Boris is in charge of the country.
What could he get up?
- Perhaps finally use those three German water cannon to cool down heated tourists in Trafalgar Square?
- Issue a multiple apology for his past columns to all UN member nations (just to be sure)?
- Get stuck on a zip wire between Number 10 and Buckingham Palace while trying to visit Her Majesty?
- Go into Madame Tussauds and pretend to be his own waxwork for a morning? Warf! Warf!
- Try to catch up on our Olympic medals total via the BBC red button but fire our nuclear deterrent at Belgium instead?
- Finally find the £350 million a week for the NHS under Theresa May’s aspidistra?
Come on team, there must be some others…
In reality, he’ll probably be doing some very boring and worthy things, which appears to be his new lot in life.
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Amusing as the idea of Johnson in charge of the country is, which is the only party to actually elect as its leader someone best known for clowning around an a Friday evening TV panel show?
“Boris is in charge of the country”
Ahhhhhhhhhh, where is the passport?
We will probably be a fully committed member of the Eurozone by the time Theresa gets back from her holidays.
Arrange to see the new mayor of Tokyo, advise her how to run a big city and tell her about the debate in the Commons on Trident, including how he voted. He will, of course, immediately understand that the LDP in Japan is different from Liberal Democrats in the UK, for instance not being a member party of the Liberal International. They could also discuss the nuances of coalition and non-transferable voting in multi-member seats, which London has for councils and Japan for parliament.
Being a diplomat he could also discuss the recent TV broadcast by the Emperor and the UK’s history of abdication by King Edward VIII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_gubernatorial_election,_2016
@PSI I am sure we can crowd fund you one
He could… hire out his bike, and his London pad through Air B&b while he’s away on official busybess
“When I said I wanted to be a comedian everybody laughed. They;re not laughing now.” Bob Monkhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Monkhouse
Cartoonists are depicting Boris with a Donald Trump haircut.
I gather it’s being used as a film plot….
Home Alone (x-rated) The story stars Boris Johnson as Kevin McCallister, a child who is mistakenly left behind when the grown-ups fly to Switzerland for their Summer vacation….
“Hello, Majesty. I prostrate myself and all that. It is prostrate myself and not castrate, isn’t it? Foreign words. We’re jolly well getting rid of them into the big stinky-poo along with all these immigrants with funny accents and anyone descended from Nazi-land. I say, you what? Well, it’s just a jolly old manner of speaking and I expect we could make exceptions.”
Johnson is not our friend. Stop feeding the cuddly public image of a nasty right-wing Tory racist by calling him by his first name.
ColinW 18th Aug ’16 – 6:42pm: but we need to distinguish him from his brother, who is a minister, his sister, who is a journalist and his father who was an MEP, all pro-Europeans as his namesake, Labour MP Alan Johnson pointed out in the Commons. Now that he is temporary assistant Prime Minister he should take the opportunity to clarify his apparent promise, at the Wembley debate, to announce an annual public holiday on 23 June. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Johnson
Or, he could take a ride on the Circle Line until he reaches a terminus. He might find that some people think he is the mayor of London, or a lookalike, as happens to the actual mayor. He would have the opportunity to explain to other travellers about the delays in introducing all night travel in this busy city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London
https://www.bing.com/search?q=mayor+of+london&form=WNSGPH&qs=TPP&cvid=bde784a4e77541ff9005b0328a3b3ea1&pq=mayor%20of%20london&nclid=D19A84F13F0AA22DEE7AE50DDCF460A0&ts=1471601305290
As London Mayor, Johnson was unable to address the fact that Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy. In his roles as acting-PM and Foreign Secretary, Johnson has opportunity to tackle this anomaly.
For background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_to_Pimlico
Advise the USA on the use of pardons. Bill Clinton found that the Presidential Office was taking the simple route of refusing all applications, which has the advantage for staff of simplicity and brevity.
Turkeys can look forward to a longer life if pardoned, but why do they need a pardon?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chandra-bozelko/post_10588_b_8650090.html
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/watch-home-secretary-amber-rudd-says-boris-isnt-man-want-driving-home/