Donald Trump calls him "Britain Trump" and now he's about to take office as the U.K.'s new prime minister amid turmoil over Brexit. The Washington Post's Brian Klaas and MSNBC National Security Analyst Jeremy Bash explain to Lawrence O'Donnell what that means for global politics going forward.
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Russia And The New UK Prime Minister | The Last Word | MSNBC
Boris was born in NY and was a US/UNITED KINGDOM citizen until he gave up US citizenship because he did not want to pay US taxes. Lucky us.
@Daemon Nine That’s totally inaccurate. Former PM Theresa May negotiated a Brexit deal with the EU. Among those who voted it down were the so-called hard Brexiters in her own party. If it hadn’t been for them, Brexit would have happened by now. They voted it down because they didn’t like the so-called backstop, which allowed a soft border on the Irish mainland, as required under international law. According to them this isn’t a hard enough Brexit. Yet in the run-up to the referendum, many of them, along with Nigel Farage, claimed they wanted, and campaigned for, a much softer Brexit that would have made the backstop unnecessary, a Brexit in which we remained in the European single market and customs union. It’s leaving these things that makes the backstop necessary and they are now adamant that we must leave them. Here’s the proof of what I’m talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGt3QmRSZY
@Sara Pulford LOL. The sneeze – cold catchphrase is common here in Germany, too.
And no. I think there are three dangers of a international recession.
1. The dept of the country of America, specially by the tax reform.
2. The dept of american households.
3. A no deal Brexit.
@Jeff Okriya I THINK that’s sarcasm
@Judith Aldridge It was a bad joke.
Please don’t compare American politics to other countries, yours is the most corrupt of any country right now.
Not for long.
@foxdesignbuild foxdesignbuild you wish
@Kaboomnz Actually I don’t wish that on a steadfast ally like the UK at all. I’m merely observing and saddened by what I observe
@foxdesignbuild foxdesignbuild America is really hoping Johnson will be terrible so it takes the spotlight off Trump. American politics is a joke.
Of course, the vote included children because that is all the Conservative party consists of in the UK.
By electing Boris Johnson, the UK Conservatives have just made UK the laughing stock in Europe in the same way as USA is the laughing stock in the world.
Boris Johnson and the Conservatives fail to understand that EU will not negotiate any further deal with UK. The UK Conservatives can take the deal or get out without a deal. Why should EU care?
UK can leave without a deal and then live through the consequences.
Who cares about UK? They obviously still think that UK is an empire.
@Cordelia Hamilton I guess he meant that mentally they’re like children
Johnson will not last six months. He becomes Prime Minister today but if Labour push for a no convidence vote he will be gone before he even gets to move in to number 10. Right now Brexit is at best a 49% chance of happening. Remaining is at worst a 51% chance of happening. In the European elections the majority who voted, did so for a remain party. 35% voted for a Brexit supporting party. It was only the voters in England voted to leave. The North of Ireland, Scotland and Wales voted to remain. London overwhelmingly voted to remain.
@Cordelia Hamilton That is frightening, I am well old enough to join the party.
One can only imagine what kompromat Russians loyal to Putin have on Boris.
Doesn’t need it. Boris is a numpty in public.
Eddie Mair vs Boris Johnson (Full Interview) – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxA-9D4X3o
24 Mar 2013 – Mayor of London, Boris Johnson appeared on the Andrew Marr Show … A spoiled, nasty man, born into privilege, from a school of similar …
Really Brits? Really???😔
So if we (America) start dropping nukes on ourselves, are you going to do the exact same thing too?
@Rhys Garner This is probably pointless but I’ll bite and provide some links, in the hope you’ll pay attention.
They’re listed chronologically in the order they were published:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arron-banks-profile-the-brexiteer-his-russian-wife-and-their-family-runabout-mi5-spy-nj00skhjk
https://www.ft.com/content/4610a4be-dde2-11e8-9f04-38d397e6661c
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/how-arron-banks-campaign-ambassador-jim-mellon-made-millions-in-russia-nigel-farage/
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-banks-files-how-brexit-bad-boy-arron-banks-was-eyeing-a-massive-russian-gold-deal
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705428857/russias-connection-to-brexit-is-opaque-and-complicated-journalist-says?t=1563964979734
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/the-chaotic-triumph-of-arron-banks-the-bad-boy-of-brexit
@Turnible Spencer
Yeah but the conservative party got elected by their same version of our frightened, bigoted, misogynistic uninformed knee jerk citizens that elected the tea party in the USA and started us down that slippery slope to Trump.
David J Johnson won a leadership contest in the Conservative party to become Prime Minister, he was voted in by 160,000 mainly middle aged white men, not by the 65 million in the country, if he fails to deliver Brexit he will probably have to call a general election.
Britains did not elect Johnson; he is there because the 135,000 Conservative Party Members put him there. The 33,000,000 voters played no role in this. There was however little choice of who to pick because choosing between Johnson and Hunt is like chossing to drink Battery Acid or to bath in it.
So now Putin has a Russian puppet in the white house, and a Russian puppet at 10 Downing Street.
@Milán Molnár Hah… you think Russia has the biggest cyber warfare division in the world 🙂 What comic books have you been reading?
