Boris Johnson is ‘desperate’ to visit war-torn Ukraine, says top Tory

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  1. He’s desperate to visit but can’t even send troops which is what will happen if he’s injured or killed anyway. If he wants to deploy troops he can without him going there risking his life

  2. Original LBC article:

    >[LBC: Oliver Dowden said the Prime Minister is “desperate” to visit war torn Ukraine to experience “what is happening on the ground” and show solidarity with the country.](https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/oliver-dowden-says-pm-is-desperate-to-go-to-ukraine/)
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    >Speaking on Tonight with Andrew Marr the Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party defended Boris Johnson’s comparison of the conflict to Brexit, instead insisting the PM has felt a “real emotional connection” to the suffering of Ukrainian people

  3. He really wants to go, but he ate a large lunch, and he pulled a muscle. Oh, and he didn’t have time to tell the milk man he was away.

    I’ll honestly be surprised if he was to enter Kyiv.

  4. Boris wants another photo shoot. An actual trip to Ukraine is less embarrassing than Macron doing Zelensky cosplay though.

  5. Every second this guy is allowed to remain PM, speaks volumes about the character of the British people.

  6. Why on earth would would Ukrainian leadership risk letting this walking security leak/ Russian fanboy anywhere near.

  7. I hope he takes his hi Viz and hard hat so the photographers (and the snipers) can see where he is!
    Don’t go Boris. It’s a trap! Zelenskiy will be very shouty and angry with you.

  8. Throw him out a plane over Mariupol, first side to catch him wins war. Repeat every four years to determine leadership of Ukraine.

  9. I’ll personally pay for a one way flight. Right now. I’m serious, I’ll take a second mortgage, I’ll cash in my pension, I’ll max out my credit card, I’ll auction my liver.

    Get that man a rifle and get him to the front.

  10. This utter, utter shit doesn’t care about putting the lives of his staff and security at risk just to get a photo op.

    What an absolute wanker.

  11. I’ll happily contribute to a crowd funder to get him there, anything that increases the chances of his government ending.

  12. From the Ukraine point of view they’ll definitely have him. They need to save their country and they need any attention from the world they can get

    From the UK point of view we would regard it as a security risk but so what, Johnson hasn’t ever cared about that before

    So I would say it’s going to happen

  13. What, to make out he cares. He only cares if money can be made from the not so well off, or the unfortunate. He only help rich get richer, from making others suffer from it. Like giving them weapons, to make it look like he’s helping, he is helping, helping the share holders of the weapons companies get a bit richer, at the tax payers expense. It’s me & you that’s helping. Not him.

  14. If a top Tory says it, it’s a lie. From the school of the dead cat, like a hundred other stories he and his corrupt cronies have invented and “leaked”.

    He can subsequently pretend he really, really, wanted to go, spaffing made up heroic bullshit for the senile and mentally challenged old fuckers who voted for him and their tax-dodging billionaire owned propaganda rags, but can subsequently claim the security services wouldn’t let him.

    Everything he and his cabal of literal traitors say is a lie and/or a distraction. Call me a cynic.

  15. He’s only desperate for the distance it would provide from partygate. Boris has never felt kinship or empathy for anyone other than himself and the risk that others would have to subject themselves to in order to satisfy his insatiable demand for good publicity doesn’t even figure in his calculations. Like shaking hands with covid patients this is just another brain fart from Johnson that he thinks will make him look like a statesman.

  16. The issue is Boris Johnson thinks he is invincible. The other issue is he isn’t. So there’s some poor people on the foreign affairs planning committee trying very very very hard to convince that a missile could hit him, and he’s not listening to them, at what point would you let the idiot go?

  17. Perhaps he could give Ukraine all the Russian money his party received instead of going there himself?

  18. Send him on a one way trip. All he’s done is visit places like he’s found a golden ticket for every factory and hospital in the UK. He’s achieves nothing in his life time apart form that 1.2 million slide in London that he commissioned while playing at being mayor.

  19. Imagine being in Zelenskys position stuck in Kyiv while Russia is murdering your people. And Boris Johnson turns up at your door…

    Saying that Ukraine seems positive towards the UK right now. But me… I have no doubt this is a disgusting attempt at a photo op.

  20. Picturing the cursed future where he goes to Ukraine, gets killed by an artillery strike, and then we all die in a nuclear holocaust because Boris fucking Johnson wanted to do some Churchill cosplay.

  21. The Ukrainians have suffered enough. They have a lot of things to do, and babysitting a bumbling fool is just going to add to their list of problems

  22. Oh, no! I hope our beloved PM is safe out there! Hope they give him a high-vis vest to keep him “safe”!

    Just to be sure, they better give his full itinerary to the Russians so they know “not” to shoot him!

  23. i think we need another Sue Gray enquiry to find out if this is actually how he is feeling.

    boris can’t be expected to just ‘know’ stuff of have a ‘clue’ about anything unless there’s an enquiry first

  24. Translate to “Boris is desperate to ensure search engines find anything but his comments comparing Brexit and a fucking war”

  25. Personally I think all World leaders should go at the same time, not sure Adolf Putin would risk scratching one of them.

  26. The full sentence is “Boris Johnson is “desperate” to visit war-torn Ukraine so that he can leak sensitive information to his Russian controllers.”

  27. I’m confused. Aren’t the British people currently still recovering from the tyranny of the EU? His words, not mine. Perhaps he should stay and continue to defend us against our European oppressors before he goes off to sort out Ukraine as well?

    /s just in case.

  28. Boris wants a picture in front of the Ukrainian parliament so he can say he is “leading the way”, meanwhile Priti Patel is looking to have any Ukrainians who arrive in the UK without her ridiculously complex visa locked up in prison for longer than we give people for robbery and arson.

  29. LOL sure Boris. If the Russians invaded the UK he would be on the first plane down under to lead in the ‘Australian style.”

  30. I’ll pay for his flight.

    Hell, I’ll even double it if he jumps from a plane and parachutes onto the front lines.

    Fuck it. I’ll quadruple it if he does it without a parachute.

  31. What a coincidence that he wants to do this after david cameron drove a van to poland with humanitarian supplies. Surely boris wouldn’t be motivated by petty one-upmanship against his old school rival in a serious humanitarian and geopolitical crisis? Just like he totally didn’t back brexit to mess with cameron?

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