Remember That Boris Johnson Was Once a Car Reviewer

A person of the more substantial pieces of geopolitical news this week involves Boris Johnson. The U.K. key minister is stepping down.

Whilst reading about how the British media is covering the celebration, I was reminded that Johnson when reviewed vehicles.

Seemingly very poorly.

That is, when he was even arsed to generate the points. Appears to be that Johnson normally “reviewed” a vehicle by allowing it sit in one spot for the period of the mortgage.

Previous GQ editor Dylan Jones, in the Sunday Times, on his previous motoring correspondent Boris Johnson… pic.twitter.com/jVf9RhXx8Q

— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) April 24, 2022

I never convey this up to be political — I just obtain it an attention-grabbing way to relieve into the weekend. Specially considering the fact that Johnson appeared to, uh, not truly do the position. It would be much less amusing had Johnson been competent.

Hey, if an auto journalist/auto reviewer — not all auto journalists critique cars and trucks, and not all car or truck reviewers are automotive journalists — can eventually climb to the top rated of his country’s political ladder, possibly that previous noticed we were being informed in 3rd grade about how anybody can grow up to be president is genuine after all.

Or it’s possible Johnson is just blessed his editors did not feel to get worried also much about enhancing his prose and did not seem to be to discover his get the job done ethic, or lack thereof, right up until he’d moved on.

Possibly way, just after likely again and looking at some of his old work, I’m going to have to cleanse my palette by Googling a bunch of David E. Davis, John Phillips, and Brock Yates items.

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