credit: wikipedia public domain / Then London Mayor Boris Johnson poses for a photo prior to ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ on September 14, 2009.

By Gary Raynaldo     DIPLOMATIC  TIMES

Sunday’s UK-EU Election was a political bombshell that left the Tories and Labour decimated with the rise to victory of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party to victory. The Brexit Party was the clear winner, but the Lib Dems and the Green Party also made significant gains. As the dust clears, bad boy pro-Trump former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is the favorite to lead Britain.  Johnson, nicknamed “BOJO”  is the British Donald Trump.  Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday  she is stepping down from 10 Downing Street over her failure to deliver Brexit. May will  officially stand down on June 7, and a leadership election to head the Conservative Party will  begin days later, with the winner becoming the England’s new Prime Minister.  He’s blond. And he is most certainly bursting at the seams with ambition. Male testosterone-blond ambition on steroids!  Meet  Mr. Johnson,  the ex-London Mayor, who last who served in political office as the UK’ s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.  In July 2016, PM  May appointed Johnson as her Foreign Secretary. The PM no doubt regretted the day she decided to place someone like Johnson in such a responsible, high-profile political position. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is one of the most important positions in the UK government. The Foreign Secretary is responsible, among other things, for relations with foreign countries and the promotion of British interests abroad. In addition to this, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are directly accountable to the Foreign Secretary. 

Source: Getty / On Aug. 1, 2012, Johnson, then-Mayor of London, got stuck on the Victoria Park zipline. However, the Mayor, left dangling for about 5 minutes, continued to celebrate the 2012 London Olympics and Team GB with great enthusiasm by waving Union Jacks.

“When Boris Johnson was made Foreign Secretary in July, confounding expectations, he already had an impressive list of previous crimes against diplomacy,” observed Sky News’ senior political correspondent Robert Nisbett.

Shortly after being appointed UK Foreign Secretary, Johnson quickly distinguished himself as a political wrecking ball with his shoot from the hip public statements. Among Johnson’s infamous gaffes:

Accused US President Barack Obama of having an “ancestral dislike of the British empire” because of his “part-Kenyan” heritage.

“It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.”

“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.”

Johnson has a colorful history of putting his foot in his mouth throughout his political career. But things reached a boiling point of during his tenure as Foreign Secretary.

Furious Tories are calling on PM May to sack Foreign Secretary Johnson over his comments this week regarding ‘dead bodies’ when speaking about Libya.

May once jokingly likened Johnson to a mad dog that is eventually put down. According to inews.co.uk.com, May suggested that Johnson could be “put down” as Foreign Secretary at a November 2016 awards ceremony where senior Tories took to the stage to settle old scores following the vote for Brexit. Earlier in the evening, Johnson, accepting the award for Comeback of the Year, had compared himself to the Alsatian dog which was said to have been strangled by Lord Michael Heseltine. May reportedly quipped:

“Boris, the dog was put down… when its master decided it wasn’t needed any more.” 

-Theresa May.

Political Odd Couple:   High-Class PM May and ‘working-class bloke’ Johnson arrive to take part in a ceremonial welcome for Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia de Santos at Horse Guards Parade on November 1, 2016 in London.  (Photo by Stefan Wermuth – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

‘Fed up’ PM May tells ranting Foreign Secretary ‘BOJO’ to ‘shut up’:  The Sun

Source: AFP/ Getty / July 2016. Johnson, who was London’s Mayor at the time, strolls with then-UK Home Secretary May, who looks a bit tense and unhappy with Johnson for some reason. Tensions between May and Johnson have been mounting over the years.

A few months after being on the job as Foreign Secretary, Johnson reportedly got a tongue lashing from PM May at an October 2016 Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing over differences of opinion between the two rivals.

According to The Sun: “Theresa interrupted Boris to tell him to shut up and stop running old arguments. It was quite a moment, as Cabinet ministers don’t really speak to each other like that. It left everybody in no doubt who was in charge, but Boris didn’t enjoy it very much.”

Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images /  Then London Mayor Johnson, arrives at Downing Street on May 11, 2015 in London.

Like it or not, Johnson is a political force to be reckoned with!   Johnson is not to be underestimated or taken lightly despite his political buffoonery.  Johnson’s bold move to go public with his own Brexit blueprint, indicates his ambition to take greater control of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU). Johnson has managed to connect with the common Brit, and is still popular across the political spectrum,  and the general public. But there are those who cringe at the thought of Johnson moving into 10 Downing next year.

“To put the final nail in the coffin of Great Britain, let’s elect Boris Johnson as the next Prime Minister,” screamed the UK Independent. “A country feckless enough to tolerate a system under which such a reckless chancer could come this close to No 10, deserves him.”