Can anyone explain exactly what the fuss..

Boris would be a disaster as PM. He hasn't done a great deal for London, beyond small cuts in council tax - but he hasn't massively screwed up either. In any case he is a darn sight better than the divisive Ken Livingstone, whose willingness to associate with the likes of Lutfur Rahman is truly appalling.

I think Labour will easily win the next Mayoral election, unless they put up someone truly awful.

HappydaysArehere ……. A Boris “spend, spend, spend” is interesting, and as I left London over 30-years ago and don’t follow the annual affairs of London, please tell us what you mean.

I'll tell you why, as in my experience most people fail to see the long term economic difference of ££billions of taxpayers money being lavished on fat intrusive Quango-esk government/salaries, with the projects that creates private sector employment and over time helps creates sustainable economic growth e.g via infrastructure.

As an example of ‘the before’, Ken Livingston who did some good things e.g. Oyster cards, in a time when it should have been obvious London needed housing, had space cadet plans to launch a taxpayer funded London satellite in space to ‘monitor’ things on the ground, and have mobile phone calls go through it. Probably the time Labour were still looking to lock people up for 90-days without trial, IN CASE the security services needed it. Hmmm.

www.standard.co.uk/news/ken-livingstones-12m-space-mission-to-spy-on-drivers-7187159.html

Indeed Ken was well into a big fat subsidized by someone State, hence his relationship with the state controlled prices Venezuelan El-Presidenti Hugo Chavez, and with so much in common looked to trade a bit of their oil with our inability to upgrade our own London transport system, ‘expertise’.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100205661/hugo-chavez-ken-livingstone-and-me/

As I say, Livingstone’s 2000-2008 time in office came within what the BoE Governor called ‘the nice decade’, which was an understatement as that decade that ended in early 2008 was by good fortune a global boom, with stable inflation and lowing interest rates, was the best time to solve many of our social problems and make the proletariats life so much better – what a shame they fucked it up and left a £157 billion annual overspend.

So I reiterate, whatever Boris achieved ‘it could have been a lot worse’, as whether a socialist mayor or government, they can’t function, so once the money has run, out taxes for everyone go higher, businesses in the largest recession in 100-years would have suffered/closed = less jobs & taxes to fund big spending plans = ever larger national debt, on the Road to Athens.

The Who did Boris the Spider back in the 60s.

Quite appropriate

Boris needs a song.

What was Blair/Brown's: "Things can only get better". Hmmm.

Boris came in to London when, 2008, after Ken Livingstone (2000-2008)had all the money to spend but brought in the Congestion Tax, pretty Labour par for the course e.g. Council Tax up over 110% under Labour.

Boris had to run London after the 'money party' was over, and the 'punchbowl' was well and truly broken.

No one likes the spending/debt party poopers, as little to give away.

Is there a song 'it could have been a lot 'kin worse'?

The Mail is joining in the hype over Boris today. Nadine Dorries is backing him. The media will probably swing to his favour. Lots of Conservatives are not too keen, including on the Mail, but the Tories are probably so desperate to find someone popular that they may go for it.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721275/I-want-I-says-Boris-polls-clear-favourite-Tory-leader.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720896/Revealed-Tory-MPs-plot-dump-Dave-Boris-100-MPs-ready-vote-Queen-s-Speech-forcing-Prime-Minister-resign.html

He is playing a more Eurosceptic card, but I don't think that is for real. However, Boris can flipflop and get away with it.

Well you mY be right because it was drip drip drip that got Camilla accepted by he public

Boris is not PM material. I am uncertain as to whether the Tory party really would be dopey enough to think Boris would be an election winner for them, but who knows, they were after all dazzled by shiny Dave and his rather ordinary ability to speak without notes!

If they do elect Boris s their leader it would just be an act of desperation from a party.

Read an interesting article today that said that Boris would wait until dave's promised EU referendum and then campaign for a NO vote while Cameron campaigns for a YES, then loses the referendum and Boris takes over as Tory leader.

A bit too convoluted I think.

he really isn't prime minister material and it would be a sad day (sadder than when shiny dave got it) if he were to become PM. in fact I think it's pretty sad that he is even being talked about as PM. has it really come to that? that's what we have on offer to us? embarrassing. please let some fresh new faces arrive on the scene and turn the shit around.

'Can anyone explain exactly what the fuss..'

I think his popularity is symptomatic of the low esteem in which our political class of spinners is held by most of the public. They are so out of touch and so divorced from ordinary people's concerns and so powerless (as the EU makes the important laws), that they crave public support by embracing jokers and clowns and comedians. Labour bigwigs are photographed with Eddie Izzard in a vain attempt to win back public support, but the effect is the exact opposite and the public only mock them even more.

Their public approval has got so low that they would endorse Donald Duck or Charlie Chaplin for Prime Minister if a focus group told them they were more popular than the rest of them. But, paradoxically, that is exactly why the public has lost faith in them and they have lost all credibility.

The public seeks conviction not clowning. But none of them have any conviction - apart from the new star on the block, Nigel Farage, which explains his real popularity with a large portion of the public.

'Is he really Prime Minister material?'

I don't think he is. He puts his foot in his mouth too often and sometimes even borders on being insulting to other countries in some of his jokey speeches. A Prime Minister has to represent the entire United Kingdom abroad and that requires diplomatic skills. Tomfoolery and buffoonery at that level is not good for the country.