“I will lie down in front of those bulldozers,” Boris Johnson once said of Heathrow expansion.
So, tonight's the night for the big vote. Where is Bojo ?
Missing in action....
On his LBC phone-in Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative backbencher, has defended his fellow Brexiter Boris Johnson over not voting against Heathrow expansion tonight.
Rees-Mogg said he did not know where Johnson would be tonight. When the presenter, Nick Ferrari, put it to him that he should be voting against in view of his promise to lie down in front of the bulldozers to oppose the project, Rees-Mogg replied:
"Johnson said that as mayor of London. He is no longer mayor of London." (SERIOUSLY !!)
He added; "I think there’s a very strong national interest in expanding airport capacity, and that means Heathrow. But sometimes the constituency issue is so great that you feeel tyou don’t want to go along with the national interest. I think abstaining in such circumstances is part of that balance. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. Note well, Mungo... And I think Mr Johnson being away is part of that reasonableness."
Johnson started opposing the third runway plan long before he became MP for the constituency, and so it can’t be said that his primary motive is a constituency one.
Remember him running away in the House of Commons when about to be asked an emergency question ? Looks like Bojo is a coward to me, and everyone else, come to that, and is simply not to be trusted.
There you go - Never, ever trust a Tory.