When is she going to fire him? (Boris)

Dear dear - what a pillock.

In answer to the thread headline - no soon enough.

Sorry, I haven't suddenly acquired a Scottish accent. It should be - not soon enough.

He needs to be sacked, surely TM's self respect can't take any more of his insubordination and sheer bloody idiocy. He has caused this woman to be in an even more dire state than she already was, truly perilous, and his idiotic chum Liam Fox was blustering away this morning about it being a slip of the tongue. It wasn't a slip of the tongue, it was showing extreme carelessness in what he said, he obviously didn't know about the case. He is making a fool of TM and fools of the country he is supposed to represent. Sack him, along with PP and maybe, just maybe, TM could gain some respect. What a bloody lot of criminals and fools, shameful.

I'm afraid I'm not convinced this was a slip of the tongue. It's not something you'd slip up over, is it? I suspect it was on his briefing sheet and therefore may be, just may be, true.

It is called diplomacy nottoo something Johnson is entirely clueless about

How many people would go to such places for a holiday, Iraq, Iran, Israel. I wouldn't. I've been to one foreign country and I was made very welcome. That country was... Wales...
Brian.

But she was visiting her family, wasn't she?

He is a bumbling fool- this poor woman and her family. He should do the honourable thing and resign but oh no, he thinks he will be PM one day.

I agree with NotTooOld; I think it may well be true. Something very odd about this whole case, the husband's behaviour, and the baby daughter still in Iran.

This lady is a British Citizen.She was visiting her family with her baby daughter, something they had done several times since the child was born. She was arrested in suspicion of spying and plotting the downfall of the regime. Her daughter is with maternal grandparents and the Father is worried sick about the health is his wife, imprisoned in a country with a very low disregard for women. What they and the diplomats working patiently behind the scenes do not need is that bloody slack mouthed buffoon Boris, the man in charge of the Foreign Office for heavens sake, making things dangerously worse.

She was, apparently, taking her baby daughter to visit her parents in Iran. The baby is, I understand, being cared for by the grandparents. Iran doesn't recognise dual nationality which this lady has, whether little girl has or not I don't know. Even if Boris's brief did say she was training journalists, surely he would have had the wit not to repeat it bearing in mind the country in which she's accused. It's very strange, and makes you wonder if there is a hidden agenda - somewhere!

We keep being told how intelligent he is but I have yet to see any signs of this. He is obviously well schooled but so are horses and that does not equate to intelligence.

I saw BJ's usual rumpled appearance on early BBC Breakfast news (no sound, don't ask!) and thought, another sexual harrassment accusation, at last his womanising has caught up with him. But no, it was another kind of clumsy mistake on his part.
How does he get away with it all?

she can't sack either, because her majority is so so thin and her GVT so divided- which is massively worrying. The know they can get away with more or less anything

Good post niggly and I also believe that because Iran doesn’t recognise dual nationality, British consular staff can’t visit her. I’m very surprised that some people thought they could comment on this thread when they had no idea about the fact she was visiting family and had done so several times before

Lord Buckethead on twitter suggested we do a straight swap with Nazanin and Johnson - seems a good idea to me. Solve two problems at a stroke.

Perhaps it is a case of 'all brains and no common sense' Gracesgran - which is very worrying.

Whitewave I suggested the same; do a straight swap and leave the fool there. He is a disgrace to his office and disgrace to the country he purports to represent.

To be correct, he said that she was ‘teaching journalism’
And not ‘training journalists’ and yes, I too thought this must have been on his briefing notes. Now, it is either true,
Or she was really on holiday.If it wasn’t what he had been told, why would he say it?If she had really only been on holiday, why would he have thought otherwise?Bit of a mystery, but seems he is working with his counterpart in
Iran to get her released.

Could it be that teaching journalism is her job ( in the UK) and he got it mixed up? He does find it hard to stay out of trouble.

Maybe, lemongrove the statement of incorrect facts was because he is an inconsiderate, lazy arse who could not be bothered to find out about this case, a case which as Foreign Secretary is part of his remit.

Always a possibility Gill but there must be a reason I think, this comment about teaching journalism, it must have come from whoever briefed him, but we may never know.

So it's not his fault; he was just regurgitating something he had been told without a] checking that it was correct and b] not considering the fact that it might make the case against this woman even worse. Phew; that's ok then.