Boris Johnson to play Hulk (or should we say Sulk?) in 'Brexiters Assemble'

[Soph0571]

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/sep/12/ben-jennings-on-boris-johnsons-hunt-for-brexit-trade-deals-cartoon#img-1|]

Some casting details have been announced:

Boris Johnson will play The Hulk. Whenever he loses a parliamentary vote he becomes angry and turns into a hideous monster (to be played by Ann Widdecombe) shouting ‘Big Girl’s Blouse’ at random passersby.

Jacob Rees-Mogg will play Iron Lady Man. Wearing a Margaret Thatcher suit he flies around the UK creating unemployment and social inequality.

Nigel Farage will play Captain Britain. A weedy little twat created in a military laboratory, Captain Britain spends all his time reminiscing about the halcyon days of the Second World War – a better time when Brits were allowed to slag off the French and kill Germans. The Captain carries a Union Flag shield in order to protect himself from milkshakes.

Dominic Raab will play Thor. His subtle negotiating strategy involves smashing a massive sledgehammer on the table while scowling like a man whose mother never gave him a hug.

Priti Patel will play that woman one.

The first in the new series of 142 films – Brexiters Assemble – will be hitting cinemas on 31 October. Definitely.

[link:https://newsthump.com/2019/09/16/boris-johnson-to-play-hulk-in-brexiters-assemble/|]

Heh it would be funny if it was not so fucking tragic..

Where oh where has the gravitas gone?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Even his own newspaper is taking the piss, after he chickened out of the press conference

That was extraordinary. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, has just been humiliated by the leader of almost the smallest country in the European Union.

We were expecting a joint, open-air press conference but, with a large crowd of anti-Brexit campaigners threatening to drown out Johnson, it was announced that the British PM was not going to take part (presumably because of the demonstration, although that has not officially been confirmed yet). Normally in these circumstances the polite thing to do is to rearrange. But instead Xavier Bettel, the prime minister of Luxembourg, went ahead anyway, effectively “empty chairing” his guest. At one point he even gestured at the space where Johnson was supposed to be.

Then Bettel just let rip. People often wonder what EU leaders say or think about Johnson in private. Well, now we know. The leave campaign was a pack of lies, Johnson’s talk of progress in the Brexit negotiations is unfounded, the UK still has not come up with any ideas about an alternative to the backstop. On and on he went, with particular emphasis on the point that the UK, not the EU, was to blame for the crisis. It was a “nightmare” for EU citizens, said Bettel. At several points he was loudly applauded by the protesters, because they felt he was articulating their anger.

Yesterday, Johnson depicted himself as the Incredible Hulk. As the Telegraph’s Michael Deacon suggests, the reality could not be more different.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/16/brexit-latest-news-boris-johnson-talks-juncker-eu-must-show-flexibility-says-raab-ahead-of-boris-johnsons-key-meeting-with-juncker-live-news-latest-news?page=with:block-5d7f99dc8f08f30dc5bbc598#block-5d7f99dc8f08f30dc5bbc598

Link to tweet

"My favourite episode of The Incredible Hulk is the one where a small group of people shouted too loudly so he ran away"

[Denzil_DC]

2. That "large crowd of anti-Brexit campaigners" (Channel 4 news said about 75 of them)

allegedly mainly comprised of UK expats pissed off at Brexit and being deprived of a vote in the referendum.