British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was caught in the act of lying and was trying to cope by tweeting that his meeting with an angry family man in a hospital was not an "embarrassing" incident. A video showing Boris Johnson attacked Wednesday by the father who denounces the chronic understaffing in the NHS public health system has become viral, the man criticizing the Prime Minister for organizing in this context a visit followed by the media. "There is no media here," answers Boris Johnson, in front of the journalists.
The father then turns to the person who is filming the scene, in the clatter of the cameras, and asks him: "How there is no media, who are these people?" "I'm glad that this gentleman told me about his problems, it's not embarrassing, it's part of my job," tweeted Wednesday evening the Prime Minister, whose report to the truth is regularly denounced by his critics.
I've been here for 57 days, they are about the big problems. It does not matter if they agree with me.
I'm glad this gentleman told me his problems. This is not an embarrassment this is part of my job. https://t.co/j60ODrROXi
"The father of lies"
Boris Johnson was fired from the Times for lying about the invention of a quote early in his journalistic career. During the EU exit referendum campaign, he had used a slogan about the amounts paid by the UK to the EU containing a false figure.
Boris Johnson was crammed as the "father of lies" who closed the "mother of parliaments", again on Wednesday in the Supreme Court in London, by the lawyer of deputies opposed to the suspension of the British Parliament decided by the Prime Minister. Finally he continues to proclaim that he is making "progress" in the negotiations with Brussels on an exit agreement from the EU, while European leaders, from Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to EU negotiator Michel Barnier, continue to deny the slightest progress and even say that he has not put any viable written proposal on the table.
In trouble on the Brexit, the Conservative Prime Minister is systematically attacked by disgruntled as soon as he sets foot off Downing Street for official visits.