England will go into a new monthlong lockdown on Thursday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday.
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December 28, 2019
Britain: Inside Boris Johnson's £20,000-a-week Caribbean Christmas getaway
Pictures have
emerged of the luxury Caribbean villa where Boris Johnson and his
girlfriend Carrie Symonds will see in the New Year.
The pair will have a pick of three swimming pools, six bedrooms and
stunning views in every direction at the £20,000-a-week hideaway.
The Oceanus villa on the island of Mustique comes with a dedicated
butler, housekeeper, chef and gardener.
They arrived today after stopping off in St Lucia where he was
congratulated on his election victory by the country’s prime minister,
Alan Chastanet.
But he is expected to leave all formal prime ministerial work at the
door to spend time with Ms Symonds, 31.
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Pictures have
emerged of the luxury Caribbean villa where Boris Johnson and his
girlfriend Carrie Symonds will see in the New Year.
The pair will have a pick of three swimming pools, six bedrooms and
stunning views in every direction at the £20,000-a-week hideaway.
The Oceanus villa on the island of Mustique comes with a dedicated
butler, housekeeper, chef and gardener.
They arrived today after stopping off in St Lucia where he was
congratulated on his election victory by the country’s prime minister,
Alan Chastanet.
But he is expected to leave all formal prime ministerial work at the
door to spend time with Ms Symonds, 31.
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The pair will have a pick of three swimming pools, six bedrooms and stunning views in every direction at the £20,000-a-week hideaway.
The Oceanus villa on the island of Mustique comes with a dedicated butler, housekeeper, chef and gardener.
They arrived today after stopping off in St Lucia where he was congratulated on his election victory by the country’s prime minister, Alan Chastanet. But he is expected to leave all formal prime ministerial work at the door to spend time with Ms Symonds,
Read more at: Inside Boris Johnson's £20,000-a-week Caribbean Christmas getaway | Metro News
December 15, 2019
Populism on the rise: Beyond Boris: Donald Trump(ism) Wins in British Election
What are the hard lessons for Europe and wider geopolitics from Boris Johnson’s victory in the 2019 British general election?
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October 30, 2019
Britain - elections: UK set for 12 December general election after MPs' vote
MPs give the green light for a pre-Christmas poll after months of deadlock over Brexit.
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October 21, 2019
Britain - the Brexit drama: UK PM Johnson sends conflicting messages to EU on Brexit delay request
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to the
European Union on Saturday requesting a delay to Brexit but he also sent
another message in which he stated he did not want the extension, a
government source said.
Johnson was compelled by a law, passed by opponents last month, to ask the bloc for an extension to the current Brexit deadline of Oct. 31 until Jan. 31 after lawmakers thwarted his attempt to pass his EU divorce deal earlier on Saturday.
The government source said Johnson sent a total of three letters to Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council: a photocopy of the text that the law, known as the Benn Act, forced him to write; a cover note from Britain's EU envoy; and a third letter in which he said he did not want an extension.
As Parliament met in London Saturday morning and voted to force a Brexit delay, hundreds of thousands of anti-Brexit protesters marched in the city’s streets demanding citizens be given a second chance at deciding whether to leave the European Union. The massive crowds moved through the city towards Parliament in a festive and defiant demonstration of frustration with the country’s impending break with the EU, the New York Times reported.
Organizers of the effort told the Times they expected more than a million demonstrators, which would make it one of the largest protests Britain has ever had. The demonstrators were joined by a host of current and former politicians, as well as celebrities, who addressed the crowd. In his speech, former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine said Brexit represents “a creeping paralysis, where yesterday’s nostalgia distorts tomorrow’s opportunities”.
Note EU-Digest: Boris Johnson by politically manuevering in a very devious and undemocratic way, without letting the people have a final say on the agreement he reached with the EU, is taking Britain on a disastrous destructive path, from which they probably will never recover .
Read more at: UK PM Johnson sends conflicting messages to EU on Brexit delay request
Johnson was compelled by a law, passed by opponents last month, to ask the bloc for an extension to the current Brexit deadline of Oct. 31 until Jan. 31 after lawmakers thwarted his attempt to pass his EU divorce deal earlier on Saturday.
