David Frost will be remembered for That Was the Week That Was, Breakfast with Frost, his political interviews and much else. Unfortunately that one died in 2013, there’s a much less talented David Frost in the news these days.
Honest Boris has a Chief European Hating and Tub-Thumping Officer called Frost. I’ve never had the pleasure, but his principle skills seem to be being thin on grace and thick on slander. His every media appearance is about offending our neighbours and biggest trading partners with blatant lies. Allegedly he was a diplomat; can’t imagine he was a very good one.
He wrote an article in the Financial Times this morning. It’s a whining rant. His boss signed a deal about trade in Northern Ireland, and now they (we, the people of the UK) are reneging on it. We committed to doing certain things, and we’re not doing them. None of this deal is a surprise. Frost and Johnson negotiated it, read the contents and agreed to it before signing. Frost calls this expectation to do the things we promised to “legal purism”.
If doing what you contracted to do is “legal purism” that’s fine by me. It means I get paid every month, and when I go to the shops I get the stuff I expect and they take the correct money off my card. Or am I missing something?