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Much criticized for his management of the pandemic in his country, the former British Prime Minister nevertheless had no shortage of ideas to “help” his fellow citizens.
UNITED KINGDOM – More ideas… and maybe even too much. Went from Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to columnist for the tabloid Daily MailBritish politician Boris Johnson has not finished surprising his compatriots. He proved it again with an extract from his next book, parts of which were revealed by his new employer.
In this book, entitled Unleashed (that’s to say “ unleashed » in French), Boris Johnson promises to reveal his many truths about the Brexit period, but also that of Covid and the famous evenings organized by the former tenant of 10 Downing Street during the pandemic.
It is therefore in his inimitable style that Boris Johnson revealed, Friday September 27, that he has a time “ considered invading the Netherlands thanks to a spectacular raid across the Channel to recover the five million vaccines stolen by the clutches of Brussels ».
In this extract from his book, which will be released on October 10, Boris Johnson explains that he spoke very seriously with senior British military officials in March 2021. The cause? Stocks of the AstraZeneca vaccine supposed to return to the United Kingdom, but which had been blocked by the EU in the Netherlands due to a trade dispute linked to exports between the EU and London. Believing that Brussels was treating his country “ with malice »Boris Johnson would therefore have proposed a plan that is nebulous to say the least, but very serious.
« Invade a NATO ally » ? Really ?
He therefore had, in his own words, “ commissioned work to determine whether it would be technically possible to launch a maritime raid on a warehouse in Leiden, Netherlands, in order to recover what was legally ours and what the country desperately needed “. In his story, he also emphasizes that the idea had been judged “ certainly achievable” by the Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff, based on the use of rigid inflatable boats capable of navigating Dutch canals.
If the plan had all the appearance of a feasible project on paper, the former Prime Minister nevertheless came up against the opinion of this senior officer, Lieutenant General Doug Chalmers, who confided to Boris Johnson that once the packages recovered, Boris Johnson should have been accountable to his allies, explaining to them in particular “ why he was invading a long-time NATO ally “. A remark that could not be more relevant.
“Of course I knew he was right, and I secretly agreed with what they were all thinking, but I didn’t want to say it out loud: it was all crazy.”slips Boris Johnson into this book in the form of a modernized memoir. In detail, the plan of “ Wife » was to make it possible to recover the vaccine stocks, before exfiltration in a truck which would have taken the direction of the Channel ports with a view to returning to the United Kingdom.
An anecdote among many others in this work, where Boris Johnson also looks back on his days in intensive care after contracting Covid-19, thanking the “skills and experience” of his nurses, without whom he would no longer be here today to tell his stories… eccentric to say the least.
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