{"id":12851,"date":"2023-06-11T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:39:47","slug":"brave-sir-boris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12851","title":{"rendered":"Brave Sir Boris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday disgraced former alleged party-time prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65863336\">resigned as a member of parliament with immediate effect<\/a> rather than face the sanction of parliament for lying to it and possibly losing a by-election for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uxbridge_and_South_Ruislip_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jun\/10\/relief-uxbridge-boris-johnson-resignation\">he has ignored since 2015<\/a> and held with a slender majority of 7,210<\/p><p>\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>The Monty Python team had Johnson&#8217;s pusillanimous character type down to a tee way back in 1975 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/\"><em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_42842\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFdgjYoBMIg?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Monty Python - The Tale of Sir Robin\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>Like Sir Robin, &#8220;Sir&#8221; Boris has plenty of previously form, as recorded by the minstrels of the fourth estate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Sir&#8221; Boris is first and foremost famous for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2019\/dec\/11\/boris-johnson-retreats-into-fridge-to-avoid-tv-interview-video\">evading a journalist by hiding in a fridge<\/a>; and while he was Foreign Secretary in Theresa May&#8217;s administration, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/boris-johnson-latest-where-found-heathrow-vote-afghanistan-uxbridge-mp-foreign-secretary-a8415891.html\">typically avoided<\/a> a Commons vote on the expansion of Heathrow airport (<em>concerning which he had previously vowed to oppose, saying he would &#8220;<strong>lie down in front of the bulldozers<\/strong>&#8220;. Ed.<\/em>) by disappearing to Afghanistan for the day<\/p>.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday disgraced former alleged party-time prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson resigned as a member of parliament with immediate effect rather than face the sanction of parliament for lying to it and possibly losing a by-election for the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency he has ignored since 2015 and held with a slender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[36,33,20],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions\/12857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}