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5 hours ago, Gnasher said:

God the BBC are fawning over Johnson this morning. They're also determined to keep this 'will he cone back? question rolling.

This is what I meant, cringe,

 

 

Can Johnson shine some sun on those who needlessly died from covid?

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-gets-a-standing-ovation-after-150-000-speech-in-us-3pw9w572z
 

Boris Johnson received a standing ovation after his first speech on the lucrative US lecture circuit to an audience of several hundred insurance brokers.

 

Johnson defended his record in office, especially his backing for Brexit and net zero emissions. He insisted that Ukraine would win the war against Russia and that the global economy would quickly recover from turmoil caused by the pandemic and the conflict.

 

He had the audience in Colorado laughing at stories including one in which he stole away with the then German chancellor Angela Merkel at the Cop26 climate summit last year to share a bottle of President Macron’s “very fancy” French wine.


 

The former prime minister, 58, was understood to have been paid more than $150,000 for the 30-minute speech and a 45-minute “fireside chat” on stage with a senior insurance broker. There was no general question-and-answer session with the audience. Some in the crowd at the Insurance Leadership Forum in Colorado Springs rose to give him a standing ovation at the end, and he left quickly to resume a private holiday with his family.

 

Johnson, who remains MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, avoided all mention of his successor, Liz Truss, the British economy and the faltering pound, although he did refer in passing to the strength of the dollar, according to one of those present.

 

“It was a privilege, an honour and a great opportunity to have the possibility to be so close to Mr Johnson in such an open environment,” said one audience member, Renato Lilienfeld, president and senior partner in Lilienfeld Corredores de Seguros, Chile’s largest private insurance broker.

 

“I found that he was quite relaxed. He spoke about many topics in general about what’s going on in the world, with Ukraine and with economics worldwide. He talked a little bit about what he was able to achieve in the years he was working as prime minister. He talked very much about Brexit as well and the reasons behind leaving the European Union.


“He’s still a great believer in Brexit and that Brexit is good for the UK. He said that, before there was even a Brexit discussion, when he was taking part in Brussels meetings, he always was the one who said, ‘I don’t agree with this, I don’t agree with that’. And that’s the reason he finally pushed for Brexit.”

 

“He talked very deeply about the net zero emissions project,” Lilienfeld said. “He confessed that in the past he didn’t believe in climate change. But now [he believes] that we need to do things and that we will come out of that as well. He was optimistic that the world will win against climate change.”

 

Johnson also riffed off the circumstances of his American birth. “He mentioned the very good relations between the US and the UK and did a joke about the expensive cost of being born in New York,” Lilienfeld added. He mentioned former President Trump only very briefly and paid tribute to the late Queen. He insisted several times “that Mr Putin is going to lose”.

 

Johnson is believed to have signed with at least two agencies to find him speaking engagements as he seeks to make extra cash post-Downing Street on top of his £84,144 MP’s salary. He is also entitled to claim up to £115,000 a year as a former prime minister for running his office. The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd was incorporated with Companies House on Monday to help run his private business affairs.


Johnson is registered with The Premium Speakers Agency, based in Zurich in Switzerland and Atlanta in Georgia, although it did not book the Colorado event. It has already received several offers for Johnson to address events in the United States. “He doesn’t accept every offer,” said an agency source, describing Johnson’s fee expectations as “lofty”.

 

“There was an offer from a group in Michigan for him for $150,000 and he did not even respond.”

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15 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-gets-a-standing-ovation-after-150-000-speech-in-us-3pw9w572z
 

Boris Johnson received a standing ovation after his first speech on the lucrative US lecture circuit to an audience of several hundred insurance brokers.

 

Johnson defended his record in office, especially his backing for Brexit and net zero emissions. He insisted that Ukraine would win the war against Russia and that the global economy would quickly recover from turmoil caused by the pandemic and the conflict.

 

He had the audience in Colorado laughing at stories including one in which he stole away with the then German chancellor Angela Merkel at the Cop26 climate summit last year to share a bottle of President Macron’s “very fancy” French wine.


 

The former prime minister, 58, was understood to have been paid more than $150,000 for the 30-minute speech and a 45-minute “fireside chat” on stage with a senior insurance broker. There was no general question-and-answer session with the audience. Some in the crowd at the Insurance Leadership Forum in Colorado Springs rose to give him a standing ovation at the end, and he left quickly to resume a private holiday with his family.

 

Johnson, who remains MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, avoided all mention of his successor, Liz Truss, the British economy and the faltering pound, although he did refer in passing to the strength of the dollar, according to one of those present.

 

“It was a privilege, an honour and a great opportunity to have the possibility to be so close to Mr Johnson in such an open environment,” said one audience member, Renato Lilienfeld, president and senior partner in Lilienfeld Corredores de Seguros, Chile’s largest private insurance broker.

 

“I found that he was quite relaxed. He spoke about many topics in general about what’s going on in the world, with Ukraine and with economics worldwide. He talked a little bit about what he was able to achieve in the years he was working as prime minister. He talked very much about Brexit as well and the reasons behind leaving the European Union.


“He’s still a great believer in Brexit and that Brexit is good for the UK. He said that, before there was even a Brexit discussion, when he was taking part in Brussels meetings, he always was the one who said, ‘I don’t agree with this, I don’t agree with that’. And that’s the reason he finally pushed for Brexit.”

 

“He talked very deeply about the net zero emissions project,” Lilienfeld said. “He confessed that in the past he didn’t believe in climate change. But now [he believes] that we need to do things and that we will come out of that as well. He was optimistic that the world will win against climate change.”

 

Johnson also riffed off the circumstances of his American birth. “He mentioned the very good relations between the US and the UK and did a joke about the expensive cost of being born in New York,” Lilienfeld added. He mentioned former President Trump only very briefly and paid tribute to the late Queen. He insisted several times “that Mr Putin is going to lose”.

 

Johnson is believed to have signed with at least two agencies to find him speaking engagements as he seeks to make extra cash post-Downing Street on top of his £84,144 MP’s salary. He is also entitled to claim up to £115,000 a year as a former prime minister for running his office. The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd was incorporated with Companies House on Monday to help run his private business affairs.


Johnson is registered with The Premium Speakers Agency, based in Zurich in Switzerland and Atlanta in Georgia, although it did not book the Colorado event. It has already received several offers for Johnson to address events in the United States. “He doesn’t accept every offer,” said an agency source, describing Johnson’s fee expectations as “lofty”.

 

“There was an offer from a group in Michigan for him for $150,000 and he did not even respond.”

There was no. Q and a?

Shocked I tells ya

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6 hours ago, Kevin D said:

“It was a privilege, an honour and a great opportunity to have the possibility to be so close to Mr Johnson in such an open environment,” said one audience member, Renato Lilienfeld, president and senior partner in Lilienfeld Corredores de Seguros, Chile’s largest private insurance broker.

I bet Renato would be sweating if anybody in authority decided to dig up the basement floor of their Head Office.

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