Unleashed: Stig Abell challenges Boris Johnson's version of history
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Times Radio it's a "credible assertion" for Donald Trump to say that if he won the 2020 US election there "would have been no Russian invasion of Ukraine".
Speaking to Stig Abell for an interview that can be heard in full at 7pm Thursday he also defended Trump over the January 6th attack on the US Capitol:
I personally don't think he intended to overthrow the constitution and what actually happened was the peaceful transfer of democratic power from one administration to another. And that's what should happen.
Stig Abell: And it's got to happen in November.
Boris Johnson: And it's got to happen in November. But on Ukraine, look, I think that some of the pessimism is overdone and I think that Donald actually...he gave the javelins to the Ukrainians where the Democrats didn't, right? When I was Foreign Secretary, he kicked out those Russian spies. Sixty of them. So he can surprise very much on the upside.
I happen to believe that when Donald Trump says that had he been president in 2022, there would have been no Russian invasion of Ukraine. My view is that that is a credible assertion. I really do think that's credible.
On Partygate, he says Sue Gray should be held "about as responsible as I was" for "stuff that was happening in the Cabinet Office" during pandemic restrictions:
If you think I was responsible for stuff that was happening in the Cabinet Office...
Stig Abell: You were the boss..
Boris Johnson: Who was the second permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office? Can you remember? Can you remember the name of the second permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office?
Stig Abell: Go on...
Boris Johnson: It was somebody called Sue Gray.
Stig Abell: So she was responsible?
Boris Johnson: She was certainly about as responsible as I was...the whole thing was very, very peculiar, let me put it that way.
He's spoken about mistakes over issues such as immigration in the wake of the Covid pandemic:
Immigration had clearly gone off the cliff during the pandemic, and the numbers went massively down. But after the pandemic, the issue that we faced was inflation. And you will recall what happened. We didn't have anybody to stack the shelves. We had serious price inflation. We had massive labour cost inflation. We didn't have any fuel drivers. And every single business group, every single secretary of state, was saying, you know, we need the labour force...
Stig Abell: Let's put this in plain English. You opened the doors too wide?
Boris Johnson: I think that we did in that year, 2022, because we were desperate to contain inflation. Inflation is a massive destroyer of people's livelihoods and of economic, of hope, of investment, of growth. Inflation is a disaster for the UK.
He's apologised for calling Theresa May "old grumpy knickers" in his autobiography Unleashed:
That's not fair. Sorry about that...Theresa is...occasionally a bit starchy but with a very warm heart beneath it.
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Johnson demonstrated: he doesn't listen. He doesn't want to listen. He is not interested in debate. He will not acknowledge other views. Classic narcissist.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear that. Would you like a cup of tea?"
Charlatan and narcissist and unbelievably inept - on another tour of self promotion
If you buy his book, you are volunteering to be lied to again and again. This man's self-serving platform needs to be removed.
He's a complete fraud
I think he's a good laugh. He has a big sense of fun.
@Dekoherence-ii8pw he has a turn of phrase I suppose but he made so many mistakes. He made PM but comes across quite bitter
the fact that he happily travelled the world for years on an American passport & only renounced his US citizenship after they demanded he paid the taxes lawfully owed to their government tells you all you need to know about the man's character
Whoaaah shyeeeet. I didnt even know bout this. This guy so cringe man
Are people still listening to this person? Still lying through its teeth. 🤥
Its 😂
Calm down dear
I don't think he lies more than the average politician. When it's someone you like, you don't notice them lying.
What lie?
Are people still listening to anti brexit / remoaner lies?
@@Dekoherence-ii8pw That is a demonstration of cognitive dissonance that is truly shocking.
Nope, can't stand the sound of his voice, or his stupidity.
but this made gave us the Ukraine war ... after pushing nato into Russian borders
@@Susan-py9qh all that waffle... he can't help it!
Sick to death of watching him waving his book in front of the cameras during every interview, as if its going to make viewers rushing to Amazon.
Yeah I'm with you....I've tried but I can't watch anymore of this scumbag!
An hideous mockery of a politician and a pathetic caricature of a man.
But enough about you, hey.
@@Dekoherence-ii8pw
😆 🤣 😂
A succinct description of an appalling, inept and corrupt politician.
A good reminder why Johnson or the tories should never be trusted again. Cheers for this
Cos labour are so amazing
Johnson talks about money we gained what about the billions lost in trade?
