This morning, even the Wall Street Journal is covering the petty insults flowing from Number 10 towards Vote Leave champion, Cabinet Minister and former Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
Yes – the squabbling and shrieking has crossed the Atlantic.
To bemused Britons, the turnabout will merely underline their suspicions that Mr. Cameron and Remain cannot be trusted. For there is no question that the flow of insults has Downing Street’s approval.
Amber Rudd’s generally strong performance for Remain in the ITV debate was marred by her deeply personal attack on Boris, comparing him to a drunk driver at a party. The Times Red Box analysis showed undecided voters far preferring Vote Leave:
Who is performing best so far:
Stuart: 34%
Leadsom: 24%
Johnson: 15%
Sturgeon: 11%
Rudd: 10%
Eagle: 4%#RedBoxReact https://t.co/2abr4q90HV— Red Box (@timesredbox) June 9, 2016
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Dear @AmberRudd_MP: you are overdoing the personal onslaughts on Boris. It's saying much more about you than him or whether to #Brexit
— Tim Montgomerie ن (@montie) June 9, 2016
Yet she was trumped by David Cameron’s personal pollster, Andrew Cooper, Lord Cooper, who works from No. 10 and who scathingly called Boris a “liar”.
@robbiewinters @toadmeister It is a total lie to say leave = £350m for the NHS, which is what it says on Boris The Liar's bus.
— Andrew Cooper (@AndrewCooper__) June 8, 2016
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Point of information: Boris Johnson has been sacked twice (so far) in his career for telling lies. #getthatlieoffthebus
— Andrew Cooper (@AndrewCooper__) June 9, 2016
For these Remainiacs, it seems they have forgotten that the Tories asked Londoners to accept Boris Johnson as Mayor – in two elections.
That David Cameron put him in the Cabinet.
Are Cameron, Rudd and Cooper projecting such huge contempt for Londoners and London, Britain’s greatest city, that they now admit they supported a man they call ‘a liar’ and an unstable ‘driver’ as its Mayor?
Remain seems to be losing the plot.
If you wouldn’t trust Boris Johnson to drive you home after a party, why would you trust him to govern the lives of millions of British voters in London?
Why would you put him in the Cabinet?
Remain are panicking – and it shows. Does David Cameron remember ‘Back Boris’? I certainly do.
