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election at all, and now look at him. In
any case, Johnson calling anyone a
chicken is a bit rich.
While he was running in the Tory
leadership election, I followed him up
and down the country every day
trying to ask him questions – and
every time I got near him he flew
away as quickly as possible.
And now his ‘coop’ has failed,
there’s only one chicken in
Westminster and that’s birdbrain
Boris Johnson.
His cage has been
rattled and the stupid
clucker is terrified
that he will be
remembered as
Britain’s worst
ever Prime
Minister.
election campaign
to ram through a
hard Brexit while MPs
are flapping around on
the campaign trail.
Johnson insists he doesn’t
plan to do this.
But a couple of days ago he
was saying he didn’t want to have an
Bird-brained
BoJo rattled
TAKE it from me, Jeremy Corbyn is
many things – but he’s no chicken.
As a vegetarian, he doesn’t even
eat fowl like me.
But turkey Boris Johnson keeps
pecking away at him for refusing one
on the rules of his hen house.
Ruffled Johnson, an arrogant bird,
seems to think it’s the Leader of the
Opposition’s job to do exactly what
he squawks.
And that seems featherbrained
even for me – the clue’s in the name,
featherhead: “Opposition.”
Corbyn refusing to cross the road
just because Johnson says so doesn’t
mean he’s afraid of getting run over
by the Tories’ election battle bus.
It means he’s suspicious of
Johnson’s motives. Corbyn’s clocked
Johnson’s plotting to exploit an early
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CHICKEN
CAN’T
STAND
WON’T
STAND
»New election
bid but Labour
keen to delay
»Dire speech
goes on despite
cop’s collapse
Then, as he rambled incoherently, one
trainee directly behind him put her hand
to her head and sat on the floor,
apparently unable to stand any longer.
Mr Johnson looked back to ask if she
was OK, adding: “I’m so sorry. That is a
signal for me actively to wind up.”
But he then carried on, criticising
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for not
backing his plans for a snap election.
And he ducked questions over
whether he would quit amid the
shambles. Instead he insisted he would
“rather be dead in a ditch” than go
back to Brussels and ask for
another extension.
Yesterday No10 confirmed it
had tabled another motion
seeking an election but it still
requires two-thirds of MPs to
back it. And Mr Johnson’s deci-
sion to prorogue Parlia-
ment appears
to have back-
fired spectac-
ularly. If heBY PIPPA CRERAR Political Editor
and MIKEY SMITHBORIS Johnson stumbled through
a car crash of a speech while a police
trainee collapsed behind him.
The disaster-prone PM turned up
more than an hour late for the address
intended to start his election campaign.
But on Wednesday MPs had refused
to fall in with his plan to go to the polls.
Yesterday the Government announced
they would get a second chance to vote
for an election on Monday. But attitudes
among Labour MPs are hardening
with many preferring to leave
the PM, now hampered by law
from leaving the EU without a
deal, to stew until after the
October 31 deadline.
Mr Johnson had left dozens
of uniformed police cadets
waiting in the sun in
Wakef i el d , We st
Yorks, for more
than an hour.DECISION
Mr Corbyn
yesterdayANOTHER DAY