“It is going to be VERY, VERY TOUGH this summit,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned yesterday, Reuters reported. Perhaps preparing the way to claim minor concessions that might be won at the COP26 summit as not a failure, Johnson was “very, very” repetitive: “I am very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it is touch and go, it is VERY, VERY DIFFICULT, but I think it can be done. It’s VERY, VERY FAR FROM CLEAR that we’ll get the progress that we need,” said he.
The Queen herself has even been forced to cancel her personal presence at the ghouls’ gathering; her doctors have reduced her participation to a virtual presentation (which she will do if she is “very, very” lucky, perhaps). She is said to be suffering from some “non-COVID” condition which is under investigation, and was told to keep resting. “It is understood that the Queen very much wants COP26 to result in meaningful action on climate change from participating nations, and hopes her absence will not be used by others as a reason not to attend,” BBC lamented.