Boris Johnson, "The Churchill Factor"

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  • Fifty years after Churchill’s death, the leader’s actions continue to shape the world. In his survey of this multi-talented politician, military strategist, and writer, Johnson, the mayor of London since 2008 and himself a former journalist and author of the inimitable Johnson’s Life of London, argues that history can be made by strong individuals not impersonal forces.
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  • @captaincommento3481
    @captaincommento3481 4 роки тому +63

    “You can easily judge a mans character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him”

    • @jeremysmith8035
      @jeremysmith8035 3 роки тому +2

      Indeed,poor old Alexander for example has never delivered on an election promise in his life,what does that tell you about his character?

    • @tinkerbelle2661
      @tinkerbelle2661 2 роки тому

      Damned by his hero.

  • @bigjulie3714
    @bigjulie3714 4 роки тому +105

    Winston also stated: "you can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing.... after they have tried everything else".

    • @simonjames3990
      @simonjames3990 3 роки тому +3

      And failed

    • @markhughes7927
      @markhughes7927 3 роки тому

      Brilliant!

    • @susanspurling4826
      @susanspurling4826 3 роки тому +2

      His mother was American.

    • @Rotebuehl1
      @Rotebuehl1 Рік тому

      @@simonjames3990
      May I ask?
      Churchill failed?
      How and when?
      I'm sorry to ask, but I am not well informed
      Thanks in advance

    • @ireneteareblessed
      @ireneteareblessed Рік тому +1

      To make church ill.
      From now, buildings Church Well.
      In Jesus Christ mighty name ❤

  • @anglosaxonbreed
    @anglosaxonbreed 4 роки тому +67

    Boris is now PM and if he carries on the way he started. He is on line to be one of the best prime minister's the Britain has ever produced. Churchill may have won the Battle of Britain Boris Johnson has won the battle for Britain in Brexit. The British under Boris Johnson I've got that country back after the sovereignty of Britain I've been surrendered by politicians to the EU super state without a shot fired. He is on course to make history. Well done Sir.

    • @erickanorris7885
      @erickanorris7885 4 роки тому +6

      I feel deeply relieved anglosaxonbreed…….....having endured such treachery in the House of Commons/House of Lords/The High Court Judges'Remainers/EU Commissioners....the people really DO believe him now.....his task is to deliver.....best wishes....

    • @MsMesem
      @MsMesem 4 роки тому +6

      The relief to have someone at the helm who is able to weather a storm while continuing to remind us of the wealth we have in our language and culture and how bloody wonderful it is!

    • @nauxsi
      @nauxsi 4 роки тому +1

      What a load of gibberish. Last time I checked there was some water between us and France.

    • @godsavethequeen1775
      @godsavethequeen1775 4 роки тому +1

      @@nauxsi Oh dear we have a Britain hating remoaner.

    • @redwhite4188
      @redwhite4188 4 роки тому +1

      anglosaxonbreed The Battle of Britain is an event of monumental historical significance, constituting both national unity and great human sacrifice. Brexit is an almost irrelevant event in comparison, now stop using clumsy historical references to make weak comparisons to current events.

  • @telephassarose3501
    @telephassarose3501 4 роки тому +133

    Very good to hear Boris in full flow in his natural element. He displays such genuine enthusiasm, born of conviction .
    He is actually far more serious than many people realize...his jokes are peripheral and a way of engaging the audience with serious matters, & history.
    What a profound contrast to Mrs May! We have had a dearth of intellect, a desert lacking in ideas & imagination .
    I hope so much he will survive the current attack dogs, and become PM.
    Of course he will err as all human do. But he has potential to succeed where many humans couldn’t.

    • @Nikki-lm4lt
      @Nikki-lm4lt 4 роки тому +3

      Telephassa Rose I think if he’s able to gain some inner strength from his knowledge on Churchill that Boris will get us through Brexit, and take us forward. The MSM has alot more power than it did back in Churchill’s day, & rely on ppl living too busy lives to look further than the headlines. Good luck Boris!!

    • @tobyw9573
      @tobyw9573 4 роки тому +4

      We have plenty of intellects, it is just that they busy being businessmen or just intellects, rather than broadly applying themselves to many different jobs, capping it off with a full career in politics, or perhaps dabbling in politics along the way, but with a strong finish.

    • @noIMspartacus2
      @noIMspartacus2 4 роки тому +2

      Never have so many been fooled so much by a duplicitous, drunken and guilt ridden opportunistic buffoon with delusions of adequacy.... until now....

    • @MauriatOttolink
      @MauriatOttolink 4 роки тому +3

      @@noIMspartacus2
      In 2001 I decided to stop speaking in cliché.
      The rest is history!!!!!

    • @shakypam
      @shakypam 4 роки тому

      @@noIMspartacus2 hear hear

  • @morchap
    @morchap 4 роки тому +235

    Boris old boy, you forgot the incident when Winston went into the men's room and placed himself at the other end of the stalls from Clem Attlee, the socialist leader. "Being standoffish today are we Winston?", asked Attlee. "Its not that Clem", replied Churchill, "it's just that whenever you see anything big you want to nationalize it!"

    • @john-danson3113
      @john-danson3113 4 роки тому +12

      Graham, that is a lesser known 7th wonder of the use of English. Thank you.

    • @normansmithers7631
      @normansmithers7631 4 роки тому +5

      johnson has always got his cock in his hand; that's why he cocks everything up.

    • @markhughes7927
      @markhughes7927 3 роки тому +1

      Brilliant!

