Tuesday 21 June 2022

Who You Gonna Call? Kyiv Obviously

When there's something bad in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? Well if you are Boris Johnson you pick up the phone to Kyiv and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the i newspaper had a brilliant piece where they logged every announcement of a phone-call pledging more aid to the beleaguered Ukrainian leader and by a huge coincidence, it just happened to be just after yet another discovery of an acute embarrassment for the British leader.

On 12 April Johnson when Johnson was fined by the Metropolitan police over Partygate, he called Kyiv.
On 16 April, when the UN savaged the Rwanda plan, Johnson called Kyiv.
On 23 April, when the Met issued fines over a bring-your-own-bottle lock-down party at Downing Street. Johnson called Kyiv.
On 30 April, when MP Neil Parish resigned. Johnson called Kyiv.
On 5 May, the day of the disastrous local elections results, Johnson called Kyiv.
On 6 June, after it was announced there was to be a vote of confidence in his leadership by his own party, guess who he called. Yep, Kyiv.
 
With every call more military aid to to go to Ukraine in their battle against Russia but last week things got really desperate when the Prime Minister suffered the humiliating departure of his second 'ethics' adviser, Lord Geidt, so that didn't require just a call, he dodged his own MP's and the Journalist's waiting with their sharpened pencils and hightailed it onto a plane bound for Ukraine.
It could be they are a great help and comfort to each other, Boris hands over weapons and Zelenskiy dispenses advice to Johnson on his domestic woe's but you can understand why Johnson is so popular in Ukraine, he is a walking disaster and whenever he is caught out, and he gets caught doing something shoddy on a weekly basis, Ukraine benefits.
Leaders discovered long ago that nothing boosts their popularity then a good old War but although Boris hasn't started one himself, he has found a decent one to hijack for his own purposes.

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