“Should the bodies pile up”: These are the biggest scandals surrounding Boris Johnson
Created: 07/08/2022 05:37
By: Klaus Rimpel
Boris Johnson was very successful for a long time because he is different - but he never took the truth so seriously.
This is shown above all by looking at his past career.
Munich - "Chaos is not so bad, chaos means that everyone has to look to me to see who is the boss." This is a quote from Boris Johnson about his Corona policy - but it also fits as a description of himself entire career.
The British Prime Minister's career has been one of scandal and chaos.
The scandalous journalist:
As the Brussels correspondent for the
Daily Telegraph
in the late 1980s, he invents stories about alleged EU plans to standardize condom sizes or to introduce a "banana police force".
He had previously been fired from
the
Times for making up quotes.
Boris Johnson: lying about police officers and Brexit
The Rambo Mayor:
Even as London Mayor (2008 to 2016), Johnson lies, claiming, for example, that the number of police officers has increased – in fact it had decreased.
In 2015, a film went around the world that seemed to illustrate his ruthlessness: during a state visit to Tokyo, he brutally knocked over a ten-year-old playing rugby.
In order to promote the upcoming Rugby World Cup in Japan, then-London Mayor Boris Johnson agreed to a "relaxed" rugby game during a visit to Tokyo.
One of his opponents: 10-year-old Toki Sekiguchi.
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The Brexit lies:
His rise in the Tories, which led him via the foreign minister to Tory boss and prime minister, is based on his biggest lie: although according to internal statements he is actually a supporter of the EU, he fuels the mood for him with false figures Brexit.
He claims Britain transfers £350m a week to the EU - a grossly exaggerated, made-up sum.
Johnson is currently under a lot of pressure.
Four British government ministers have resigned over the latest Tory scandal and have harshly criticized Prime Minister Johnson.
Financial scandals surrounding Prime Minister Boris Johnson
The renovation affair:
British heads of government are allowed to claim public funds of up to £30,000 a year for renovation work.
But Johnson is having Downing Street renovated for well over £100,000.
At the request of the Prime Minister, Tory donor David Brownlow is apparently largely responsible for the additional costs of the conversion.
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In return for Brownlow's subsidy, published WhatsApp messages from November 2020 suggest Johnson promised to advance a cultural project favored by the multimillionaire - a clear case of corruption for the opposition.
The luxury vacation:
At the turn of the year 2019/2020, the prime minister is on vacation with his girlfriend on the Caribbean island of Mustique for a week – in a villa with a butler, cook and gardener.
He told Parliament that British millionaire David Ross paid for the costs (15,000 pounds).
But he denies that.
Boris Johnson on Corona: "Let the bodies pile up"
The corona trivializer:
At the 2021 climate conference, when Corona has Britain under control, Johnson sits without a mask next to 95-year-old David Attenborough - a symbol of his general trivialization of the pandemic.
“No more damn lockdowns!
Let the bodies pile up," witnesses quote Johnson.
When the prime minister then imposed a tough lockdown in view of the exploding death toll, Johnson and his ministers celebrated parties with dancing and alcohol in Downing Street in May 2020, while his people were not allowed to leave their homes.
The revelations about this lead to a no-confidence vote by his own party on June 6, which Johnson only narrowly survives.
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