    • @jeremysmith8035
      @jeremysmith8035 3 роки тому

      Marvelously funny, only Boris has just nationalised the railways

    • @jeremysmith8035
      @jeremysmith8035 3 роки тому

      Yes Graham only the private railways were such a disaster the tories have just nationalised them,still highly risible joke

  • @2394Joseph
    @2394Joseph 4 роки тому +115

    Boris, you appear to have missed this one: "We are with Europe but not of it; we are linked but not compromised. We are associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.” Winston Churchill..

    • @deedarwell3771
      @deedarwell3771 4 роки тому +11

      Derek in Sydney
      Yes, possibly THE most important sentence, especially in the current situation we are now in. I would place my whole entire trust in him if he overturned the 1973 Heath act, that would take us out of ALL treaties signed without the knowledge nor approval of The British citizens. LEAVE the Brussels unelected bureaucrats and all their pathetic laws, dictatorship and evil intentions of forcing us into the Globalists agenda/NWO. The EU Parliament will, hopefully crumble and fall before so very long freeing Each and Every European country, allowing them to regain their Sovereignty, Laws, Rights, Nationalism, cultures and differences that we have all embraced in days gone by. Everything should be sold off and the proceeds returned, and rightly so, to all the individual countries, whose taxes have been stolen/ given by former corrupt leaders, thus enabling ALL European countries to re-form and grow from strength to strength! Long Live Freedom, Nationalism and Cultural restoration. No I am not racist for stating my opinions and beliefs!

    • @nauxsi
      @nauxsi 4 роки тому

      @@deedarwell3771 Yeah we can have world war 3 woooo

    • @barryfullick7981
      @barryfullick7981 4 роки тому +3

      @@nauxsi Is that a liberal bedwetter's programmed response ? Or is it a carefully considered position ? If the latter, please elucidate.

    • @nauxsi
      @nauxsi 4 роки тому +2

      @@barryfullick7981 Having pride in your home is one thing. When that leads to excluding people and roughshod of their rights on the basis of colour, and done by adults whose own parents were the generation after ww2, unforgivable. Learn from your history.

    • @MyJudgedread
      @MyJudgedread 4 роки тому +4

      @@nauxsi Who is excluding people? Who is riding roughshod of people's rights based on colour?
      Please site a law, or actual policy .... not some random quote from stormzy .... give us FACTS!

  • @johnriggs4929
    @johnriggs4929 4 роки тому +92

    I went to bed and slept soundly after this: we now have a prime mjnister who's hero was a man who - though he admits wasn't perfect - did what had to be done, when it had to be done, despite the critisisms of the weak, who constantly derided his efforts. Thatcher was also a fan - but not half as entertaining to listen to. Boris's style, though sometimes stumbling, is endearing.

    • @TheYanbibiya
      @TheYanbibiya 4 роки тому +5

      That's beautiful mate

    • @bayesianstuff930
      @bayesianstuff930 4 роки тому +2

      John Riggs whose*

    • @johnriggs4929
      @johnriggs4929 4 роки тому +1

      @@bayesianstuff930thank you. Like the man in the orthopaedic shoes... I stand corrected.👍

    • @matratze1797
      @matratze1797 4 роки тому +1

      If only de Pfeffel knew what has to be done...

    • @AK-sw1nj
      @AK-sw1nj 4 роки тому

      Nice profile picture. Glad to see you’ve opened your eyes to see how much of a clown Boris is.

  • @heather725
    @heather725 5 років тому +78

    He will certainly be PM and be outstanding! Just what Britain needs right now. A great antidote to the previous PM’s

    • @SchweizZollikon
      @SchweizZollikon 4 роки тому

      Darius Guppy

    • @stuhazle
      @stuhazle 4 роки тому +2

      idiocy

    • @crowtheri
      @crowtheri 4 роки тому +1

      Disagree. Johnson is the antipathy of what Britain needs in a national crisis.

    • @MauriatOttolink
      @MauriatOttolink 4 роки тому +1

      Heather Rogers
      Comes the time, comes the woman/man.

    • @Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano
      @Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano 4 роки тому +1

      maybe england, not for scotland ever.

  • @kepnjem
    @kepnjem 4 роки тому +101

    Boris is now our PM with a 364 seat majority. I sincerely believe that he'll use Sir Winston Churchill as his role model.

    • @mikefay5698
      @mikefay5698 4 роки тому +1

      God help Merry England, A lying Hagiography of Churchill is more than I could stand. Talk about opportunist. All thanks to Jeremy the Red?

    • @shanehenderson8756
      @shanehenderson8756 4 роки тому +5

      @@mikefay5698 your just ignorant

    • @ravishingravi
      @ravishingravi 4 роки тому +4

      Don’t think he will be a racist.

    • @jimusgrimus
      @jimusgrimus 4 роки тому +2

      Hope not..........he'll be carpet bombing cities full of civilians and threatening to drop poision gas on Iraq..............sending in 'our boys' to kill people in the Welsh Valleys......and be falling about the place drunk.........

    • @xuehengzheng7455
      @xuehengzheng7455 4 роки тому +1

      History always repeats itself, a tragedy the first time but a farce the second time.

  • @MrAdrianOldfield
    @MrAdrianOldfield 5 років тому +92

    There is not a senior UK politician with his knowledge and flair for history, he will be a great PM

    • @michaelmkpadi5246
      @michaelmkpadi5246 5 років тому +8

      Jacob Rees-Mogg might have something to say about that actually.

    • @MrAdrianOldfield
      @MrAdrianOldfield 5 років тому +3

      @@michaelmkpadi5246 I said senior, JRM has yet to hold office, although her may be the next chancellor!

    • @crowtheri
      @crowtheri 4 роки тому +3

      The Father of the House ( Ken Clarke) would eat Johnson for breakfast. Clarke has a superior knowledge and should have been PM many years ago.

