Does anyone on here want Boris as PM?

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Not just for the
LOLz....

He isn't academically brilliant.

He has a 2.1 in Classics from Oxford, the least competitive entry course there is there, from an era where his only competition would have been other public schoolboys.

He likes to pass himself off as clever by quoting Latin phrases here and there which makes him look academic, but that isn't really the same thing at all. It's more like your child knowing some bits of poems they have learned by heart.

As a historian, he just picks and chooses the bits he likes. Like Churchill being a great leader. The fact that Churchill was in favour of greater union with Europe, he chooses to ignore in favour of dross about British Bulldogs.

Yes agree he is not that intelligent and not academically brilliant. But more importantly he is lazy, lies lots, and seems to have zero principles. He has made a disaster of every job he has ever had with the exception of Mayor, and that is because he was incredibly lazy and hardly did anything as Mayor.

The kind of intelligence he has is more a streets smart intelligence. So he is astute at spotting chances for himself, at image creation and at manipulating people.

Yes because it will be funny. But I say this from the safety of another continent. If I had to go back and live in the UK then no, I would not want Boris to be PM.

Not sure who I would want though... I think Brexit is going to continue to be a huge trainwreck regardless of who the PM is. It almost doesn't matter...

No. He’s a twatz

Fuck no. The man is so devoid of integrity he asked his own daughter to leak his split from his wife (her mum) to the Daily Mail because after half a dozen affairs he realised he’d need to clean house & redeem his personal image ahead of lining up a bid for leadership.

Boris (like many) absolutely plays the UK media like a fiddle to drive his narrative. He is completely immoral and totally lacks any moral compass personally and professionally. The best thing Theresa did was sticking him in a role where he was so far out of his depth that he was at least partially exposed for his lack of interest in helping his country.

I expect Cameron and May want him because that way they will only go down in history as the second and third worst PMs in history.

He has made a disaster of every job he has ever had with the exception of Mayor, and that is because he was incredibly lazy and hardly did anything as Mayor.

I wouldn't be too sure even of that. Look at the millions he threw away on the Garden Bridge idiocy.

never thought I’d be in a position where I felt a little relief to see Gove enter the fray
Sadly I agree with you.

The Tory soap opera continues. None of the candidates would make me want to vote Tory. Sorry state of affairs and I speak as someone who previously voted for them (not in the last election though!).

Did we all hear Amber Rudd on R4 yesterday steadfastly refusing to deny that he was politically dishonest?

Look at the millions he threw away on the Garden Bridge idiocy.

And the water cannon that he bought; £320k spent and they were eventually sold for scrap at £11k!!

No. Sajid Javid is the only one I could hang any hope on.
Not a Tory so don’t have a say of course.

I think few would admit it if they did want him for PM.

Boris Johnson faces criticism over burka 'letter box' jibe.

Etc etc etc

No. Sajid Javid is the only one I could hang any hope on.
Not a Tory so don’t have a say of course.

No

Boris...a serious candidate for prime minister....PMSL ...erm maybe not.

I don’t. I don’t think anyone from the upper classes can truly represent us normal folk when they haven’t had any thing resembling a normal life.

Oh good god no. You need to lay down in a dark room. Or get therapy.

if the Tory rank and file really wanted to regenerate the party, rather than indulge their prejudices, they would vote for a competent moderate with centrist appeal. Sadly, that is very unlikely.

My mother quoted me something on Boris from the paper today that sums it up nicely: the only people who like him are people who haven't met him.

Max Hastings, his former editor at the Telegraph, describes him as an habitual liar and is aghast at the thought of him as PM.

He seems to have more of a backbone than TM

Not sure what would give this impression! ,While May was too unbending, Johnson was well described by Michael Heseltine (fellow Tory, remember) as 'The man who looks to see which way the crowd are running, dashes in front and shouts 'Follow me!'