The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

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    00:00 Introduction
    00:59 Chapter 1: The Rise of Boris
    02:38 Chapter 2: Britain & Europe
    05:17 Chapter 3: Entering Number 10
    07:38 Chapter 4: COVID
    11:26 Chapter 5: The Fall of Johnson

ความคิดเห็น • 764

  • @Salaom7
    @Salaom7 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    I love how Brexit was "Done" in the same manner as a student deciding to start their essay a few hours before it is due and submitting an incomplete work. Yeah, you technically did it...

    • @BernasLL
      @BernasLL ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Worse, using an incomplete work completely copied off of a colleague, whose quality of work Boris kept talking trash about, as she feels constrained not to point that out.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Of all the essays I wrote in a few hours I don't recall any as bad as the results of that negotiation. I mean the essays were bad but at least I generally spelt my own name correctly.

  • @thesudaneseprince9675
    @thesudaneseprince9675 ปีที่แล้ว +771

    A cautionary tale if there ever was one, why does our society reward people who do these things? Being fired for lying as a journalist should have ended his career right there (generously ignoring earlier misdeeds)

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Because a huge chunk of 48% people decided they wanted to pick and choose what democratic votes they thought should be implemented

    • @Dardobul
      @Dardobul ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Also, daddy paid for it. For any given value of "it"

    • @MrMartinSchou
      @MrMartinSchou ปีที่แล้ว +44

      > Being fired for lying as a journalist should have ended his career right there
      You say that, knowing full well that there are media outlets whose owners love nothing more than lying to the public to get their will.

    • @Peregrine1989
      @Peregrine1989 ปีที่แล้ว

      So its kinda like Trump.
      People are used to politicians lying and backflipping, but being sneaky about it.
      Boris and Trump are SUPER BLATANT about what they do. So some people think that means they are joking.... some people think that means they are more honnest in their lies.... some people just see them as more trustworthy because its easier to see through their lies. Some people just hate the standard political class and thus this is a breath of fresh air.
      Popularism is always a result of people not trusting Politicans anymore, and ends ONLY when either a dictator scares everyone else back to voting standard OR the politicans win back trust.... ususally both.

    • @Mondfischli
      @Mondfischli ปีที่แล้ว

      ...at the same time the 🍊 clown occupied the white house. So the standard for any high office in democracies seems a bit eroded 🤔

  • @PigIA
    @PigIA ปีที่แล้ว +51

    My dad’s friend knew Johnson. He said “If you were to say that someone at that table would be prime minister of the UK, you would’ve chosen the Moroccan cleaning the toilets before Boris”

    • @veeu8781
      @veeu8781 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      the cleaner was already more honest and hardworking than Boris ever was.

    • @50Steaks68
      @50Steaks68 ปีที่แล้ว

      your dad's friend is quite racist

  • @John_259
    @John_259 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    Boris' epitaph: "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." - Valery Legasov in "Chernobyl".

    • @rotwang2000
      @rotwang2000 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Johnson "Only an idiot pays that debt himself, let the peons carry that burden instead."

    • @JayJay5244
      @JayJay5244 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m starting to doubt Legasov’s words.. (if that’s what he really said that is… Not sure if they made that line up for the TV series or it’s actually something he said)
      Some people like Clinton, Obama and/or Trump literally get away with murder (and in some cases, rap (e)) and lies and they will live comfortably for the rest of their lives without any serious consequences… Same with Johnson I mean what is the debt here? He’s lost his job… wow what a punishment lol if I behaved at my job like that I would’ve been gone long ago…
      Other than that there are no real consequences for Johnson

  • @RocketMonke69420
    @RocketMonke69420 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    So when Johnson was a reporter he lied a lot and when he became a politician he... lied a lot. Who could have guessed this?

  • @martindigweed3621
    @martindigweed3621 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    This is a stunning collection of Johnson’s failures. Amazing that the system allows someone like him to come so far. If it was a movie it would seem a bit far fetched.

    • @user-ww3jz4tp4x
      @user-ww3jz4tp4x ปีที่แล้ว

      There's something very fundamentally broken in the system that allows a man like Johnson to get to the position.

  • @Jedsa009
    @Jedsa009 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    To this day, I still can't comprehend how the brits ever considered Boris Johnson suitable for public offices, let alone a prime minister.

    • @NoJusticeMTG
      @NoJusticeMTG ปีที่แล้ว

      The media whitewashed his public image to stop Jeremy Corbyn

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      In the words of Jon Richardson, Boris was like a wet fart; funny at the time, but you have to check for damage immediately afterwards.

    • @Mungstein
      @Mungstein ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Me neither. And I’m British.

    • @KernelLeak
      @KernelLeak ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mangonel ITYM "Heroine"...

    • @palmercolson7037
      @palmercolson7037 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I am not sure. It could be the new style of "strong man" and "cult of personality": a vain man presents complete confidence, but at the same time presents a ridiculous side that cause people to laugh at him (and disarm caution). Add in the disregard for process (i.e. constitution and due process and precedent and personal loyalty) and a press and public willing to not call him on what he previously said or did. There are even rabid supporters who will attack any questioning of the leader.
      It's the same reason in many ways that Trump was able to succeed and still has supporters.

