After nearly all residents of government boroughs except for Larry, the Downing Street cat, called on Boris Johnson to resign, and several politicians left his government within 48 hours as Brexit-stricken Theresa May was forced to work for two years, she announced. Her departure in the early hours of Thursday afternoon in the British Prime Minister, although he will be responsible for the government until the battle of succession, that is, until the fall.
Although we have covered at length the series of scandals and moral decline that led to the wave of resignations that led to the departure, it is also true of the Brexit campaign. He left To what extent he has divided British society as the face of the campaign, one positive thing must be highlighted about Johnson:
One of the funniest figures in British politics is leaving Downing Street.
To make it easier to say goodbye, we’ve rounded up some of Boris Johnson’s funniest moments, not just as Prime Minister.
Sports
In Hungary, there is no need to explain what it is like when sport becomes part of political public relations (in fact, politics every day). Boris Johnson pursued this in a more traditional way, really just for the good pictures – and how!
In 2006, ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Germany, the All-Star teams of the English and German parliaments played an exhibition match, and Johnson entered first as a tough left-back at the start of the match. To what extent, the recording shows the following: Attila Viola would never be able to wear the rugby uniform that only MP Johnson had at that time.
In 2008, he became mayor of London, and in this capacity he went to Beijing to receive the baton for the London Olympics four years later. However, at the homecoming party, a barely sane Johnson rose to the stage, who, after paying tribute to the Chinese organization and the British team, began to make an amazing train of thought. Themes of the speech: What a pity that percussion is not an Olympic sport, the rules of all sports were written by the British, sorry China, but ping-pong was invented by the English, who played it at the dining-room table and Wave enough Under the name the French also got it, I quote:
The French looked at the table and saw the scene of dinner. We looked at her and said: We’ll do it here to nonsense!
Meanwhile, everyone in the background was laughing and shaking their heads. Who could imagine Gergeli Caraxone in the same way?
One of his stunts, if not for him, is related to the 2012 Olympics: during the London Games, while presenting East London scenes, which were highly developed for the Olympics, Johnson sat on a newly delivered wire rope course, which was not enough to carry two small British flags, He slipped on it, but also hung on it, hanging over the heads of spectators for a while. The image has remained so iconic that on the day Johnson resigned as Prime Minister, he appeared It also inspired the cover of The Economist.
However, this was not the last sporting incident for Johnson in a media event: in 2015, during a visit to Tokyo, he stopped playing rugby with children, which ended in the defeat of a local ten-year-old. It was.
gastronomy
Just like sports, kitchen communications need not be introduced to Hungarian political consumers. Although he didn’t make scrambled tripe and pickled ground beef in Downing Street, Boris Johnson was a pro at it too—although the bar wasn’t high, given that his predecessor, David Cameron, was just Eating sausage with knife and fork It can produce a stunt.
As a British gentleman who went to Eton College and Oxford, for example, he bravely waited for fellow journalists with several cups of brewed tea (and even sugar and milk!) when they wanted to question him in 2018 for comparing women wearing burqas to mailboxes.
This was followed by a radio interview in which he talked about the best-selling sausage rolls at Greggs, Britain’s best-known bakery chain. The company created a vegan version of the popular cookie, but Johnson struggled to pronounce the word.
On the 2019 election campaign, it was also revealed: He can make a great steak and french fries. For that, they were able to record a somewhat awkward short film that, like Hollywood stars, was followed by cameras at Tory headquarters rather than his home, and then asked personal questions, including whether he preferred fish and chips or a traditional British roast dinner (spoiler). : Previous).
However, the restaurant Boris also had a long joke. Johnson made it clear in nearly a dozen interviews during the 2000s and 2010s that he would certainly not become prime minister. As he said several times:
“I’m more likely to reincarnate as an olive than as prime minister.”
On the topic, he also liked to use the analogy that he would be more likely to be decapitated by a flying CD than to go to Downing Street.
Colors
However, there have been media stunts that have become popular for a completely different reason. Specifically because of Johnson’s method a blue Pronunciation of a word in English.
This is how the Prime Minister – again following internet trends – answered his most searched Google questions and reassured everyone that they would not lose their passports after Brexit and that if they ordered a new one, it would be a beautiful blue. will be
And once, in a Q&A on social media, someone was curious about what kind of shampoo Johnson was using, with his clown hairdo, and replied: Blue. One that you would wash elsewhere.
hobbies
Johnson was brilliant at managing the media, but two wrong examples must certainly be cited.
In November 2021 the Prime Minister attended a meeting of a British industrial association, but became confused in his remarks and, instead of taking a neat break, began to speak back and forth. Among other things, going to a Peppa Pig-themed theme park the day before, “as everyone should.” No, he wasn’t just saying this as a joke: he made political examples about fictional pigs and praised the British invention as a “pig like Picasso’s hairdryer” that swept the world.
In the 2016 Brexit campaign, the future prime minister learned how to manipulate people well, but he also participated in a stunt that later backfired: He was the face of those. For the Brexiteerswho announced in big red text painted on buses that the state was sending £350m to the union every week, and that all of this could be spent on healthcare if they left. Your number was misleading and wrong.
Johnson knew this too, which is why, shortly after taking over as Prime Minister from Theresa May, he spoke in an interview with talkRadio about
In his spare time he makes buses out of boxes and draws people on them.
Soon the press saw through the surreal monologue: Johnson wanted to make sure that if people wanted to call the Brexit bus out of lies about him, then the search engine wouldn’t make 350 million claims for the term “Boris Johnson’s bus”, but the bus-building hobby.
the fall
Johnson’s carefully built two-decade political career was destroyed in a span of two days. Hourly ministers resigning, opposition to the prime minister, and his eventual resignation, on the other hand, ensured that even the most bohemian British politician would be surrounded by jokes even in his farewell.
The most famous Downing Street resident is undoubtedly Larry the Cat, the prime minister of all time and not Johnson’s favourite. It’s one thing that the meme page that translates his thoughts has become the most entertaining place on Twitter (“If you don’t quit by ten, I’ll shit in your shoes! ‘), another that the cat refused to enter the door for hours, despite it being opened, and on one occasion a reporter yelled at him, ‘Larry, haven’t you asked him to resign yet? “
By the way, on Wednesday night, things happened on the evening program of the British public media, BBC, that would have been unimaginable in Hungary: it was not only critical, but funny. ts, Bittersweet Symphony For the acoustic version of Melody, more than 50 members of the government who had resigned at the time were recorded as a sort of slate of actors, with a sad Boris Johnson in the background in black and white.
And the British comedy ended with a British comedy: when it was already known that Johnson would resign, behind the talk of Tory politicians in Westminster, Benny Hill Show The theme song, so many conservative politicians have had to say, was also ridiculed by the background noise – and not just what happened in Downing Street in recent days. The fact that all signs point to the activist behind the joke is just icing on the cake really in love The British Prime Minister plays Hugh Grant’s tweet gave me the idea.
