Genuine reasons for wanting Boris Johnson as prime minister?

[Mummoomoocow]

I draw a blank at the question, I cannot understand why the media have him as the favourite.

Can someone enlighten me? Genuinely?

My MP has just come out as a Boris Backer.

Not surprised as they has a lot in common. Both of them are twats and known adulterers who would stand on their grandmother's neck to reach the high table.

However our mp hasn't been to Eton or Oxford, just some former poly iicr, so he hasn't got a chance of making the cabinet. But I think he is too up himself to realise that.

Has BJ allowed anyone to ask him any questions yet? It'll be fascinating to hear how he proposes to negotiate a fresh deal by 31 October, given that the new European Commission won't be sworn in before November.

There are no good reasons whatsoever.

I am firmly of the ABB ideal - Anyone But Boris.

He is an absolute liability and all his buffoonery hides a scheming, manipulative, conniving cheat who is out for himself.

Trump and Boris? What a joke.

I don't think he should ever be forgiven for his fuck up when foreign secretary managing to make things so much worse for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

With reference to Boris's intelligence, he obviously is a least academically intelligent but he doesn't seem to have a good level of emotional intelligence.

Part of the reason I don't want him to become prime minister ever is that he wants it so much. Probably that's a rubbish reason though. Also, I genuinely think he'll be damaging. If the situation wasn't so serious to the country, it would be entertaining to seen him fuck it up.

Putting aside the fact that I generally do not like an Tory MP, I think Boris and Gove are scum of the earth. Mind you McVey, Raab, Hunt are just as vile.
Is Rees-Mog still up for consideration as well?

God I hate them all

Re Esther McVey, her partner Philip Davies MP has some very odd views about women, amongst other things. Ordinarily, I wouldn't hold a partners views against someone but he is something else. How can she tolerate it?

The media have him as favourite because of the number of Tory MPs who have said they will support him, and an assessment of the views of the largely over 60 Tory membership.

The only genuine reason for supporting him is if you are part of the Republican Party in the US and think you can get a trade deal more favourable with him than another Tory Prime Minister.

I cant believe this appaling man is the best the Tories can muster..how shameful this charlatan, mountebank and ocean going coward can come this close to representing our country...the only positive thing would be that after a day as PM he' d self destruct because all he wants is the position, and actually to face real challenges would be beyond him .

Yeah Philip Davies MP hasn't got great views on race either.

I know someone who was on Boris Johnsons speech writing team and according to him, BJ is a twat of the highest order, he is manipulative, racist, disabilist, homophobic - practically every bad thing you can think of, he's that!
His whole persona for the media is a complete act, he couldn't be more different. Shudder to think of him as PM.

I think he's a strong candidate.

I liked his obscene poem about Erdogan in protest of their brutality against free speech.

I appreciate his strong stance against FGM, where other politicians shy away from it.

His infamous 'letterbox' burqa comments were completely misjudged because people have forgotten the context in which he said them, which is important. He was directly opposing other European countries that have banned the burqa, and his comments were in support of 'those who can't speak for themselves', ie women and girls who don't have a choice. Again, I appreciate that.

I'm sure none of us are privvy to the facts of Iran's imprisonment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but Boris Johnson is 1) not the reason she's there and 2) not able as Foreign Secretary to simply remove people from custody. I'm sure we all want to see her home with her family as soon as possible and we all want to see Iran improve their human rights record.

I'm not at all interested in high society marriages, they are not in my world and I'm sure they're all grown ups.

His two terms as London mayor were successful. Lower crime rates, Boris bikes, safe Olympic launch.

He's probably well positioned to negotiate a trade deal with the US, painful as that is to contemplate.

His proposed income tax changes sound useful tbh. There should be scope for bringing them in line with inflation. People are dreaming if they think a blanket 'higher wage earner' means rich person.

I think people write him off when he's actually a really strong candidate.

U R Bonkers

Comedy value?

Boris isn't too bright, seeing as he had the best education money can buy and still couldn't get a 1st. He's openly racist - no, there is no excuse or possible reinterpretation available for the kind of things he says over and over again, not at his age and in his job. He means it and if he somehow doesn't then he's even less suitable. He's also totally incompetent, as his unbroken line of utter failure proves beyond doubt. Even Hunt made significant progress with Zaghari-Ratcliffe. BJ made her situation so much worse. And now he's said we'd leave the EU on 31/10 no matter what, conveniently ignoring (or not understanding) the disaster that would be and that if Parliament pulled their useless fingers out we couldn't do that anyway.

It's infuriating. Nearly 70 million people in the UK and we might end up with that posh fool as PM. We can do better. We can't do much worse.

The man has absolutely no flair for finer details and quirks that the job of PM requires. On reading on what is required for being a good leader, his complete lack of tact and suitability for the job is astounding and even worse is his inability to understand this.

Lizz Truss on Radio 4 unwittingly did a good job on him ...

None spring to mind.

I think it comes down to being 'likeable' with the general public. The people I speak to are fed up with politicians acting like they know best and we the electorate, need to be told what to do. Boris is seen as less serious and a breath of fresh air in the stuffy Westminster corridors.

I'm not saying I agree with the above but the government has been a complete cock up and the other parties haven't helped. There's infighting, refusal to accept the Brexit vote, Bercow and his perceived scheming, politicians breaking off to form groups or even a new party. It's all been such a mess and I think opinions on politicians have hit an all time low. Boris is seen as different.

Boris bike - i.e. Livingstone's idea. Olympics - won for Britain before Johnson was Mayor.

Garden Bridge - money wasted.
Water cannon - illegal and money wasted.
Zip wire - pointless but a jolly wheeze getting stuck on it.

Obscene poems - written long before Erdogan had his crack down - don't affect Turkey, but show how crude Johnson is.

Tax cuts for the better off. Still shows where his priorities lie when a country has people forced to use food banks.

I am sure we could all go on - but if anyone thinks that is competent, I dread to think what their idea of an incompetent is.

He is the British version of trump

We might get to see more of his dad

I find him funny

Looking back at some of his quotes .."am as likely to be pm as Elvis being found on Mars "...had a vision of him as a fake Elvis in Las Vegas ..."Its Now or Never ..Suspicious Minds ..Return to Sender ..Devil in Disguise "....