Theresa May pretty much came out of nowhere to land herself the role of British PM.
No one really knew what to think of the spindly woman, but it didn’t take long for people to seriously question her when she appointed former London mayor, Boris Johnson, as foreign secretary.
Since then, the Internet has done everything in its power to show just why Boris is the last person who should take up the position – and most reasons have to do with his flamboyantly naive and racist remarks about other countries.
Just look at what he has said about top world leaders in the past, and how he fielded his own awkward questions during a presser on Wednesday (HERE).
Theresa May finally came under public fire for the move at a joint press conference with Germany’s Angela Merkel at the German Chancellery. A journalist asked Mrs May about her appointment of Boris to Foreign Secretary, of all things:
Why are you putting – to put it in football terms – a player on the pitch who doesn’t actually want to play?
May, looking a little flustered, attempted to make a funny, but no one was having any of that. May’s response was as diplomatic as one would expect, but awfully taut:
I think it would be dangerous for a British Prime Minister to talk about football in Germany.
This is not something on which we have perhaps quite as good a record as the Germans do.
I have appointed a team of ministers who will take forward the position of the British Government. We are very clear that as a British Government we will be looking to build good relations with all European member states.
Those positive relations will underpin everything that I do as Prime Minister and everything my ministers do across the whole UK Government.
While May attempted to move on swiftly, Merkel had her own two cents to add – although it wasn’t as spicy as I would like:
The first meeting of foreign ministers has already occurred among the 28.
I think what came out of that was that there is a long list of very serious foreign policy problems, be it the EU/Turkey agreement, be it the plight of the people in Syria, the question of territorial integrity of Syria.
I take it that the British Foreign Secretary in good co-operation with all of the other 27 foreign ministers will work on these issues.
The reputation of Europe in many ways hinges on the contribution we can give to the solution of such complicated problems. Hundreds of thousands of lives depend on those.
And there we thought the UK was leaving Europe.
Watch a short clip of May being awkward, below:
