Хороший ли человек Борис Джонсон? Ответ из Кворы
I’ll present a ‘top 50’, and you can make up your own mind:
- Sacked for making up a quote while working as a newspaper journalist. Three times.
- Sacked for lying about an affair.
- Discussed having a journalist beaten up.
- Endangered a British citizen jailed in Iran, likely caused the doubling of their sentence form 5 to 10 years, and was forced in parliament to apologise.
- Called black people 'picaninnies'.
- Mocked Muslim women as 'letterboxes'.
- Used racist terms to describe Barack Obama.
- Propagated the £350m-a-week Brexit lie.
- Doubled down on this by stating that pledge of £350m a week was “grossly underestimated”, and claimed that leaving the EU would free up £438m for the health service (Jan 2018).
- Lied about Turkey joining the EU.
- Repeatedly ignored conflict-of-interest rules. Three times in a single year.
- Spent millions on the London Garden Bridge project (literally zero to show for this spending). This cost will be met by the taxpayer.
- Spent £300,000 on purchasing water cannon that cannot be used because they’re illegal.
- Spent thousands ordering a new design of London bus that became a ‘sauna on wheels’, and which required a conductor when the remainder of the infrastructure (ticketing, etc) was set up for ‘no conductor’.
- Called gay men 'tank-topped bum boys'.
- Recited a colonial-era poem in Myanmar in front of several local government big-wigs. Literally had to be physically stopped by the British Ambassador.
- Wrote a dirty limerick about Turkey’s President and a goat.
- Insulted the entire city of Liverpool.
- Said Africa needs its old colonial powers to come back.
- Claimed money spent of a child abuse investigation was 'spaffed up a wall'.
- Called the French ‘turds’ who ‘shafted Britain’.
- Compared the EU to Adolf Hitler.
- Proclaimed ‘fuck business’ when asked about the effect of Brexit on the UK’s economy.
- Said ‘fuck the families’ of the 7/7 bombings (allegedly).
- Branded Hillary Clinton a ‘sadistic mental health nurse’.
- Cosied up to a President he had previously stated was ‘unfit to rule’.
- Refused to back the UK Ambassador to the US.
- Deliberately flew out of the country to avoid a vote on Heathrow Airport, having previously stated that he would ‘lie down in front of the bulldozers’, if construction ever started.
- Advocated leaving the EU but suggested building a bridge across the Channel in order to remain connected.
- Also advocated building a bridge linking the UK to Ireland.
- Literally started his career writing EU myths about straight banana regulations and similar.
- Had to cut short a 2015 visit to Palestine due to his pro-Israel remarks (while he was Foreign Secretary).
- Described the people of Papua New Guinea as ‘cannibals’. While he was Foreign Secretary.
- Described Black American basketball players as having "arms hanging below their knees and tongues sticking out".
- The day before he was due to appear as an advocate against FGM, he publicly mocked the “obsession” of women aid workers on ending FGM.
- Cost taxpayers an estimated £323 million with a bungled Olympic Stadium conversion.
- Told EU leaders to, "go whistle" over the ‘divorce bill’. We gave in on Day One.
- Told a fellow politician to “get stuffed” when they asked him about cuts to the London Fire Service that occurred while he was Mayor.
- Called for Scottish people to be blocked from becoming prime minister because "government by a Scot is just not conceivable."
- Lied about voting in May 2019 local elections.
- Spent an estimated £24million on his cable car vanity project. That goes from nowhere to nowhere, and which averages a few dozen passengers per day.
- Can’t remember how many children he has.
- Has dodged questions on whether he has ever used cocaine.
- Took credit for the ‘Boris Bikes’ (actually planned and implemented by his predecessor Ken Livingstone).
- Took credit for the Olympic planning (actually planned and 90% implemented by his predecessor Ken Livingstone).
- Caused a diplomatic incident with Italy over his remarks (threats) about prosecco.
- Also made up a story about how all Italian men have small penises.
- Wrote two newspaper columns before the referendum - one for ‘leave’, and one for ‘remain’, and decided to publish the ‘leave’ one because it was better for his career.
- Claimed that the Libyan city of Sirte (destroyed in the civil war with horrendous civilian casualties) would have a bright future as a luxury resort ‘once they cleared the dead bodies away’.
- Talked about Whisky exports to India while in a Sikh temple (alcohol being forbidden by the Sikh faith).
- Lied to the Queen about the reason for Proroguing Parliament.
Still, good old Boris, right. Wot a lad! Wot a larf! Изучила, что такое этот ларф, оказалось, просто laugh.
Много нового узнала, но мнение довольно популярно, а в последнее время даже среди тори. Вопрос стоит, выпрут его из премьеров, или нет. Но без него будет скучнее, без сомнения.