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Does anyone on here want Boris as PM?

147 replies

Bartelby · 26/05/2019 09:07

Not just for the
LOLz....

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Ifartglitterybaubles · 26/05/2019 10:13

Hell no!!

dementedma · 26/05/2019 10:18

agree that he is a coward who created this mess, then ran off and hid leaving someone else to take on the poisoned chalice. but don
t make the mistake of thinking he is unintelligent. he is quite the opposite and the fact he is possibly on the verge of getting the job he has coveted all his life is testament to that. He is cunning and knows who to manipulate. I have heard him speak at severl events (job related) and each time he has pitched it just right for each of the target audiences. he is a skilled orator when he wants to be. A dangerous man

DontTouchMyCurls · 26/05/2019 10:20

He is very intelligent

I disagree about this. The man is a buffoon

Pa1oma · 26/05/2019 10:26

I don’t even think he fully believes in Brexit, but he wanted to use it as a platform to separate himself out from Cameron. I Don’t think he thought in a million years that the referendum would go the way it did. He just wanted to give his rival from the Bullingdon Club (or whatever it is) a slap in the face.

Anyone remember how he holed himself up in his house with his advisors before the great “reveal” as to which side of the Brexit debate he would come out on?

And then off he went with the bus thing and other cheap, unfounded lies.

Then, when people believed his bus slogans and Farage had managed to British xenophobia and discontent, Boris panicked and hid.

And Farage resigned!

Neither one of them with a Single policy for his Brexit should be negotiated,

You couldn’t make it up.

Boris knew the whole thing would be a shit show and he didn’t want that as his legacy.,

Now he thinks he can just step in, as if nobody has noticed the way he’s played this. I find it unbelievable.

luckylavender · 26/05/2019 10:34

@mysteryfairy - strangely I feel the same. It shows how far politics has sunk.

@Gotobloodysleep - has Gove ever been in charge of the NHS?

AlunWynsKnee · 26/05/2019 10:36

Boris is clever but lazy. He's only interested in himself. He only backed Leave because he thought a losing Leave campaign would put him in the right place to oust Cameron.
I do wonder if he fits the definition of a psychopath? Everyone's a bit player in his show.

SpiderPlant38 · 26/05/2019 10:50

I wonder if anyone would really say "yes" on an MN thread like this? Intersting to see but the general MN point of view is that BJ is hated just as the most vocal MNers on the L v R side were pro remain.

I don't know - it'll be interetsing to see what happens.

He wouldn't be my choice of PM, no, but I really have no idea now who would be.

Pa1oma · 26/05/2019 11:06

I live in a London Borough that’s always been Conservative / Lib Dem but I’m yet to meet one person with a good word to say about him.

He must have support somewhere, but I can’t imagine where that would be.

Who would even want him from within his own party?

Then again, who would want any of them?

mysteryfairy · 26/05/2019 11:20

@Gotobloodysleep Gove has never been in charge of the NHS. He’s a vile man who wrought havoc on the education system but at least it was ideologically based. In addition I think he has shown some inclination at Justice and the Environment to push forward policies I don’t totally abhor that are not purely based on populism/opportunism. He’s also acknowledged no deal would be a disaster and will be standing on that basis which for me makes him hugely preferable to Johnson or any of the other brexiteer candidates.

ChicCroissant · 26/05/2019 11:30

I agree that there doesn't seem to be any standout candidates amongst the lot of them, Spider! It will be a case of picking the best possible option.

The media says Boris has more support with the rank-and-file members of the Conservative party than with the MPs (which is why I hope the MPs stop him at an early stage) yet I don't know anyone who thinks Boris would be a good option.

Boris is only ever in it for himself. He changes his mind and views like the wind changes direction. Has been caught out lying repeatedly and I don't find him trustworthy at all. I really can't see what people see in him.

clairemcnam · 26/05/2019 11:35

He is simply not bright enough and pretty lazy. If elected it would be someone else ho would do all the actual work.

NiteFlights · 26/05/2019 11:39

I think he’s a psychopath Alun. I have no qualifications to back up my diagnosis but hey, we’re sick of experts anyway and there are no consequences to anything anyone says any more, so there we are.

He is literally only interested in himself and always has been. He has no empathy at all and is completely amoral and unprincipled. He is not as clever as he thinks, but it doesn’t matter because he only needs to be clever enough to make sure he gets what HE wants, and fuck everyone else.

Alsohuman · 26/05/2019 11:40

I don’t think the PPL will let him be in the last two so he’s not moving into No 10. Awful as he is, he’s better than McVey, fortunately it’s not going to be her either.

whatwouldbigfatfannydo · 26/05/2019 11:40

Part of me would appreciate leave voters reaping the rewards of what they voted for Hmm

Every Westminster-based catastrophe makes a stronger case for it being utterly unfit for purpose (coincidentally strengthening the Indy2 cause - which I am ALL for!).

Whoever wins their bid will succeed in making things worse in their own special way. Here's to another 3 years of the Conservative and Unionist Party Angry

Condolences to our quality of lives and human rights Flowers

StarLine · 26/05/2019 12:01

“Man of the people”??

Which people would that be?

Didiusfalco · 26/05/2019 12:07

Unfortunately I think Jock is right and he is the Daily Mail of politicians - loathed by many but with a massive popular following. I wouldn’t want to bet on him being anathema to the electorate.

recrudescence · 26/05/2019 12:07

I’d rather have Corbyn and, by God, that’s saying something because I absolutely fucking detest Corbyn.

Pinkvoid · 26/05/2019 12:09

No, I’d like someone competent.

WhiteDust · 26/05/2019 12:14

He is simply not bright enough and pretty lazy. If elected it would be someone else ho would do all the actual work.

Oh I think he is very clever. Socially inept, a bigot & clever.
He's dangerous.

KittensinaBlender · 26/05/2019 12:15

Hell to the no!

maddiemookins16mum · 26/05/2019 12:15

He’s a joke, if (when!!!) he gets to be PM the world really will have gone mad.

WhiteDust · 26/05/2019 12:16

I forgot rich and well connected

Tiscold · 26/05/2019 12:16

Nope rory stuart is who i hope gets it, best out of a bad bunch and i loved his hedgehog speach Grin

AnnaMagnani · 26/05/2019 12:21

Clever but lazy

He isn't even clever.

Would go for Rory Stewart here. He was v well thought of in the Prison Service who were in dire need of finally having a competent minister - sadly reshuffled out of there too soon.

crosser62 · 26/05/2019 12:22

Fuck no!
Baffoon of the highest order.

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