I think @Goatboy posted a Twitter thread about this elsewhere.
I have been saying for years that one of the most worrying things about Boris is his judgement with people. I think he went through a number of deputy mayors, each brought down by scandal, in his time overseeing the capital.
The press would find rather obvious evidence of impropriety and they’d have to quit.
Left me with two feelings about Boris. First, he obviously didn’t know these people and hadn’t vetted these people. Second, he doesn’t really have people, and that’s a concern for someone his age.
There’s a lot more scrutiny over his associates now he’s PM, but you can derive a lot from his response to MI6 when they warned him off Lebedev. Didn’t trust the advice, thought he knew better and “spaffed cash up the wall” on discrediting the MI6 opinion and landing his “mate” a peerage.
The only thing you need to know about Johnson and Russian oligarchs is that he’s bought and paid for, and has been for years. Hopelessly compromised. Remember when he was Foreign Secretary and gave his security detail the slip so that he could attend one of Lebedev’s ‘Bunga Bunga’ parties at his Perugia villa? Photographed the next day at the airport barely able to stand up and looking like he’d slept in a ditch. The wife of one of Putin’s ministers paying him 160 grand for a game of tennis. And so on and so on.
Problem is he gets away with it because there is no effective opposition in parliament. Sir Keira Knighthood is hopelessly compromised too and can’t go for the jugular regarding this Russian oligarch corruption because his mentor, chief adviser and puppet master is hopelessly compromised as well, probably as much as anyone. A sorry and sad state of affairs. Still, at least we haven’t been lumbered with Jeremy Corbyn eh!
As an aside, I do wish you would stop referring to the drunken liar as ‘Boris’, it makes it sound like you’re his mate. None of his friends and family have ever called him Boris, it’s his stage name, made up for the plebs, sadly most of whom lap it up. Prime Minister, or Johnson will do, although I prefer ‘lying cunt’, which has a certain ring to it I find!
I’ve made these remarks before, but the only things he has in common with his hero Churchill when he took office was that he’s fat, hated by his own party and skint.
It’s really the last that worries me. Of course Johnson is compromised. How compromised was his hero?
