Francis Rowe 02/01/2021 at 07.52: Francis Rowe's European-based friend is completely right. The reason why we have sacrificed the existing deal with the EU? Because 90,000 geriatric members of the Conservative and Unionist Party chose a thoroughly contemptible charlatan, Boris Johnson, to be PM over more suitable candidates.Boris Johnson is a "gold medal egomaniac" - article by Max Hasting in 2012 when Boris was Mayor of London. Mr Hastings continued:"I would not trust him with my wife nor — from painful experience — with my wallet. It is unnecessary to take any moral view about his almost crazed infidelities, but it is hard to believe that any man so conspicuously incapable of controlling his own libido is fit to be trusted with controlling the country....His chaotic public persona is not an act — he is, indeed, manically disorganised about everything except his own image management. He is also a far more ruthless, and frankly nastier, figure than the public appreciates....he is much given to making threats, bearing grudges and behaving with malice aforethought.....I would not take Boris’s word about whether it is Monday or Tuesday....He is not a man to believe in, to trust or respect save as a superlative exhibitionist. He is bereft of judgment, loyalty and discretion.Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still." Boris Johnson knows what he has given away. And he does not care.Boris Johnson is a foolish, ambitious and vain man. He is a very dangerous man. Just the person to manage a pandemic and the greatest realignment of the politics of the "United Kingdom" in the last 300 years.There is a way back to membership of the EU, but it will take 10 years. See the Twitter thread by @NickTolhurst. We must stay patient and not loose our friends in the EU. Personal friendship will, eventually, rebuild trust when Mr Johnson is gone. The article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2215342/If-Boris-Johnson-Prime-Minister-Im-plane-Britain-says-Max-Hastings.html
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