Boris Johnson Reveals 'Brilliant Strategy For Confusing Media' In Resurfaced Video

As the prime minister continues to face a series of scandals, including the infamous 'Partygate', a clip has resurfaced detailing his 'brilliant strategy' for confusing the media.

Sue Gray's report into the Downing Street parties and any potential breach of lockdown rules which occurred will be published soon, though it may be heavily redacted as the BBC reports that police have asked for it to contain 'minimal reference' to the things they're looking at as part of their investigation.

Despite everything levelled against him, including calls to resign from opposition parties and the threat of a leadership challenge from within the Tories, Johnson appears intent on hanging onto the highest office in the land for as long as he can.

Boris Johnson (Alamy)

There's a saying which goes 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them' and a video clip from 2006 could help shed some light on what goes on between Johnson's ears.

Per The Independent, Johnson was speaking on the BBC show Booktalk and said: 'I’ve got a brilliant new strategy which is to make so many gaffes, that no one knows what to concentrate on.

'They cease to be newsworthy, you completely out general the media in that way and they despair so what they do, they leave you alone. You shell them, you pepper the media, pepper their positions with so many gaffes that they're confused.'

He added: 'It's like a helicopter throwing out chaff, you steal on quietly and drop your depth charges wherever you want to drop them.'

Boris Johnson resting his eyes during COP26 (Alamy)

That would be as good an explanation as any for the overriding strategy of Johnson's career, which has been peppered with so many gaffes over the years that to hear him say he's doing it on purpose makes sense.

If that has been his strategy all along it appears to have been an effective one since he has risen all the way to Downing Street with a career path which, per the Daily Mirror, has survived such gaffes as calling gay men 'tank-topped bumboys' and saying that Muslim women 'go around looking like letterboxes'.

Boris Johnson's 'brilliant strategy' may have taken him all the way to Downing Street, but whether it can save him this time remains to be seen.

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Topics: Boris Johnson, UK News, Politics

Joe Harker

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