    • @chijavier268
      @chijavier268 4 роки тому +4

      Ian Crowther Instead he is now a very bitter Remainer.

    • @MrAdrianOldfield
      @MrAdrianOldfield 4 роки тому +2

      @@crowtheri Hahaha you are off your nut!

  • @LRRPRT90
    @LRRPRT90 5 років тому +136

    I think there couldn't be a greater person to describe such a remarkable figure of WWII and United Kingdom. A controversial character of the present times describing and representing a controversial figure of the last century. Superb from minute one till the very end.

    • @borisjohnson1015
      @borisjohnson1015 4 роки тому +8

      Thanks

    • @JTMsish
      @JTMsish 4 роки тому +6

      ...and now Prime Minister!

    • @barryfullick7981
      @barryfullick7981 4 роки тому +3

      Concur. Sometimes, with his eyes on the moon, he will step in a cowpat, but I'd rather go with his vision, drive and ambition for not only Britain, but the Anglosphere and the ideals of Western Democracy, than the slow slide into the inevitable grey mediocrity offered, indeed pursued, by the uninspiring apparatchiks who populate the left, and perpetuate their lie that they are "progressive" while regurgitating their stale Marxist claptrap.

    • @corryjookit7818
      @corryjookit7818 2 роки тому

      @@barryfullick7981 Your admiration for this compulsive liar and cheat, without a thought for anyone but himself. He has been revealed now as he really is. A racist, a fascist. Perhaps you're bedfellows ?

  • @dennischow523
    @dennischow523 4 роки тому +23

    Hi, such a great video with mixed feeling. This is the comment from Hong Kong and I would like to special thanks to the lady who asked the last question about Johnson's view on occupying Central. And I would also like to seek all of the viewer's help here to support Hong Kong fighting for our freedom and democracy now, preventing 5000+ young students getting to jail, disappeared, raped by HK Police. Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong. Thank you internet.

  • @abinyturbo4x476
    @abinyturbo4x476 3 роки тому +8

    Churchill was simply simple. Not overcomplicated as politicians today. That is the Churchill factor. Plus the heart he put into his speeches. That makes a different aura the audience can experience.

    • @kevinhughes720
      @kevinhughes720 Рік тому

      It wasn't Churchill who made the speeches.

  • @chrisjohnson4165
    @chrisjohnson4165 Рік тому +5

    I could listen to Boris all day long. Apart from being a scholar rather than a serious soldier, he does what Winston did - persuades with wit and wisdom.

    • @jamieedwards3629
      @jamieedwards3629 11 місяців тому +1

      I agree. It’s a shame he’s an abysmal politician because he is entertaining to listen to.

  • @squonk2630
    @squonk2630 4 роки тому +40

    we've had so many lawyers and barristers become Prime Minister, it's nice to have someone who is a student of History for a change.

    • @experiencescotlanddifferen4910
      @experiencescotlanddifferen4910 4 роки тому +1

      You must be very naive, just listen to the last finish of his speech.

    • @squonk2630
      @squonk2630 3 роки тому

      @Terry Jackson nope, I’m still happy with the choice of PM. Thanks for the reply.

    • @BW-vp6uh
      @BW-vp6uh 2 роки тому

      @@squonk2630 now. Still?

  • @sennagalisfan
    @sennagalisfan Рік тому +20

    It’s such a pity that a person with such a good level of education and charismatic hasn’t really become an effective leader.

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz Рік тому +7

      I don’t know how anyone can be an effective leader in modern politics, it’s a poison chalice and an asylum

    • @denisdaly1708
      @denisdaly1708 Рік тому

      Education. He read classics. Knows nothing about sociology, society, economics, international relations. All are required, as is the motivation to learn, read up on issues, to master briefs. He is a buffon, unknowable

    • @sh-hg4eg
      @sh-hg4eg Рік тому

      Like Churchill? Churchill being a good leader has been nothing but post war propaganda. He cocked up gallipoli, he refused multiple peace offers, ultimately destroying the empire and costing lives and he was voted out at the first opportunity by the country.
      By all accounts, he wasnt well liked or competent. His only saving grace was that he had inhereted a debt his dad owed to the likes of Rothschild and he became their pawn.

    • @Conn30Mtenor
      @Conn30Mtenor Рік тому +2

      True, it's a shame that he didn't stay in this lane. He's an academic, he's charismatic and he is quite orator. I like him, I wouldn't want him running my country because he's an inveterate liar and cheat, but as a communicator, he's terrific. That, and his nasty limerick about Erdogan hit the nail on the head.

  • @Tuffydipstick
    @Tuffydipstick 4 роки тому +140

    Boris is now our PRIME MINISTER!

    • @mikelovetere4719
      @mikelovetere4719 4 роки тому +6

      Praying for Boris from the yanks from across the pond...

    • @hans2406
      @hans2406 4 роки тому +10

      And in agreement with Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg.
      Splendid combination.

    • @shakypam
      @shakypam 4 роки тому +2

      ugh

    • @noIMspartacus2
      @noIMspartacus2 4 роки тому +1

      @@mikelovetere4719 Never have so many been fooled so much by a duplicitous, drunken and guilt ridden opportunistic buffoon with delusions of adequacy.... until now....

    • @borisjohnson1015
      @borisjohnson1015 4 роки тому +1

      Ha!

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 2 роки тому +6

    Churchill, was magnificent,..a proud historical figure,..unique and a great achievements......love to hear all this good stuff.

  • @zildaemanuel5001
    @zildaemanuel5001 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent absolutely fantastic Mr Boris well done for all you comments including all politics information that’s is the person we need to keep for long time in this country 🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @FacingDeath1
    @FacingDeath1 7 років тому +84

    I'm going to order a copy of The Churchill Factor, thank you.

