Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Right Honourable Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. There are lot of things one could say about this man, none of them flattering. But that could easily be construed as being biased (which I am) and short-changing his achievements (of which there aren’t any). What this man has done and represents requires a lot more than just one entry in this blog, and I am working on it.
In the meantime, please have a look for yourselves. Below is the keynote speech for the Annual Conference of the Confederation of British Industry, i.e. the organisation representing business in the UK, delivered by the PM today. The highlights in short order: Cars with combustion engines go “vroom, vroom” (7:59); he is actually Moses, having come down from Mt Sinai with a new Decalogue (10:12); and then he went literally nuclear (12:20). Fiddling with history & fact, as usual, claiming that the Brits built the first civilian nuclear power plant. That honour actually goes to the Soviets.
Johnson then goes on to quote Lenin (12:57) and urges people to go back to the office (15:10), because “there are sound evolutionary reasons why Mother Nature does not like working from home.” After he lost the plot, literally (15:50), he goes off the rails waxing lyrically about Peppa Pig (19:50). A children’s programme that “is worth £6b to this country.” Seems no-one told him that the Americans bought the franchise two years ago.
But see for yourselves:
This is the Prime Minister’s keynote speech to the biggest gathering and most important event in the UK business calendar. There is a reason they get the Prime Minister for this, and not just some underling. And this is what he delivers? The word “cringe,” or Fremdschämen in German, gets a completely new meaning here. Nobody could believe this car crash; a journalist at the speech even asked Johnson if he was OK.
This is the man who represents this country. The man in No 10 Downing Street. The fucking Prime Minister. What have we done to deserve this? And I’m not asking for the Brexit lunatics, I mean the other decent folk on these shores.
WTactualF?