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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrexit Will Bring a Baby Boom, Boris Johnson Promises
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/europe/brexit-baby-boom-boris-johnson.htmlLONDON Add this head-scratching prediction to the list of campaign-trail utterances made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Brexit is sure to inspire a baby boom if he remains in office.
Mr. Johnson made the remarks in an interview published by The Sunday Times of London this weekend as Britain hurtles toward a pivotal election on Thursday. He has characterized a vote for his Conservative Party as the only way to get Brexit done.
But hes now suggesting that the British, in a frenzy of celebration, would rush to procreate after the country left the European Union and the results would mirror a supposed baby boom in 2012, which he attributed to the London Olympics that year, when he was the citys mayor.
Cupids darts will fly once we get Brexit done, he was quoted as saying. Romance will bloom across the whole nation. There was one after the Olympics, as I correctly prophesied in a speech in 2012, it was quite amazing. There was a big baby boom.
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Brexit Will Bring a Baby Boom, Boris Johnson Promises (Original Post)
jpak
Dec 2019
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)1. This guy is every bit as whacky as trump.
0rganism
(23,967 posts)2. drunk Trump with a vocabulary
Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)3. Through "The Poor Man's Opera."
As there wont be anything better to do.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)4. I guess, if there's nothing else to do...
No work, no means for clothing your children, etc. because all the jobs have left, sure let's stay home and shag.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)5. I think he means Britain will be fucked like it's 1899.