The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

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Johnson officially resigned as Prime Minister last week, so we wanted to take some time to reflect on his tenure. From how Johnson ended up in Number 10 to why he eventually saw his grand vision come crumbling down.

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00:00 Introduction
00:59 Chapter 1: The Rise of Boris
02:38 Chapter 2: Britain & Europe
05:17 Chapter 3: Entering Number 10
07:38 Chapter 4: COVID
11:26 Chapter 5: The Fall of Johnson

[ConsultantSal]

I love how Brexit was "Done" in the same manner as a student deciding to start their essay a few hours before it is due and submitting an incomplete work. Yeah, you technically did it...

[thesudaneseprince]

A cautionary tale if there ever was one, why does our society reward people who do these things? Being fired for lying as a journalist should have ended his career right there (generously ignoring earlier misdeeds)

[PigIA]

My dad’s friend knew Johnson. He said “If you were to say that someone at that table would be prime minister of the UK, you would’ve chosen the Moroccan cleaning the toilets before Boris”

[John_]

Boris' epitaph: "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." - Valery Legasov in "Chernobyl".

[RocketMonke]

So when Johnson was a reporter he lied a lot and when he became a politician he... lied a lot. Who could have guessed this?

[whowantswaffles]

I find the support of Boris astounding. He could take a literal dump in the street and people would say "aw, well, he's doing his best, that loveable rascal". I really don't understand how he got away with so much

[martindigweed]

This is a stunning collection of Johnson’s failures. Amazing that the system allows someone like him to come so far. If it was a movie it would seem a bit far fetched.

[Jedsa]

To this day, I still can't comprehend how the brits ever considered Boris Johnson suitable for public offices, let alone a prime minister.

[octopops]

I never thought of this channel doing video essays, but this style of video works surprisingly well here!

[talideon]

3:35 - This leaves out something *really* important: his career as a "journalist" boiled down to stoking anti-EU sentiment. Many of the toxic fabrications used to justify Brexit originated in utter bull he'd concocted for his articles.

[antyspi]

BoJo got his big majority on the ticket to "get Brexit done" and nothing else. He then went on to deliver Brexit by imply accepting the so passionately rejected border checks in the Irish Sea, seemingly intending to never implementing them once the deal was signed. So one could say that his greatest successes were entirely based on lies.

[NeverStopRolling]

You forgot that he gave PPE supply contracts to his friends and buddies, and bought loads of cheap PPE from China which we then had to pay to be destroyed as they were unfit for use...

[kelletamas]

May failed because the ERG and Johnson himself kept voting against her "deal". Saying no british pm can ever accept that. Than he become pm and accepted the same "deal" and said it was great. Than within a few months he started to try and break it and been at it since...

[SirWhig-esq.]

“Romping around london” that is very apt.

[emilymcplugger]

When he talks about the success of the vaccine rollout it brings to mind a variation of Churchill's famous quote

Never, in the field of human suffering, has the work of so many, been taken credit for by one man. This was the NHS finest hour.

[rotwang]

I wouldn't be surprised if the next government implodes in the next three to six months and Boris jumps back on the train ...

[tyranitararmaldo]

"To know Boris, is to hate him"

[odethebear]

Saying "Rise to highest office in country" while showing him dangling from that zip wire - Priceless!! 😂😂

[MrMartinSchou]

I said from almost day one, that May should have appointed Boris Johnson as the chief EU negotiator and Nigel Farage as his deputy.

That would have removed their ability to attack her progress, because anything they said could be shot down with either "you refused the offer to do it properly" or "it was your job to do this", and similarly any and all attacks from the ERB could be pawned off on those two. After all, who could possibly be better suited for the job than the two leaders of the leave campaign?

[kristofsportingdogs]

I remember seeing Boris the first time (I’m a Belgian). It was at the end of the Olympic Games in China. Where he came on stage as mayor of the next Olympic city. I remembered laughing when I saw him, and being baffled someone like him could become mayor. Al others on stage were perfectly dressed, and very distinguished and formal. And then there was Boris: his hair a mess, his suit wrinkled, walking on stage as if he was a farmer on his field….