Bypass Boris: that’s Biden’s route forward

BORIS Johnson is putting a brave face on the defeat of Donald Trump and America’s return to sanity through the election victory of Joe Biden, but the reality is that Trump’s defeat is a defeat for Boris too.

Just as Trump led a right-wing takeover of the Republican party, which before the days of George W. Bush was capable of being moderate and sensible on a good day, Boris Johnson has led a right-wing takeover of the Conservative party on this side of the Atlantic. Jacob Rees-Mogg and other

Johnson chums have also announced that they back Trump and would vote for him.

When Theresa May was Britain’s Prime Minister, Donald Trump insultingly asked whether she had been appointed because Boris was not available, and announced that Boris was his preferred candidate to lead Britain because he would “do a good job”.

Only someone living in cloud-cuckoo land could think that, given Boris’s performance over coronavirus and the other challenges of 2020, but he has remained as Trump’s mini-me, one of a constellation of rightwingers in Brazil, Turkey, Russia etc.

When the Trump nightmare ends with Biden’s Inauguration on January 20, Boris will be left up the creek without a paddle – Biden’s team made it clear that they regard him as endangering the Good Friday Agreement which has brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Biden’s phone will be on speed-dial for President Macron in France and Angela Merkel in Germany, not the hanger-on of America’s departed and worst ever president, in London. It’s just unfortunate that it will be Britain, not just Boris Johnson, whose interests are also damaged.

Harry Dobson

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