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      <title>Britain's PM becomes subject of ridicule for joining drug bust in police gear
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson accompanied the Liverpool police on drug raids early on Tuesday morning, disguised as a police officer in official police gear. As photos of the operation surfaced online, Johnson became subject of intense ridicule.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;"We're going to clamp down on the county lines drugs gangs with £300 million of funding and invest in rehabilitation to help problem drug users get their lives back on track," said Johnson in a tweet. &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Twitter users compared him to several animated characters.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One said he looks like someone out of South Park, an animated satirical American sitcom. &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Another said he resembles Mr. Benn, a character from children’s books, who is known for stepping out the back door of a costume shop into a magical adventure, dressed appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;British television writer and producer Jed Mercurio mocked Johnson and said, “Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent.”&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;The drug raids Johnson witnessed are part of “Operation Toxic” aimed to infiltrate county line drug dealings. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 2007, &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/06/which-top-uk-politicians-have-admitted-to-drug-use"&gt;Johnson has admitted&lt;/a&gt; to using cocaine and cannabis while at university, and Twitter users hadn't forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;A top British lawmaker has also recently &lt;a href="https://people.com/politics/british-lawmakers-cocaine-culture-parliament-boris-johnson-anti-drug-policy/"&gt;asked the police&lt;/a&gt; to investigate and crack down on the use of illegal drugs in London’s Palace of Westminster, where member of the UK’s parliament meet do conduct official business. &lt;/p&gt;

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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson accompanied the Liverpool police on drug raids early on Tuesday morning, disguised as a police officer in official police gear. As photos of the operation surfaced online, Johnson became subject of intense ridicule.</strong> </p>

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<p>"We're going to clamp down on the county lines drugs gangs with £300 million of funding and invest in rehabilitation to help problem drug users get their lives back on track," said Johnson in a tweet. </p>

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<p>Twitter users compared him to several animated characters.</p>

<p>One said he looks like someone out of South Park, an animated satirical American sitcom. </p>

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<p>Another said he resembles Mr. Benn, a character from children’s books, who is known for stepping out the back door of a costume shop into a magical adventure, dressed appropriately.</p>

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<p>British television writer and producer Jed Mercurio mocked Johnson and said, “Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent.”</p>

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<p>The drug raids Johnson witnessed are part of “Operation Toxic” aimed to infiltrate county line drug dealings. </p>

<p>In 2007, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/06/which-top-uk-politicians-have-admitted-to-drug-use">Johnson has admitted</a> to using cocaine and cannabis while at university, and Twitter users hadn't forgotten.</p>

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<p>A top British lawmaker has also recently <a href="https://people.com/politics/british-lawmakers-cocaine-culture-parliament-boris-johnson-anti-drug-policy/">asked the police</a> to investigate and crack down on the use of illegal drugs in London’s Palace of Westminster, where member of the UK’s parliament meet do conduct official business. </p>

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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:10:42 +0500</pubDate>
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