I can hardly imagine anyone less likely to say “dude” than Boris Johnson (except possibly the Queen or Jacob Rees-Mogg). His speech writers must have been on the phone to the White House to ask for some tips. Even so, it’s just never going to be easy for an old Etonian to take an American “dood” and bring himself to pronounce the syllables “dyoode.” But he’s certainly been other lessons from them, so why not this one too.
It’s a bad day for all sanity,
It’s a bad day for all decency;
It’s a bad day for the poor,
who’ll face more abuse and neglect,
It’s a bad day for the rich,
though they might not know it yet.
It’s a frightening day for minorities reading
the writing on the wall;
An ironic day for the arrogant
Who will only have further to fall,
It’s a bad day for our world
It’s a bad day for us all.
