COMEDIAN Tom Walker has launched a stunning takedown of Boris Johnson as he explained the partygate scandal to a US audience.
Jonathan Pie, the satirical reporter played by Walker, appeared in a hilarious video for the New York Times to translate the crisis in Number 10 for those in the US.
Pie compared Johnson to Donald Trump, saying he was a “demonstrable liar who is only out for himself,” before asking “don’t know if that sounds familiar?”
He went on to call him a “narcissist with sh*t hair – again sound familiar?”
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Likely referencing Ian Blackford being kicked out of the House of Commons for saying Boris Johnson lied, Pie said: “Actually I can’t say liar, can I? In the UK, you can’t call them liars. You have to say ‘oh, he inadvertently misled parliament'.
“Really I can come out and say it? God bless America.”
Walker has racked up millions of views for his Jonathan Pie sketches where he plays a tired and angry reporter who rants about the state of UK politics when he is off air.
After explaining what the term “porky pies” meant to people in the US, he described how Downing Street held more than a dozen parties while the UK was in lockdown.
“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
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“Boris was forced to apologise to the Queen when it emerged two of these parties took place the night before her husband’s funeral,” he said.
“The Queen, she’s our head of state, a bit like your president but she’s in her 90s so she’s a lot younger than your guy.”
Pie jokes: “So the day that the Queen sat on her own at her husband’s funeral because of the rules that Boris had set, his closest colleagues in government were taking Alka-Seltzer and the morning after pill, having got blind drunk on BYO MNS GNTs.”
The fictional journalist then sought to explain the abbreviations: “BYOB bring your own, booze, drink alcohol. M&S, it’s like a British upmarket Walmart except you can buy butter instead of military-grade assault rifles.
Jonathan Pie said Boris Johnson is letting the UK 'rot from the inside out'
“GNTs – gin and tonics, a sort of English alcoholic Sprite.”
In a scathing attack on the PM, Pie says “Boris denied any knowledge of any parties until it became clear he was at some of them ie he lied, to the country and to parliament.“And he did it again this week when he lied to parliament by denying that he previously denied to parliament. And that’s Boris all over.”
Pie then brings up Johnson’s “lies” on proroguing parliament, Brexit, and when he got fired for “lying” when he was a journalist.
Pie asks how a person like Johnson can reach such a high position: "One word: entitlement”.
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Pie finished the video with an increasingly rageful rant in which he criticises those in the government for being out of touch, mentioning Boris Johnson's time in Eton and his membership of the infamous Bullingdon Club.
Like Trump, Pie says, Johnson "is a product of a broken political system that rewards ignorance and hubris".
He ends by accusing the UK Government of allowing the country to "rot from the inside out" before asking "too much?"
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