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This is laughable.

Johnson has a well-established history of abusing leaders of other nations. It's only a matter of weeks ago, he was having a pop at the US President, saying he had an historic, colonial, axe to grind over the EURef, due to his "part-Kenyan background".

Subtlety of language is everything at the FCO. Whilst I suspect Johnson can modulate himself sufficiently to get by, you are kidding yourself on, if you think he can be viewed as a "positive" in the role, based on his track-record.

Besides, even if she does think that, it hardly excludes the possibility that it is also politically expedient to place him in the role of Foreign Secretary. As ever, you break it down into a simple binary-argument, when it is much more subtle than that.

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2543703, member: 65342"] This is laughable. Johnson has a well-established history of abusing leaders of other nations. It's only a matter of weeks ago, he was having a pop at the US President, saying he had an historic, colonial, axe to grind over the EURef, due to his "part-Kenyan background". Subtlety of language is everything at the FCO. Whilst I suspect Johnson can modulate himself sufficiently to get by, you are kidding yourself on, if you think he can be viewed as a "positive" in the role, based on his track-record. Besides, even if she does think that, it hardly excludes the possibility that it is also politically expedient to place him in the role of Foreign Secretary. As ever, you break it down into a simple binary-argument, when it is much more subtle than that. [/QUOTE]

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