  • @whowantswaffles
    @whowantswaffles ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I find the support of Boris astounding. He could take a literal dump in the street and people would say "aw, well, he's doing his best, that loveable rascal". I really don't understand how he got away with so much

    • @NoJusticeMTG
      @NoJusticeMTG ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Boris: *pisses in their bowl of cornflakes*
      Con voters: "well he has to piss somewhere"

  • @antyspi4466
    @antyspi4466 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    BoJo got his big majority on the ticket to "get Brexit done" and nothing else. He then went on to deliver Brexit by imply accepting the so passionately rejected border checks in the Irish Sea, seemingly intending to never implementing them once the deal was signed. So one could say that his greatest successes were entirely based on lies.

    • @Tamlinearthly
      @Tamlinearthly ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A "fun" game is to look at every Johnson policy decision and sort out how many would have had the same or even better results if instead of Johnson doing something nobody had done anything.

    • @michaelgreen1515
      @michaelgreen1515 ปีที่แล้ว

      Though we still can't be sure who he is lying to, or possibly both; and it still isn't done anyways...

    • @chiaraimpeduglia1308
      @chiaraimpeduglia1308 ปีที่แล้ว

      The fact is that he based Brexit on the same facts that every politician uses to get people who do not want to think about others to agree with him. He said that Europe was draining UK, thet it was Europe's fault that things were going badly, that immigration too was Europe's fault and that UK would only prosper if it went back to isolating itself. Less than a century later, it seems that we are watching the world go back to pre second world war times. Only, this time we have atomic bombs. I'm almost relieved that this is happening. If we humans go extinct maybe tha planet has an actual chance to save itself. And i know that i should not say it, after all i'm alive too, but i frankly would not care to die at this point. I see it as a struggle against things that i can do little to stop. I mean, i try to stay positive and build myself a life, but everytime that something like this happens, it reminds me that everything could be taken away from me in an istant, and my will to live dies a little bit more. And i do not mean by death, i mean by some politicians in power that might decide that i am no longer considered a person.

  • @NeverStopRolling
    @NeverStopRolling ปีที่แล้ว +36

    You forgot that he gave PPE supply contracts to his friends and buddies, and bought loads of cheap PPE from China which we then had to pay to be destroyed as they were unfit for use...

  • @talideon
    @talideon ปีที่แล้ว +105

    3:35 - This leaves out something *really* important: his career as a "journalist" boiled down to stoking anti-EU sentiment. Many of the toxic fabrications used to justify Brexit originated in utter bull he'd concocted for his articles.

    • @tourmelion9221
      @tourmelion9221 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So, he’s the reason for xenophobia for the EU in the public

    • @maalikserebryakov
      @maalikserebryakov ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tourmelion9221 he said stuff likt women in burkas look like letterboxes

    • @shonenjumpmagneto
      @shonenjumpmagneto ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep. He single handedly secured BREXIT. From start to finish. I almost respect it....

    • @corradomancini3271
      @corradomancini3271 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@maalikserebryakov
      Have you read the whole article you’re on about?
      I did, I suggest you do too, after that comment.

    • @corradomancini3271
      @corradomancini3271 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tourmelion9221
      The U.K. is the least xenophobic country in all the eu. I am an eu citizen living in the U.K..

  • @kelletamas
    @kelletamas ปีที่แล้ว +68

    May failed because the ERG and Johnson himself kept voting against her "deal". Saying no british pm can ever accept that. Than he become pm and accepted the same "deal" and said it was great. Than within a few months he started to try and break it and been at it since...

    • @darrenmcposstot8200
      @darrenmcposstot8200 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You’re on another hemisphere, What planet are you on pal? What is an ERG? An erotic romantic gorilla? And what’s this ‘deal’ youre on about? I knew boris sniffed, but I didn’t know Teresa liked an old nose beer as well…

    • @michaelgreen1515
      @michaelgreen1515 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As I recall accepted a worse deal.

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actually, no. The deal Johnson accepted was the one May said no British PM should ever accept. May had a better deal.
      Ultimately, with Brits government being stupid, ignorant and above its lack of knowledge on how a union they were instrumental in building worked, it's no surprise we ended where we are.

    • @paradoxmo
      @paradoxmo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darrenmcposstot8200 ERG = European Research Group, the eurosceptic wing of the Tories

  • @OCTOPOPS
    @OCTOPOPS ปีที่แล้ว +114

    I never thought of this channel doing video essays, but this style of video works surprisingly well here!

  • @SirWhig-esq.
    @SirWhig-esq. ปีที่แล้ว +12

    “Romping around london” that is very apt.

  • @tyranitararmaldo
    @tyranitararmaldo ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "To know Boris, is to hate him"

  • @emilymcplugger
    @emilymcplugger ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When he talks about the success of the vaccine rollout it brings to mind a variation of Churchill's famous quote
    Never, in the field of human suffering, has the work of so many, been taken credit for by one man. This was the NHS finest hour.

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don't know if a quote from the guy who prevented other countries giving aid to India during a horrendous famine really has the high ground there.

