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The slap down is for opening mouth without engaging brain and accidentally telling the truth; the words aren't the policy though, the policy us to buy oil, sell arms and let them carry on. This will continue and Boris will join in rather than challenge the status quo
Well I like him, reckon he'd be a good laugh on a night out down the pub.
Obviously a key qualification for the post of Foreign Secretary.
So his mis-times words were not a challenge - odd way of "going along with policy" but politics is full of odd things these days
I wish they had given Johnson health. A guaranteed loser as a position - the worst job in government - and one in which his inadequacies would have been clearly exposed.
anyway enough of Borris, how about his twin brother Boris?
DrJ, sorry I was'nt clearer on the irony meter there. You could try putting the comment in the context of the rest of the post wot I wrote.
Interesting comments from Fallon today on the Andrew Marr show. As per prior poster here said the Saudis sat next to Boris didn't seem offended and I listen to the actual speech extract ans it was pretty uncontroversial. Fallon says the PM's office simply repeated the Govt's official position, no slap down at all. As Fallon says this seems to be a case of misreporting.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38281143
What did you expect Fallon to say? Of course he is going to try and play down the whole thing.
This is the whole problem with politics, people lap up what they want and the cold hard truth is very unpopular.
If we had a pm or a foreign Secretary that spoke frankly and truthfully at all times, they'd last about 3.2 seconds before they got fired. It's a very unsatisfactory place to be in as a tax paying voter. You just can't trust anyone on face value.