PM: “We stand with the Ukrainian people and our hearts go out to them. And tens of thousands of people in this country are opening their homes to the Ukrainian people, and we say thank you to them.”
Boris describes Putin’s ahistorical rant as “Nostradamus meets Russian Wikipedia”
Says Putin wanted to go into Ukraine because they had a free press and he saw that as a threat.
Says Putin wanted to go into Ukraine because they had a free press and he saw that as a threat.
Boris: Putin feared a free and prosperous Ukraine would inspire a so called colour revolution in Moscow.
“That’s why he is so desperate to snuff out the flame of freedom in Ukraine”
“That’s why he is so desperate to snuff out the flame of freedom in Ukraine”
Boris: “To try to renormalise relations with Putin after this as we did in 2014 would be to make the same mistake again. And that is why Putin must fail.”
Boris: When Britain voted for Brexit they did not do so to be hostile to foreigners, but to be free to do things differently.
Boris: why did so many come forward to be vaccinated voluntarily?
“Because they wanted to be free from people like me telling them what to do! They wanted to take back control of their own lives!”
“Because they wanted to be free from people like me telling them what to do! They wanted to take back control of their own lives!”
Boris: ‘I’m glad Ben Wallace persuaded me to read Putin’s crazy essay’
Boris on sanctions: “there is a cost to all these actions but the cost of doing nothing would be far far higher.”
Boris describes Putin as a backstreet drug pusher, creating a Western dependency on his hydrocarbons then pushing up the cost.
Boris: “We must take the bold steps necessary to end our dependence on Putin’s gas…
… It is time to take back control of our energy supplies.”
… It is time to take back control of our energy supplies.”
Boris: “We will make use of our own naturally occurring hydrocarbons.”
Also a “big bet” on nuclear, and more wind.
Says international investors are “yearning to make colossal investments in British green infrastructure.”
Also a “big bet” on nuclear, and more wind.
Says international investors are “yearning to make colossal investments in British green infrastructure.”
Boris claims that people around the world can see what levelling up means.
I’m not convinced by that one.
I’m not convinced by that one.
Boris says he went for a run on Blackpool beach this morning, describing it as “better than anything in the Caribbean”
Talking about how investment spurs bigger returns, a truly Borrisian analogy:
“You need to have a lug worm to catch a bream.
And I have a bream!”
“You need to have a lug worm to catch a bream.
And I have a bream!”
“We don’t need to be woke, we just want to be free”
Says Boris referencing a word that most of the country can’t define.
Says Boris referencing a word that most of the country can’t define.
Boris: If Putin had the BBC on his case, he would have known the truth, or a version of it…. No, if he had free impartial journalists he would have known the truth that the Ukrainians are a proud and patriotic nation with a charismatic leader… he wouldn’t have miscalculated.
Stirring defence of liberal democracy from Boris. For all their faults, noisy backbenchers and annoying media make for better government.
Boris: “When Labour were led by a leader who wanted to quote abolish NATO, we were already training Ukrainian troops.”
Cites how many still in the Shadow Cabinet wanted to abolish our nuclear deterrent.
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