    • @emilymcplugger
      @emilymcplugger ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theMoporter Boris sees himself as the new Churchill, however for all his faults Churchill did put praise where it was due, whereas Boris takes it all for himself.

    • @HomemadeBrownies1
      @HomemadeBrownies1 ปีที่แล้ว

      If the government are responsible for its failings like PPE and capacity, why aren’t they also responsible for its successes? The gov made the vaccine programme incredibly simple. If we could have that same investment and staffing and dedication to the cause, we’d clear the backlogs within a year. You think Covid was bad? Wait until the death toll from backlogs is added in.

  • @rotwang2000
    @rotwang2000 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I wouldn't be surprised if the next government implodes in the next three to six months and Boris jumps back on the train ...

    • @kennethhwang3425
      @kennethhwang3425 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nah, BoJo is too rancid to be electable now.

    • @Srijith.Seetharaman
      @Srijith.Seetharaman หลายเดือนก่อน

      Broooooo, you had no fucking clue 😭😭😭😭

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    true to form Johnson is having a farewell shindig instead of attending a Cobra meeting

  • @kristofsportingdogs3549
    @kristofsportingdogs3549 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I remember seeing Boris the first time (I’m a Belgian). It was at the end of the Olympic Games in China. Where he came on stage as mayor of the next Olympic city. I remembered laughing when I saw him, and being baffled someone like him could become mayor. Al others on stage were perfectly dressed, and very distinguished and formal. And then there was Boris: his hair a mess, his suit wrinkled, walking on stage as if he was a farmer on his field….

    • @darrenmcposstot8200
      @darrenmcposstot8200 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bet he took yer bird as well kristoff my man boris does that a lot

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's his image. There is actually some video out there of him being groomed before an interview and intentionally mussing up his hair right before the cameras roll so it can't be corrected.

    • @max3446
      @max3446 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's a very intentional attempt to get those around him and the public to lower their guard so that all the bullshit he pulls can be waved away as part of 'endearing' character.

    • @shonenjumpmagneto
      @shonenjumpmagneto ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a Belgian of The EU's Capitol Member-State, I'm sure it made you glad he was leaving.

    • @pritapp788
      @pritapp788 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      But he is "lovable", the British believe... when you start electing people for their perceived personality traits rather than their competence, experience and electoral programmes, this is what you get.

  • @MrMartinSchou
    @MrMartinSchou ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I said from almost day one, that May should have appointed Boris Johnson as the chief EU negotiator and Nigel Farage as his deputy.
    That would have removed their ability to attack her progress, because anything they said could be shot down with either "you refused the offer to do it properly" or "it was your job to do this", and similarly any and all attacks from the ERB could be pawned off on those two. After all, who could possibly be better suited for the job than the two leaders of the leave campaign?

    • @Tomcat13436
      @Tomcat13436 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nigel Farage wasn’t an MP though, I guess as a MEP he could of had such a position. Other than that, I completely agree.

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good shout.
      And 90% of MPs should have voted for whatever was negotiated. 5% head bangers at either end.

    • @MrMartinSchou
      @MrMartinSchou ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Tomcat13436 You wouldn't need to be an MP to be a negotiator.
      And you could easily make the argument that due to his long carreer as an MEP, Farage would be uniquely qualified for the role of deputy Brexit negotiator.
      The outcome of Brexit wouldn't be substantially different, and the UK would be at least as fucked as it is at the moment, but it would have hamstrung the main millstones dragging May down.

    • @Tomcat13436
      @Tomcat13436 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrMartinSchou You make a good point.

    • @MrMartinSchou
      @MrMartinSchou ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielwebb8402 Oh, they'd have voted for setting their constituents on fire, if it was put in front of them.

  • @mickeythompson9537
    @mickeythompson9537 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Boorish Johnson said he's going with his 'head held high.'
    That's because even he cannot stand the stench where he's been sitting.

  • @Matthew-bu7fg
    @Matthew-bu7fg ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Boris should've gone after the "let the bodies pile high" statement. It's ridiculous that it was dragged out to this extent.
    I'm not a fan of Keir Starmer but for the love of God, please can we have a new government.

    • @JohnJohnson-oe3ot
      @JohnJohnson-oe3ot ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’ll be another conservative one which sucks

    • @grippingrope9937
      @grippingrope9937 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He should've gone as soon as the Supreme Court decided that his suspension of democracy was unlawful

    • @joaquinescotoaleman4320
      @joaquinescotoaleman4320 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Labour gov? Are you nuts?

    • @grippingrope9937
      @grippingrope9937 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joaquinescotoaleman4320 Oh yeah cause the last Labour government was sooo much worse than this farce (S/)

    • @corradomancini3271
      @corradomancini3271 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@grippingrope9937
      Suspension of democracy? At least say it the right way. Proroguing parliament. He took advice from the attorney general.

  • @saddoncarrs6963
    @saddoncarrs6963 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    "A huge great stonking mandate" - but only by the English electorate. In 2019 the Welsh electorate voted in a majority of Labour MPs, in Northern Ireland they voted away from Unionist parties and in Scotland the tories lost more than half their seats. Boris never had a "rise" outside England.

