By James Simons
A protester has put a plaque on Boris Johnson’s doorstep accusing the Foreign Secretary of being ‘the destroyer of Cosmopolitan Unity’.
The plaque featured a dark British horse, reading ”Bojo Johnson, 1964. destroyer of cosmopolitan unity and passer of buck lives here’, in reference to his role in the Brexit Referendum.The protester said ”Boris has destroyed the city of London, and it is sad people will have to move as a result of Brexit. Boris has destroyed our City as an act of callous arrogance”.
”He gets away away with it because he is impeccable in every way, you’d care to imagine. People’s lives are going to be seriously messed up because he thought it was the best way to become Prime Minister”.
The notion that Johnson’s active campaign for the Brexit outcome amounts to him being a destroyer of cosmopolitan unity, is true when examined literally in the context of the dispute the Brexit decision has caused. Eu leaders were furious with Johnson, the new Foreign Secretary, over the result, and accused him of ”telling so many lies” in order to feed his political ambitions.
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The labour party plunged into turmoil over the allegation than their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was uncommitted in the campaign to support the Remain camp, to the extent if a large section of Mp’s in his party wanting him ousted as leader. Corbyn’s leadership of the labour party has since been in ruins, with his position to be contended in fresh internal elections in the months ahead.
The furore that resulted in the Labour party can be said to have its roots in Johnson’s successful Brexit campaign. In this sense he caused the furore, and can be said to have been the destroyer of Cosmopolitan Unity there, assuming there was a reasonable degree of unity there before Brexit. Boris Johnson can also be said to have unwittingly caused the embarrassing division in the Conservative party that saw his backers ditch him the day before he was due to give his speech announcing his contention for the Prime Minister’s post. The U.K Foreign Secretary was a hot favourite to win the no.10 Downing Street most respected job.However, he squandered that opportunity.
Johnson had always openly claimed he wanted Cameron to remain Prime Minister even in the event of Brexit. The Foreign Secretary told the eye of media editor, Gabriel Princewill,(in an interview in May) after a question time BBC show in South London that he would not become prime minister. However, once Cameron stepped down following the shocking Brexit outcome, Johnson put himself forward for the prime minister’s office, before his right-hand man, Michael Gove, stabbed him in the back at the last minute, by setting up a successful coup against Johnson running for the downing street top job.
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Johnson’s wife who had a 17-year-old friendship with Gove and his wife vowed never to talk with Gove and his wife again, after an email from Gove’s journalist wife was leaked to the press when accidentally sent to a member of the public. The email had warned her husband not to support Johnson without being absolutely sure Gove himself will have a secure position under Johnson’s government.
Johnson’s wife‘s anger was unjustified because her husband had displayed alarming levels of negligence in assuring his Mp colleagues of respective posts if he became prime minister. He cancelled a speech to Mp’s at 15 minutes notice and failed to tweet an agreed approval of a number of Mp who had been promised roles in his cabinet, prompting a distrust that made them gang up on him at the last minute. However, the gang up engineered by Mr Gove, immediately aborted his own chances of becoming prime minister, as he became the chief traitor nobody should trust.
New Prime Minister, Theresa May gave Johnson a lifeline when she made him Foreign Secretary, as a gesture to unite the broken Conservative party, as she had promised to do. However, her choice of Johnson has been heavily criticised by the media and European leaders, with French Foreign Secretary not keen at all on working with the former Mayor of London. U.S president, Barack Obama, also did not congratulate Theresa May, upon her new appointment of the prime ministerial role. The general view was that the U.S President was stunned with what he considered a bad choice, particularly after Johnson’s reckless and offensive comments this year about Obama presenting a statue of Winston Churchill because of his Kenyan ancestral resentment to historical colonial rule.
Those words and May’s seemingly dismissal of its potential implications may have strained relations between the downing street and the White House, even if the former strong allies are forced to put on a superficial front for the public.
And speculation has been made that Johnson may have been chosen to make the well-accomplished politician the fall guy of any failed Brexit negotiations that lie ahead and make their chief protagonist pick up the pieces.
However, recent news of a potential unprecedented deal accessing Britain to the single market alongside the application of ”emergency breaks” on the freedom of movement of EU nationals to the UK, may legitimate Johnson’s avid campaign for Brexit. That’s if those arrangements are actually implemented, and if things work out well under those arrangements. The entire 27 states will have to agree to those arrangements before they are implemented, and the French president is said to not to be keen on any concessions with Britain over Brexit.
Reports that China is also on the verge of a special deal for wide free trade with Britain, may put Jonson in the all clear if the future turns out to prove the new Foreign Secretary right about the EU. But that will depend on whether the single market plans and emergency breaks on free movement become official, and how the Chinese offer will play out if the new proposed EU deal is blocked by any of the other member states.
With the White House unhappy with Johnson and also most likely angry with our new prime Minister, Theresa May, added to Eu leaders taking a strong dislike to Johnson, the Foreign Secretary can be said to have been the destroyer of cosmopolitan unity. One thing he cannot be said to have done is pursued any such destruction intentionally. Though what matters most is how the future actually turns out.
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