Boris Johnson chickened out of a Luxembourg press conference – 9 funniest responses
Only a few hours after he compared himself to the Incredible Hulk, Boris Johnson has cancelled a press conference in Luxembourg because people were booing him.
So the prime minister of Luxembourg did this and if you think that’s not a good look for Johnson, you’d be right.
“Don’t make it like the European Union would be the bad guy not accepting decisions that the UK proposes”
Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel says the EU is not responsible for the #Brexit “mess we are in at the moment”https://t.co/LSV4ZpunWU pic.twitter.com/rEmq5gibiH
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 16, 2019
Here are all our favourite things people were saying about it.
1.
It pains me to go down this route, I swore I’d never mention it, but as a statement of fact: Yesterday Boris Johnson called himself the Incredible Hulk. Today he was too scared to go to his own press conference because it would have been, in his own words, “too noisy”
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) September 16, 2019
2.
Boris Johnson last week: "You are a chicken"
Boris Johnson this week: "I am not going to work because the people are being mean" https://t.co/H6KrhHdNDh
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) September 16, 2019
3.
The Incredible Sulk. https://t.co/NbPWEEjVBf
— Alex von Tunzelmann (@alexvtunzelmann) September 16, 2019
4.
People are criticising Boris Johnson but in fairness, he hasn’t told a single lie since this press conference started. pic.twitter.com/9Y8oFcCKWn
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) September 16, 2019
5.
The Invisible Hulk meets the prime minister of Luxembourg pic.twitter.com/3lXTMlAHHT
— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) September 16, 2019
6.
I think Boris just lost the right to call anyone else a chicken, forever. https://t.co/1M2e1QfXda
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) September 16, 2019
7.
Boris Johnson in Luxembourg pic.twitter.com/gNI0Ch6BAy
— mnrrnt2 and 206 others (@mnrrntt) September 16, 2019
8.
When he said ‘Get out of London’, Cummings didn’t mean Doncaster, Rotherham, Leeds or Luxembourg. Obvs! https://t.co/mNGGkPxIOq
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) September 16, 2019
9.
HULK SORRY FOR BEING LATE, HAD TO SMASH WINE WITH JEAN-CLAUDE pic.twitter.com/DaMTJzKDJf
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) September 16, 2019
In summary …
Loss of parliamentary majority
Loss of control of Commons business
Six parliamentary defeats out of six
Defeat in the Scottish appeal court
And now humiliated by Luxembourg – not France or Germany, but Luxembourg
This is extraordinary
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) September 16, 2019
And with added music.
Boris Johnson has been booed as he arrived for talks with Luxembourg's PM, so we added some apt background music. pic.twitter.com/VU9yDdfnSV
— The Poke (@ThePoke) September 16, 2019
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