    • @struanpeat5116
      @struanpeat5116 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scotland voted for the SNP so much that they're the 3rd largest party is parliament
      It seems borises passion for leaving unions rubbed off on the scots

    • @Andrew-ob5ij
      @Andrew-ob5ij ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Don’t put London into this

    • @emilymcplugger
      @emilymcplugger ปีที่แล้ว

      @Saddon Carrs True, but that's what the older Conservative have identified, that he's really just an English Nationalist. An awful boorish Grotesque that says what people want to hear with no idea of how to get it, whilst at the same time using his position to get public funds or high-paid public jobs for his girlfriends and mistresses to always be within boning distance.
      A truly odious specimen.

    • @petercampbell1287
      @petercampbell1287 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In northern ireland the unionist parties still got more of the overall vote and the snp and greens still didn't get over %50 of the vote

    • @karankapoor2701
      @karankapoor2701 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Andrew-ob5ij londonistan

  • @mrmr446
    @mrmr446 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    He became party leader because he was the least unpopular candidate at a time when many tories didn't want to deal with the consequences of the brexit result. He won the election because the main opposition party sabotaged itself and our supposedly free press decided to resemble the media in a dictatorship whereby the opposition was a danger greater than the party in power and because FPTP meant a majority was possible despite getting a third of the available vote.

  • @odethebear
    @odethebear ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Saying "Rise to highest office in country" while showing him dangling from that zip wire - Priceless!! 😂😂

  • @harrybarber3255
    @harrybarber3255 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Addressed COVID 3/4 months too late, the man has blood on his hands! I suspect they saw COVID as an opportunity to continue the hobbling of the NHS

  • @owenlindkvist5355
    @owenlindkvist5355 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Has the UK suffered a situation before where three Prime Ministers in a row, whether from the same party or not, resigned?

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      After all winning elections
      Very strange

    • @Dardobul
      @Dardobul ปีที่แล้ว

      It's like the conservatives are a Con or something! They mislead the public and then surprised Pikachu when it blows up in their face

    • @cuff1626
      @cuff1626 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Winston Churchill
      Anthony Eden
      Harold Macmillan

    • @owenlindkvist5355
      @owenlindkvist5355 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@cuff1626 Thank you, mate.

    • @Matthew-bu7fg
      @Matthew-bu7fg ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Unbelievably, I think you have to go back to Ted Heath in 1974 for the last time a Prime Minister entered Government via an election and left Government via an election

  • @dondoodat
    @dondoodat ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Johnson needs to stay PM for another three weeks to beat May's 3 years and 12 days, the shortest Tory PM tenure in over half a century.
    That's why he's clinging on like a limpet.

  • @mrnobody3161
    @mrnobody3161 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You failed to mention the phenomena of Londongrad, Bojo likely being a Russian asset and pushing the son of a former KGB Agent into the House of Lords against the advice of MI6.

  • @Roanmonster
    @Roanmonster ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I gotta say that I lost track of you guys for a year or so but I'm happy to see you back. You have improved so much!

  • @inwalters
    @inwalters ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Several people have mentioned Boris lying as a journalist, but no has mentioned Boris's only concern about giving Darius Guppy fellow journalist Stuart Collier's address, so Guppy's pals could give Collier "a couple of black eyes or a cracked rib ", was, not that this was wrong, but that he might be associated with it. Boris of course was made editor of the Spectator on the promise he would not stand for Parliament. A promise that he of course proceeded to break. Who could think this man would make a good MP? And what MP would think a man who in his first 4 years couldn't even make half the parliamentary votes would make a good PM? Also don't think Boris is gone until he's actually gone.

  • @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4
    @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This forgot to say that when he fell. He dragged the party down to hell with him. Turning it into what many would say "nothing more but a joke"

    • @localhearthian2387
      @localhearthian2387 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's an old legend in Britain that when God created the universe, there were some defective humans, with no hearts or minds or souls between them. So God slapped a blue sash on them and called them Tories.

  • @francinesicard464
    @francinesicard464 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A fall but I bet a financial well padded one, leaving behind destructions, UK's reputation and millions of Britons on the side of the road

  • @jamesgravil9162
    @jamesgravil9162 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Should be titled "The Rise and Fall and Fall *AND FALL* of Boris Johnson."

    • @Anthony-xd1lj
      @Anthony-xd1lj ปีที่แล้ว

      he did not fall he was pushed out by the left

    • @jamesgravil9162
      @jamesgravil9162 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Anthony-xd1lj He was pushed out by members of his own party.

    • @Anthony-xd1lj
      @Anthony-xd1lj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamesgravil9162 yes and they all wanted to remain in the EU and once the riches apart of london did not come to the rescue then they knew it was over. and we left the EU.
      If you do most of the search they all wanted to remain!

    • @Anthony-xd1lj
      @Anthony-xd1lj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamesgravil9162 we had Damian Hinds remainer, we had Sajid Javid a remainer and the other 30 people were also remainers.

  • @MichalKoziatek
    @MichalKoziatek ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Correction: technically UK wasn't the first to roll out covid vaccines in Europe. Hungary has done it first, whilst also being a member of EU

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว

      So only 26 out of 27 "happened" to not act independently.

