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Looking at the personal profile of Joe Biden's recently appointed Sec of State, Antony Blinken, and it certainly appears to be bad news for Johnson and his Brexit govt as this guy thinks the UK's handling of Brexit is a "dog's dinner", that it threatens peace in Northern Ireland, ruins young people's future and is the result of a very similar phenomenon to Marine Le Pen's xenophobia in France - OUCH!!!!! The truth hurts!! No matter how much "green friendly" orchestrations Johnson makes between now and COP26 in Glasgow next November , the "elephant in the room", as far as the US govt is concerned, is Brexit. The UK will no longer be the Atlantic bridge to Europe. Actually in a metaphor which sums up Britain's isolation, the bridge will be diverted past the UK to Brussels. Such a shame for Bodgit as we know how much he loves bridges eh lol!! The NYT described Blinken as a "defender of global alliances". He is about as far from the current truth-denying and sleekit sec of state, Pompeo, as Biden is from Trump. And when it comes to the "British Trump", as Trump previously referred to the PM, Biden and Blinken are not just on a different page but in a whole different book. Consider Blinken's description of Joe Biden's new presidency in three words - "leadership, cooperation and democracy". These are words supremely lacking from Johnson's last 12 months in power. Instead we have witnessed a chronic absence of leadership with dithering and delay on the pandemic, a failure to cooperate by aligning policy action with scientific advice and of course the very antithesis of democracy via centralisation and power grabs from both the regions of England and the devolved countries of the UK. Just ask any savvy Scottish citizen what we think of Johnson's attitude towards democracy given the emasculation of our devolved parliament through the Internal Market Bill and indeed our voice silenced throughout the whole Brexit process!