To think that if Boris Johnson was a Labour or Lib Dem politician...

[fishdishwish]

...he'd have been ripped to shreds by the press over his appearance, much in the way that Michael Foot was three decades ago.

Might as well be, there's not much different between the parties policies anyway.

He is as a Tory isn't he?

I think he'd be ripped to shreds because 'posh, bumbling but very astute regardless' doesn't sit well with Labour or the Lib Dems, as opposed to the way he looks.