You Russian conspiracy freaks are so stupid. Just flat out DUMB!!
Everything in this report regarding the UK is utterly false, the UK economy is doing better than all predictions, Russia has zero involvement with the UK and even the mood of the UK is wrong, they targeted london to ask this question because it’s minority English but the general mood in the country is that we’re ectsatic that the tories finally chose someone who promises to keep their promise (though we are holding our breath on that). We do not vote for tyrants, we have no presidents here, we vote for party ideologies so even the start of this vile propaganda hit piece is totally misleading, the UK public have zero say as to who the leader of the party is unless you are a member of that party. All paid up members of the party have the option to vote for the parties leader, anyone can do it if they pay the membership fee but in the end the Prime Minister has little more power than any other MP and can be replaced by the party at any time.
Trump 2.0 with the bad hair and everything. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
The biggest difference between Donnie and Boris is their hair. Donnie’s ego requires him to invest considerable resources and ego in the appearance of his ridiculous hair, whereas Boris doesn’t mind his ridiculous hair and even seems to embrace is it. They both look like clowns. Donnie cares deeply. Boris doesn’t care at all. Their only similarity is that Putin selected them to destroy their countries.
Boris Johnson accused: ‘you’re a nasty piece of work’ – video | Politics …
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Boris Johnson accused: ‘you’re a nasty piece of work’ – video … Eddie Mair, interviewing Boris Johnson on …
Polarbear 123 almost true, Boris for all his faults is an incredibly bright and well-read human being
Polarbear 123 Sure! The Enemies ‼️of the People, in USA (but also with love from) ❤️🇱🇺 Holland 1). Relativism —2). (false) Religion, —3). Inaccessible far-off LEFT Socialism, —4). Fake msm Media and —5). The Evil Ex-Elites of CIA and FBI (Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Hussein, Hillary, etc) ✝️🇺🇸
This is the guy who’s going to deliver the brexit deal the UK wants. The same guy who walks out of the house with bedhead everyday?
Boris is born in ny.
So Albert Einstein was a dunce because he had unruly hair? Someone’s hair doesn’t tell whether someone is inept or not fool!
Boris Johnson, crazy hair like Trump! -is this a thing?
Yes and it’s getting quite boring and corny.
Just like Geert Wilders in NL.
it covers the “666” mark of the beast on their scalp, which of course marks them as being minions of Satan, unfolding his plan to take over the world.
Not a president. He can be removed far more easily than a president and he has way less power. Having said that it would be grim to be in the UK right now.
@iris weber Nah… you won’t dissolve the British Parliament 🙂 That would be basically reinstalling the rights of the Queen to govern the country. It is the Queen who invites the winning party after the appropriate majority to form a government. Even if they did start marching people to the train stations, they would only be exporting them out of the country. …and I don’t see that happening either.
Quite the contrary its great here and we welcome Boris,We are hoping he is just like President Trump,Make England great again…long live the Uk long live the USA ..
@manchesterutdfan66 Ah wow… I haven’t heard a Brit speak that way about Britain in a long time! Good on ya!
He has such a resemblance of Drumpf. SCARY
The blond hair is the only similarity.
Stupid people a Trump Clone!!!You will regret it big time. Get the Prime minster Ballon Ready!
Can’t you spell ‘balloon’ ?
Also, can’t you spell ‘minister’ ? The USA’s education system seems to be lacking.
Wow. If Boris is Britain’s Trump, they’ve got another thing coming because Trump is America’s Hitler.
@chicawhappa You just explained the absolutely obvious to an obvious troll.
@chicawhappa Under Trump the working/middle class voter is earning the same as they did in 1979. The Walton Family has more wealth than the poorest 50% of Americans. Buffet, Bezo and Gates also have more wealth than the poorest 50% of Americans. The Poorest 50% of Americans have less than 10% of the wealth in the country.
Please don’t compare apples with oranges. Westminster parliamentary system can fire a PM as quickly as installing one, hence the abrupt departure of PM. Theresa May. (still PM until she submits her resignation to QE11.) Next election May 2022 and it can be sooner. I doubt if Boris will be PM by then.
Looks like Putin is taking over the world without having to use military, just the ignorance of the countries he consumes.
Or just stupidity and delusion of people like you lol
@zoki kostadinov Russia invades previous satellite states of USSR, that’s whom.
You’re exactly right. Putin wants the world! Maybe Kim Jung-un will attack Putin. (?)
Divide and conquer.
I live in the UK and yesterday there was long queues at currency exchange offices as people got their Euros and Dollars for summer holidays before the pound crashes with the news that Johnson is the new PM!! Wtf is happening in the world. First Trump and now Johnson?? 🤦♂️
Hey UK…….you’re supposed to be the Sensible One in The Special Relationship?! Don’t go down our road.
Whoops! Too late!!
The US and GB have such a special relationship we have both decided to put idiots in the top job, like two women syncing their periods who live together.
Thanks for finally saying clearly that the Russians did Brixit. I have not heard that from the media all this time.
I can’t believe we have Bojo the clown for PM. Did we not learn what happens you elect a bumbling, racists, elitist to power? Nicola sturgeon sign me up for Scottish independence ASAP.