Posted on 09/16/2017 8:22:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has fueled speculation that he hopes to eventually succeed Prime Minister Theresa May by spelling out his Brexit goals days before her major policy speech on the topic.
Johnson, a former journalist, wrote a 4,000-word article in the Saturday edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper to explain how Brexit can bring a “glorious” future to Britain and help it become “the greatest country on Earth.” He says Britain shouldn’t seek to stay in the single market or the customs union, and should seize the opportunity to make its own way.
The timing of his Brexit broadside is important because May is scheduled to detail her own Brexit views at a much-touted speech in Italy on Sept. 22.
Johnson making his own views known before May’s speech may be seen by many as a challenge to her authority, weakened by a poor result in the June 8 election that cost her Conservative Party its majority in Parliament. …
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Interesting to have a Ottoman Aristocrat as English PM
And people complain about American politicians. Imagine this clown as the leader of the UK.
Boris Johnson would be an enormous step in the right direction for Britain.
Boris isn’t perfect, but he’s the best they’ve got.
Boris Johnson would be 200% better than May....
With the millions they imported from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh - emphasis on the latter two), Africa, Middle East, and the Caribbean, that is a rather unlikely outcome.
Eh?
He might be an improvement on the feckless May but IDK about “enormous”.
he is 1/2 Ottoman
and 1/2 Prussian
Ah, I didn’t know he had a Turkish background, interesting.
The Ottoman Empire was probably the last time the middle east was governed competently.
yup
blame the Frogs & John Bull & now the neocons for the rest of it
btw - the ottomans don’t consider themselves Turks. one of those tribal things I think their ethnic origins are Circcasian but it’s a bit too complex for me to fathom
Iraq was a wonderful idea by the Brits. Put Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds all together, what could go wrong!
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