MY jaw hit the floor when i saw Boris Johnson’s disgraceful crawling to Trump on Fox and Friends. Having rambled on barely coherently about the need to retain the Iran deal, the bold Boris clearly lost the plot when he advocated Trump as a potential Nobel Peace Prize candidate.
I realise fully that he had to say something as moronic as that, as he had previously questioned the Whitehouse windbag’s depth of knowledge and understanding of the Iranian situation and of what his intended scrapping of the deal would entail. As he was not meeting the POTUS himself, he used the one media outlet he was sure Trump would be watching.
Not only did Johnson embarrass himself with his ingratiating ramble, he once again embarrassed the country he is supposed to represent and the vast majority of its citizens who do not share his view on Trump. What was also more galling was his reference to Barack Obama winning the prize, as he inferred that Obama had done “nothing” and he got it. Well, Boris, Trump is not fit to polish the shoes of Obama and never will be. Trump has a pathological hatred of the man, and has done all he can to undo any and all good work he did whilst in the presidency.
To suggest that if Trump could get resolutions on North Korea and Iran he would be deserving of the award is sheer nonsense, as the only thing Trump has done thus far is to bring the world to the brink of nuclear conflict with his boorish and bullying tactics, which in the end will not work.
Trump has no idea, other than what he has seen on Fox, what is required to make successful negotiations and treaties with these two countries. He has now got hawks in his administration who would rather bomb than have dialogue, and this feeds directly into his hate mainline. Trump does not have the patience or the knowledge to craft fine political solutions as he sees all of these intricate, slow and patient negotiations as weakness, and not part of “the art of the deal”! His impatience and lack of attention will be the downfall of both these situations, and we will be faced with another round of megaphone diplomacy.
Just the perfect candidate for the Peace Prize don’t you think? No, I don’t either, but Johnson will have been sent to the US with one aim: don’t upset Trump, don’t do or say anything that might jeopardise the mythical “wonderful trade deals” apparently coming our way, if Trump remembers he said we would get them. Boris of course got carried away with his Eton rhetoric and had to try and salvage the situation by lauding the Windbag with false praise. Like May before him, he looked every inch the sad UK sycophant sent to massage the biggest and most fragile ego in the world and he failed miserably. As a statesman Johnson is a joke and an embarrassment, as a spokesman for my country (Scotland) he is a liability, and like so many others in my land I say to you, do not praise Trump. He will see the full venom of the Scottish people if he dares cross the Border during his summer visit, Until then, Boris, not in my name!
Ade Hegney
Helensburgh
PUT aside the fact that we only have Brexit because the right wing of the Conservative party is wagging the otherwise limp body of the blind, deaf, arthritic dog and the gutter press have used the EU as something to snipe at for decades – Brexit is still mad as a box of frogs. Despite Empire fantasists like Boris Johnson who are shunting this tug boat, the only waves Britannia is ruling are waves of nauseating nostalgia.
Behemoth contractors collapse; high street stores go into liquidation at such a rate they barely make headlines any more; the NHS suffers under the strain of IT failures, under-funding and a growing recruitment problem; the two major parties are both mired in their own special racism messes; and recent local election turn-out was just 30%.
Students with eye-watering debt cannot get decent jobs, rail infrastructure is a disaster and Grenfell Tower showed us that we need the very health and safety legislation Brussels was derided for providing. The government need to explain to us which bits of the UK are still functioning and ready to “rule the waves”.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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