    • @kayem3824
      @kayem3824 6 років тому +1

      Check also what Shashi Tharoor says for a comparison.

    • @borisjohnson1015
      @borisjohnson1015 4 роки тому +4

      Order 2. Make me money.

    • @davidtinker2143
      @davidtinker2143 4 роки тому

      Have you carried out your intention - if so, I think you'll agree it's money well-spent.

    • @normansmithers7631
      @normansmithers7631 4 роки тому

      do you still have it?

    • @ivanbombana7282
      @ivanbombana7282 3 роки тому

      Is that a good book?

  • @rutereis8403
    @rutereis8403 3 роки тому +7

    This video is lovely. A visionary moment for someone who really became a Prime Minister and I truly admire. Warm Regards from Portugal!

  • @ronstarkronstark500
    @ronstarkronstark500 5 років тому +35

    Boris holds in highest regard a figure of such importance as Mister Churchill that it has been said he, Churchill, summarily saved Western Civilization. Counting then on Mister Johnson’s knowledge of now and his knowledge of the past he will indeed fill the needs of the present in Royal fashion. I only wish I could shake his hand.

    • @normansmithers7631
      @normansmithers7631 4 роки тому +1

      now you would like to wring his neck!!

    • @briananderson3799
      @briananderson3799 2 роки тому +1

      Boris is a scruffy untidy oaf. Not
      Fit to mention Churchill’s name

    • @jordanmorris5827
      @jordanmorris5827 2 роки тому +1

      I like you're comment but it was a little difficult to read. I agree with it though.

    • @carlbradley6171
      @carlbradley6171 2 роки тому +1

      @@briananderson3799 His privileged status entitles him to be like that. It’s all a game. It’s fun.

    • @mikeno8192
      @mikeno8192 2 роки тому

      Brian Anderson: Churchill can be charged with atrocities and wrong doings, Boris can’t. Boris simply is a better PM and better person than Churchill. Churchill the odds were greater. But don’t overlook the gulag empire today, and Boris as PM has a significant influential impact around the world. Not just in the UK, taking about protecting civilisation.

  • @peterlast2478
    @peterlast2478 Рік тому +2

    Boris you are too well educated to become Prime Minster. Great speech.

  • @JasonM00n
    @JasonM00n 4 роки тому +10

    One MAJOR (and yet another profoundly world changing) Churchill legacy not mentioned here, is that Churchill was the commissioner and patron of the world’s first computer.

  • @jamesedwards.1069
    @jamesedwards.1069 4 роки тому +122

    5 years later, BoJo is PM!!! Congratulations!!!

    • @borzix1997
      @borzix1997 4 роки тому +7

      BoJo believes he is Churchill reincarnated. He will cause an unprecedented amount of harm to the UK. And the Continent of Europe. At least. He will harm the USA as well, if given half a chance.

    • @jamesedwards.1069
      @jamesedwards.1069 4 роки тому +9

      @@borzix1997 How do you cause harm to a nation that is already moribund? Will BoJo be worse than Tony Blurr? Worse than Gordon Brown? Worse than Theresa May? Worse than that other chap whose name escapes me at the moment?

    • @borzix1997
      @borzix1997 4 роки тому +1

      @@jamesedwards.1069 Moribund? :-) In the long run, we are all dead. :-)

    • @jamesedwards.1069
      @jamesedwards.1069 4 роки тому +3

      @@borzix1997"Moribund? :-) In the long run, we are all dead. :-)"
      Said Keynes the nihilistic homosexual who did not care about his posterity.

    • @borzix1997
      @borzix1997 4 роки тому +1

      @@jamesedwards.1069 His posterity is his oeuvre, inc. this quotation. The indigenous British population still has a chance to survive. The sooner the Jihad begins, the better, because time and demographics both work for the invaders. The sooner it is launched, the better chance the original population has to win. This is why Brexit is good. Its economic aftermath will pull the trigger. Even a civil war is better than dhimmitude for ever after.

  • @jordiegundersen1465
    @jordiegundersen1465 4 роки тому +10

    Highly inspiring and supportive of the likeminded !!

  • @samanthaperkins7444
    @samanthaperkins7444 4 роки тому +23

    A brilliant mind, A charm of a gentleman, capturing by fascination.
    A scruffy Genius.
    I love his dodging techniques & natural comradery. How’s your day Boris. Hope it’s good 🇬🇧

    • @stephenjemyers
      @stephenjemyers 3 роки тому +1

      You spelt " muggy cockwomble " and " snide git " wrong Samantha buddy .

    • @janejohnstone5795
      @janejohnstone5795 2 роки тому +1

      A genius....like Churchill, makes me feel proud.

    • @patrickmccutcheon9361
      @patrickmccutcheon9361 2 роки тому

      Two years on do you still feel proud of him with him hosting parties against the rules he introduced for everyone else. To me he appears to be entitled oaf who wishes he was Charles I.

  • @chelliz2138
    @chelliz2138 4 роки тому +39

    Wow, this lady made a prediction for Boris Johnson, she says "perhaps he may become Prime Minister someday"..this is in 2014 in Washington, DC..He is now few days ago, became PM of UK..amazing this lady..👍

    • @beautifulspirit7420
      @beautifulspirit7420 4 роки тому +3

      It was really not unexpected. Being Mayor of London is clearly a practice run for PM. Boris has always had a massive ego and ambition. As a child he wanted to be "King of the World".

