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Tom Watson labels Boris Johnson a 'cheese-headed fopdoodle'
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 01, 2017 08:58pm |
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| Category | Speech |
| Author | Rajeev Syal |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Boris Johnson will be subjected to a Boris-style attack on Tuesday from the deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, who will describe the foreign secretary as a “cheese-headed fopdoodle”.
The description follows Johnson’s description of Jeremy Corbyn as a “mutton-headed old mugwump” in his first intervention of the election campaign.
In a speech to the shopworkers’ union Usdaw’s annual delegate meeting in Blackpool, Watson will say: “Boris Johnson is a caggie-handed cheese-headed fopdoodle with a talent for slummocking about.”
A fopdoodle is defined online as a stupid or insignificant fellow, a fool or a simpleton. Cheese-head, confusingly, is a name for a type of screw with a raised cylindrical head, while a slummock is an untidy or slovenly person.
Watson will attack Johnson’s record as foreign secretary, characterising him as ineffective and lightweight. “When we require diplomacy, Boris sows discord. At a time when we need a serious-minded national representative to deal skilfully with some of the most complex problems our country faces, Johnson falls back on bluster and bombast,” he will say.
Johnson used a combination of blunt and characteristically idiosyncratic language to ridicule Corbyn’s leadership credentials last week. |
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