"Please leave my town": As a polite man Boris Johnson teased the opinion

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He is smiling very friendly. He shakes Boris Johnson's hand. He speaks to him and still smiles. Then he says, "Please leave my city."

The whole scene takes only a few seconds, a video of which is currently being viewed a hundred thousand times on social networks. On Twitter in the UK, the man's original English sentence triggers #PleaseLeaveMyTown.

Following the sentence, the man taps Johnson on the shoulder. And the British Prime Minister replies: "I will, very soon."

"Please leave my town."
"I want, very soon." Pic.twitter.com/3gqW2SwqMi

The video is from the BBC broadcaster and was made on Thursday when Johnson visited West Yorkshire in northern England. The polite man in it is now celebrated in social networks as a "hero" and "icon"; and his statement as the most British - that is, most polite - way of telling someone "screw you".

What an icon. The polite handshake, the smile, then the quiet "please leave my town". So good

GTFO #PleaseLeaveMyTown https://t.co/w7ijEVsvxl. I really want to hear this protesting, doing some much-needed, much missed politeness with the message to, well, you know

The "Yorkshire Life" magazine caught the attention of the #PleaseLeaveMyTown hashtag as an occasion to refer to an article: It lists five reasons why people should move to Wakefield. The tweet says: "We can assure you that the residents here are generally very friendly."

5 reasons why you should move to Wakefield or you could just #PleaseLeaveMyTown - we can assure you the locals are generally friendly https://t.co/erY2cSYtZR

By the way, Johnson also met other residents on Thursday. In the town of Morley, for example, a furious man turned to the Prime Minister, and this encounter was noted in the video: Johnson should be in Brussels to negotiate a Brexit treaty with the EU, the man said. "They play games."

Johnson was in West Yorkshire to promote government investment in the police. At a police school in Wakefield he spoke to journalists, and this appearance is now widely described in British media. Among other things, Johnson is accused of using the police as a "backdrop" in a final political speech - behind the Prime Minister were numerous police officers during his speech. In addition, Johnson began with some delay, those present had to wait for him in the heat.

Police chiefs condemn PM for using Breeders' game https://t.co/dgyLk2Weu1

When a woman visibly struggled with her forces behind him, Johnson first announced that he would finish his speech. However, he continued to speak for a while and criticized, among other things, the opposition for her behavior in the Brexit crisis (more about the current status can be found here).

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In his speech in Wakefield, Johnson notes that a police officer behind him is not feeling well - he is now being criticized for continuing to speak afterwards

"Johnson kept the students waiting and, unsurprisingly, one of them seems to have suffered a seizure," the domestic spokeswoman for the opposition Labor Party, Diane Abbott, wrote on Twitter. "He saw that, and he ignored it, showing everything you need to know about this man - and how important the police service really is to him."