Boris Johnson & Scotland
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that she doesn’t think Boris Johnson’s forthcoming trip to Scotland is an ‘essential journey’. One wonders if Ms Sturgeon thinks a Johnson trip to the country could ever be regarded as essential but there is a specific point. Surely whatever Johnson is planning to do in the country can be done via Zoom, unless of course it’s a liaison to meet a new mistress with a view to adding to the unknown tally of Johnson offspring.
A good deal of what Johnson has done since he became Prime Minister has no doubt helped the continued political pressure for another Scottish Independence Referendum and the high level of support the SNP enjoys despite a number of not always that well reported ‘issues’.
Even so Johnson and Scotland have never really worked. In 2006 he stood as Rector of Edinburgh University (a post Winston Churchill once held). Johnson secured 200 nominations and his campaign reportedly (Sonia Purnell Just Boris) including signing a female students bare chest.
However his support for Top Up student fees saw a campaign against him ‘Bog Off Boris, you Top-Up Tory’. Johnson had beer thrown over him but again reportedly thanked those involved for ‘refreshing’ him.
He came third to a Green member of the Scottish Parliament Mark Ballard and the former Editor of the Scotsman and Old Etonian Magnus Linklater.
The vote to reject Johnson the Tory in Scotland confounded his London focused campaign team and one suspects Johnson remains puzzled why he is not liked in Scotland..
In more recent times (2020) Johnson managed a controversial ‘camping’ holiday in Scotland where he damaged a farmers field he had pitched a tent on without permission. Most recently he has agreed a Brexit deal that hasnt done any favours to the Scottish seafood industry.
As a positive advert for the 1707 union he seems to fall rather short.
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