This is NOT a political post so please don't turn it into one

[SamuelWestsMistress]

But

AIBU to think Boris Johnson is bloody excellent! I find him hilarious and think every city needs a Boris?

God help us all! The man is an idiot!

"He's not a buffoon at all. He is extraordinarily clever. He presents himself as an eccentric buffoon and does it extremely well.

Meanwhile he could take the food out of babies' mouths, and people would still be laughing at his harmless buffoonery."

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This. Couldn't have said it better, Ariel.

Good post sinpan and jenai.

I think it's rather extraordinary to start a thread about a politician and say please don't bring politics into it. What are we supposed to talk aboiut then? His hair? His essential englishness? He is all about the politics, that is the whole point of him.

I think he is ghastly, personally.

Yeah that Hitler was a hoot too.

Seriously? Boris is a racist misogynist to mention just a few of his 'good' points.

Why are people fooled by his bumbling idiot act?

He's the new face* of Evil - slick, jocular, charming, faux bumbling - but will fuck over anyone he can to get his rich pals richer.

id deffo vote for him

Boris is marvellous.

My 50p says the whole country will be sharing him shortly

He reminds me of the creepy blonde children in The Village of the Damned.

Maybe he's their leader

I've seen him. He's shorter than you'd think.

He is ds's hero because of his involvement in the current overhauling of the underground. Ds has HFA and is extremely invested in transport networks .

Thanks for answering my question SamuelWestsMistress, it's reassuring to hear that.

YABU for expecting to put a post about a politician in AIBU and have a bunch of fluffy non-political posts. Post in Chat if you want to have this kind of thread.

YABVVVVU.

He is a tool.

well i dislike his very right wing political views and of course politics comes into it you would not know of him if he were not in politics

watch his interview with jeremy paxman on election night and his talk of sausages then ask yourself do you really want this buffoon of a man to run our country. he is socially inapt i am not a fan of dc but i would prefer someone that comes across as aware of what he is actually talking about

Seriously............am I dreaming or did OP ask for this not to be political?
A) he's a fucking politician
B) he's a fucking TORY politician
C) he's a cock.

If those of you saying you want him to be Prime Minister actually knew anything about him you would know that the buffoonery is just an act. It doesn't bode well for this country if people start voting in Prime Ministers because they find their slapstick behaviour entertaining.

Might as well vote in the chuckle brothers. They'll spend all your taxes on ladders, buckets of water and abnormally large panes of glass but that's ok because they're soooo funny and I love them.

are his political views 'very right wing' ?

Unfortunately, it appears that he will stand as PM and even more unfortunate is that people will vote for a PM on his loveable buffon image that his policies - scary.

I think he would make an excellent PM.

People trust a man that can't even be faithful to his own wife?

I [heart] Tweasels.

I hear he has read A La Recherche du Temps Perdu in the original French. I think he might be pretending to be an idiot and is really an evil genius.

Bill Clinton was unfaithful - didn't stop him being a brilliant president.

quoteunquote you'd be hard pushed to find a male politician that was!! Although that does support my personal opinion that they are all knobbers...

As Mayor he is great, very amusing when on television when I live 100 miles away. As a PM he would be a disaster but I don't think he has a hope in hell of ever being leader of the tory party so can't imagine it will ever be an issue.

Boris is very clever and manipulative. The buffoon act is just that: an act.

MrsT he read classics at Oxford, was a Kings Scholar at Eton and President of the Oxford Union.

I'm going with your evil genius theory

He's doing has damndest to stop a third runway at Heathrow and all the extra polluting flights over London. That's good enough for me!

Yes,Chaz, and he was elected President of the Oxford Union by pretending to support the Lib Dem programme to get the Lib Dem vote and then going back on all his promises. Or, in other words, lying. Just as he lied to Michael Howard and was therefore sacked from the Shadow Cabinet. AND he lied to his boss at the Telegraph, making up quotes for a story, I think.

Wouldn't be at all surprised he he turns out to have lied to the people of London when he jacks in the mayoralty if it suits him to get back into Parliament, whatever he is currently saying.

What's more, given that we wouldn't have had the Oympics if Ken hadn't started pushing for it 12 years ago, and managed to persuade the Labour Govt to come on board, I think it would have been gracious to have acknowledged his contribution in some way at the ceremonies.

Sorry, OP. I seem to have got a bit political.

He is probably one of the cleverest people in politics today. Personally I think that those who can't see this, and only see - 'what they see' of him should not be allowed to vote at all.