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't Hungary start in February 2021? Vs UK December 2020?

    • @bt3743
      @bt3743 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielwebb8402 we didn't have vaccines to roll out in 2020 whatsoever. We did not begin distributing them in December

    • @danielwebb8402
      @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bt3743
      Well according to BBC and Wikipedia and facts, we started on 8th December 2020.
      "began on 8 December 2020 after Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world (outside trials)"
      But I'm sure you are correct. That didn't happen. It wasn't all over the news. I didn't see the film of it that very day.

  • @dshiznit150
    @dshiznit150 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I liked this video. Felt like a quick documentary. I'm from the US and found this very interesting. Ya'll should do more videos in this format. And yes, I am subscribed to TLDRUS

  • @jasoncava7342
    @jasoncava7342 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over
    And it seems as though the writings on the wall
    Superstar, you finally made it
    But once your picture becomes tainted
    It's what they call
    The rise and fall

  • @Tobi042
    @Tobi042 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really liked the editing, animations and background music on this one! Of course the topic was also very informative as usual. Great video!

  • @davidray6962
    @davidray6962 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It from the start amazed me that the electorate decided to entrust the operation of the British government to someone who cannot operate a comb.

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Even worse, the messy hair is known to internationally be done to craft a certain image

  • @LadyScriben
    @LadyScriben ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Say what you like about Johnson, but I'd say his greatest strength is being one of the most impressive liars in 21st century Britain.

    • @Andrew-ob5ij
      @Andrew-ob5ij ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He told lies people wanted to hear though, so there is blame on the voters themselves as well

    • @SevenEllen
      @SevenEllen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not really. You'd be surprised how many bad lie detectors there are out there (I'm talking about the people who believed him).

  • @BorisJohnson1
    @BorisJohnson1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Im honestly so delighted to be PM

  • @jordanabernathey7787
    @jordanabernathey7787 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    During covid boris spoke only to England not the whole of Britain

  • @krandeloy
    @krandeloy ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Truely, I hope he becomes remembered as one of the top contributors to what can be argued as easily within the top three post WW most damaging events in UK history, all in the pursuit his own explicate corrupted benefit.

    • @michiganstad
      @michiganstad ปีที่แล้ว

      out of the Fourth reich . Looove Boris

  • @theophilelambert987
    @theophilelambert987 ปีที่แล้ว

    I m french and i really enjoyed the quality of the video, great job

  • @randomname5338
    @randomname5338 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love your videos . Maybe you can do a poll asking how many U-turns Bo-jo and did

  • @edsiles4297
    @edsiles4297 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine if he had become PM just right after David Cameron, back in 2016

  • @Tazza81
    @Tazza81 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In the words of Boris Johnson's 4th form teacher when referring to Boris "He really is an insufferable little s*"t isn't he"*
    * Not actually true but highly probable

  • @handbanana4899
    @handbanana4899 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    At this point, I blame the people who voted for BoJo as well as the Conservative party as a whole for touting him more than the man himself. This information isn’t new, isn’t private and has been out there for a while-and there are STILL people who thought him running the country was a good idea.

    • @NoJusticeMTG
      @NoJusticeMTG ปีที่แล้ว

      We had to stop the broadband communism tho /s

    • @Matthew-bu7fg
      @Matthew-bu7fg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      too many people read the Mail or Telegraph unfortunately

    • @ThePhoenixWylde
      @ThePhoenixWylde ปีที่แล้ว

      The huge media machine basically garunteed his election win because anything and everything could be said about Corybn, regardless if true or not, in the run up to the election, but nothing that could be even remotely seen as damaging to Boris was allowed to air.

  • @bernardhaswany4308
    @bernardhaswany4308 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm here just to praise the Animation/Video Improvements this channel and all TLDR channels has done.
    It's been a while Since I watched your latest vids, and I have to say, I am astonished looking at those very minor, barely noticeable Improvements. But they exist, and they do elevate your Videos. Well done @TLDR Team

  • @ms-0503
    @ms-0503 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Boris Johnson has done a lot for the EU since the beginning of the war ... and you did not realize it enough ... Actually, you need such politicians in these wartime ....

  • @mquiny
    @mquiny ปีที่แล้ว +14

    There was a rise of boris Johnson? 🤣

  • @xrayfish2020
    @xrayfish2020 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent podcast 👍

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ooh slicker editing and background music

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE ปีที่แล้ว

      And a longer vid

  • @vezokpiraka
    @vezokpiraka ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Any change the video can have it's volume normalized? It's really quiet in some parts and extremely loud in others.

  • @stevejohnson3357
    @stevejohnson3357 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe the Spitting Image Boris said it best. "To the millions who voted for me, just let me say this: ha ha."

  • @kbqvist
    @kbqvist ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What is much more important to understand than the reasons for his downfall, which was inevitable, is why some many, on all sorts of levels chose to trust and continuously back him, an already well documented incompetent lying egomaniac with the job as PM. Because that is not something we want to happen often in the future...

    • @bracco23
      @bracco23 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The problem is that Boris has been extremely good at short term politics, bringing in results that could increase electoral appeal even at the cost of being bad results. This appease the politicians that only care about being in office. The larger public has sadly a short memory and forgets stuff quickly, too quickly.

