Boris Johnson’s cunning plan

We are asked to believe that Boris Johnson—BORIS JOHNSON—has belatedly realized there will be a crisis in the Irish Sea next January, and decided to push through a highly controversial law right now to give himself cover for an illegal act next year. It’s so out of character that it begs the question: who put him up to it?

So the question in the United Kingdom today is this: if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is Blackadder, who is his Baldrick? Who actually put Johnson up to passing a new law that says Britain can unilaterally change the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement he signed with the European Union less than eight months ago, asks Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 21, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—“I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel,” said Blackadder’s sidekick Baldrick in the BBC’s brilliant historical comedy series Blackadder. In fact, he said “I have a cunning plan” in almost every episode, but the plans hardly e...

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