or is Boris Johnson simply unfit to be our Prime Minister?

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Boris Johnson Is Favourite To Become The UK’s Next Prime Minister. This Is What The World Really Thought Of Him As Foreign Secretary.
Interviews with seven senior US, European and UK diplomats and officials paint a picture of a foreign secretary who at times was woefully unprepared for one of the top jobs in British politics.
www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/boris-johnson-uk-prime-minister-donald-trump

Yanbu

It's clear from this that he had no interest in the extremely senior and important job he had as foreign secretary. Put no work in. Didn't give a toss about the high level allies that he was dealing with - even on occasion humiliating them in public for a joke. Just treated the job as a (self) publicity stunt.

He is currently dealing with 2 difficult legal cases against him. Which will keep him very well occupied and no doubt stressed for the foreseeable future.

And with all of that background, apparently a large percentage of the electorate think that he's the best man to be prime minister at a critical time in the UK's history. Madness.

Well, of course he is. I don't think politicians should live like monks, but he had many, many affairs while married, and made little effort to protect his wife and children from finding out about them, so I'd disqualify him on those grounds. He appears to have no morals as well as no work ethic. www.thesun.co.uk/news/7198455/all-of-boris-johnsons-women-a-rundown-of-the-affairs-flings-and-love-children-left-in-the-former-foreign-secretarys-wake/

As the lies told during the Brexit campaign are sub judice, I'll refrain from saying what I would really like to on his role there.

One might expect that the seal of approval from the odious Trump would be the final nail in his coffin (a fine mixed metaphor there ), but I suspect for ardent Brexiteers, including the tiny right-wing band who will vote in the Tory leadership election it will have the opposite effect.

Well exactly - endorsement from Trump is proof, if any were needed, that he is totally unsuitable.

Was it Dominic Grieve who said that he wasn’t fit for high office? That would sum him up, I think.

Brexit blindness. It’s Brexit at all cost no matter how damaging it is, no matter what other issues are being overlooked. Boris and Farage are exploring this for their own benefit.

Brexiteers have been told and conditioned to ignore any negatives and see them as scaremongering it has its own term “project fear”. Even when these things are actually happening!

Madness.

Are the Nolan Principles not considered useful any more?

www.leadinggovernance.com/blog/nolan-principles-20-years

YANBU

YANBU he is a dick

As unfit as the fact that BREXIT is but a dream.

He clearly has no interest in upholding ANY of those 7 principles of public life:
Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

I am dismayed by the prospect of Johnson becoming PM. If it happens, and the political pundits seem to think it will, then politics will have completely, utterly failed.