The government source said Johnson sent a total of three letters to Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council: a photocopy of the text that the law, known as the Benn Act, forced him to write; a cover note from Britain's EU envoy; and a third letter in which he said he did not want an extension.
As Parliament met in London Saturday morning and voted to force a Brexit delay, hundreds of thousands of anti-Brexit protesters marched in the city’s streets demanding citizens be given a second chance at deciding whether to leave the European Union. The massive crowds moved through the city towards Parliament in a festive and defiant demonstration of frustration with the country’s impending break with the EU, the New York Times reported.
Organizers of the effort told the Times they expected more than a million demonstrators, which would make it one of the largest protests Britain has ever had. The demonstrators were joined by a host of current and former politicians, as well as celebrities, who addressed the crowd. In his speech, former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine said Brexit represents “a creeping paralysis, where yesterday’s nostalgia distorts tomorrow’s opportunities”.
Note EU-Digest: Boris Johnson by politically manuevering in a very devious and undemocratic way, without letting the people have a final say on the agreement he reached with the EU, is taking Britain on a disastrous destructive path, from which they probably will never recover .
Read more at: UK PM Johnson sends conflicting messages to EU on Brexit delay request
October 18, 2019
September 24, 2019
Britain - Supreme Court Ruling: "Bye, Bye" Boris Johnson - Britsh Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule
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September 5, 2019
The Breakup of the UK: The Story of Boris and Václav, or How to Break Up the UK - by Thomas de Waal
Boris Johnson could end up being the English leader who allowed the
breakup of the UK to achieve Brexit. There are lessons in the
dissolution of two other unions, the USSR and Czechoslovakia, and the
role played by Boris Yeltsin and Václav Klaus.
Read more at: The Story of Boris and Václav, or How to Break Up the UK - Carnegie Europe - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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September 4, 2019
Britain-Brexit: Boris Johnson suffers Commons defeat as Tories turn against him - by Heather Stewart and Peter Walker
Boris Johnson
has announced he will ask parliament to support plans for a snap
October general election after suffering a humiliating defeat in his
first House of Commons vote as prime minister.
Former cabinet ministers including Philip Hammond and David Gauke were among 21 Tory rebels who banded together with opposition MPs to seize control of the parliamentary timetable on a dramatic day in Westminster.
The move was aimed at paving the way for a bill tabled by the Labour backbencher Hilary Benn, which is designed to block a no-deal Brexit by forcing the prime minister to request an extension to article 50 if he cannot strike a reworked deal with the EU27.
Johnson lost the vote by 328 to 301, a convincing majority for the rebels of 27.
The PM had earlier described the legislation, drawn up by a cross-party coalition including the senior Tories Oliver Letwin and Dominic Grieve, as “Jeremy Corbyn’s surrender bill”.
After his defeat, Johnson said he would never request the delay mandated in the rebels’ bill, which he said would “hand control of the negotiations to the EU”.
If MPs passed the bill on Wednesday, he said, “the people of this country will have to choose” in an election that he would seek to schedule for 15 October.
Read more at: Boris Johnson suffers Commons defeat as Tories turn against him | Politics | The Guardian
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Former cabinet ministers including Philip Hammond and David Gauke were among 21 Tory rebels who banded together with opposition MPs to seize control of the parliamentary timetable on a dramatic day in Westminster.
The move was aimed at paving the way for a bill tabled by the Labour backbencher Hilary Benn, which is designed to block a no-deal Brexit by forcing the prime minister to request an extension to article 50 if he cannot strike a reworked deal with the EU27.
Johnson lost the vote by 328 to 301, a convincing majority for the rebels of 27.
The PM had earlier described the legislation, drawn up by a cross-party coalition including the senior Tories Oliver Letwin and Dominic Grieve, as “Jeremy Corbyn’s surrender bill”.
After his defeat, Johnson said he would never request the delay mandated in the rebels’ bill, which he said would “hand control of the negotiations to the EU”.
If MPs passed the bill on Wednesday, he said, “the people of this country will have to choose” in an election that he would seek to schedule for 15 October.
