Re-stocking the knacker’s yard

If there is an Englishman more hated by the European establishment than Boris Johnson, it’s Nigel Farage. So who would have thought Brussels would scrupulously follow the Farage EU leadership recruitment manual? Farage not only once observed that the EU instititutions are a knacker’s yard of failed politicians, but that it’s actually a requirement for senior appointees that they’ve been failed politicians.