Could Boris be the next Prime Minister? - Page 3

jaysay · 03-08-2012, 17:37

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

Well theres no doubt he's a clever bloke, but Prime Minister

DaveinGermany · 03-08-2012, 17:53

Why not indeed ? We've already had some clowns & performing ponies, bring in the Ring Master why not.

Gordon Booth · 03-08-2012, 18:30

I think Boris is the harmless, funny buffoon who relaxes you, disarms you, makes you feel there's no threat then strikes.
He intends people to underestimate him, that way it's easier to outmanoeuvre them.
Who would ever have dreamed he could beat Ken Livingstone-twice? A fool and a Tory to boot beating Labour to become Mayor of leftist London? With over 1 million votes? Impossible.
Don't underestimate him, he's one smart cooky.

Guinness · 03-08-2012, 18:55

He ain't smart...he's an ad mans dream

He's the iconic great English eccentric, he looks funny, he comes out with stuff that makes great headlines. The media love him and nurture him.

He's cheered on by the media like he's a harmless winning upper class twit of the year in a python sketch

Wiff-waff for crying out loud..who in their right mind would vote for this idiot...

apart from the sun, daily mirror and daily mail readers...

apart from BBC and ITV big fat gypsy wedding, the only way is essex and jeremy kyle viewers..

Even I can see him in the Sid James role in Carry on up the Khyber calmly having tiffin while the burpahs over-run the compound

erm....wait..

Gordon Booth · 03-08-2012, 19:00

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Originally Posted by Guinness

He ain't smart...he's an ad mans dream

He's the iconic great English eccentric, he looks funny, he comes out with stuff that makes great headlines. The media love him and nurture him.

He's cheered on by the media like he's a harmless winning upper class twit of the year in a python sketch

Wiff-waff for crying out loud..who in their right mind would vote for this idiot...

apart from the sun, daily mirror and daily mail readers...

apart from BBC and ITV big fat gypsy wedding, the only way is essex and jeremy kyle viewers.

Even I can see him in the Sid James role in Carry on up the Khyber calmly having tiffin while the burpahs over-run the compound

erm....wait..

So you agree he could be the next Prime Minister?

Guinness · 03-08-2012, 19:16

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

So you agree he could be the next Prime Minister?

Unfortunately yes...(unless the fickle media turn on him)

We appear to be following the US ideal, whereby the majority of people are too idle to think and rely on the media to think for them.

Wynonie Harris · 03-08-2012, 19:25

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Originally Posted by Guinness

Unfortunately yes...(unless the fickle media turn on him)

We appear to be following the US ideal, whereby the majority of people are too idle to think and rely on the media to think for them.

Boris at No 10, Romney in the White House...a disturbing thought.

Guinness · 03-08-2012, 19:47

Prefer the word 'terrifying to 'disturbing' myself..

mobertol · 03-08-2012, 20:03

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

I think Boris is the harmless, funny buffoon who relaxes you, disarms you, makes you feel there's no threat then strikes.
He intends people to underestimate him, that way it's easier to outmanoeuvre them.
Who would ever have dreamed he could beat Ken Livingstone-twice? A fool and a Tory to boot beating Labour to become Mayor of leftist London? With over 1 million votes? Impossible.
Don't underestimate him, he's one smart cooky.

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Originally Posted by Guinness

He ain't smart...he's an ad mans dream

He's the iconic great English eccentric, he looks funny, he comes out with stuff that makes great headlines. The media love him and nurture him.

He's cheered on by the media like he's a harmless winning upper class twit of the year in a python sketch

Wiff-waff for crying out loud..who in their right mind would vote for this idiot...

apart from the sun, daily mirror and daily mail readers...

apart from BBC and ITV big fat gypsy wedding, the only way is essex and jeremy kyle viewers..

Even I can see him in the Sid James role in Carry on up the Khyber calmly having tiffin while the burpahs over-run the compound

erm....wait..

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Boris at No 10, Romney in the White House...a disturbing thought.

With Boris what you see is what you get -there is no actor and no acting.
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. He is also highly intelligent, well-read/educated and well-informed -an out-right Tory but nonetheless likeable.

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.

Romney at the Whitehouse would be exceedingly worrying, Boris would fit in fine at Number 10...

Mancie · 03-08-2012, 20:14

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Originally Posted by mobertol

With Boris what you see is what you get -there is no actor and no acting.

If that's the case then it really is worrying!

Wynonie Harris · 03-08-2012, 20:22

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Boris would fit in fine at Number 10...

Yes, he'll fit in fine if you want yet another upper class Tory toff who has no concept of ordinary people, how they live, their hopes, problems and aspirations. Personally I regard his possible ascension to No 10 with grave foreboding, despite all his so-called "wit" and "aplomb".

mobertol · 03-08-2012, 20:22

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Originally Posted by Mancie

If that's the case then it really is worrying!

Nah, what the people want is a little light entertainment

cashman · 03-08-2012, 20:53

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Nah, what the people want is a little light entertainment

Being screwed even more by that odd ball Tory devil,Aint my idea of light entertainment.

Guinness · 03-08-2012, 20:53

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Originally Posted by mobertol

With Boris what you see is what you get -there is no actor and no acting.

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.

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.

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.

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?

MargaretR · 03-08-2012, 21:10

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Originally Posted by Guinness

accident of birth?

That's what his mother said.