IN Boris Johnson’s “glorious”post-Brexit Britain – where the EU has a low opinion of the UK for not playing for Team Planet – won’t some of the glorious new trade partners like South Africa also spit on us after the Bell Pottinger scandal which has resonated round the whole of Africa?
Will glorifying Boris be our glorious leader? Will we all sail on faerie barges called Gloriana in a glorious sepia tinted it-never-really-happened-that-way past?
Glory be – just how deluded is this utterer of pop-Latin and low-grade racist twaddle? Maybe we’ll all get free tickets to glorious Goodwood to watch the GGs. That would be just spiffing.
When are we going to see the back of these inglorious horrors – the public school over-promoted disasters? Who took us into an illegal war in Iraq? Blair. Who launched the unplanned referendum? Cameron. Who made a mockery of our place in the EU even while we were properly in? Farage. And who now, as he begins to really get the message of just what a catastrophic disaster Brexit is, tries to cover himself in faux glory? I’ll give you a clue – he is regarded by the rest of the globe as a buffoon.
Amanda Baker
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