    • @Porkcylinder
      @Porkcylinder 4 роки тому +1

      Hardly a ‘prediction’ it was always his stated aim and widely accepted he’d at least be conservative leader which is the same thing as be prime minister 🧐

    • @beautifulspirit7420
      @beautifulspirit7420 4 роки тому +1

      @@Porkcylinder well, as long as that party is in power. He might be a leader of the opposition as party leader.

    • @Porkcylinder
      @Porkcylinder 4 роки тому

      Catherine Nicholls
      er.... yes but he isn’t he’s the leader of the ruling party. Not quite sure what your point is?

    • @beautifulspirit7420
      @beautifulspirit7420 4 роки тому +3

      @@Porkcylinder if people are unfamiliar with the British system they may think a Prime Minister is elected separately from the legislature, like in the USA. And yes he is the leader of the ruling party!

  • @Critguards
    @Critguards Рік тому +1

    Really enjoyed the conversation and we'll presented!

  • @ronstarkronstark500
    @ronstarkronstark500 5 років тому +67

    Boris is absolutely brilliant. I do hope he has a chance to be PM.

    • @MarcialAlexander
      @MarcialAlexander 5 років тому +7

      I'll be our next Prime Minister, had no doubts about it....... He's the only one who could get a decent arrangement with our former EU partners....

    • @RonWylie-gk5lc
      @RonWylie-gk5lc 5 років тому +2

      :@@MarcialAlexander Wait, your serious right?

    • @SchweizZollikon
      @SchweizZollikon 4 роки тому

      Darius Guppy

    • @angelsaltamontes7336
      @angelsaltamontes7336 4 роки тому

      Ron stark Ron Stark...re Boris J's chance to be PM: Of COURSE he has a chance. Every kid from Clyde to Coldspot has a CHANCE. But the next PM will probably BE Siddiq Khan, or someone like him. Backing Britain---over a cliff.

    • @oxanalim8819
      @oxanalim8819 4 роки тому +3

      Welp Congrats

  • @Nikki-lm4lt
    @Nikki-lm4lt 4 роки тому +88

    The Churchill Factor is a brilliant read. If you want to get a sense of Churchill’s brilliance then read Boris’s book.

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 2 роки тому +2

    Boris,..you ,sir ..are amazing and knowledgeable!!...Glad you are impressed with Churchill.

  • @davidlawson7121
    @davidlawson7121 4 роки тому +74

    Excellent lecture from a guy who is fluent in French, Italian and Latin; together with excellent German and Spanish. It is exceedingly rare that he needs an interpreter with him when in the corridors of Brussels or its different summit meetings. We have only seen the surface of his abilities to date; like his fluency in Languages, he will take us well forward Post Brexit. A good man who does not shout his talents, merely gets on with the job, a fact shouty opponents find very difficult to counter with any sense.

    • @MsMesem
      @MsMesem 4 роки тому +8

      Don't forget his Greek; classical and modern. Μην ξεχνάτε.

    • @mountainsandmagic645
      @mountainsandmagic645 4 роки тому +10

      David Lawson now he has a majority I hope he will grow into the great leader we need to push us forward from the self hating country we have become. In fact now he has the power I foresee great things for the UK.

    • @michaelflamingsword3131
      @michaelflamingsword3131 4 роки тому +3

      And a horrible serial liar and serial adulterer.

    • @scobra6652
      @scobra6652 4 роки тому +2

      As with Trump, I'll judge his track record after 4 years, less if he's crap.

    • @softailfun
      @softailfun 4 роки тому +1

      Michael FlamingSword
      Good luck on your search for the politician who does not have hidden secrets or skeletons to hide! At least he will admit when he has done wrong, those that depend on spin and bullshit are the ones you should fear.

  • @Zakalwe-01
    @Zakalwe-01 4 роки тому +11

    Fascinating section on Hong Kong. Who’d have thought...

  • @zulkiflijamil4033
    @zulkiflijamil4033 11 місяців тому +1

    Yes Boris Johnson is a colourful, non conformist person. This presentation about Sir Winston Churchill was so interesting. Yes I wish to get a copy of Boris's book.

  • @billclarke3773
    @billclarke3773 4 роки тому +8

    I used to go often to Hong Kong on business before and after 1997. I met people who said that whilst they did not have internal democracy of the overarching nature that had long existed in the UK, they felt strongly, entirely and impregnably protected by the democratic Parliament of the UK, because they had seen throughout history that democratic governments, particularly the UK Parliament, had never produced cause to fear oppression or abuse. Post 1997 they knew that no such historical precedent applied - and they still do not. Remember the 10,000 dead in Tiananmen Square.

  • @AntPDC
    @AntPDC 4 роки тому +26

    After a decade or so of utterly banal PM's, at last we have a British Prime Minister with charisma, a deep historical perspective, a sense of individuality, and a keen sense of patriotism. These qualities have been all but absent for far too long in Britain. Thank God he's there.

    • @mzen7314
      @mzen7314 4 роки тому +1

      Gosh. You can say that again. I've never had an interest in politics until now. I voted Labour once, but will b voting conservatives just to keep him in office. Such a bright spirit

    • @AntPDC
      @AntPDC 4 роки тому +1

      @@mzen7314 Onwards and upwards!

    • @louissmith1393
      @louissmith1393 Рік тому

      AntPDC: This comment hasn’t aged well. 😂

  • @mogznwaz
    @mogznwaz Рік тому +9

    I can imagine Boris lecturing at a university on the Classics or History, I think he’d enthral his students. His book on the history of London is a very entertaining read.

  • @gurukural4970
    @gurukural4970 2 роки тому

    Honourable Sir and The Seniors Presented in the hall,
    The speeches with concurrent layers are pleasented the hall with joy and Happiness.
    Thank you very much to all the seniors.