Brexit voters won't understand that kind of nuance
Boris dishing out mote lies
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR JOHNSON
The man has no shame,I don't think he should be given a platform to promote his version of lies.
I forgot how awful BoJo was until this just reminded me. How was he PM of this country? Even more scary is he wasn’t even the worst Tory Pm of the last three years 🤦♂
Can’t watch this utter fantasy self delusion.. why is he still polluting our airways.. he’s the male Truss..!
Oh put your book down Boris, nobody wants to pay to have more of your lies told to them.
When you say "lies", you mean when he says things that YOU DON'T LIKE.
@@Dekoherence-ii8pw You're right, I DON'T LIKE liers, is that better?
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry listening to Johnson. Hopefully, his days in politics are over.
If he never made a comment again... bliss 🤬
the head of the UK's vaccine development has said that there was no impediment from the EU to the UK developing or approving is own vaccine for sale in Britain alone. The vaccine argument is plain baseless.
It's all theory. What Johnson is saying it would never have happened. All this "it could have happened" so why didn't any EU country do it then if it was so easy???
@@85ABC It is catagorically not all theory, it is fact. You do remember when the first vaccines were administered in UK, don't you? I'll give you a clue: It was December 2020 and we were still in the EU.
Also, to your second point, Hungary approved Russian vaccines for their own use before the EU's collective vaccines were approved by the EMA. Because it was a collective EU plan, the EU's vaccines were half the price that the UK paid for our vaccines, solely due to the sheer volume of orders. Not only that, the majority of EU countries had outstripped the UK's vaccination program within three months.
Johnson is a lying POS.and you are still being taken in by him. Enjoy the book.
Look how he tries to change the subject straight away .
Unwittingly, Johnson's need for approval has condemned him to an eternity of damnation by history.
A fitting end to a gross political vandal.
Completely deluded about everything, including Brexit
Worse he’s not deluded he’s just a cynic and an opportunist it’s all part of the great game
@@sgwh2002 no I don’t I’m aware he’s a cynical opportunist but he drove his red bus off a Brexit cliff with plenty of low information converts aboard
I like Boris' sense of humour. He's got a sense of fun. Great going, Boris, the "scruff". 😂
But he was a total failure as PM and completely discredited that office by his lying and behaviour!
@@robingraham9395
What makes you think I'm interested in your twaddle?
That's the trouble - it's all he's got. Sacked for lying, lied throughout his premiership, and in this doorstop of nonsense, it sounds like it was everyone else's fault. He's a charlatan and a narcissist and a cheap grifter.
@@geraldhornsby I do not agree.
And no, I'm not interested in your views.
@@rebecca_noble Hahahaha! Thank God for that.
All proceeds from the sale of the book should be given to a charity that supports victims of covid, he will not need funds in prison.
Boris give a interview to James O'brien 😂
I’d pay Oasis ticket prices to see that
I agree.
Boris will never do that because he knows James O’Brien is way smarter than he is.
@@f14tomcat37 wut? I wasn't aware James O'Brien was some intellectual heavyweight.
@@maxhaughton1964 Then why doesn’t Boris go and gets interviewed by James O’Brien?
I tell you.
Because James O’Brien would shred Boris and his infinite procession of lies to pieces.
@@f14tomcat37 He knows james o'brien hates him, and, more importantly for Boris flogging a book I suspect, is completely humourless. JOB isn't some intellectual heavy weight I basically agree with him on Boris as a liar and so on but he's just another "sensible" centrist idiot
He is shameless
Subtitle : "How I can lie through my teeth and get paid for it".
Can you imagine the 764 lunches he has bored people in his defence, the best he can come up with is this distillation of hot air, self denial and still. wanting to be loved.
4:30 The UK approved the ASTRA ZENECA vaccine whilst the "EU27" waited for the Pfizer vaccine, a different type of prevention.
Please correct me if I am wrong. 😊
Not the toughest interview he will ever face but then again it is The Times
Difficult to watch the convict's mendacity, well done Stig for getting through.
The UK electorate sent MEPs to Brussels - so how did the UK not 'control' what was done with UK funds?
The chap says a poll would have us rejoin the EU. Erm... do they not remember the polls were wrong before. Amazing how we use these "polls" as "this is what would happen" - how many times are they actually correct at predicting major decisions?
Lol .... People defending major mistakes.....
For Johnson, it's only a game. A debate. Here he's trying to get the interviewer on his side, rather than answer the questions.
