U.K.-EU: pantomime crisis, real risk of a crash

Boris Johnson’s political survival strategy then would be to demonize the EU as treacherous and anti-British, poisoning the well for any future cooperation. The grown-ups really need to get their act together, because Johnson isn’t going to.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, picutred, could be a pantomime character: he blusters and rages, he takes the most awful risks, and he seems to get away with it. After his latest move, a senior British diplomat remarked wearily that 'we're getting used to being part of Johnson's pantomime.' But it may not end happily this time, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 19, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The British pantomime is a traditional Christmas entertainment in which stock characters face imaginary dangers and audience participation is encouraged (“He’s behind you!”), but the play never frightens the children and it always has a happy ending. British Prime Minister Bori...

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