Footage of the former prime minister singing Chappell Roan as his wife rides around their dining room has left the internet with several questions.
A short video of Boris and Carrie Johnson at home was posted on X over the weekend. It runs for about ten seconds and people have been picking over every second of it ever since.
The clip was shared by @Electoral_UK with the admirably straightforward description: “Boris Johnson singing Pink Pony Club while his wife, Carrie rides on a toy pony.”
That is exactly what happens.
Carrie Johnson, wearing red, rides a small white pony around the dining room while Boris sings Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club somewhere out of shot.
The pony is only part of the picture. There is also floral wallpaper, green dining chairs, two tall red candles and a table covered by a vast red-and-white striped cloth. A large lampshade hangs over the whole scene.
Several posts sharing the footage say it was recorded on New Year’s Eve. The video itself does not show a date, although it appears to have been sitting around for some time before resurfacing this week.
What Boris Johnson has been doing since leaving office
Johnson left Downing Street in September 2022 after his handling of allegations against former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher prompted a wave of resignations from his government.
He remained the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip until June 2023, when he resigned after receiving the draft findings of the Commons Privileges Committee’s investigation into Partygate.
The committee subsequently found that Johnson had deliberately misled the House of Commons and committed a serious contempt of Parliament. It said it would have recommended a 90-day suspension had he remained an MP. Johnson rejected its conclusions and attacked the committee’s investigation. The Commons later approved the report by 354 votes to seven.
Since leaving Parliament, he has written a newspaper column, published his memoir Unleashed and continued making paid speeches and political interventions.
Ukraine has remained one of his main subjects. In February, Johnson called for Britain and its European allies to deploy noncombat troops into Ukrainian-controlled areas before any ceasefire with Russia.
He has remained around politics without making the full comeback that some of his supporters once expected.
The video adds something considerably less formal to his post-Westminster output: the former prime minister performing Chappell Roan from behind the camera while Carrie travels around the dining table on a child’s pony… you maybe asking what the f*ck and that would be entirely justified.
The 13 funniest reactions
The comments divided their attention between Johnson, the pony and the decorating choices.
1. @deuxvingarian
“Carrie seems to have trapped Boris in some kind of nightmarish Dr Seuss house.”
2. @Bill_Gerrard
“This looks like a vignette Danny from The Shining would stumble upon in Room 237.”
3. @Cameron_Kinch
“Sleep paralysis demon unlocked!”
4. @therusswilliams
“Either they’re on drugs or I’m on drugs.”
5. @SpencerKlavan
“These deleted scenes from Backrooms are CRAZY.”
6. @FAnewsfeed
“This is how she wanted to make No. 10 look.”
7. @jmasseypoet
“I’d go insane, too, if I lived in a house with that wallpaper and tablecloth. Nightmare.”
8. @emilyjashinsky
“It’s giving David Lynch.”
9. @KirFlem
“This is weird but I do love that tablecloth.”
10. @ASonNamedBort
“The greatest country in the world bar none.”
11. @labourball
“Cummings watching this and balling his fists so hard that the Nature Valley bar he was eating crumbles to dust.”
12. @jfwduffield
“Carrie Symonds’s taste in interior design is as appalling as you would imagine it to be.”
13. @elladorn_
“I’m absolutely aesthetically fascinated with our landed class. I think they’re so interesting but I don’t want them to have any money or power.”
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