Read more at: Boris Johnson suffers Commons defeat as Tories turn against him | Politics | The Guardian
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September 1, 2019
Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon: Parliament suspension may make Scottish independence 'inevitable'
Boris Johnson‘s controversial decision to suspend Parliament in the build up to Brexit may be the moment that Scottish independence became “completely inevitable”, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The Scottish First Minister claimed that support for leaving the UK was growing with each passing day, accusing the Prime Minister of acting like “some kind of tinpot dictator”.
She also said the suspension proved Mr Johnson would be willing to shut down the Scottish Parliament to achieve his political aims, a suggestion she had previously regarded as “silly”.
But the Scottish Conservatives backed the move, arguing there would still be “ample” time for MPs to debate Brexit and describing the SNP‘s reaction as “predictably hysterical”.
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August 29, 2019
Britain - Brexit: Coup d'état by Boris Johnson: Queen approves Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit deadline - by Karla Adam, Michael Birnbaum
Queen Elizabeth II approved a request by Prime Minister Boris Johnson
on Wednesday to shut down Parliament for several weeks ahead of
Britain’s upcoming departure from the European Union, a startling
maneuver that will rob his opponents of time to thwart a no-deal Brexit.
The announcement of Johnson’s plan prompted expressions of outrage
from many lawmakers, who said they are being deprived of their
democratic voice on Britain’s most momentous decision in generations. It
increased the chances that the country will sail out of the European
Union at the end of October with no transition deal to buffer its
passage, a move analysts say could cause major economic turmoil,
including food and fuel shortages.
Johnson told reporters he had asked the queen, who is on holiday at her Scottish estate of Balmoral, to give her usual annual speech outlining the country’s legislative agenda in mid-October, effectively suspending Parliament between Sept. 11 and Oct. 14.
The queen acceded to the prime minister’s request, as is customary.
In an official statement, the Privy Council confirmed that the queen had agreed to prorogue — or suspend — Parliament no sooner than Sept. 9 and no later than Sept. 12. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, Natalie Evans, the leader of the House of Lords, and Mark Spencer, the chief whip, were at Balmoral to deliver the request.
Read more: Queen approves Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit deadline
Johnson told reporters he had asked the queen, who is on holiday at her Scottish estate of Balmoral, to give her usual annual speech outlining the country’s legislative agenda in mid-October, effectively suspending Parliament between Sept. 11 and Oct. 14.
The queen acceded to the prime minister’s request, as is customary.
In an official statement, the Privy Council confirmed that the queen had agreed to prorogue — or suspend — Parliament no sooner than Sept. 9 and no later than Sept. 12. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, Natalie Evans, the leader of the House of Lords, and Mark Spencer, the chief whip, were at Balmoral to deliver the request.
Read more: Queen approves Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit deadline
August 12, 2019
Brexit?: UK MPs' maths means election, not no-deal Brexit - by Tobias Gras
Having lost the by-election
in the previously-safe Conservative Welsh seat of Brecon and
Radnorshire, the Remain coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens and the
Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru has demonstrated that Conservative
seats – even in Leave-leaning constituencies – can be won, as the 'Boris
bounce' fails to annihilate the Brexit Party, and the weakness of the
Labour party fuels a Liberal surge.
With a majority of just one in the House of Commons, it takes only two Tory defectors to carry a motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson.
This will happen, and the prime minister knows it.
So when actively preparing for a hard Brexit on October 31st, Johnson is right to say it is less likely to happen.
Not – as he claims – since the EU will budge, but because two or more heroes or traitors, depending on one's point of view, will defect and bring down his government to prevent no-deal Brexit from happening.
The interesting question is what happens next?
In any case, a hard Halloween Brexit on October 31st seems increasingly unlikely.
Read more at: UK MPs' maths means election, not no-deal Brexit
With a majority of just one in the House of Commons, it takes only two Tory defectors to carry a motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson.
This will happen, and the prime minister knows it.
So when actively preparing for a hard Brexit on October 31st, Johnson is right to say it is less likely to happen.
Not – as he claims – since the EU will budge, but because two or more heroes or traitors, depending on one's point of view, will defect and bring down his government to prevent no-deal Brexit from happening.
The interesting question is what happens next?
In any case, a hard Halloween Brexit on October 31st seems increasingly unlikely.
