilhc26

davea79.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Trump's wrong about everything but he has a cunning plan." Hmmmm...

skywomble.bsky.social•2 days ago

On the wrong g side of history

billbicker.bsky.social•2 days ago

The message seems to be

'when you're voted into power its OK to lie because its all part of some big boys game that the public don't understand, so get back in your lane'

I assume they teach this at Eton?

malrog.bsky.social•2 days ago

So if I call Johnson a class-A twat I can always say that I was just trying to shock him into action?

clockworkshaun.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump could recover a large part of the US funding for Ukraine by taxing the billionaire weapons manufacturers who profit from war and peace. Hoarding currency needs to be seen as a crime against humanity.

clockworkshaun.bsky.social•2 days ago

It takes a blagger to know a blagger.

ianlin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Johnson - Those are my views, and if you don't like them.....well, I have others.

paulgriffiths77.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shock Europe into action, to create that EU Army that he opposed!

fanofpartridge.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for reminding me that I despise Johnson as much as Trump, exhausting though it all is. Still, a change is as good as a rest.

paulmalyon.bsky.social•2 days ago

That handbrake turn is perfect. The Stig would be proud.

billigerent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Perhaps he could declare who provided the £800k loan that Richard Sharp and Sam Blyth helped guarantee and the true nature of his relationship with the Lebedevs

Maybe the government releasing the Russia report he was so keen to bury would provide a few pointers?

angelmsattya.bsky.social•2 days ago

He was always a security threat.
⬇️

rsillsley.bsky.social•2 days ago

That 300bn should be spent re-arming EU but it should be spent on building a local industrial military complex and not just funnel it to USA.

kimmarshall.bsky.social•2 days ago

Perhaps if the UK media hadn't sane washed the execrable Johnson and his word salads for decades we might not have this piffle seeing the light of day, let alone being analysed.

chatsubo657.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can’t cosplay as Churchill when your political god turns out to be a Chamberlain.

fanofpartridge.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unfair to Chamberlain. Johnson's political god is more like Petain or Quisling.

mattbevington.bsky.social•2 days ago

I love the idea that it’s Europe, in fact, that’s being soft on Putin, not the guy who seems ready to capitulate to his every demand

pmdfoster.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t apply logic to this stuff. That way madness lies.

howarthm.bsky.social•2 days ago

🚨🚨 Precisely this.

as-j.bsky.social•2 days ago

Boris Johnson as the honest broker? I might just go back to bed.

tangocat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Quite. Utterly farcical!

paulbrowne55.bsky.social•2 days ago

Putin's Russia is a truly evil regime, and the Trump administration is showing its true colours.

We must stand together with Ukraine against these corrupt autocrats.

We and our European allies must immediately boost defence spending.

There is no time to lose we want to preserve democracy.