{"id":369048,"date":"2018-07-12T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-heavy-weather-boris-johnson-the-despoiler\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:10:58","slug":"making-heavy-weather-boris-johnson-the-despoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-heavy-weather-boris-johnson-the-despoiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Heavy Weather: Boris Johnson the Despoiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There is a certain haunting similarity between the President of the United States and the now former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson.\u00a0 This does not merely extend to mad, oddly positioned hair, and misshaped mullets.\u00a0 Both share a philosophy of upending the order and permanent disruption, impossible for those on their putative side of politics to measure, predict or contain.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Prime Minister Theresa May thought that her cabinet, moulded by cabinet responsibility, would be able to go forth with the bare bones of a plan for negotiations with the European Union for Britain\u2019s departure.\u00a0 Johnson, with characteristic muddling, had signed on to the Chequers statement, but had issued public utterances about his dissatisfaction.\u00a0 He was on board, but only in wobbly fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Having first seen which way the wind would turn, Johnson waited for the initial resignations of the Brexit team led by David Davis to take the plunge. His resignation was intended as an improvised explosive device, timed to blow up in the prime minister\u2019s face just before she was to address members of parliament on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-44772804\">letter<\/a> has all the elements of BJ the opportunist, the cad, the slippery debater.\u00a0 It has no definite shape in terms of what should be done, but is filled with defiance and, dare one say it, hope. Central to the argument is a defence of the \u201cBritish people\u201d, those subjects for whom he supposedly speaks for.\u00a0 \u201cThey were told that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/making-heavy-weather-boris-johnson-the-despoiler\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a certain haunting similarity between the President of the United States and the now former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson.\u00a0 This does not merely extend to mad, oddly positioned hair, and misshaped mullets.\u00a0 Both share a philosophy of upending the order and permanent disruption, impossible for those on their putative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}