Boris

[FredPuli43]

Oh dear, Boris is at it again:


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3848500.ece



Is this news? Well it could be in Chatterbank, but Boris is always newsworthy in public. He's a lad, isn't he? I think he may be the best leader of the Party we haven't got.

[janbee]

He's certainly BoJo The Clown that's for sure.

[wolf63]

I find Boris refreshing, part of this is his persona which masks an intelligent man.

Politics in general I find frustrating - I can't understand why anyone would want to be PM, once the media gets a hold of you you end up looking like a squeaky dog - chew with no squeak left..
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Maggie was the only one with balls.

[Canary42]

If she had balls, why didn't she fight back when the Tories dumped her ?

[Kromovaracun]

Personally I think Boris is something of a psychopath, and I'm not sure he's really as much of a departure from the prevailingly nauseating style of politics we suffer from.

Most recently, for example, he was in Australia, and called into question Ed Miliband's moral character for the way he treated his brother. He claimed that because EM is left-wing, he views people as fundamentally disconnected from society and as having no value. However, whenever any journalist has the temerity to question Boris' moral character on the grounds of his extra-marital affairs, it's immediately his private life and should be left alone.

The phrase "glass houses" and "stones" comes to mind...

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10253871/Boris-says-he-would-never-shaft-his-brother-like-Ed-Miliband-did.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Quizmonster]

Quite, Canary! And if Bojo truly believes only left-wingers are prepared to stab their "nearest and dearest" - whether familial or not - then he has only a very tenuous grasp on reality, Thatcher's defenestration by her cabinet colleagues being a perfect example!

[mikey4444]

We should never, ever underestimate Boris. Underneath all that Laurel and Hardy act lies a well educated, highly intelligent, scheming politician. He is certainly the best leader that the Tory Party doesn't have..........yet. He is biding his time because he knows that all comes to he that waits.

Talking of balls, if the Tories were to ditch Dave in favour of Boris, their chances of an outright majority in May 2015 would be greatly increased. They won't do that of course, because of the lack of the aforementioned testicles.

But Boris is still young and he knows that he will have plenty of chances in the future. He is in a well paid, highly prominent job, that thrusts him into the limelight on a daily basis and he is happy to wait in the wings for a while yet.

Ignore Boris at your peril !

[hawksley]

'' He's a lad ,isn't he''. ? --- No He's a Pratt, isn't he.

[mikey4444]

Being a pratt never used to be a problem for an aspiring politician in the past...has something changed recently ?

[FredPuli43]

Hawksley, I got "He's a lad, isn't he?" from Max Miller, who used to break off his patter by giving that as an aside, of himself. You may say that Max Miller was another great comedian. But he was also one who was loved by the public at large and the highest paid variety performer of his day, earning well over £1,000 a week in the 1930s. He was no fool, either.

[hawksley]

FredPull,my answer,was not directed at you,I did not mean to offend you ,sorry.

[FredPuli43]

Good heavens, hawksley! I could never be offended by that (or by anything much really :) ) I can't see anything potentially offensive in it.

It just seemed fortuitous that I had quoted one great comedian when talking about someone who, some would say, is also a comedian, though not a great one.

[jno]

he knows that all comes to he that waits.

it didn't come to Heseltine. At some point Boris may find he has to stab a friend in the back. I don't imagine he'll hesitate.

[FredPuli43]

Or "Et tu,Boris " as Boris would no doubt recall it. (Do hope that Boris is the vocative of Boris. He'd be most offended if it isn't, but not by the stabbing itself)

[Quizmonster]

Well, Fred, civis is the vocative of civis, I believe, so I think you're on safe ground in thinking Boris is the vocative of Boris!

[FredPuli43]

Thought so QM, but I hadn't got my copy of Kennedy's Eating Primer to hand ! My defence would have been that Boris was a stand-alone noun, like Pythagoras, and thus not susceptible to such niceties.

[Quizmonster]

Just as well it wasn't Bor-e, really, wasn't it? Could have been misunderstood!