Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
A Joe Biden White House will have little time and less love for ‘Britain’s Trump’ | Andrew Rawnsley
If he becomes the next US president, who will be Mr Biden’s ‘special friend’ in Europe? Certainly not Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
“There is an intrinsic problem for Boris,” observes Sir Christopher Meyer, the UK’s ambassador in Washington during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W Bush. “The Democrats think Boris is a pea from the same pod as Trump.” Being “Britain’s Trump” goes down almost as poisonously as being Trump himself among many in Team Biden. They are bracketed together in the minds of Democrats not just because both are rule-breaking populists who have polarised their countries and trashed historic alliances. Likely members of a Biden administration remember examples of the Tory leader’s insultingly Trumpian behaviour. Ben Rhodes, who was deputy national security adviser when Mr Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama, has remarked: “I’m old enough to remember when Boris Johnson said Obama opposed Brexit because he was Kenyan.” A more recent inflammatory episode exposed a complete absence of thought in Number 10 about the man whom the polls suggest will be the next US president.
Simply put. - The new regime will not sign a trade deal that endangers the GFA and so Boris is truly fucked. No chlorinated chicken for us. Johnson will become a lame duck PM signing trade deals with Upper Volta and Kazakhstan whilst the idiocy of brexit dawns on the UK.
Keir Starmer will be returned as PM of England on a ticket promising a return to the EU whilst newly independent Scotland and Wales forge their way in an exciting new world.
