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DanaThomas posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
The ancestry of the probable next UK Prime Minister. Until this TV programme last year few knew that B. Johnson’s paternal great-grandfather was a journalist and politician in the Ottoman Empire, persecuted by the Young Turks. There are other tidbits too…
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… This must be the day for saying …. WOW! 🙂
Dana .. this was fascinating and it led me to watch the further 5 parts ..
Thanks for posting .. He really is a mixed bag ..
Link .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcK63Zqry5Q&list=PLZsy4Rj7uAiTHmJtJHSHVmgJUg6xojhR3&index=2
I followed up as well. A most fascinating character who, if he becomes the next PM, will add an even more interesting chapter to that history. Thanks, Dana, for that little jaunt through the BBC.
Just take a look at the bio of Johnson’s main rival in theTory leadership, an ardent anti-Brexiteer loyal to Brussels/Berlin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
And to think I knew him in Oxford…
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/462217-boris-johnson-britain-pm/
Some more interesting insights from George Galloway, MP, on Bojo’s Trumpish qualities which perhaps makes the yawning absence of credible alternatives all the more sad and distressing. As Kahlypso so eloquently put it, “I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him”!