Read more at: UK MPs' maths means election, not no-deal Brexit
July 26, 2019
Britain - EU Relations: EU negotiator Michel Barnier calls Boris Johnson′s Brexit stance ′unacceptable′
Since taking office on Wednesday and filling his Cabinet with
hard-line Brexiteer politicians, Boris Johnson has insisted on striking a
new deal with the European Union that would omit the so-called backstop
for preventing a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and the
British territory of Northern Ireland.
In an email to national governments on Thursday, EU negotiator Michel Barnier wrote that Johnson's demand was "of course unacceptable and not within the mandate of the European Council."
"No deal will never be the EU's choice, but we all have to be ready for all scenarios," Barnier wrote. The EU had to be ready for Johnson giving "priority" to planning for a no-deal exit, "partly to heap pressure on the unity" on the remaining 27 member states, he added.
Current President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed Barnier's comments he spoke with the new British premier on Thursday. "President Juncker listened to what Prime Minister Johnson had to say, reiterating the EU's position that the Withdrawal Agreement is the best and only agreement possible — in line with the European Council guidelines," Juncker's spokeswoman said after the telephone conversation.
"President Juncker reiterated that the Commission remains available over the coming weeks should the United Kingdom wish to hold talks and clarify its position in more detail," she said.
A spokesman for Johnson's office said the prime minister had told Juncker the backstop would have to be abolished to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Johnson also stated that the withdrawal agreement made between Prime Minister Theresa May and the US would not pass parliament in its current form.
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In an email to national governments on Thursday, EU negotiator Michel Barnier wrote that Johnson's demand was "of course unacceptable and not within the mandate of the European Council."
"No deal will never be the EU's choice, but we all have to be ready for all scenarios," Barnier wrote. The EU had to be ready for Johnson giving "priority" to planning for a no-deal exit, "partly to heap pressure on the unity" on the remaining 27 member states, he added.
Current President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed Barnier's comments he spoke with the new British premier on Thursday. "President Juncker listened to what Prime Minister Johnson had to say, reiterating the EU's position that the Withdrawal Agreement is the best and only agreement possible — in line with the European Council guidelines," Juncker's spokeswoman said after the telephone conversation.
"President Juncker reiterated that the Commission remains available over the coming weeks should the United Kingdom wish to hold talks and clarify its position in more detail," she said.
A spokesman for Johnson's office said the prime minister had told Juncker the backstop would have to be abolished to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Johnson also stated that the withdrawal agreement made between Prime Minister Theresa May and the US would not pass parliament in its current form.
Britain-EU Relations: EU negotiator Michel Barnier calls Boris Johnson′s Brexit stance ′unacceptable′ | News | DW | 25.07.2019
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July 24, 2019
Britain - EU relations: EU welcomes Johnson by rebuffing his Brexit plans - by Eszter Zalan
The EU has welcomed Boris Johnson, the next UK prime minister, with
scepticism as the new Conservative leader promised his party peers to
deliver Brexit by the end of October.
The former mayor of London and ex-foreign minister Johnson won 66 percent of the votes in the Conservative party leadership race to succeed Theresa May, against foreign minister Jeremy Hunt, party officials announced on Tuesday (23 July).
French president Emmanuel Macron and the next president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyen, immediately congratulated Johnson, and said they looked forward to constructive talks with him.
"I'm looking forward to having a good working relationship with him," von der Leyen told a joint news conference with Macron in Paris.
"We have the duty to deliver something which is good for people in Europe and in the UK," she said.
Von der Leyen has earlier stated that she would be open to an extension of the Brexit deadline, currently 31 October, but that would have to be decided by EU leaders at their summit in mid-October.
While EU leaders want to avoid a no-deal Brexit, most of them are frustrated with the ongoing political crisis in the UK.
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The former mayor of London and ex-foreign minister Johnson won 66 percent of the votes in the Conservative party leadership race to succeed Theresa May, against foreign minister Jeremy Hunt, party officials announced on Tuesday (23 July).
French president Emmanuel Macron and the next president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyen, immediately congratulated Johnson, and said they looked forward to constructive talks with him.
"I'm looking forward to having a good working relationship with him," von der Leyen told a joint news conference with Macron in Paris.