    • @tomwolland2447
      @tomwolland2447 ปีที่แล้ว

      BJ hasn't been good at short term politics. That's just what's printed and rabbited out through the media. Thats the proctective ring he gets by 'being a good sport'. Done long enough in an election cycle so people don't ask too many questions to actually see that it's just BS and always was. Media happy to rabbit because it sells. BJ happy to say it because he likes it and sees himself with no other function. I blame both MSM and BJ/his cronies.

  • @danielwebb8402
    @danielwebb8402 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rise and fall of reggie perrin
    I didn't get where I am today by not knowing old TV references

  • @talespinner4515
    @talespinner4515 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I think your staff might need to review their timelines when they're working on your videos. The UK didn't leave the EU at the end of 2021, they did so in January 2020. And it's impossible for the energy crisis to have worsened in 2021 due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as that did not happen till February 2022.

    • @richardsmallwood7940
      @richardsmallwood7940 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's now July 2022 and we still haven't totally left the EU.

    • @samuela-aegisdottir
      @samuela-aegisdottir ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. I was surprised to hear that Russian invasion happened in 2021. Has it been so long ago that it is difficult to remember the year?

    • @samuela-aegisdottir
      @samuela-aegisdottir ปีที่แล้ว

      I was also surprised to hear that Brexit has been done. What about Northern Ireland?

  • @KhaalixD
    @KhaalixD ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video!

  • @SevenEllen
    @SevenEllen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There are a lot of Tory voters who became very unhappy with Boris Johnson, and have actually stopped voting Conservative. What they'll vote instead though ... only time will tell.

  • @obambaman
    @obambaman ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Okay these segues are just becoming funny at this point, as soon as i hear "problem solving, i know its brilliant.

  • @Isle0fRed
    @Isle0fRed ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perhaps you should do a similar video on Thatcher and Churchill

  • @juliane__
    @juliane__ ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Note: Theresa May didn't want Brexit. It often seems, that she is regarded as a Brexit proponent

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Huh? She was a Remainer, but for her entire campaign as PM, she promised to get Brexit done. The Brexiteers theorised it was some kind of scheme to remain in the EU, but frankly, I'm pretty sure she realised that a Brexit that was both sustainable and legal was impossible and she was screwed no matter what she did.

    • @carultch
      @carultch ปีที่แล้ว

      Even David Cameron didn't want Brexit. He only proposed the referendum to throw a bone to UKIP voters, and never expected it to pass.

  • @MrKamran1369
    @MrKamran1369 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very well balanced report 👏

  • @ericbischoff9444
    @ericbischoff9444 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's also the rise and fall of Brexit.

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm really hoping this video wasn't made prematurely.
    On the flip side, accountability finally catching up with this dumpster fire gives me hope in regards to the dumpster fires currently burning in my own country of the U.S. for the past 7 years.

  • @Hession0Drasha
    @Hession0Drasha ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The idea that the uk deserved a special position within the eu, was flawed and the height of hubris in the first place. "Treat us like we are better than you, or we'll leave" only could have gone one way. The problem is it's now transformed into "Treat us like we're special or we'll break all our international agreements and throw an epic tantrum"

  • @jameseverson8755
    @jameseverson8755 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey TLDR, love your stuff and subscribed to Nebula recently! I couldn’t find a video suggestion form but a lot of the candidates for conservative party leader are promising tax cuts, could you guys do a video on the feasibility of this? Maybe discussing the promises they are making and how realistic these are? Thanks!

  • @marcusroydes
    @marcusroydes ปีที่แล้ว

    Pity that some of the background music is so loud.. it makes it difficult to focus on what’s being said, particularly during the segment about the Downing Street flat scandal.

  • @tomarmstrong1297
    @tomarmstrong1297 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I saw his resignation speech. It sure didn't sound like a man that was going to retire. I suspect he'll be back again- Or at least will attempt to return.

  • @iamunce
    @iamunce ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I know these are supposed to be short presentations, but you should have mentioned his defence of Dominic Cummings' birthday jaunt and Boris's constant lying to the House of Commons. Also, you should have been more explicit about his illegal U-turn on the Northern Ireland protocol. These might not have been the issues that turned his party against him, but they are certainly among the reasons that the country as a whole began to loathe him.

  • @stealthX79
    @stealthX79 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, thank you for making this.

  • @lafeelabriel
    @lafeelabriel ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I strongly suspect that none of the three PM's involved with the Brexit process (and neither will Corbyn) will come out judged well in the history books.
    But if I had to guess who will come out worse, it is none other than BoJo the wonder clown right here.
    If he lives long enough to see it he will miss the days when that was all that people call him, as "the prime minister that doomed the UK" has a far darker tone to it, and that is *EXACTLY* what I think he did.

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      An incredible favour to Cameron's legacy.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Forgot one more thing, admittedly, he will be remembered as Ukraine’s 1st major erstwhile ally, especially by Ukrainians.

    • @ai-d2121
      @ai-d2121 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sure. That’s what he made you think.

