Perhaps it is a coincidence, or bad luck, but Boris and his professional dips lost a lot of face when they couldn't round up enough friends.
"How UK lost International Court of Justice place to India"
"...The International Court of Justice is the principal legal body of the United Nations. It is based in The Hague and its job is to settle disputes between states.
Lots of its work is highly technical and not exactly the stuff of the front pages. And let's be honest, many people would probably not have known that one of the 15 judges had always been British ever since the court was set up after the Second World War.
But the loss of a British presence around that supreme judicial bench is of huge significance - not just to the court but to the UK's standing in the world.... "
"...Foreign Office sources pointed out that the UK's ousting from the ICJ is not without precedent. They pointed to France failing to get its candidate onto the International Law Commission last year and Russia's exit from the Human Rights Commission.
"But it is also true to say that this represents a defeat for the UK itself. This is a failure of UK diplomacy. Downing Street refused to confirm that Theresa May herself got involved in lobbying for this job - they merely said representations have been made at the highest levels of government. But Boris Johnson and his Foreign Office ministers were certainly involved. And they failed. They failed to win enough support in the General Assembly. "
Is Boris an asset to this nation's standing in the world?
Or is he just an ass?