GB News, Britain’s supposedly anti-establishment broadcaster, has announced it is hiring former Prime Minister and “Brexit betrayer” Boris Johnson. The news comes after the broadcaster cancelled right-wing figures such as Calvin Robertson and Laurence Fox.
Johnson is perhaps best known for thwarting peace between Ukraine and Russia; selling out Brexit; and illegally placing his wife Carrie Symonds in charge of his Downing Street operation during COVID-19.
Boris Johnson’s government also pledged a reduction in immigration, then increased it to record levels.
A perennial political “slippery eel,” Johnson actually penned two op-eds ahead of the European Union referendum in 2016 – one in favor or leaving, and one in favor of remaining. He decided the former would be better for his career fairly late into the campaign.
When the UK political class was convinced of a Hillary Clinton presidency, Johnson, then Mayor of London, publicly trashed Donald Trump, sneering: “When Donald Trump says that there are parts of London that are no-go areas, I think he’s betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him, frankly, unfit to hold the office of President of the United States.”
Trump was magnanimous in return, but has made it clear he had the measure of the Englishman and his government: “I’m saying this as an outsider, but an outsider looking in: they were going far left… I can tell you, they were not conservative policies toward the end,” he said earlier this year.