    • @jamesarnold7253
      @jamesarnold7253 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Unfortunately he's been in a party that has basically encouraged Russian money to be funneled through the UK and personally has links with the KGB. Out of his 20+ years in politics he's helped Ukraine for about 5 months

    • @ai-d2121
      @ai-d2121 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FableBlaze We, not in the UK, think there is much more to it then one tiny country “ taking the lead”. Do you really think the EU is interested in a PR offensive? You really have to dig in to see why the UK is not leading in any way, shape or form to see the extend of what is going on and that has little to do with Bojo posturing on pics “ look how we lead”. It nay well be that Bojo actually set the stage for the invasion by the destabilisation attempt to break up the EU.

    • @j.j.1064
      @j.j.1064 ปีที่แล้ว

      When a stranger comes and offers you candy, "he's your best friend" or is he? It must be remembered that Johnson's legacy with the Russians bribing the British with money and hobnobbing with the KGB Lebedev made him a Russian asset. It's like facilitating homicidal burglar entry into your house and while their in the process of trashing the place, offering to call the police. The Ukrainians I suspect know this but for the sake of optics and a fear that the weapons might dry up, are in PR terms have been obligated to "smile for the camera".

    • @jameslebron2403
      @jameslebron2403 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      At the same time though, the UK has made it extremely difficult for Ukrainian refugees to arrive compared to other European countries

  • @davidlefranc6240
    @davidlefranc6240 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really good resume

  • @Nathann99
    @Nathann99 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Forgot how much we have gone through since 2019 ahahha

  • @jame358
    @jame358 ปีที่แล้ว

    ay yo, whats that chill bop at the start of chapter 2.

  • @addymant
    @addymant ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Britain being the first to begin administrating the vaccine is very technically correct. For one thing, America administered the same vaccine on the same day, for another, there were certainly people who had received that exact vaccine during the trials, although none of them would know at the time that it'd be the final form or even whether it was an actual vaccine and not a placebo.

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay, the bit about trials is pretty funny. That definitely doesn't count (and the Oxford trials were done in the UK, anyway)

  • @Whiskah
    @Whiskah ปีที่แล้ว

    13:10 BAM volume increase lol

  • @jvandekant
    @jvandekant ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting recap!
    What puzzles me though, as I can see that the f word is suppressed despite being spelled out on the slide, I wonder why the word rape was both suppressed and striked through. Does that have to with a lack of an actual conviction?

  • @marielaveau8761
    @marielaveau8761 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good segment overall but one small thing: You say the anger over our energy crisis carried on into 2021 when it worsened due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is historically inaccurate, as this Ukraine war started in March 2022.

    • @ryancappo
      @ryancappo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It looks like he missed a “then”, “when it then worsened (in 2022) due to Russia…”

  • @GoneZombie
    @GoneZombie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most people have a haircut, but Boris Johnson is a haircut that has a person.

  • @jon_j__
    @jon_j__ ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd heard about the refurb before, but is @11:31 a picture of the final result? Because, if it is, it's eyeball-meltingly appalling.

  • @dant5349
    @dant5349 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5:00 you forgot to mention the most immediate reason for her resignation, which was the Tory failure in the EU elections

  • @francisglancy8355
    @francisglancy8355 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved the video, thanks for this. I've just learnt about your channel! I'll see how I can support you in the upcoming future.
    That said, I'm sorry, I know it's not the main topic, but I have to ask: why on earth is the word "rape" censored? It's neither a swearword nor are slur. If someone's a rapist, especially someone elected to represent us, I like it said out loud, no softening. I hope it's not because people are too sensitive to hear the word. In that case, I inform you that trigger avoidance is not a therapeutic strategy to rape-induced ptsd, but a symptom, so you'd be enabling the sickness in people. Shielding people from causes of distress is just fashionable, but highly damaging.

  • @pupuchow8810
    @pupuchow8810 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's this? Celebration background song at the start of the video?

  • @henhenderson6594
    @henhenderson6594 ปีที่แล้ว

    We defintely don't need the background music

  • @riccardo-964
    @riccardo-964 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please, don't put background music. Please don't.

  • @JustAnotherAccount8
    @JustAnotherAccount8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Don't live in the UK, so I'm going to miss him, solely because I loved hearing about the next idiotic thing he did. Now I'll only hear about the senile US president.

    • @carultch
      @carultch ปีที่แล้ว

      Which US president are you implying is senile?

    • @JustAnotherAccount8
      @JustAnotherAccount8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carultch which one do you think?

    • @carultch
      @carultch ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JustAnotherAccount8 I would guess Trump. But I can see just as much of a case to be made that Biden is senile.

    • @JustAnotherAccount8
      @JustAnotherAccount8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carultch Trump wasn't senile

  • @pritapp788
    @pritapp788 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    UK citizens really need to start asking themselves how they manage to elect such terrible MPs and Prime Ministers (yeah I know, you don't get to elect your PM, but surely before the 2019 election you KNOW that Boris Johnson is the leader of the party and that he will become PM if you give his side a majority?).

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, terrible education can be blamed for starters.
      Around 5-6 years ago, I checked British Highschool education average score vs Lithuanian. Lithuania surprisingly was a few point higher.
      My coworker also has a kid who goes to highschool here. Highschools in Britain are pathetically terrible and above all, classist.
      Most of all. Torrie voters have been buying their government lies about how everything was EU fault, despite British government and MEPs being responsible for it.

