To think that no sane women

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....could ever vote for Boris Johnson?

Reading The Sunday Times over brekkie and thinking about Matthew Parris's spot on words in yesterday's paper:

"he's a habitual liar, a cheat, a conspirator with a criminal pal to have an offending journalist's ribs broken, a cruel betrayer of the women he seduces, a politician who connived in a bid for a court order to suppress mention of a daughter he fathered, a do-nothing mayor of London and the worst foreign secretary in living memory"

I'm a so called floating voter but could never vote for this buffoon but it seems he has a lot of support. Why???

I want to know more about the violence against journalist thing.

We all thought this about Trump though, that was a joke and now look where he is

Exactly.

He's the laughing stock of the whole world.

That sums up lots of MPs!!!

Here Loopy:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/mar/29/boris-johnson-channel-4

Great clip dreygrey

I didn't know he was a climate change denier but if that's true then we must protest if he gets in power. Its that or extinction!

Political views aside, the fact that someone has an affair has absolutely nothing to do with the way they hold a job as long as they are not a moral adviser

Politicians are in a position of trust.

Having an affair is not a trustworthy thing to do. It is fine to end a relationship, and get a new partner. It is not fine to cheat on your existing partner.

That is why it matters.

Thank you OP. Bloody hell.

Not just having an affair, anyway.

the affair is meaningful for me, it indicates how trustworthy and empathetic he is. Both important traits for a politician in my opinion.

completely irrelevant to me.

Another politician can play the good "family guy" and have married a woman for the image they project, it only means that he's good at showing what they think the public want.

Boris has a tremendous ego!
Its all about being popular, he is exceedingly clever and manipulates situations so he is portrayed as a "pretty good chap"
Now all this nonsense about 39Billion! FFS the UK owes this.
I think it is significant that Londoners did not vote for Brexit. they never believed anything Boris said after having him as a Mayor.
He achieved nothing, nothing, his buses are not fit for purpose, a very poor design, he filed away the report on pollution leaving his sucessor to deal with it, and the so called "boris bikes" were actually commisioned by Ken Livingstone during his tenure.
But there were lots and lots of photos!

The fact that he's willing to go as far right as he has, and has shown little competency in his work, is what matters to me.

I actually couldn't care less about the affairs except that they confirm his uselessness. Major had at least one affair (who knows how many) and nobody knew anything about it until he was out of office and the woman involved chose to tell. Boris is as discreet as a washing machine next to the kitchen table.

Having said that - better than fucking Dominic I of Raab and his enormous prorogation. Or Sajid 'law? what law?'

Boris is better than them and cynical and lazy enough to tack away from fascism. Not that I have a fucking vote for this election.

Don't get it either, but then there are people who love Farage, who think he's nothing more than a good old 'man of the people', the sort of 'bloke' who'd always stand you a beer down the pup.

And as pps have said there's Trump.

Sometimes, you do have to wonder what goes through some people's heads.

As for M Gove. Don't give a toss about past coke use.

I don't care about the use of coke, what I DO care about is that he was pontificating in print slamming middle class coke users at the same time. Showing either complete double standards, or lying for the sake of image.

I like him!

I don't know why any sane human would vote for JRM or Gove either, to be honest.

The timing of Gove's coke admission is somewhat suspect, don't you think? After all, he's been a politician for some time, and only now he's in the running for PM does he put his hand up to it. Why?

Um next election, Corbyn or Johnson? I hope the election is a long long way off then.

Given 17.4 million and counting voted for brexit, the idea that someone (or all) are insane is simply insulting, but typical remoaner attitude is still alive and well I see. Brainwashed and desperate.

It is very very boring.

He makes openly racist and islamaphobic statements in public, he refers to investigations into the sexual abuse of children as "spaffing money up the wall", he has been shown time and again to be a liar and a misogynist, has been reckless with public money whilst backing austerity measures that impact on the most vulnerable and is utterly unrepentant for any of the above. For some reason he seems untouchable though. Every time he says something hideously offensive the press refer to it as a "gaff", like it's a daft little Faux Pas that doesn't really matter when it's actually evidence of his bigotry, his hatred for certain groups in our society, his contempt for the people he has promised to serve, his ignorance and his complete unsuitability to hold a public office. If I said those things on Twitter I'd lose my job and I'm in a relatively low paid public sector role where no one really gives a shit what I think, so how does Boris keep getting away with it?

He embodies everything that is wrong with our society IMO. He is living proof that rich, white men can and will be forgiven anything.

I don't understand how anyone could vote for this self-promoting, all about himself buffoon. Especially after watching the self-promoting all about himself buffoon Trump get voted in. Have we learned nothing from watching that shit show of polarisation only getting worse?

Sadly, I think we're in for the same here. Already divided, and we will be even more so as the country heads spirals down down down.

He's got a strange kind of charisma, unfortunately.

I really do think that the ones who would vote for him do not even care about what he has done or not. He is just the guy in the red bus who told them the EU was taking from their NHS.

These seem to be the same people who now want him to captain the boat that will take us away from Europe.

... or at least I want to believe that as the alternative is accepting that most of the country has embraced the far right and are demanding to have our very own Trump in power.

@Notabedofroses
Brainwashed and desperate.

For thinking BoJo is a twat? He has repeatedly shown and told us exactly who he is. The only brainwashed ones are those that didn't listen/see.

I don't understand why anyone would vote for him. He is similar to Trump but actually Trump had a campaign that targeted a forgotten and disenfranchised demographic. Although I don't support Trump, I can understand why and how he won.
Boris doesn't even have as much of a strategy as Trump had. Boris has been utterly (arguably criminally) incompetent in every political role he has undertaken. I genuinely have no idea why anyone would think he would suddenly make a good PM.