{"id":1141298,"date":"2021-12-22T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141298"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:19:17","slug":"uks-own-lets-go-brandon-moment-as-sports-fans-turn-on-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-own-lets-go-brandon-moment-as-sports-fans-turn-on-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#039;s Own &#039;Let&#039;s Go Brandon&#039; Moment as Sports Fans Turn on Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuks-own-lets-go-brandon-moment-as-sports-fans-turn-on-boris-johnson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141298&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1359521059-e1640108667534-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sports fans in the UK may have started their own \u2018let\u2019s go Brandon\u2019 movement, as sentiment turns against Britain\u2019s restriction-loving Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>British sports fans seem to have begun their own \u2018let\u2019s go Brandon\u2019 movement, with sports stadiums playing host to a number of chants targeting restriction-loving PM Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/conservatives-rebel-over-bojos-vax-mandate-political-suicide\/\">centre<\/a> of much controversy in the UK over the last number of weeks, having reimplemented severe COVID restrictions in England despite the Prime Minister himself being allegedly caught flaunting harsher restrictions last year.<\/p>\n<p>Chants of \u201cstand up if you hate Boris\u201d rang out at the World Darts Championship in London yesterday evening, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10330971\/Darts-football-fans-sing-anti-Boris-chants-fallout-No10-Christmas-party-rows-continues.html\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;<em>The Mail<\/em>, as documented by a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christopherhope\/status\/1473067440623996932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1473067440623996932%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_2_7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-10330971%2FDarts-football-fans-sing-anti-Boris-chants-fallout-No10-Christmas-party-rows-continues.html\">video<\/a> viewed nearly one million times online.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As if things could not get worse for our Prime Minister, here\u2019s the crowd chanting \u201cStand up if you hate Boris\u201d at the 2022 Darts World Championship at Alexandra Palace in London tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N0kVvUuQ9t\">pic.twitter.com\/N0kVvUuQ9t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Hope\ud83d\udcdd (@christopherhope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christopherhope\/status\/1473067440623996932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One fan at the event was even spotted with a sign reading \u201call round to Boris\u2019s after\u201d, seemingly in reference to an ongoing scandal facing the Prime Minister regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/uk-now-investigating-three-alleged-lockdown-busting-downing-street-christmas-parties\/\">alleged lockdown-breaking parties,<\/a> which supposedly took place in No 10 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was also the target of chants at a football (U.S. soccer) match in England on Saturday, with attendees singing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrwRchrdsn\/status\/1472309188676177925\">Boris Johnson is a c**t<\/a>\u201c. One video of the event has garnered over 800k views online.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents echo the beginning of the \u201clet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d phenomenon in the US, which began as a result of sporting crowds repeatedly taking aim at President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase itself&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/how-lets-go-brandon-became-code-for-insulting-joe-biden\/\">gained notoriety<\/a> after one sports commentator mistakenly reported that an audible \u201cfuck Joe Biden\u201d chant was, in fact, the crowd cheering \u201clet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d. The phrase subsequently took off as a handy cypher for communicating feeling about the President without using swears.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s Go, Brandon!&#8221; Biden&#8217;s Warm Welcome As He Surveys Tornado Damage <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NGWwZwUKgi\">pic.twitter.com\/NGWwZwUKgi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1471249055586164737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The chants targeting Johnson come not long after the British government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/covid-1984-boris-locks-down-britain-before-christmas\/\">reimposed<\/a> harsh lockdown restrictions in England, reportedly in the hopes of curbing the spread of the omicron variant of the Chinese Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>However, others have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/dead-cat-boris-distracts-nation-from-party-scandal-with-fresh-lockdown-threats\/\">accused<\/a> Johnson of implementing restrictions as an attempt to distract the public from various government members\u2019 alleged breaches of previous lockdown rules.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson has come under sustained criticism in the UK over the last few weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/uk-now-investigating-three-alleged-lockdown-busting-downing-street-christmas-parties\/\">evidence emerged<\/a>&nbsp;alleging that lockdown-busting gatherings were held in Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>These gatherings, at least one of which is alleged to be a Christmas party, would have occurred while severe lockdown restrictions were in place.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Prime Minister has stringently denied any notion that lockdown rules were ever broken, an inquiry has been launched into three separate gatherings that are alleged to have occurred.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>An image has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/19\/boris-johnson-and-staff-pictured-with-wine-in-downing-street-garden-in-may-2020\">surfaced<\/a> showing the Prime Minister, alongside other senior British politicians, attending an outdoor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/17\/boris-johnson-allegedly-attended-lockdown-breaking-pizza-party-may-2020-sources-claim\/\">gathering in May<\/a> which is alleged to have broken lockdown rules.<\/p>\n<p>Published by&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>, the image appears to show a lack of social distancing at the party, as some attendees sit with what appears to be wine in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Prime Minister has confirmed that Johnson did in fact attend an outdoor meeting that day with the then health secretary and his team, but only briefly, and that he left for his residence shortly after 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the PM\u2019s reassurances, many are not satisfied with Johnson\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should people listen to the Prime Minister\u2019s instructions to follow the rules when people inside Number 10 Downing Street don\u2019t do so?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/conservatives-rebel-over-bojos-vax-mandate-political-suicide\/\">asked<\/a> one Conservative MP earlier in the month regarding further lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Others, such as Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage have accused the Prime Minister of lacking the \u201cmoral authority\u201d to rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, Mr. Johnson, I\u2019m not listening anymore, I don\u2019t believe you have the moral authority to lead this country,\u201d Farage said. \u201cI\u2019ve no intention of abiding by anything you\u2019ve asked me to do this evening, and I think that sentiment is one that is being much more widely shared around this country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports fans in the UK may have started their own \u2018let\u2019s go Brandon\u2019 movement, as sentiment turns against Britain\u2019s restriction-loving Prime Minister. 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