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Johnson boards ‘Con Air’ for Tory campaign tour
Boris Johnson has taken to the skies aboard “Con Air” as part of a three-nation campaign trip.
The prime minister landed in Teesside for the opening stop on the first full day of his general election tour.
He will leave England for Scotland before a further stop in the north of Ireland on Thursday.
Arriving on board the plane, Johnson said hello to those travelling with him and repeatedly remarked it was “Con Air” – an apparent nickname for the Conservative campaign plane rather than a direct reference to the 1997 action movie starring Nicolas Cage. Or anything to do with cons.
After arriving at Teesside Airport, Johnson travelled to the Tetley Tea factory in Eaglescliffe.
He drank a cup of tea and discussed with staff whether it was best to leave the tea bag in the cup, different types of tea and asked: “What about cream tea?”
On the tea he was drinking, the PM said: “I need it, the plane was freezing.”
He was later given a tour of the production line and weighed boxes of teabags.
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The ‘Con’ in Conservatism is just that, a con. Funnily enough Boris is also an errant ‘Con’vict with ‘con’victions which are all too plain to see.
Moral = be wary of words starting with ‘Con’, it probably is (yes even Conservation is not free of a con or two).
I would enter a plea for consensus.
I’ll remember never to buy Tetley tea.
It’s not worth drinking any way!