Good news, everyone ! The ghastly era of post-truthism is over. That was a horrible six months, wasn't it ? Now we're back to good old-fashioned delusions. Hurrah !
Boris Johnson has warned EU leaders not to give the UK "punishment beatings" for Brexit "in the manner of some World War Two movie". The foreign secretary said penalising "escape" was "not in the interests of our friends and our partners".
Former cabinet minister and Brexit campaigner Michael Gove hit back, tweeting that people offended by Mr Johnson's "witty metaphor" were "humourless, deliberately obtuse, snowflakes".
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband said Boris Johnson had shown once again that he could be "supremely clever and yet immensely stupid".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38658998
So many muppets.
ReplyDeleteTo revise Tom Paine a bit: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but the grecht sweating mop-head blagger that stands it now, in the Foreign Service....'
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, I'd imagine that countries are queuing up for trade deals. It's pretty obvious that the UK's going to be in a very poor negotiating position in any deal we try to make, so why wouldn't they all be queuing up to get a slice of the cake? They'll be able to take us to the cleaners much more effectively than when we were in one of the world's largest trading blocs.
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