OMG – In Myanmar, Naughty Boris DARES Quote Kipling!
I am no big fan of Boris Johnson MP.
He has turned his coat so often he could get a job as a fashion model.
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But what on earth are the Guardian shrills and the FCO mandarins getting their pink knickers in a twist about this week?
Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple
Foreign secretary’s impromptu recital of colonial-era poem was so embarrassing the UK ambassador was forced to stop him…
OMG!
Maybe not every reader shares my delight in Kipling’s patriotic poetry, but I reckon he’s tops.
I have quoted his works more than once on this blog…
Silence of the Swine! ‘No Need For Further Lies, We Are The Sacrifice!’
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…and no doubt will do so again.
But let’s examine what Boris did and did not say when he was reciting from The Road to Mandalay.
He had got through the line: “The temple bells they say/ Come you back you English soldier.”
Was that a call for a return to colonial rule?
Far from it!
As the Guardian helpfully tells us –
Kipling’s poem captures the nostalgia of a retired serviceman looking back on his colonial service and a Burmese girl he kissed.
Aaah, ‘it’s in his kiss,’ as a 1960s song had it!
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Jacko and 
Pamela are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Pamela 21:54 on September 30, 2017 Permalink |
We never did get an answer to that, did we? Did our Foreign Office that’s always busy-bodying about and telling people how much the British Government cares about ‘human rights’ actually support the Saudis in that UN vote?
If they won;t answer that simple question, then Our Man in Rangoon, or whatever they call it now, should keep quiet and let Boris quote Kipling as much as he likes.
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Jacko 22:39 on September 30, 2017 Permalink |
I think Kipling’s great. He was the only poet I liked when I was at school.
I don’t think Boris is great though. He’s a total twit.
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