By skillfully communicating that he is, Boris Johnson cracked Thursday evening, at Christmas meal time, from a video message to the British: “Tonight, for New Years Eve, I have a little gift […] Here is an agreement to bring certainty to businesses and travelers and all investors in our country from 1is January, an agreement with our friends and partners in the European Union. »
I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/DofRkb4Ivc
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 24, 2020
The one who will go down in history as the Prime Minister who ” delivered on Brexi », voted in 2016 by 51.9% of Britons, finished the job by securing a trade deal. At finish. He thus saves what could be saved from a calamitous 2020. Because Boris Johnson has been on the side since March to the worst critics for his management of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed around 70,000 people in the United Kingdom. Late on containment, multiplying about-faces, BoJo even fell seriously ill in April after boasting about shaking hands in hospitals.
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“Happy Brexmas”
What better way, to make all this forget, than to sell Brexit as ” a new start “ for a country “To regained sovereignty”. The tabloids, which he has in his pocket, celebrates him by inventing the “Happy Brexmas”, portmanteau which mixes “Brexit” and “Christmas”.
It does not matter if Boris Johnson has made major concessions, such as agreeing to align competition rules or British standards with those of the EU, a sacred breach of sovereignty. Never mind that the 80% of catches in British waters that European fishermen were going to have to return, I swore, fell in Thursday’s agreement to… 25%!
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The future will tell if the break with the EU has “Liberated the creative forces of the country”, as Boris Johnson asserts or atrophied his stature as feared by Europhiles. Economists are announcing a decline in national wealth for the next five years.
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