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A woman from one of South Yorkshire’s flood-hit communities has given her brutally honest opinion of Boris Johnson.
The prime minister finally visited the region yesterday, six days after flooding began wrecking havoc to homes and businesses.
However, the usually-talkative Johnson hasn’t been doing many interviews with journalists in the area so ITV decided to surprise him in the town of Stainforth.
He didn’t look too pleased to see ITV’s Joe Pike…
(Source: ITV News)
But it wasn’t just the Tory leader who left the meeting unhappy.
Julia Keegan, who runs the community centre Johnson visited, was left deeply unimpressed by the prime minister.
When ITV News asked for her thoughts on the Conservative leader, she replied:
Do you want the truth? … A***hole.
And as for Johnson’s supposed ability to connect with normal people, Keegan was unconvinced that the PM understood the concerns of people in Stainforth.
She added:
No, he doesn’t understand anything. He’s just come to show his face.
That’s definitely not the response Johnson was hoping for…
The interview at the end here is absolutely devastating. "He does nowt for us... He's just come to show his face." https://t.co/4uot88xaTo— Ian Dunt (@Ian Dunt) 1573728130
I'm just watching the end of this and remembering all the chat during the Tory leadership contest about how Johnson… https://t.co/4fX5rADNPq— Alan White (@Alan White) 1573730490
This only went out on local Yorkshire TV. But the verdict of one voluntary leader after meeting @BorisJohnson is wi… https://t.co/GMKA289uH8— Paul Waugh (@Paul Waugh) 1573727944
You can always rely on the folk of South Yorkshire to tell it straight 😳 https://t.co/VszBolutGu— Sally Simpson (@Sally Simpson) 1573725640
The clip is the latest edition in the popular series “Boris Johnson vs the people of Yorkshire”, which includes hits such as:
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