Boris Johnson’s comparison of the NI border to the Moon landing lacks gravity – 11 perfect takedowns

Boris Johnson’s main appeal seems to be that he says whatever comes into his head, which is great if you’re in improv class, but not the best characteristic in the leader of a country. We’ve heard his nonsense about painting crates to look like buses, his false claims about kippers from the Isle of Man, and now he’s drawn a parallel between two incredibly different things.

"If they could use hand-knitted computer code to make a frictionless re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere in 1969, we can solve the problem of frictionless trade at the Northern Irish border" — Boris Johnson in Monday's @Telegraph

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) July 21, 2019

It looks a lot like he didn’t think that through, but there are better people than I who can show their workings on this.

1.

Landing on the Moon was beautiful and meaningful. Leaving the EU is stupid and pointless.

Both are costly, both can be done. Only one of them advanced human civilisation. Spoiler it wasn't Brexit. https://t.co/J1kpf2EJlB

— Otto English (@Otto_English) July 21, 2019

2.

The Apollo program cost the equivalent of $110bn in today's money, took nine years to achieve its goal and the deaths of three astronauts.

And that was run and staffed by some of the finest minds in the world, not you and David fucking Davis. https://t.co/lkiQhhpOfr

— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) July 21, 2019

3.

Johnson has an amusing turn of phrase. It hides an absence of practical ideas and is already bloody tiresome. https://t.co/tYuiktjvPX

— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) July 22, 2019

4.

'It's one short term for a prime minister, one huge step backwards for 60 million people.' #BorisJohnson #brexit #moonlandings speech.

— Julian Shea (@juliansheasport) July 21, 2019

5.

But NASA didn't have to deal with the UK's three mutually incompatible Brexit border red lines

— George Court (@courty1793) July 21, 2019

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At least NASA knew where they were going and had a plan to get there.

Three years in and neither of these is true about BrExit.

— MunroeL (@MunroeL) July 21, 2019

7.

The code is already written in the WTO terms, with no deal they dont get to re-write it, its the basic Windows 3.1 operating system of world trade, while the EU is using the multi functionality of Windows 10 professional.

— Winnfrith (@Winnfrith1) July 21, 2019

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To extend the analogy, Brexit is like launching a mission to the moon without figuring out how to land instead of just smashing the space shuttle into the lunar surface. Then attacking all the people concerned about the death of the astronauts as not believing in the moon landing

— Peter D (@DriveIn84) July 21, 2019

9.

If solving the border issue is so straight-forward, why does Johnson still not have an actual plan for doing it, three years on?

— Maxie’s Tweets (@MaxieAllen) July 21, 2019

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There was friction! Things were literally on fire

— Harry the bear (@HarryCanTweet) July 21, 2019

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Jesus.. it wasn't hand knitted it was some of the most complex ground breaking mathematics known to man.. that literally just says it all!

— vanessa frank (@vanessafrank3) July 21, 2019

Scott Lawson had an idea for an end to all the Brexit woes.

Is there a way we can get Stanley Kubrick to fake Brexit and then everyone is happy?

— Scott Lawson (@scottjlawson) July 22, 2019

Source: Telegraph

H/T: Chris Mason

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