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[ISOM]

Seems like there has been a change in UK leadership. Theresa May is the new Prime Minister and Boris Johnson is the new Foreign Secretary which means he will be the face of Britain when dealing with other nations. I would lol if it wasn't so sad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36789972

New Prime Minister Theresa May has made Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who led the Brexit campaign, foreign secretary in her new government.
He replaces Philip Hammond, who becomes chancellor. Ex-Energy Secretary Amber Rudd is home secretary and Eurosceptic David Davis is the Brexit secretary.
Ex-chancellor George Osborne was fired, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said.
On arriving at Downing Street, Mrs May vowed to lead a government that works for all, not just the "privileged few".

UKIP leader Nigel Farage tweeted that the appointments of Mr Fox and Mr Davis were "inspired choices", adding: "I feel more optimistic now."
On Twitter, Mr Osborne, who was chancellor throughout Mr Cameron's tenure, said the job had been a "privilege", adding: "Others will judge - I hope I've left the economy in a better state than I found it."

 

[faridmon]

You got to be fucking kidding me....

 

[Slayven]

Isn't Boris a bit of a turd?

 

[Shiggy]

This should be great news

Spoiler

for Boris Johnson

 

[exmachina64]

Worst timeline confirmed.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

 

[Messofanego]

When Nigel Farage is praising your choices...

 

[Dabanton]

The UK continuing it's current role as a laughing stock.

Saying that Boris is actually very smart the problem is his created this 'persona' over his career of being a buffoon which means this decision can only be seen in that light by many people.

 

[TheRealTalker]

UK eh

 

[Messofanego]

Isn't Boris a bit of a turd?

And a dick. Boris Johnson is not a fan of non-whites.

 

[Jeff Albertson]

He's already built strong relations with Germany

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA

Edit - beaten above

 

[Showaddy]

Looking forward to seeing Boris "Watermelon Smiles" Johnson representing our fine country throughout Africa.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Hahahahahahaha

 

[Alrus]

This feel like the greatest troll move of all time.

 

[Slowdive]

https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/748441925070561280

 

[Boney]

Worst timeline

 

[Wiseblade]

This truly is the darkest timeline.

Isn't Boris a bit of a turd?

A BIT HE SAYS

A BIT

 

[Broken Joystick]

Boris Johnson is in charge of MI6

Boris Johnson is in charge of MI6

 

[Acorn]

This feel like the greatest troll move of all time.

We wish.

 

[Mr-Joker]

In a short span we have become the laughing stock of the world and with Boris, it will continue to get worse. -_-;

 

[Sad Affleck]

Has the UK gone mad?

 

[Razorback]

He's already built strong relations with Germany

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA

Edit - beaten above

That was football? From the gif it looked like rugby, and that he was pretty good.

 

[Funky Papa]

Isn't Boris a bit of a turd?

He has gone all the way to insult, mock and deride the entire EU, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and God knows how many other people.

This person is now the top head of the UK's diplomatic efforts.

Somebody do me a solid and find me some verbatim quotes from this gas bag.

 

[SilentRacoon]

Oh my... And here I thought things couldn't get any worse.

Sorry for you UK GAF

 

[Zakalwe]

At this point the absurd hilarity is drowning out all of my concerns.

 

[Broken Joystick]

Angela Eagle's reaction https://amp.twimg.com/v/cb7cf4ab-5a04-4941-b7dc-e59869efa8a6

 

[jmdajr]

He has gone all the way to insult, mock and deride the entire EU, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and God knows how many other people.

This person is now the top head of the UK's diplomatic efforts.

Somebody do me a solid and find me some verbatim quotes from this gas bag.

Fantastic

 

[Dash_Riprock]

This is like if Obama made Trump ambassador to Mexico.

 

[freethought]

Our Brexit minister is currently suing the government in the European Courts for failure to uphold EU law but Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary is still the most ludicrous cabinet appointment ever.

 

[Slayven]

He has gone all the way to insult, mock and deride the entire EU, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and God knows how many other people.

This person is now the top head of the UK's diplomatic efforts.

Somebody do me a solid and find me some verbatim quotes from this gas bag.

Boris Johnson suggests 'part-Kenyan' Obama may have 'ancestral dislike' of UK

Oh my

 

[Indrid Cold1]

Good choices.