  • @chijavier268
    @chijavier268 4 роки тому +11

    Here's the thing whether or not you like what he's saying, when he speaks you listen. I personally love watching him speak and practically drawn in even if I find the subject matter maybe a little complicated for my little brain to absorb. Btw that last woman with the question re Hong Kong was rather rude saying "No comment" after Boris gave a reasonable response to her question.

    • @patrickmccutcheon9361
      @patrickmccutcheon9361 2 роки тому

      Does this mean you enjoy listening to the lies and obfuscation when he refuses to answer legitimate questions at PMQ?

  • @dali6309
    @dali6309 4 роки тому +14

    What we need now great intellect

  • @danielm113
    @danielm113 4 роки тому +3

    Churchill never wanted UK to be a member of any European Community/Union/Federation.

  • @robinloxley205
    @robinloxley205 3 роки тому +2

    One thing for sure Boris has zero Churchill Factor.

  • @rutereis8403
    @rutereis8403 4 роки тому +10

    The Facilitator was a Visioner, Boris Johnson indeed became a Prime Minister!

  • @rickelliott3683
    @rickelliott3683 Рік тому +1

    The joke about being drunk, " I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be ugly the rest of your life ", was first uttered by W. C. Fields. The other alcohol and cigar loving humorist icon.

  • @nilus1955
    @nilus1955 4 роки тому +26

    Putting up the Corbyn character against Boris Johnson seems rediculous today!

    • @jamesmcbride6304
      @jamesmcbride6304 3 роки тому

      Yea thats alright if you like a lying bullshitting charlatan dont get sucked in by this man just look at how he has handled covid in our country, highest mortality rate of all Europe because of his incompetence this list goes on. worst priminister at the worst time. there is nothing funny about him believe me along with probably half the English electorate.

  • @mogznwaz
    @mogznwaz Рік тому +1

    Boris fought tooth and nail for democracy against the full force of the Remainer establishment. He didn’t have to, he could have just capitulated but he didn’t. For that, plus his irrepressible enthusiasm for Britain, his humour and his deep knowledge of history and language, I will always love him a bit.

  • @john-danson3113
    @john-danson3113 4 роки тому +2

    I despise his class. I despise his politics, but I admire this man's style of delivery beyond measure. I honestly think that his sincere stream of consciousness is unparalleled in modern oratory. Perhaps much of this in the lecture theatre, but none at all in the voice of mainstream politics. A leader, regardless of conviction, is an asset.

    • @jamesmcbride6304
      @jamesmcbride6304 3 роки тому +1

      Worst priminister at the worst time, looked at all the comments on hear and this is the same opinion they had running up to the election, mainly they thought he was funny and voted for him just for that reason. well I tell you something the majority of people in England dont think he is funny now, Brexit has been a total disaster, and the way he has dealt with covid has been a total disaster, worst mortality rate in Europe because of his incompetence because of his lack of common sence and not taking the advice of top medical professionals and his reluctance to shut the borders etc. Economy in tatters can never make a sensible decision u turns every five minutes, the list goes on and on. constantly lies in parliament, even when these lies are pointed out to him he will not admit to it. I think Churchill would be turning in his grave if he thought this Charleston was aligning himself to him !!

  • @mjj2072
    @mjj2072 4 роки тому +2

    We do need the courage of Churchill hopefully you have it Boris you need to get us out of Eu as soon as possible as majority of our wonderful country voted out . The uk want to believe in Democracy again and want our identity back . Proud to be British 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @johnmarais2882
    @johnmarais2882 4 роки тому +4

    We learn from every action we take in our life here.

  • @commane21
    @commane21 4 роки тому +7

    The pan right at 27:50 -- subtle. Verrry subtle.

  • @Jonnychoc48
    @Jonnychoc48 4 роки тому +10

    With a majority of 80!!

  • @alexopweg
    @alexopweg 4 роки тому +3

    Boris will make UK Great again .

  • @jhb1359
    @jhb1359 4 роки тому +2

    Fast forward. Churchill protected people and made sure everyone had a chance.

  • @RubyMarkLindMilly
    @RubyMarkLindMilly 2 роки тому +2

    The best one was when he was at a party who said to him "you sir are drunk" Churchill replied "you madam are ugly, in the morning I shall be sober but you will still be ugly" 😂😂👍👍👍👍

  • @brianpreval5602
    @brianpreval5602 4 роки тому +2

    and yet we did and you stepped up - thank god!

  • @sihartobing9570
    @sihartobing9570 4 роки тому +1

    G-20 It Same Like V.O.C, .... God Bless Sir Mr. Boris Johnson. And All Sir And Mrs, ..... Cherrio.🌠👍👍👍🌠🌠🌟🌠🌠.

  • @jeremyknott9402
    @jeremyknott9402 Рік тому +1

    i cannot imagine what churchill felt in those dark moments in the early part of the second conflict...dunkirk...hms hood loss...the blitz....he really had to be focussed ....firm resolve.....his imaginative visual use of the english language...and solid anglo saxon stubbornness .....he begged america to help.....like ukraine.......i cannot imagine.

  • @terraincognita4151
    @terraincognita4151 3 роки тому +4

    The history is written by winners... we'll never know how the world would have been without Churchill....

  • @kyrgyznationalist
    @kyrgyznationalist 4 роки тому +3

    What a well versed, highly articulate and accentric statement and a writer. Britain is blessed to have him as PM.

    • @christineanderson4755
      @christineanderson4755 Рік тому

      I had to look up accentric. I can’t find it it but I like it.
      Sadly my complete OED has to left at the castle 😉

  • @Injudiciously
    @Injudiciously 4 роки тому +2

    Besse ... "Winston, you are drunk." Winston... "Madam, you are ugly and tomorrow I will be sober"

  • @sunflowertomorrow6411
    @sunflowertomorrow6411 2 роки тому +2

    A Great speech👍

  • @johnwild6523
    @johnwild6523 3 роки тому +2

    Amazing.. He is fun but knows the score... Best prime minister ever...

