To think people need to stop viewing Boris Johnson as a loveable buffoon?

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He's nasty and astute

He hangs around with horrible bigots who support eugenics, like Steve Bannon.

He cannot manage a day without having to publicly apologise for some dreadful remark he made.

He is even more likely to carry on heaping austerity on the sick and disabled than any other Tory leader.

When he was mayor he closed 10 fire stations in London.

He's dangerous and he doesn't give a fuck about anyone. I can't think of a worse proposition for PM.

Yes. Just look at his voting record.

I strongly believe he's a danger to our society and the loveable scruffy-haired buffoon act is part of a carefully-managed plan to convince the public that he's a bumbling innocent rather than a stone cold sociopath.

If I could send him far away to an island called Los Cuntos, I would. Rees-Mogg would also reside there.

Oh yes, Rees-Mogg is definitely another one. Who aligns himself with the Ku Klux Klan 😡🤬

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn and his mob are fucking saints.

You don't need to look very hard to see left-wing prejudices, do you?

We need to start viewing him as the dickhead who made Nazanin Radcliffe's position even worse, through his own stupidity.

This isn't a binary him and Corbyn thing either, though we did well to get a whole 4 posts in before the whataboutery started. Plenty of us, maybe even a majority of the population don't want either as PM.

It’s an act, just like Trump. No one gets to those positions if they are thick.

I take it you are an adoring Boris fan then Gth?

I know plenty of Tory voters who are horrified at the thought of Boris being PM. You can do that and still dislike Corbin...or didn’t you realise that?

I don't think he's inherently thick, but he must've stuck his brain up his arse when he weighed in on Nazanin's case.

Agreed. It is a clever device. People call him Boris. Is any other politician know primarily by their first name (well in his case 2nd name) no they aren’t ? He is a nasty individual who uses a bubbling persona to deflect from the reality of who and what he is.

We need a lot less "whataboutery". Johnson as PM is a real an present danger.

Boris is most definitely not thick. He is cold, calculating and clever while being a Machiavellian scumbag only out for His “bumbling buffoon” stuff truly IS an act. Hateful man,

I disagree about Trump, he truly is thick....did you see his Tweet about Mars recently? What a joke he is.

He's far, far better than that nasty anti-Semite Corbyn.

I don't think he's inherently thick, but he must've stuck his brain up his arse when he weighed in on Nazanin's case. Or he just didn't care? As in, his priorities were elsewhere.

It seems very difficult to believe that politicians may not have voters' interests at heart. Much easier to believe they're incompetent.

You can't compare BJ and Trump. Trump is an idiot, a very narrow minded one at that and his level of intelligence and ability to use critical thinking is poor.
Johnson, however, is calculating and knows exactly what he's doing. He is no fool.

It appals me that Johnson has his own column in the Telegraph which he gets paid handsomly for. How is that right?

Boris is an absolutely appalling person, he's a thundering misogynist and utterly useless as well.
Still, Jeremy Corbyn is a bit scruffy so I'm sure some people will be rushing along soon to say he's equally bad in some vague way they can't really explain.

I think Johnson is extremely intelligent. And dangerous.
Trump is equally dangerous but because he's thick and stubborn.
Corbyn's not necessarily better than either of them just by virtue of having different opinions; I don't think anyone's suggesting that you have to be enamoured with any of them.
We're well and truly fucked whichever way the cookie crumbles

Anyone who refers to gay men as 'tank-topped bumboys' is not fit to lead this country. How can we even consider him? He is a turd.

Yanbu - he is a dangerous man

He's terrifying.

Jeremy Corbyn and his mob are fucking saints

Some of us don't want either as PM. Some of feel completely politically disenfranchised. Some of us are capable of seeing that option A) is bad and option B) is not great either.

I dislike Johnson for his make-the-rich-richer-and-sod-the-poor-and-disabled ideology, and I dislike Corbyn for his appeasement of anti-women activists and willingness to throw women under the bus in the name of being progressive. (I don't know enough about the anti-Semitism claims to feel able to comment on that.) I think either would be bad news but as the likelihood of Johnson as PM is a lot more real, it's NBU for the thread to focus on him and the harm he could - is likely to, in fact - do to the country.

No, not an adoring Boris fan, but I think he is the most likely to pull the conservatives together and resolve the mess. It might mean kicking a few remainer MPs out of the party - cause if they aren't with the leavers, then they are against the leavers, and that means they are against the people.

We know the other parties stand against the people

I agree entirely. It's terrifying that a large proportion of the electorate either cannot see, or do not care, that he is cold, calculating, self-serving man who would be happy to make everyday life worse for the average person.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/six-reasons-why-boris-johnson-should-never-be-prime_uk_5b7f32a4e4b0109192c5a1a9/

Blog with links to some of the many times Boris Johnson has shown himself unsuitable to be in any kind of public office, let alone that of Prime Minister.

This sums him up very well:

www.facebook.com/763996933693821/posts/boris-johnson-described-gay-people-as-bumboys-compared-equal-marriage-to-three-m/861584894204460/