"We have the duty to deliver something which is good for people in Europe and in the UK," she said.
Von der Leyen has earlier stated that she would be open to an extension of the Brexit deadline, currently 31 October, but that would have to be decided by EU leaders at their summit in mid-October.
While EU leaders want to avoid a no-deal Brexit, most of them are frustrated with the ongoing political crisis in the UK.
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December 12, 2018
Engeland: Populisten hebben met het doordrukken van Brexit Engeland's ekonomie in grote moeilijkheden gebracht
Het moet toch hopenlijk in de EU tot de ingezetenen en politici van de
bij de EU aangesloten lidstaten zijn doorgedrongen dat eenheid macht
betekend en verdeeltheid catastrofe.
Vooral als we zien hoe de "moedige" Theresa May nu langs de Europese lidstaten loopt te bedelen om "water bij de wijn te doen", wat betreft de Brexit overeenkomst met de EU.
Notabene het Brexit drama, die de Engelsen zich door ,nationalistische populisten, zoals Nigel Farage en Boris Johnson hebben laten inluizen en die nu in geen velden of wegen te bekennen zijn terwijl Engeland ten onder gaat.
Een duidelijk omschreven 2e referendum is waarschijnlijk de enige redding voor Engeland.
Hopenlijk laten de ingezetenen van de EU zich voor en tijdens de Europese Parlements verkiezingen in mei 2019 niet om de tuin leiden door nationalistische en populistische politici en andere onrust kraaiers.
We hebben zeer zeker geen nieuwe dramas als Brexit meer nodig.
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Vooral als we zien hoe de "moedige" Theresa May nu langs de Europese lidstaten loopt te bedelen om "water bij de wijn te doen", wat betreft de Brexit overeenkomst met de EU.
Notabene het Brexit drama, die de Engelsen zich door ,nationalistische populisten, zoals Nigel Farage en Boris Johnson hebben laten inluizen en die nu in geen velden of wegen te bekennen zijn terwijl Engeland ten onder gaat.
Een duidelijk omschreven 2e referendum is waarschijnlijk de enige redding voor Engeland.
Hopenlijk laten de ingezetenen van de EU zich voor en tijdens de Europese Parlements verkiezingen in mei 2019 niet om de tuin leiden door nationalistische en populistische politici en andere onrust kraaiers.
We hebben zeer zeker geen nieuwe dramas als Brexit meer nodig.
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September 3, 2018
Britain - Brexit: Theresa May should start reading the Tea Leaves as 2.6 million Leave voters have abandoned support for Brexit since referendum, major new study finds - by Benjamin Kentish
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If the huge number of Britons who have changed their mind had voted to stay in the EU in 2016, the referendum would have delivered a clear Remain verdict.
In a key finding that will particularly intensify pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to take a tougher stance against Brexit, the study found the overwhelming majority of those changing minds are Labour voters in seats the party currently holds.
It comes as Conservative divisions over Brexit deepened, with Theresa May attempting to slap down Boris Johnson after he wrote another article attacking her approach.
The Independent has launched its own campaign for a Final Say referendum, with almost three quarters of a million people having signed our petition demanding one so far.
Read more: 2.6 million Leave voters have abandoned support for Brexit since referendum, major new study finds | The Independent
July 10, 2018
Britain - Brexit: FM Boris Johnson not happy with Theresa May's plan for a Brexit-Lite deal with the EU and resigns
Brexit: Boris Johnson 'criticized' Theresa May's plan for deal with EU and resigns
Boris Johnson has quit as foreign secretary, claiming in his resignation letter that the UK was headed “for the status of a colony” if Theresa May’s soft Brexit plans were adopted.
Boris Johnson has quit as foreign secretary, claiming in his resignation letter that the UK was headed “for the status of a colony” if Theresa May’s soft Brexit plans were adopted.
November 16, 2016
EU: Boris Johnson offering 'impossible' Brexit vision, says Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister
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The foreign secretary reportedly told a Czech paper the UK was likely to leave the EU customs union post-Brexit - but still wanted to trade freely after.
However, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister, said such an option "doesn't exist" and was "impossible".
Number 10 said a decision on membership of the customs union had not been made.
