Boris Johnson nominates his Dad for knighthood

Quite astonishingly, there is something at the bottom of this story that I want to discuss because it is, I don't know any way to talk about it, except to say something that rhymes with Bucketuck. Which is quite astonishingly, it's not from the WhatsApps that have been released, but this is news that came in yesterday. Boris Johnson's resignation honours lists, which contain so many unexpected recommendations for an honours taking a long time to get approved. He's nominated his own dad Stanley for a knighthood. That's him. Right. Now, this is a man whose achievements involve breaking his wife's nose, repeatedly cheating on his family, spawning a shed load of Johnson's that we could probably all do without.

Being a go between for Boris with Chinese politicians that he couldn't otherwise meet and more recently spouting a load of gump about how there's too many human beings on the planet and people should stop breeding. But of course, that doesn't apply to the Johnson's. Darren, does this list of I'm going to call it achievements because I don't know what else I could underachievement overachievements. Does this scream, you know, knighthood at you? Not really, no, I mean, Stanley Johnson, of course, basically says he is he doesn't have any recollection of the incidents that you describe a second ago. But it just underlines how much. Boris Johnson treated the highest office in the land like his opportunity to play fast and loose with everything. With everything.

And it was almost like his own personal fiefdom. I don't think anybody could come up with anything substantive that Stanley Johnson has done that would warrant a knighthood. And yet for Boris Johnson to even consider pushing his father is the worst kind of warped, if you like, nepotism, reverse nepotism. Even if even if your dad had done something amazing, even if you're like spearheaded the COVID response or something. Any of us would go, this looks a bit bad. It's a bit cheeky. I don't think I'm going to get away or get a knighthood from my own dad.

But tell you what, I'll leave a I'll leave a post it for my successor and see if they'll do it instead or something. You would do something else other than reckon you wouldn't have the brass neck. And this is the thing, whatever the Johnson clan have underachieved at or cocked up, what they have in abundance is brass, isn't it? Absolutely. And the problem is that there are so many people, let's not kid ourselves across our political spectrum, across our media spectrum, who are willing to give credence and sucker to this. Complete charlatan who is able to do what he does and to attempt what he does because there's always someone to act as an apologist for him. And but I think this might well be a bridge too far because of the reasons that you suggested at the top of this discussion. And because of the fact that it would you will struggle to find anybody who could give you a single scintilla of a reason as to what he does.

As to why this chap should get a knighthood. And if he does, then it makes a mockery of the entire system. I mean, people still accept them as you know all day long. But I think as far as Stanley Johnson is concerned, what message does it send out to women if you give him a nightmare? What would like to what message does it send out to all of the people who genuinely did do meritorious things if you give somebody like Stanley Johnson a knighthood? What does it say about the entire system itself? If somebody who's done the things that you've said could get one. We know that lots of people have returned knighthoods in the past. But I think you might get more people rejecting them if they are to be tainted by the handing of one in the circumstances that we're talking about to somebody like Stanley Johnson. I'm sorry.

Exactly. And as Mike says there, he gave Gavin Williamson one. No one seemed to reason to know and never really understood. And his main achievement was having a spider bullying people allegedly and selling fireplaces. Terrence says, doesn't he deserve it for producing the best Prime Minister since Churchill? No. You don't get a knighthood for releasing sperm. Sorry.

And that's just how it is. And I should say that while Stanley Johnson says he does no recollection of breaking his wife's nose, his wife remembered it quite clearly. And she told Boris Johnson's biographer before she died, although she hasn't died and can't be questioned about that. Lazy Left Eye says it amazes me he's being allowed to get away with it. Who the hell approves his list? There is an appointments commission and they're supposed to go through it. It's not definite yet as we understand it. That is a suggestion.

But I mean, the fact you could even suggest it shows Boris Johnson's got a real problem with reality and how people actually regard him and his family, perhaps. And from Stanley's point of view, he calls himself an environmentalist. He's been an MEP. He has done some work on Boris Johnson's behalf, I think, shuttling around, passing messages here and everywhere. And he does consider himself sort of a campaigner for the environment and that kind of stuff. Can I ask you, Susie, do you feel as a woman, Susie, that, worse than Lee Johnson to get a knighthood, it would send out a message that the entire system would not want to send out? I think pretty much everything Boris Johnson's ever done, as far as that, any of the honours, he gave his own brother a peerage. I think some of this stuff, all of it shows that it's a terrible situation and it's a stinking corrupt system.

It's been stinking and corrupt for a century. If you want to make it properly clean and tidy, it's pretty difficult. Because the next person who comes in might want to improve it. But to do that, they have to start waiting the House of Lords with their own guys, right? Use the corrupt system to do that. But this kind of message is just astonishing. I talk about a Nipo baby, Nipo grandad. Now, Kerry says, leave Boris alone.

That man dealt with so, so much in his time as Prime Minister. He had Brexit. Poor him. I think that was his idea, though. Covid strikes possibly also his fault, war threats. He's been badly treated by this country. He was so poorly with Covid and was still working from home in isolation with his pregnant from his pregnant wife.

People forget all the good things he's done. They pick up one or two mistakes and then Kerry carries on in a way we can't include. Part of the reason we forget some of the good things that he's done, Kerry, is that we can't think of any. If anybody wants to have some good things that Boris Johnson has done and don't say Brexit because it hasn't happened, because Northern Ireland hasn't left. If anyone wants to think of some good things Boris Johnson has done, let's list them in the comments or I will go through them at the end. I'm happy to read them out for you. If you think he's I genuinely.

No, it's a blank. Sorry, Christine says Stanley Johnson. Words escaped me. Sorry, I should do that in the tone of that milkhead version. Stanley Johnson. Words escaped me. Stanley Johnson.

Well, he did he kind of rewrote this and I'm a celebrity. Same team as Matt Hancock, I guess. Oh God, Matt Hancock for a period next, probably.

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