Beware of Boris. He’s Pulled Many A Trick Before Now!

Not every day I find myself nodding in tentative agreement with a Guardian writer, but this girl Gaby Hinsliff may be onto something. About Boris Johnson.

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She suggests that he thought: it would be a vote for remain, he would be seen as having stood up for a principle.”

After which leave’s newest martyr could simply have bided his time for a year or so before being triumphantly installed in Downing Street.  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/a-pyrrhic-victory-boris-johnson-wakes-up-to-the-costs-of-brexit

Naturally I was glued to the screen when the result was announced, and delighted with Nigel’s heart-felt victory speech.

But Boris’s?

As the Guardian’s Gaby says ‘it’s perfectly possible, of course, that the Tories on both sides who suspect Johnson was never an outer in his bones are plain wrong,’ but it’s at least as possible that they were right. I admit now that I was concerned when he declared he was on sovereignty’s side.

I thought he might well be a plant, perhaps having agreed with Camoron after that pow-wow they had together.

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After all, there were a few lack-lustre lads and lasses who joined the Leave campaign only to jump ship for fatuous reasons, hoping to do as much damage as possible. EU referendum: Baroness Warsi switches from Leave to Remain Since they were all politically worthless, nobody much cared.  

 But Boris carries a lot more weight – in every sense!. 

Boris Johnson is a past-master in the art of u-turning, as we have seen more than once in the past.

Vicar of Bray Fatwas Bagpipes – Another Boris U-Turn Looms?

Should We Abhor Boris, U-Turner Extraodinaire?

Boris – A Worm Who’s Turned Every Which Way But Right

During the Brexit campaign, I imposed a self-denying ordinance on myself, refraining from criticism of anyone who was among the freedom-fighters’ ranks.

Although my ordinance shook a little….

…especially in the final days, when he declared himself in favour of amnesty for crimmigrants  Boris Johnson backs amnesty for illegal immigrants in the UK .–  my iron discipline held.

I did wonder, though, why he’d say such a stupid thing, which might drive voters away from Leave to Remain – after all, Brits’ hopes for curbing the migrant menace was a major reason we won.

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He was once a columnist for the Telegraph, a forthright conservative, which endeared him to many, including myself. Then he found preferment, ending up as Mayor of London.

His record there was anything but conservative. As Gaby correctly says, he converted his sometime ‘principles’ into adherence to multicultery and the so-called ‘gay-rights’ nonsense…

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…and he treated us to the spectacle of a grisly feast, eating his own words on the Islamist menace – all faster than a hunted rat goes up a drain-pipe !

Well, no, Gaby doesn’t say that –  that’s how I put it!

Gaby uses different words when she reminds us how Boris came to chorus along with Camoron’s sell-out slogans, advancing what she calls that broader modernising movement to which both he and Johnson belonged.

 Which brings me to her peroration.

Already, one wonders what those who voted desperately for change make of being told there’s no rush to invoke article 50.

Ready for revelations of an impending betrayal of democracy, not this week, or next month, but before the year is out?

I hope I’m wrong…