Mr Johnson reportedly told the Czech newspaper Hospodarske Noviny he did not believe the UK would remain in the EU customs union after Brexit.
Note Almere-Digest : Bravo Jeroen Dijsselbloem Finally someone in the EU dares to tell Boris Johnson, the British Foreign Minister, that he is all talk and with no substance.
Read more: Boris Johnson offering 'impossible' Brexit vision - BBC News
June 25, 2016
Brexit: A pyrrhic victory? Boris Johnson wakes up to the costs of Brexit - by Gaby Hinsliff
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Like the good intellectual that he’s vigorously pretended not to be of late, Boris Johnson will probably know that line. It’s from the Greek historian Plutarch’s account of the battle that gave us the phrase “pyrrhic victory”, the kind of victory won at such cost that you almost wish you’d lost.
In theory, Johnson woke up on Friday morning having won the war. After David Cameron’s announcement that he would step down come October, Johnson is now the heir presumptive – albeit at this stage very presumptive – to the Tory leadership, perhaps only four months away from running the country.
He has everything he ever wanted. It’s just that somehow, as he fought his way through booing crowds on his Islington doorstep before holding an uncharacteristically subdued press conference on Friday morning, it didn’t really look that way.
One group of Tory remainers watching the speech on TV jeered out loud when a rather pale Johnson said leaving Europe needn’t mean pulling up the drawbridge; that this epic victory for Nigel Farage could somehow “take the wind out of the sails” of anyone playing politics with immigration. Too late for all that now, one said.
he scariest possibility, however, is that he actually meant it. That like most of Westminster, Johnson always imagined we’d grudgingly vote to stay in the end. That he too missed the anger bubbling beneath the surface, and is now as shocked as anyone else by what has happened.
“People talk about reluctant remainers, but I think there have been a lot of reluctant Brexiters around, people who voted leave thinking it wouldn’t happen but they’d be able to vent and to tell all their friends at dinner parties they’d done it,” said one Tory minister.
“He thought what all those reluctant Brexiters thought: it would be a vote for remain, he would be seen as having stood up for a principle.” After which leave’s newest martyr could simply have bided his time for a year or so before being triumphantly installed in Downing Street.
It’s perfectly possible, of course, that the Tories on both sides who suspect Johnson was never an outer in his bones are plain wrong, that the anonymous Labour MP who hotly accused him on Friday of jeopardising thousands of ordinary people’s jobs just to secure one for himself was doing him a terrible injustice.
Perhaps Johnson really did have a last-minute epiphany, declaring for leave in the sober realisation that this was always how it might end – Scotland demanding independence, Northern Ireland’s fragile political settlement at risk, Marine Le Pen jubilant, the Bank of England stumping up £250bn to stabilise the market. Perhaps he’s still convinced all will be fine eventually.
And let’s hope to God he’s right. Any remainer who doesn’t pray to be proved wrong about Brexit is callous, wishing disaster on people who are unable to afford it. But right now, what scorched earth Johnson stands to inherit – a nation febrile and divided, teetering on the brink of economic and constitutional crisis. It’s all over for David Cameron now. But it feels, too, like the end of a broader modernising movement to which both he and Johnson belonged.
Johnson is far from a buffoon. He’s an agile thinker, gifted communicator and natural opportunist who made a reasonable fist of governing London after recruiting some reliable deputies (enter Michael Gove). He’s smart enough to have learned from the recent Labour leadership campaign – in which managerially competent candidates were slaughtered for being on the wrong side of a visceral grassroots argument – that elites only survive in this febrile climate by pleasing the masses. Perhaps somehow it will all come together.
It’s just that on Friday morning Johnson didn’t look like a man with a plan that’s all working perfectly. He looked more like a king unable to take more such victories.
Note Almere-Digest: Following Brexit the EU must make sure not to sign any agreement with Britain which gives them preferential treatment.on Trade,Visa,Tax excemptions and immediately treat their Government and Citizens exactly as they would any other non EU country.
In doing so it will also send a clear message not only to Britain but also to other EU nations that if you are a member of the EU you can't have your cake and eat it also.
Read more: A pyrrhic victory? Boris Johnson wakes up to the costs of Brexit | Politics | The Guardian
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