{"id":177146,"date":"2019-12-11T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/11\/what-a-fing-candy-ass\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:20:00","slug":"what-a-fing-candy-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/11\/what-a-fing-candy-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"What a F%$#ing Candy Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"
A journalist attempted to ask Boris Johnson some questions, and the Tory candidate for PM hid in a refrigerator to get away from him<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Boris Johnson<\/a> retreated into a fridge as he sought to avoid a TV interview, amid rattled nerves at CCHQ over a narrowing in the opinion polls. <\/p>\n

The prime minister was ambushed by the Good Morning Britain producer, Jonathan Swain, during a pre-dawn visit to Modern Milkman, a business in the Tory-held constituency of Pudsey, in Yorkshire. <\/p>\n

When Swain first approached Johnson, he asked: \u201cMorning prime minister, would you come on Good Morning Britain, prime minister?\u201d Johnson\u2019s aide can be heard mouthing \u201coh for f%$#\u2019s sake\u201d in response. <\/p>\n

The show\u2019s hosts, Piers Morgan<\/a> and Susanna Reid, appeared shocked by the aide\u2019s reaction. Swain goes on to say: \u201cI\u2019ve just had a reaction from one of the minders. OK, no need to push, thank you very much,\u201d with Reid exclaiming: \u201cThe look on his face, that minder.\u201d The aide was then named on air as the PM\u2019s press secretary, Rob Oxley. <\/p>\n

When Swain presses the prime minister, stating he was live on the show, Johnson replied \u201cI\u2019ll be with you in a second\u201d and walked off, before Piers exclaims \u201che\u2019s gone into the fridge\u201d. Johnson walks inside a fridge stacked with milk bottles with his aides. One person can be heard saying: \u201cIt\u2019s a bunker.\u201d <\/p>\n

Conservative sources subsequently insisted that Johnson was \u201ccategorically not hiding\u201d in the fridge, from which Johnson emerged carrying a crate of milk bottles \u2013 but instead his aides were taking a moment to prep the PM for a separate, pre-agreed interview.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Tory aides have closely controlled the PM\u2019s appearances since a chaotic day on Monday. Johnson pocketed a journalist\u2019s phone during a TV interview<\/a> rather than look at a picture of a four-year-old boy asleep on the floor at a Leeds hospital.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not a big fan of Winston Churchill, but I think that I can conclusively state that BoJo is the least Churchillian person in the whole of the UK, and I am including Gary Glitter in that set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A journalist attempted to ask Boris Johnson some questions, and the Tory candidate for PM hid in a refrigerator to get away from him: Boris Johnson retreated into a fridge as he sought to avoid a TV interview, amid rattled nerves at CCHQ over a narrowing in the opinion polls. The prime minister was ambushed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[585,375,387,385,374,570],"class_list":["post-177146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-elections","tag-hypocrisy","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}