  • @theveryfirst
    @theveryfirst 8 років тому +50

    Churchill saved the western world!

    • @gmpatra5296
      @gmpatra5296 5 років тому +3

      Do u know or do u ignore the fact that he murdered 4+ million Indians.

    • @Shankar-Bhaskar
      @Shankar-Bhaskar 5 років тому +3

      @@gmpatra5296
      He didn't murder them personally. He was the war time prime minister of Britain, what did you expect him to do? He had a duty to fight a war and hence diverted the rice exports. The Bengal famine was not because of Churchill but Indians themselves.

    • @commentconnoisseur1001
      @commentconnoisseur1001 5 років тому

      @@gmpatra5296 show me the evidence.

    • @perperson199
      @perperson199 5 років тому +2

      @@Shankar-Bhaskar Exactly. Also one should mention that the Bay of Bengal was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Navy, which made shipping somewhat difficult.

    • @billgowland3250
      @billgowland3250 4 роки тому +1

      Is that why the hero's coming home from the horrors of war
      Couldn't wait to vote the Swine out

  • @johnwild6523
    @johnwild6523 3 роки тому +2

    Best pime minister we will ever have.

  • @skylerdean2398
    @skylerdean2398 3 роки тому +3

    "To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy.
    England would live
    Britain would live
    Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful" -WC

  • @user-jg3pl2gg1n
    @user-jg3pl2gg1n 4 роки тому +5

    Boris Jhonson is amazing man. I'm from Israel and I hope and inspired to to the work he is doing. Not, long live the queen only long live Boris Jhonson

  • @superbad1585
    @superbad1585 4 роки тому +4

    Brilliant. Thank you Boris our new leader

  • @frederickmiles327
    @frederickmiles327 4 роки тому +3

    Churchill did two great things. In 1940-41 he saved Britain and the World. In 1951 he took the Tory party back into office and ended the Socialist state imposed by Atlee, Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson.
    By 1940 aged 66 he had acquired a lot of experience about war and politics. And have failed as Chancellor in the depression , he had a nine year sabbatical eating, drinking, reading and writing for the Press to think about it. As essentially unpaid backbencher he described himself as a journalist and had a lifelong interest in a free media.
    Within days of coming to power in May 1940, he found the Nazi army and SS on the banks of the Meuse, under the apparent command of General Guderain, his troop singing, ' we are sailing ( for England) . Winston asked his RAF Air Marshall's, ' can you provide some old obsolete planes, to expend. A 100 Battle fighter bombers, only 250 k. Right I order them to take out the house out that is Guderain's HQ on the east side of the Meuse, in the great tradition of the RAF and RN Capt of HMS Glowworm defending HMS Glorious from the Scharnhorst , they will take the German army and SS HQ by flying straight into. 20 RAF Battles went a straight into Guderain HQ, but it was actually next door, and Sailor was only shaken for a day. Rommel had taken the bridge . Churchill repeated the ordered in triplicate , if you find out were Rommel, Guderain or Heydrich's are
    , a 100 airborne immediately

    • @crowtheri
      @crowtheri 4 роки тому +1

      Wtf are you on about. You need to get your dates sorted out. Harold WIlson had not imposed a socialist state by 1951, lol - wrong decade sunshine.

    • @watkinssixtyfive7788
      @watkinssixtyfive7788 4 роки тому

      at any rate ingsoc is thriving while the nation chokes

  • @Makedonac007
    @Makedonac007 2 роки тому +1

    In that fashion, "Win" be prefix to thy name and similar stone. You of, "John' and son". We had a runner quick in Canada 🇨🇦 ran quickly from Jamaica at one time.
    Liberty 🗽 UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧

  • @nadakaram4877
    @nadakaram4877 4 роки тому +15

    love this man, he is so interesting to listen to and so informative

  • @RichardIIfan
    @RichardIIfan 5 років тому +12

    What churl could dislike this?

    • @katyb6979
      @katyb6979 4 роки тому

      RichardIIfan Salty Momentum sorts...

  • @mikelovetere4719
    @mikelovetere4719 4 роки тому +2

    I see the spirit, conviction and love of country in Boris as I see in our president Donald Trump....I think the UK has a winner for PM in Boris...

  • @roncadorette9907
    @roncadorette9907 4 роки тому +5

    This is the second Battle of Britain, and like Churchill before him, Johnson will win this battle and go down in history as a great leader !

  • @Kjdjrh
    @Kjdjrh 2 роки тому +1

    Effervescent- a great outing by Boris! 🦉🇬🇧🦉

  • @RetroSonya
    @RetroSonya 4 роки тому +8

    I wish I could meet this man. He is brilliant and very well versed in history! I really learned something new. Thank you! Bless you, Boris!

    • @normansmithers7631
      @normansmithers7631 4 роки тому +1

      are you still of the same opinion?

    • @jamesmcbride6304
      @jamesmcbride6304 3 роки тому +1

      @@normansmithers7631 Just ask the English electorate if they feel the same i think you would have a rude awakening, this guy would make billy bulshitter look like an amateur

    • @mikeno8192
      @mikeno8192 2 роки тому

      James McBride: The British electorate that voted him in? Because they’re conned by the corrupt media? Fact is there was a crisis - pandemic. He dealt with it better than any other government with more reasonable conditions compared to other countries. The British public will vote him in again if he stays in. Thank god.

