Boris Johnson

You have got to laugh at him. He is like a character from a sketch show. Just seen him on the news stuck on the zip wire. The reporters voice over said "..like a very large baby in a bouncer". LOL.

 

More suited to comedy and game shows than politics.

 

And yet, the folk of London have just re-elected the berk.

 

Exactly. Doesn't say a lot for Red Ken or politics generally in this country. They'd love him in the USA.

 

Breath of fresh air compared to todays batch of stage managed clones.

 

Funny you shoud say that as we had a family from Kansas that called in for a few days before they went to the olympics and they love him.

 

Radio 6 just asked why nobody tried hitting him with a stick to see if he was full of sweets.

 

Red Ken or Boris?

Boris everytime for me i am afraid

 

No, he stage manages himself, you don't really think he's THAT stupid do you?

 

Well have you seen his dad? He's exactly the same as Boris.

When asked why people liked his son he said 'Its that beautiful hair of his!'

 

I think people were worried that if they hit him with sticks it wouldnt have been sweets he was full of. Begins with 's' though.

Seriously though I quite like him as a personality but as a 'serious' politician I'm not so sure.

 

I'm torn between amusement at the image of a buffoon à la Norman Wisdom and fear that his popularity might actually see him rise to a level at which he could do some serious damage. I think the prudent thing to do would be to hit him with sticks anyway, just to be on the safe side.

 

He's as dangerous as Camewrong and Osbourne but has people believing he's not.

 

Potentially the next leader of the Tories and therefore possibly a future PM. That would be worrying.

 

I like Boris. Also I have a suspicion that, whilst he plays the 'amiable bufoon' to perfection and clearly 'marches to a different drum', there is much more to him than meets the eye.
The image makers must have given up on him long ago. Boris is Boris - a great british eccentric - nothing wrong with that but disregard him at your peril. Having heard some of his speeches there is an astute mind lurking beneath the clown. he says what he thinks and I think that is refreshing in the manicured, stage managed world of politics (particularly the Conservatives)

 

Boris is probably doing a better job than Ken. I don't think party politics makes as much of a difference to London as it does at parliamentary level. It's all about what is best for London and it was Londoners who voted him in not the Tories. I'm so disillusioned with Labour and the left it wouldn't bother me if Boris ran the country at least we'd get some laughs out of it. He would never get the big job anyway he's far too Liberal for the Tories.

I went to a conference a couple of years ago on the future of London's Museums and Theatres at the V&A where I work. It was chaired by Kevin Spacey and Boris was there as Mayor obviously along with the Directors of all the major collections. he was absolutely hilarious and great value. He comes across as a big bumbling man-child and he is really like that all the time - but don't let that you fool you, there's a brain underneath that silly hair, he certainly knew his stuff about our business. But when he tried to introduce the subject of admission charges to the big museums our Director at the time, Sir Mark Jones absolutely hammered him. We've got the video of that somewhere here.