He’s just vomiting total nonsense and more lies
If he had a normal background he would be the type of bloke who stands at the bar and is entertaining for about 5 minutes then you take the long way round to the toilet to avoid for the rest of the evening
Pathetic, sitting there clutching his precious book 😅
Sheer Tosh . Ask a survivor of COVID what they think of this Spaffer .
It may come as a complete shock to you. Boris Johnson got COVID.
Anti brexit tw@ts wished him dead.
Can someone explain to him that we had both EU access and Sterling before Brexit, so it only highlights the stupidity of leaving when keeping Sterling is his best argument for not re-joining.
Words to describe Boris… Buffoon, conman, lier, incompetent, embarrassment, self serving, mini Trump! What a disgrace to represent any country.
He is just not a serious person. And he is still BORING.
In the airport LHR, his books are presented right next to the parody version of his own book. it's so funny. Nobody takes him seriously. I wish I could share the photo with you all.
Snake oil salesman. I lost count of how many times he waved his enormous tome in front of the camera.
Like some sort of kid who's had his hideous poem read out in front of the class.
Does he know what is or is not true?
He knows he's a scruff and he would never take a suit from a Labour "donor".
😎
I thought he was quite funny and rather impressive. For all the venom that TR must have for arch Brexiteer Bojo poor Stiggy couldn’t lay a glove on him. Whether you like Bojo or not, think he was a good PM or not, he’s clearly world class.
Indeed. Evidently there is not such thing as objective journalism anymore.
I totally agree. History will prove it.
i suppose Mr Johnson's saying that there is a cost to leadership, ie, the responsibility, and that ppl have to decompress???
British journalists weren't at all well informed about the EU before the referendum. That hasn't changed has it.
Rob from Tetbury: As Boris and Stig discussed their mutual appearance I could imagine Aasmah absolutely creased up!! But well done Stig!
I honestly believe the more airtime this bozo has the more harm he does to the British public 🙄
Liar.
Stopped watching half way through. Johnson spouts nothing but verbal BS. Can't listen anymore
I never bother paying any attention to anti brexit whiners and moaners.
You posted twice. An hour apart.
Anti brexiters are congenital liars.
There is NO WAY that Cameron could have stayed on. All the Brexit nutjobs would have said that he was trying to thwart Brexit, as they did about everyone who was not doing their bidding. Of all the terrible things Cameron did, resigning when he lost the vote was not one of them
Didn’t Hungry license and deploy Russian and Chinese vaccines before the EMA programme?!
I hate how we have to sit here and listen to him revise history and relitigate a deeply horrible moment in recent history and a deeply damaging moment in recent history, with a coy glint in his eye and a crooked smirk. Cee U Next Tuesday.
Love your comments 😂😂😂😂
The UK electorate has demonstrated what they think of you.
How so? The electorate gave him a massive majority but it was his own party that got rid of him. I'm not a fan, btw.
Yes, they voted for him.
@@thomaschristopher1513
True but for good or ill, there has been a change of government.
Smug liar who has learned nothing…
Decades of polling show that the Brexit vote result was about average in its results. There has always been a few point split between leave and remain. Often in favor of remain. And just as often in favor of leave.
Still wearing a suit, he wants to look prime ministerial but he is still quite vile.
A mere fragment of a true man. Utterly useless.
23:26 "You've written nearly 800 pages in a book. You were clearly not brutally edited by anyone." True, dat.
Maybe because he has talent unlike Stig?
liar is exactly what he is
Like it or not Johnson has been the best PM since Blair. People jump on the partygate nonsense. Ask yourself, who actually organised the parties and attended them? And where are they in all the blame?
Weird old men with blond hair seems to be a tell. No matter how you cut it
the bus i want to see is the one he models in his spare time... But that was a lie too. These masterpieces of amature model making have never been seen.
Dissembling, lying, arrogant narcissist.
Jesus a minute in and this a tough watch. Hes squirming
Stig Abel is a radio commentator I very much appreciate and enjoy listening to his morning show on Times radio. I was somewhat disappointed at his style of questioning today pointing a finger and being in my opinion too aggressive. A softer style of questioning might have been more effective in getting Boris Johnson to cover more topics. I am not a supporter of Mr Johnson but he has an eloquent command of the English language while maybe not having too many other attributes.
"an eloquent command of the English language" when he's not bumbling, which he often does of course.