    • @nicholasnunhofer8501
      @nicholasnunhofer8501 2 роки тому

      Some bs comments here; he’s alright, his green stuff is crazy 😜 but he’s under klaus Schwabbs thumb so not easy

  • @christopherbowen2547
    @christopherbowen2547 4 роки тому +8

    Go Boris!

  • @amjadsaabreeworld4520
    @amjadsaabreeworld4520 4 роки тому

    Very good 📖📖📖book library

  • @ivanbombana7282
    @ivanbombana7282 4 роки тому +4

    I have to buy this book!

    • @Nikki-lm4lt
      @Nikki-lm4lt 4 роки тому

      Ivan Bombana It’s a great read!

  • @brightonduder
    @brightonduder 4 роки тому +2

    Very glad this hombre is my PM

  • @chijavier268
    @chijavier268 4 роки тому +3

    Boris is so intelligent so smart.

  • @ruthhotchin
    @ruthhotchin 7 років тому +8

    Boris... You are wonderful as a politician.. You don't need to be typical! You are clever and fun.. a wonderful combination xx

    • @milels6917
      @milels6917 5 років тому +1

      Ruth Hotchin Love Boris The book is brilliant his study on Churchill inspirational Boris is the spirit of Churchill back again in him even has the same build and hummer and wit xxx

  • @marcus4445
    @marcus4445 4 роки тому +26

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

  • @Ed9870
    @Ed9870 5 років тому +7

    Very funny and interesting book.

  • @MySuperNan
    @MySuperNan 4 роки тому +20

    If I could vote for whom I would want to be our next P.M, Boris gets my vote every time.

  • @MauriatOttolink
    @MauriatOttolink 4 роки тому

    I was amazed by the number of non American accents who asked him, like everybody else, pretty deep and "gulp before answering'' questions.
    One of the best videos at its time but astounding now that, 5 years later later he really IS UK's Prime Minister.

  • @ivanbombana7282
    @ivanbombana7282 4 роки тому +1

    Where may I find a copy of this book in Italian?

  • @raylangley405
    @raylangley405 4 роки тому +3

    I would say Boris is brilliant at this . Politics i would disagree vocation in life this is his domain . Politics is corrupt dirty business and stamping out anything that's in front of it . Historian is a creativeness and discovery peoples life's .

  • @balerion3333
    @balerion3333 4 роки тому +31

    Boris is funny , dead serious, very smart and made commie Corbyn look dull as dishwater. Merry Christmas and a Brexit New Year.

    • @jamesrichards3183
      @jamesrichards3183 4 роки тому +3

      some paedophiles are like johnson; incidentally, when carrie symonds was 7, he was 31!!

    • @Littopastor
      @Littopastor 4 роки тому

      @@jamesrichards3183 am sorry to hear of your traumatised childhood. Did you report what happened to you?

    • @jamesmcbride6304
      @jamesmcbride6304 3 роки тому +1

      Commie Corbyn. I wonder what paper you repeated that from, another one that just replaces socialism with communism just to get the maximum fear factor.

    • @jamesmcbride6304
      @jamesmcbride6304 3 роки тому +1

      Nothing funny about this Charleton this is wha annoys me a lot people stupidly voted him in for that reason and boy we have our our heads in our hands now it’s been a total car crash total dysfunctional !,

  • @Melvin523
    @Melvin523 4 роки тому +3

    I love this man

  • @Economist96
    @Economist96 4 роки тому +2

    Educated Americans revere Winston Churchill, and many of us consider him the greatest man of the 20th century.

    • @ishineandburn
      @ishineandburn 4 роки тому +1

      Mark Davis uneducated Brits revere winston Churchill

  • @GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears
    @GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears 4 роки тому

    I used to love that gameshow.

  • @snowyowel7961
    @snowyowel7961 Рік тому +1

    Boris should never have been forced to resign he should have been allowed to finish is term in office and go for another genral election 2024.
    Starmer saw Boris has his biggest threat and spent months and months trying to stir the public against Boris.

  • @deedarwell3771
    @deedarwell3771 4 роки тому +1

    I totally disagree PM Johnson, I feel that we do need politicians of Churchill's calibre in today's society. MP's and PM's with a backbone to speak out in defence of Britain and our culture, traditions and customs, and the British citizens. Before anyone jumps in and accuses me of being racist, NO I am not racist. I embrace other, cultures and customs and the differences between us all, I love traditional dress, dance, folklore etc. What I dislike is people of different backgrounds, culture etc. coming into my country and instantly trying to change everything we hold dear, and replace it with that of the country (s) from where they have originated, and flatly refuse to integrate. That should be stopped from happening and everyone wishing to enter the country should embrace the British way of life in all its entirety, and those wishing not to should be refused entry. Simples ✊🏼✊🏼

  • @MrOreo2010
    @MrOreo2010 4 роки тому +5

    GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY CAN YOU HEAR ME IN THE BACK??!

  • @imsamantharocks
    @imsamantharocks 3 роки тому

    The last question is interesting.
    Today, more than 6 years later, Boris is PM and saving Hong Kongers, which is impressive.

  • @ivanbombana7282
    @ivanbombana7282 4 роки тому +10

    19:49 ahahahahahahahahah He is the best!!!

  • @MayorMcC666
    @MayorMcC666 2 роки тому +3

    boris's statement about an imperial power like the romans or ottomans being the only intervening force that can hold the middle east together is refreshing to hear.

  • @Demonblade777
    @Demonblade777 4 роки тому +6

    ,,,,,and he did become Prime Minister "someday " ....

  • @manueladeuyi5410
    @manueladeuyi5410 4 роки тому +9

    I will always like Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He's a great man, never fear to say what's in
    his man.