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Originally Posted by mobertol
With Boris what you see is what you get -there is no actor and no acting.
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Agreed..he ain't bright enough to 'play to the cameras'
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He is naturally witty, funny and stupid at times because he can be ridiculous but carries it off with a certain aplomb as everyone expects him to be eccentric.
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Show me where he has done this with aplomb? The man is an upper class twit who has been given a wide leeway by the media and any 'faux pas' has been portrayed as an Enid Blyton eccentric uncle characteristic
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He is also highly intelligent, well-read/educated and well-informed -an out-right Tory but nonetheless likeable.
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First part of this sentence could describe Hitler, second part Yogi Bear or Scooby Doo
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I saw him in action as President of the Oxford Union between 85/86 and he was exactly as he is now at 21 years of age -a real character, bit of an old fuddy-duddy but on the ball and always on top of the debates with the great and good of the times.
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26 years ago I had values and opinions too. They were a world away from my better informed values and opinions today. Pray tell how he managed to become president of the Oxford Union...intelligence, worthiness, skill, aplomb, finger on the pulse....accident of birth?