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 of course but the people voting for him don’t care about all these things, they care about what job Boris promised them. He will be PM no doubt. He demanded a new GE when Tony Blair stepped down. He won’t do the same. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse......

“Whatever you think about IQ tests, it is surely relevant to any conversation about equality that as many as 16% of our species have an IQ below 85”.

Our future PM, November 2013

Yes. I remember the days when I used to really worry about Tony Blair and George Dubuya Bush. Who knew how bad things were destined to become in the future FFS.

His young girlfriend (about 30ish I think) is already public knowledge, unless he has another one !! Can't stand, his lies, his flippancy and his lack of integrity.

God Bush and Blair are models of competence next to Boris and Trump.

Quite, @Zipee

The leading candidate to be our next PM is avoiding debates (not confirmed for Sunday yet) and interviews with the press in case he says something that shows himself up. What on earth is he going to do if he actually gets the job? Spontaneously combust from holding in all the gaffs?

This isn't a binary him and Corbyn thing either,

We could get car saleman Nige. What a choice!

Violetparis his young girlfriend will probably be dumped for someone younger long before she is 40, if Mr Johnson's record is anything to go by. I'm not sure whether to think of her as deluded or worse.

stop taking part in Eurovision.
Best argument for Brexit yet!!

I agree OP and people need to stop calling him Boris as though he were their friend. Or a lovable, harmless rogue. He is none of those things. He is ruthlessly ambitious, a liar, lazy, uses racist language and will make the UK a laughing stick

He won’t become a PM. He is abominable, lazy opportunist and will be voted out in the final round.
No that it matters. Any next person would need to be a miracle maker to get us out of this pickle.
Or, he becomes a PM and being a coward will do a 360 • turn, cancelling brexit as the easiest option.

Apparently he gets called Alex by his friends.

His young girlfriend (about 30ish I think) is already public knowledge

She was a Tory spin doctor, ex partner of Harry Cole from The Sun, and it’s rumoured that Bozza is going for a quickie divorce so he can (potentially) move her into No 10.

I do hope Marina takes him to the cleaners.

I have never met anyone, professionally or personally, on the the media, in the street or in a policitcal context who thinks Boris Johnson is a 'loveable buffoon'. What I have heard people say often, though, is that other people think he is a loveable buffoon and that they are worried about these other people thinking this.

If (when 🙁) he is elected the next PM of this country, the world will have truly gone mad.

Thankfully, I surround myself with people who wouldn't think nicely of any conservative, no worries here OP.
He's more of a slobbering gibbering idiot. A bit Tim and dim.

Well, given that some people posting on this very thread seem to believe that Jeremy Corbyn stands a chance of becoming the leader of the Conservative Party, it's quite mad enough already

Well, given that some people posting on this very thread seem to believe that Jeremy Corbyn stands a chance of becoming the leader of the Conservative Party, it's quite mad enough already

And yet Leftie London didn't just elect him mayor once, but twice Frankly, it baffled me then, and baffles me now. And as a Conservative Leaver, I would loathe for him to be party leader, and the love for him now also baffles me. Completely. (Mind you, so does the Hunt/Gove support - they're a toxic trio in terms of absolutely everything)

I may be biased, though, as I've met him more than once Unfortunately

I'm not one for tinfoil hats but the Nazanin Radcliffe situation is not at all what it seems. There is political or other motive there somewhere and what he did was deliberate and calculated.

It's either some elaborate double bluff or for some reason the UK (or someone else) want her exactly where she is.

*Ratcliffe even

You're preaching to the converted with me OP.

I saw rees-mogg in an interview very transparently spinning the zagari ratcliffe story as nothing to do with Boris
What a pair of shits they are

I most certainly don't think he's a loveable buffoon....he's a dangerous misogynistic rascist