Favourite 14 things people said about this picture of Boris Johnson with Emmanuel Macron
So-called prime minister Boris Johnson has been meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris today.
Today I met President @EmmanuelMacron in Paris. Let’s get Brexit done, sensibly and pragmatically and in the interests of both sides. Let’s get on with deepening and intensifying the friendship and the partnership between our nations. pic.twitter.com/qv7BlAOhW7
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) August 22, 2019
There was lots of talk about Brexit and the backstop and so on, but that’s not why we’re here.
This is.
https://twitter.com/MarkJohnstonLD/status/1164546962370285568
And here are our favourite 14 things people had to say about it.
1.
Relax… The wine stains will come out of the sofa https://t.co/dyfO8aLt50
— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) August 22, 2019
2.
This is one of those distilled culture war moments isn't it. Anyone with civility thinks: No, you unspeakable buffoon. Anyone without thinks: Yeah, sticking it to the frogs. https://t.co/fkGWxeaTtD
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) August 22, 2019
3.
Classy. pic.twitter.com/PJM5hZP38Y
— JOHN NICOLSON (@MrJohnNicolson) August 22, 2019
4.
Foot on the table at Elysee palace whilst visiting French president #Macron.
Imagine the outrage on the British tabloids if a foreign PM did this in Buckingham Palace!
Did they not teach #BorisJohnson good manners at Eton? pic.twitter.com/AGFwjRbS0m— Gerry Stergiopoulos (@GerryGreek) August 22, 2019
5.
Macron will never be forgiven for failing to tell this prick to get his foot off the table and back in his mouth where it belongs. pic.twitter.com/mwUawBLGQl
— Gene Kerrigan (@GeneKerrigan) August 22, 2019
6.
To quote The Thick of It, "Feet off the furniture you Oxbridge twat, you're not on a fucking punt" https://t.co/oCCBi7C8M9
— Will Wiles (@WillWiles) August 22, 2019
7.
— Graeme Demianyk (@GraemeDemianyk) August 22, 2019
8.
My jaw dropped marginally lower than his manners. https://t.co/ukbLJZaupe
— Shelagh Fogarty (@ShelaghFogarty) August 22, 2019
9.
Boris Johnson looks like a divorced dad who has arrived early to pick his kid up and is desperately trying to look cool in front of his ex wife’s new boyfriend. pic.twitter.com/5ial3v4AAT
— The Poke (@ThePoke) August 22, 2019
10.
Johnson “I hear you’re in a spot of trouble for spending public money on this palace”
Macron “At least our public can see where their money went”— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) August 22, 2019
11.
très diplomatique
(pic Christophe Petit Tesson/AFP/Getty Images) pic.twitter.com/qOQVbD72Pg
— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) August 22, 2019
12.
“You don’t see heels like those much nowadays”
“You can still find them”— Stuart Chapman (@StuJChapman) August 22, 2019
13.
I know about as much about international diplomacy as I do the bullingdon rules of wiffwaff. But I do know it's common decency to not put your fucking feet on other peoples' furniture. pic.twitter.com/D9eX0pCKdW
— Daniel Bettridge (@DanielBettridge) August 22, 2019
14.
“Draw me like one of your French girls”
— @lexis (twit) (@lexistwit) August 22, 2019
UPDATE
To be fair to Johnson – why’s that, you might say – there was more to the picture than the still image suggests.
WATCH: Here’s the Reuters video of Boris Johnson putting his foot on the Elysee furniture. It seems President Macron was making small talk suggesting the table would work equally well as a footstool should the PM want to recline, which Johnson then jokingly does pic.twitter.com/dnv37t9mS4
— Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) August 22, 2019