Poor man’s Trump and there’s no point in interviewing him. His supporters (totally deluded) will always love him and his detractors ( totally realistic) will always hate him!
At that time we were sending £382m
I don’t like Boris but he’s pretty funny sometimes.
had all the workers in Downing Street been vaccinated???
Why did we ever let him go..
Because UK politics is infested with EU acolytes.
He’s abhorrent.
He is talking drivel! He will not answer a staight question! Constantly shouting over Stig
Bozzer 🎉🎉🎉🎉👍👍👍👍👍👍 Go Dady !!!
Narcissist!!!!!!
If you buy his book, you are a fool.
Here is a poll question Times Radio should discuss and then conduct.
1: Should the UK return to the EU as it is currently constituted?
2: Should the UK return to the EU but only if EU governance and bureaucratic control is better democratized?
3: Should the UK join NAFTA and integrate with the US? This might mean ending the Commonwealth
4: The UK should remain completely independent and leader of the Commonwealth?
Ask him we’re is his money coming from and did he make money from the ppe scandal
Where's Starmer's money coming from? he's made 130k more than Boris ever did.
@@johnf3885no in his last year of office he took 500 grand alone and a massive load and,and effing and.
Starmer forced an act of parliament to protect his huge pension from tax. He has a man with links to a Syrian dictator with a free pass into Cabinet and you worry how Boris makes money? He is a journalist and writer you silly man. He earned more writing than as PM
We might not have had a poe scandal if France had not blocked exports of ppe. 1 of 3 major, longterm nhs suppliers was a French company
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You have something in common with Ostriches then 😊
Party monster or just a monster?
I am not sure whether linking Brexit to COVID-19 vaccines is the best argument for leaving the EU.
But then I am not a politician.
It's one of many.
But it was relevant during Boris Johnson's premiership. That's why it's discussed here.
@@rebecca_noblethe vaccine was hugely important. The EU did everything possible to prevent access.
@@Nickel1147 They tried to block vaccines pledged to Australia from being exported there. And Australia needed them.
And they tried to block preordered doses for the UK.
@@rebecca_noble i know. I have family members in Australia who were impacted. People in the comment section are totally deluded about the EU and Boris.
@@rebecca_noble What was relevant during the time I lived and worked in the UK, was that the UK was open to residency for EU citizens as part of the common market. This made the UK a very attractive destination to live and work. Just one positive (and non partisan) testimony for your country🇬🇧🙏💜
Biilly Bunter liveth !!
Enough of this buffoon.
enough of anti brexit riff raff.
he should be offered a job as editor of Billy's weekly liar! perfect job for him
Said the anti brexit liar.
@@rebecca_noble Are you Nadine Dorries? You seem to be going all out to defend the lying charlatan.
i wonder if Mr Johnson, given his near death experience, has changed his mind about combat and now supports neutrality???
It was NOT a near death experience. Total twaddle. He was given oxygen, he was moved into ITU AS A PRECAUTION, and he wasn't intubated. Talk to Michael Rosen about near death experiences. Johnson spent less than a week in hospital.
Cannot even finish listening to this banal interview. Boris’s blathering and word salad is nauseatingly odious.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Wallpaper and wedding ok though?
Pathetic. That's the best you can conjure up?
For a government building, which he paid for. His suits he paid for
His book must be a candidate for the Booker Prize for fiction.
Some rules for interviewing Johnson. Don't laugh at his jokes, don't fall for his faux classicism, and his excuses, don't fall for his distractions. Fact check him, go straight down the line all the time. Like many fraudsters he'll become evasive and aggressive, but keep going.
I won't buy his book 😅 just got Tommy's book today 😊
Unleashed? Unkempt 😂
He is smart if he belong to global overall countries if selective no good enought
Sorry!
I thought Stig was 'challenging' this liar. All I hear is him stumbling through an endless steam of complete lies from the world's second biggest liar.
This liar is back. It's nauseating.
I don't see anti anti brexiters here...?
Useless interviewer. Johnson just talks over him.
Mr. low information and zero detail
Bojo Olympian Turk
He was born in the UK. Your innuendo is racist.
Why has this Turk got strange hair and why does he lie so much about everything to everyone?
You've got him mixed up with Starmer.
@@johnf3885 Take a look at most of the comments, ya numpty...
@@johnf3885 Stalinmer you mean free gear Kier?
He was born in the UK. Don't be racist.