The face of British politics has changed. Not only do they have a new prime minister, but he is unashamedly proud to be British and he doesn’t care who knows about it. Boris Johnson is bringing back the pride in being British and he couldn’t have picked a better time to do it.
Instead of the negative approach to Brexit that Teresa May always had, Johnson sees it as a great opportunity for Britain, and intends to use it to revitalise the nation.
Britain hasn’t heard this kind of talk for decades… not since the “I’m Backing Britain” campaign of the 1970s.
In an interview which echoed Donald Trump’s ‘Make America great again’ message, he promised: “I will set out a vision for Britain as the greatest place on Earth. The greatest place to be, the greatest place to live, to raise a family.
“The greatest place to send your kids to school, the greatest place to breathe clean air, to start a business, the place where you’ll find the most exciting tech scene, the most exciting academic culture, the most cutting-edge businesses of all kinds, but also a place where we improve the environment, we improve quality of life for everybody, because we’re uniting the country and bringing it together, that’s what I want to do.”
The Sun
Against a backdrop of panic and crazy claims, such as that Brexit will result in no one having toilet paper and will reduce life expectancy in Britain to 42 years, Boris is standing firm.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has challenged critics of his “do or die” Brexit strategy by declaring the UK “can easily cope” with a no-deal scenario.
Admitting that chances of striking a deal with Brussels before the October 31 deadline were “touch and go”, he dismissed suggestions that leaving without a deal would lead to food shortages.
The prime minister said that whether an agreement was reached with the EU depended “entirely” on European leaders, whom he is pressing to drop the insurance plan for the Irish border they had agreed with his predecessor, Theresa May.
He told Sky News that if no deal was reached, the £39 billion ($NZ75b) divorce settlement agreed with the EU would no longer be “legally pledged”, freeing up “substantial” funds for the UK.
Good on Boris. He is playing hardball with the EU. It is about time someone did this. Teresa May, who was essentially a Remainer, let them ride roughshod all over her. Boris is not allowing that to happen.
Johnson’s intervention came on the second day of his first summit of world leaders, in south-west France, as he also revealed that Donald Trump wants to strike a post-Brexit trade deal “within a year”.
A bit of a contrast with Obama, who said that Britain would be ‘at the back of the queue’ for a trade deal with the USA, but Obama, of course, was a Remainer in his own right.
Johnson pledged to deliver Brexit on October 31 “do or die”.
And he will. We all know he will. And so does the EU.
Johnson told Sky News: “I think we can get through this. This is a great country, we can easily cope with a no-deal. Frankly I think it’s highly unlikely that there will be shortages.”
Johnson and Trump spoke over an hour-long breakfast on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Biarritz.
During an impromptu press conference at the start, Trump said: “We’re going to do a very big trade deal, bigger than we’ve ever had.”
Stuff
I love the fact that Boris talks up Britain as a ‘great country’.
Wouldn’t you like to have a prime minister like him? I would.
#I’mbackingBoris.
