Fraser Nelson writes in The Spectator:
Giving Boris Johnson the role of Foreign Secretary is probably the smartest single move that Theresa May will make in tonight’s reshuffle. It could well turn out to be one of the most important jobs in the Brexit era – a job of selling Britain to the world. A job that means explaining what George Osborne could not: that the Brexit vote was the act of a self-confident nation keen to make to friends and strike new alliances.
I travelled w @BorisJohnson to China, India, Middle East & US over many years & despite gaffes/inexperience he was brilliant salesman for UK
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 13, 2016
Also quite surprising is that we have a Brexit secretary title, as in a secretary of Brexit
That's... vaguely amazing, in the worst way possible. You take someone that spent a large amount of their pre-political career specifically undermining foreign relations, who spent literally years slandering other countries, and put them at what appears to be the head of the foreign relations branch of your government.
Somehow, someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea. I'm not sure how, I'm not sure who, and I'm not sure from which alternate reality they're managing to communicate from, but they did.
Yeah this whole post is slander from buzzfeed, absolutely haram
In my experience, Boris is an odd one. He entered Londinium politics with low expectations, everyone expected him to be an incredible failure, and 8 years later the majority of London thinks he did a successful job. As Mayor he appointed talented administrators to do stuff, and I mean that quite literally, as a leader he did not interfere with what his underlings were doing as long as it wasn't trouble. The consequence is twofold, Whitehall is now more powerful because the people he appointed did their job very well, and now Khan will have the team he needs to get shit done. Economically, sure London is successful, but business peeps tend to make stuff successful in London for as long as Mayors don't get in their way, to that end Boris was a blessing. On the crime front, crime has gone down overall (but I suspect this has more to do with digital crime becoming more important), with most focus being on how Boris closed down many police stations in order to fund the procurement of 22,000 body cameras (to avoid the 2011 riots, or similar riots happening in the USA due to ambiguity as to police conduct), and 3 water cannons. The water cannons have never been used and generated loads of flak, and quite recently, Theresa May got rid of them (or put them in the cupboard, I dunno they're out of sight somewhere). On the travel front, Boris promised more than he could deliver, but the bikes, end of bendy buses, improvements of the Underground have all been satisfactory. Congestion has not, and is hellish. Then there was the 2012 Olympics, in which Boris got to spread his mug across international media, in which he utterly excelled with his baffling charisma and promotional instincts like a popularity fungus. Most importantly, he turned the otherwise useless Olympic venues (insofar as they were only useful for the Olympics) into a park and housing zone in a manner that did not leave us like Athens. I still maintain that the quickest way to destroy a country is force them to hold the Olympics continuously until everything is destroyed.
During the Athens Games, one volunteer welcomed visitors to the Olympic Stadium with a loudspeaker announcement that urged them to “Enjoy yourselves. When will we ever see days like these again?”
God damn, it is sad to see Greece as such. Greeks had a taste of great days and watched it all crumble
Anyways Boris spent his columnist career criticizing the European Union, which itself undermined foreign relations by utterly dismantling multilateralism. To that end, top lels
Likewise ending the oil deal with Venezuela was altogether moral
10/10 would elect again if that were legal
I can only guess for their next hat trick, the UK's government is going to just sink the islands into the ocean and float themselves off to the Bahamas. It seems like a logical progression at this point.
Pft, like hell we're ever going to get weather as good as the Bahamas
You know what the marketing slogan for Bahamas tourism is?
"It's better in the Bahamas."
They're not wrong
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