I tweeted the poem with admiration
Twitter is full of apparently liberal people criticising Boris Johnson for having a pop at illiberal, autocratic Erdogan. It's ridiculous.
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Quite right. Do these people wish he was sucking up to him? It's a sort of wilful blindness.
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I think it's just a rare thing these days to have an outspoken foreign secretary, recently the portfolio has been kept quiet
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Because it has no power, a fine tradition I imagine May will be seeking to continue.
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easily visible by her taking most of any remaining power and making two new departments.
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Are they? I think it's just an amusing turn of events. One minute, call man a goat fucker. Next minute, sent to meeting with him
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The way this year's gone, OF COURSE the foreign secretary has previously called the Turkish President a goat fucker.
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Not unreasonable to want serious people in serious jobs.
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I fear that horse bolted some time ago.
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To be fair, people are critical of Johnson for many other reasons as well.
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And many of them totally justified.
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Agree. Why is it so odd to put most prominent leave campaigner in the FCO? He did also spend 8 yrs selling London to the world
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Foreign secretary who has Erdogan sized-up fine start in my book.
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Indeed a 3rd rate Bazaar punk like Erdogan has got so far because craven Eurocrats lapped up his provocations.
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I'd organise your Defence team if you hadn't simply stated the sad facts Tom.
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@DouglasKMurray 's competition that poem won@PompeyGoat - 1 more reply
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.I like Boris. He will be good at his job, especially as he speaks many languages
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@Francis_Hoar but is calling Erdogan a 'wankera' the kind of language that a Foreign Secretary should use? Bad choice May! -
It isn't, perhaps, the *most* diplomatic of language...
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