    • @corradomancini3271
      @corradomancini3271 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Suksass
      Terrible education? Some of the best universities in the world.
      How many Lithuanian Nobel laureates there are? I can tell you there’s more British….
      I wonder why so many Lithuanians move to the U.K.
      P.S. I am an eu citizen living in London, with dual citizenship now. I been to Lithuania around 10 times between 2006-2013, absolutely beautiful.

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@corradomancini3271 University education? Yes, one of the best.
      But if you bothered reading the rest of my comment, you would see that I'm writing about high school education.
      Which really is atrocious in here.

    • @jfbrycn8628
      @jfbrycn8628 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Suksass Agree completely, nobody gets taught about politics and how all the cheating, corruption and tax avoidance works - and why would they, the last thing the politicians want is people understanding what they get up to!

    • @mrfoameruk
      @mrfoameruk ปีที่แล้ว

      WE can only elect what's put in front of us and then you have to decide if it's worth voting for who you want as it might get wasted. The thinking goes along the lines of, if I vote green I might as well not bother, and the same for 4 other parties. there are then 3 parties, right, middle, and left. The middle party bit of a pointless vote as well so left/right. So you have 2 parties. one loony left the other Boris (or another tax evader). Who are we supposed to vote for?

  • @Monkeyboy707
    @Monkeyboy707 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I mean I guess he could always still run for president in the US… 🤷‍♂️

    • @Marcusjnmc
      @Marcusjnmc ปีที่แล้ว

      he paid to get his US citizenship removed after the US started taxing overseas citizens

  • @harukrentz435
    @harukrentz435 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:14 The New Churchil..... 😆😆😆

  • @lbell9695
    @lbell9695 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As an Australian, I remember my first impression of him was being a Trump 2.0 - both considered funny, charismatic, but no substance. They even have the same hair going lol. Him supporting Brexit could have been another factor too.

    • @octavianpopescu4776
      @octavianpopescu4776 ปีที่แล้ว

      I keep saying this, but in fact Trump is Johnson 2.0. Don't forget he was doing this way before Trump.

    • @user-ww3jz4tp4x
      @user-ww3jz4tp4x ปีที่แล้ว

      Both vacuous narcissists, yes.

  • @vivienclogger
    @vivienclogger ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Didn't Russia introduce a 'Sputnik' vaccine in August 2020 - several months before the UK? And Brexit isn't done btw - the Good Friday Agreement and the need to keep borders open between Ireland and Northern Ireland has meant it's still a festering issue between the UK and the EU

  • @lordofutub
    @lordofutub ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Odd you didn't mention that when he published the memo where he emphatically supports leaving the EU, investigators found a discarded second memo stating he emphatically supported starting in the EU. He clearly didn't know exactly what to do at the start of this all and only made his decision fairly late

  • @braddarkstar
    @braddarkstar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you put a clown into a palace you don't make him a king, the palace becomes a Circus

  • @shaundubai8941
    @shaundubai8941 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Larry the cat for PM!

    • @TheStobb50
      @TheStobb50 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m afraid Larry the cat is a civil servant so neutral in all of this 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheStobb50 Thats why he is perfect.

  • @ThomasBoyd9373
    @ThomasBoyd9373 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome. Excellent channel. Spot on. Well said. Support STV voting system for Uk general election politically in Britain.

  • @HarrowfireworksUk
    @HarrowfireworksUk ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved your breakdown And the story of Boris and then you came to the energy crisis.
    I think we all know that only about 20% is due to the war in Ukraine.
    Can you please present another side or a theoretical side from what we have been told about the energy crisis and why other places in the world have only increased their energy prices slightly like in France at 4%

    • @MalloonTarka
      @MalloonTarka ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For France at least it is probably due to them relying mostly on nuclear power.

    • @pritapp788
      @pritapp788 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MalloonTarka Not at all, a great number of the nuclear reactors are not even in service at the moment! True reason is electricity supply in France is not fully privatised and the state still has a say in energy prices. In UK it's all privatised: in other words, the government just bends over and accepts whatever prices the suppliers want to set.

  • @alex_zetsu
    @alex_zetsu ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wonder where would Johnson be if he didn't back Brexit. I'm pretty sure he wanted Cameroon's job and at the very least he wanted to be part of Cabinet, so sticking with their current leader would just mean the job is occupied longer, meaning that's more time Johnson doesn't have a chance. Would he just fade into obscurity, find a scandal, be part of Cabinet, or eventually be PM anyways?

    • @Marcusjnmc
      @Marcusjnmc ปีที่แล้ว

      Johnson was expected to become Con candidate for prime minister at some point after he'd successfully became mayor of london just because it proved he was a liberal conservative considered to be electable by lib dem & liberalised labour constituents vs how unelectable most tories have historically been in those demographics, if a party can capture a swing vote they typically will aim to do so, & he did deliver a pretty major swing in formerly labour areas off the back of the brexit swing vote alongside a demographic & policy shift in the local conservative membership in those areas