Better Hammond than Osborne
Better Davis than Grayling
Better Johnson than Greening
Better Rudd than Gove

Could have been worse.

 

[Escalario]

Remember when people thought 2 weeks ago it can't get worse for UK? Yeah...

 

[Palculator]

Season 05 right here.

 

[Zackat]

what? oh man

 

[Humidex]

May's given a length of rope to Boris, hasn't she?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Dude's rise to power came about to an appearance on a comedy news panel show.

It shouldn't be surprising he's a blowhard.

 

[Broken Joystick]

Season 05 right here.

The past few months have secured six more series and an American remake

 

[War Peaceman]

This is like if Obama made Trump ambassador to Mexico.

This is a pretty apt comparison, as it goes lol

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

I'm very happy about this. As a Frenchman I know I can count on Boris to deliver us some of your delicious cakes. What would we do without them?

 

[Beyonce Beytwice]

This nicely illustrates May's dry, Monthy Python-esque sense of humor.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

Oh man.

This guy? This guy.....

 

[Azzanadra]

Johnson is quite the character, i'l give him that. At the very least he will be entertaining and I look forward to his antics in the future. GL UkGAF.

Also, inb4 "its all Corbyn's fault!!1111"

 

[Sickboy007]

Spoiler

Sorry Papa

 

[Any Questions]

Hmmmmm. Interesting times

 

[Hasney]

ahahahahhHAHAHAHAHAHAPAHAHAHAHAHA

Angela Eagle's reaction https://amp.twimg.com/v/cb7cf4ab-5a04-4941-b7dc-e59869efa8a6

Oh good, the MP currently in the limelight who could probably make him look competent chimes in. Wonderful.

I do like the two times she's been on stage recently that something stupid has happened like that. The other time with all the press walking out of her leadership announcement.

 

[sora87]

These headlines.. you'd think they were from a satire site

 

[Gnome Scat]

He has gone all the way to insult, mock and deride the entire EU, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and God knows how many other people.

This person is now the top head of the UK's diplomatic efforts.

Somebody do me a solid and find me some verbatim quotes from this gas bag.

Sounds like a twat.

 

[Funky Papa]

It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.

The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more... Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. … the British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right... If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. You never saw a place so abounding in bananas: great green barrel-sized bunches, off to be turned into matooke. Though this dish (basically fried banana) was greatly relished by Idi Amin, the colonists correctly saw that the export market was limited... The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.
Discussing his views on Africans and "Instant Carbohydrate Gratification" The Spectator 2 February 2002

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

The proposed ban on incitement to “religious hatred” makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

Chinese cultural influence is virtually nil, and unlikely to increase… Indeed, high Chinese culture and art are almost all imitative of western forms: Chinese concert pianists are technically brilliant, but brilliant at Schubert and Rachmaninov. Chinese ballerinas dance to the scores of Diaghilev. The number of Chinese Nobel prizes won on home turf is zero, although there are of course legions of bright Chinese trying to escape to Stanford and Caltech… It is hard to think of a single Chinese sport at the Olympics, compared with umpteen invented by Britain, including ping-pong, I’ll have you know, which originated at upper-class dinner tables and was first called whiff-whaff. The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.

Something mysterious happened when Barack Obama entered the Oval Office in 2009. Something vanished from that room, and no one could quite explain why. It was a bust of Winston Churchill – the great British war time leader. It was a fine goggle-eyed object, done by the brilliant sculptor Jacob Epstein, and it had sat there for almost ten years. But on day one of the Obama administration it was returned, without ceremony, to the British embassy in Washington. No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision. Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender. Some said that perhaps Churchill was seen as less important than he once was. Perhaps his ideas were old-fashioned and out of date. Well, if that’s why Churchill was banished from the Oval Office, they could not have been more wrong.

She represents, on the face of it, everything I came into politics to oppose: not just a general desire to raise taxes and nationalise things, but an all-round purse-lipped political correctness (on Hillary Clinton)

There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.

Meet the UK's new highest ranked diplomat.

 

[SirClinksAlot]

And a dick. Boris Johnson is not a fan of non-whites.

I wanna see him play pickup basketball with Obama.

 

[_Ryo_]

Yiiiikes. What a mess. I have heard nothing but the worst of this guy.


It's official. The UK is no longer entitled in mocking the U.S.