Have your upvote . <| sep |> I think they ' re just straight talking . I know a bit about Dutch politics having spent a fair bit of time there , and what they have been saying about Boris is entirely true and their reaction to him is pretty reasonable . If we ' re going to send clowns to represent us , we shouldn ' t clutch our pearls when they treat them accordingly . Boris ' behaviour has been pretty appalling , the way he has so duplicitously used Turkey as a political football like that . Edit He . in the Brexit campaign , had leaflets showing Turkey , Syria and Iraq as possible members of the EU , making people afraid of the possible new migration waves . Then a few weeks afterwards he is travelling to Erdogan and offering support for becoming a member of the EU . It is a purely arrogant provocation from Johnson when he is telling us what we have to do . I cannot respect anymore what he is doing . I think this is a very reasonable thing to say .