Posted on 07/07/2022 2:44:42 PM PDT by FarCenter
As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to resign – but stay on in a caretaker role – the momentous occasion offers the opportunity to reflect on his legacy of half-baked ideas and unfinished projects.
The last 24 hours in British politics can be neatly summed up by the reaction of The Economist, which marked Johnson's demise with the Twitter-trending headline Clownfall.
Following a multitude of calamitous moments, including Partygate - parties taking place at the Conservative PM's place of work during the pandemic, breaking rules the government put in place - and culminating in Johnson's appointment of an MP embroiled in a sex scandal, more than 50 ministers and government aides resigned yesterday. The PM simply had nowhere to hide.
Surprising no one who witnessed the politician back cable cars as a revolution in river crossing or a garden bridge as an innovation in inner-city expansion, the outgoing Prime Minister leaves behind a set of science and technology projects which are either yet to be completed or completely off the wall.
Dangling plans include his ambition to accelerate the arrival of productive nuclear fusion – a technical breakthrough which always promises to be 20 years off.
In 2019, Johnson praised the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxford, only for others to reveal the organization benefited from large chunks of funding from the European Union, the powerful political and economic bloc Johnson so passionately persuaded the UK to leave.
Fission is also a favorite. Johnson has been vocal in backing small modular reactors, a technology from jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce. A study has claimed some miniaturized fission units produce as much as 35 times more waste to generate the same amount of power as a regular plant.
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Meanwhile, UK scientists are being cut off from European funding, post-Brexit.
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A warning to all: Do not start vast projects with half-vast ideas.
Wuhan flu screwed the hell outta him...ain’t never been the same since.
Qualis artifex pereo
Indeed it was quite a successful project worldwide.
BJ shoulda started by cleaning his room and taming his hair.
He apparently hasn’t achieved much during his reign. Just a fix the blame, but never fix the problem sorta politician [like the vast preponderance of same].
Well Johnson was elected on the promise to secure Brexit once and for all, he was successful at that, but then didn’t seem to have much of an agenda going forward, so when Brexit was in the rearview mirror the public was pretty much done with him.
Eh. The Brits are so far left now that it little matters. They’ll just put in some other incompetent boob.
Good riddance to the buffoon idiot.
UK failed Tech Projects - bump for later....
He can always run for President of the USA, he was born in New York and I have been told repeatedly that is all you need to be a natural born citizen..../s
Last week Boris publicly trashes President Trump - this week he’s resigning.
Haha!
The UK will be lucky to be living in caves in a hundred years—from great world empire to great world joke.
Goofball 🤪
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