I looked up the full quote, which is by Sir Henry Wootton, and it's even more appropriate than I thought, since Boris is a journalist:
"An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself” B > On 14 Jul 2016, at 19:48, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 14 Jul 2016, at 18:29, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/jhfue2z >>> >>> Good to all our friends in the UK. >> >> I first met Boris back in the early 2000's when he became MP for Henley, >> replacing Michael Heseltine. Since, I've probably filmed him a dozen or >> so times over the years. He may appear a stumbling buffoon but I can >> tell you that he is a very sharp cookie, very aware if what's going on >> around him and extremely intelligent. >> >> He sometimes puts himself into situations that others wouldn't dream of, >> such as: >> >> <http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02295/olympics-zip-wire- >> _2295631c.jpg> >> >> [...] >> >> I have no fears over Boris as a foreign secretary. > > If it's true that a diplomat is a man who's sent to lie abroad for his > country, then they have the perfect man. He's a serial liar who deceived the > electorate for the sake of his personal ambition and ego. > > I suspect this appointment is part of a deal that was cut to get May into > number 10 as soon as possible so that the UK could look vaguely stable again. > The reactions of countries who are our friends are unprecedented; at the > first blunder he'll be banished to some forgotten wilderness and they'll > appoint someone serious. > > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/25/boris-johnson-michael-gove-eu-liars > > http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/14/boris-johnson-foreign-secretary-view-from-abroad > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
