- Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:15 pm
#8745
A few years ago, the Mary Whitehouse Experience (a popular 1990s sketch show, m'lud) made fun of a US Tourist board advert featuring then-president Bush the Elder inviting people to visit America, followed by humorous imaginings of other world leaders such as Saddam Hussein, John Major and Boris Yeltsin doing such adverts.
I can't see Botham - or for that matter Hoey - sitting in complex negotiations. This is all window dressing, someone to lead the delegation, do the adverts begging people to buy British, shake hands and then bugger off to the buffet while the diplomats do the work. Chief sales gimp, just as Johnson was as mayor.
As the actress said to the bishop, rabbi, imam and priest
"My eyes have seen the glory, I'm a born again Atheist!"