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Cynthia · F
A highly erudite scholar; a successful journalist: a successful editor; a successful author; an alive cyclist, a successful Mayor of London, and obviously pretty good in bed.
What in the name of all that's holy, do you want in your Prime Minister? Another Vacilating failure like May? A smooth empty PR man like Cameron? A unmitigated liar like Blair? An economic illiterate like Brown? A circus clown like Major?
Boris has a devastating sense of the ridiculous - probably the most valuable asset a British Prime Minister could ever possess, and painfully absent in the last two decades.
What in the name of all that's holy, do you want in your Prime Minister? Another Vacilating failure like May? A smooth empty PR man like Cameron? A unmitigated liar like Blair? An economic illiterate like Brown? A circus clown like Major?
Boris has a devastating sense of the ridiculous - probably the most valuable asset a British Prime Minister could ever possess, and painfully absent in the last two decades.
supersnipe · 61-69, M
Cynthia · F
All the harbingers are positive - of all the candidates, he appears to be the only one who might salvage a Tory government in the increasingly likely event of and early GE. He is well know as not being the obsessive micro-manager type - he abjures detail - but his record is of surrounding himself with top people. And it would be nice to think we would have a Prime minister who doesn't believe government is a cure for all human conditions. In the words of the late Ronald Reagan "Don't do something: just stand there"
supersnipe · 61-69, M
If anything saves Johnson, it is his 'surrounding himself with top people'. They will keep him quiet at crucial moments...
Cynthia · F
Why do you think he needs to be kept quiet? Isn't it better to have a leader who speaks openly, honestly and (occasionally) from the heart. We should never again select an automaton like May, or a pure PR machine like Cameron.
(I am not getting into any debate on Trump, but it's generally accepted he gained his surprising win by not following the script, by speaking what was in his mind at that moment - just like what most ordinary people actually do! Causing a little shock, a little offence here and there seems to have worked a small miracle for him. Boris is no Trump, but at least he gives the impression of being a human being with foibles not dissimilar to our own.
(I am not getting into any debate on Trump, but it's generally accepted he gained his surprising win by not following the script, by speaking what was in his mind at that moment - just like what most ordinary people actually do! Causing a little shock, a little offence here and there seems to have worked a small miracle for him. Boris is no Trump, but at least he gives the impression of being a human being with foibles not dissimilar to our own.
supersnipe · 61-69, M
@Cynthia Witness the incident in Myanmar, and the reciting of that Kipling poem. 'psst! Not appropriate!'. He has more confidence than May, and this will help him. I am not, though, fooled into thinking that he is 'not dissimilar' to me. I remember a journalist in Italy I think it was having him down as a 'cultured, self-deprecating' version of Trump. I think that's about right. He is very good at selling himself in this way.