Londoners tried to warn the rest of the country about Boris

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BJs performance yesterday was woeful. He’s a terrible public speaker and when his blustering and attempts at jokes, throwing in some Kipling, war rhetoric and Latin with arms flailing didn’t work, he sat sulking like a schoolboy.

He was lazy and boorish as London mayor. How on earth did he manage to convince Tory members that he would make a good PM? He thought he was entitled to the top job but was seriously found out yesterday.

Seems like Cummings isn’t the strategic genius he hyped himself up to be and JRMs disrespectful performance deserves its its own thread. BJs picked a team of liabilities. Theresa May must have laughed herself to sleep last night.

Rather a lot of the country already thought he was a useless sack of shit OP. London, the north of England, that type of jazz. Even before Londoners elected him in some cases!

But yes, he was lazy and boorish as the mayor and the Tory party members must've been on crack to choose him. Mind you, I'm not sure Hunt would've been much better, in fairness to them. They were presented with a turd and a shit to choose from.

By that theory Scotland have been trying to warn the uk for decades. We consistently never vote for the shit show we end up part of!! hmm
Excellent point, well made.

I get what the OP is saying. All the Londoners I know never voted for Boris because we knew he didn't care about London, it was just a stepping stone to his real aim, to be PM.

He's never cared about anything except himself. I doubt he's actually a Brexiteer. He just does what he thinks is necessary to get to the top.

He was rather a good London Mayor actually. Seeing as the mayor has little real power and is really a glorified PR machine. People tend to confuse council powers with those of the London Assembly, and sadly central government decisions get attributed to the mayor. Boris was good enough to get voted in twice, in an area that is predominantly Labour, and thwarted Livingstone s third bid. 27 boroughs from 32 are labour strongholds.

I know people who worked with him at the Assembly and they all, without exception, thought the world of him. Possibly lazy but he always employed the right person for the job, he was a master of delegation.

Sadiq is getting a far rougher ride than Boris ever did.

londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/what-mayor-london-and-london-assembly-do

We Scots have tried to warn you about voting tory for years and no one listened.

London, an overwhelmingly Labour voting city voted for Boris twice to be mayor and probably would have again if he ran

Do not underestimate his appeal to voters he is the reason Leave won the vote

I don't remember the rest of the country having much of a choice unfortunately. I'm not into politics, I don't really understand a lot of it, but even I knew he wasn't a good choice. He reminds me of a more idiotic Trump, and that's saying something!

Everything whatsmypassword said. It felt akin to having Zaphod Beeblebrox as president of the galaxy - "a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to attract attention so no one wonders who's really in charge".

I used to work in the building next door to City Hall and when I went out for lunch we'd see Boris riding a penny farthing / joining a Bengali dance troupe / making pancakes with local children.

PM... no. Stupid and dangerous.

Wait! Did nobody else get their individually addressed letter signed by eminent Hoxton hipsters, Pearly Kings and Queens, the Beefeaters and the owners of the Peckham pie 'n' mash shop?

Just me then. Thanks London for letting me know about Boris, otherwise I'd have had no idea he's a twat.

Absolutely. I called him out as a lazy, unscruplious politician in 2008. He was never my mayor and he’s not my prime minister.

Country bumpkin here, always knew Boris was a self serving scrotum only interested in his own career at the expense of the country he apparently serves.
In My Glorious Reign all Eton educated career politicians will be denied entrance to parliament and their places taken by folk who have a better understanding of everyday life. Like my cat.

I'm very well aware of what Boris is. I have to slap myself (quite literally) at times because he sounds so bloody plausible, then I have to have word with myself! But, in doing that, it is very easy to see how he beguiles people, he is believable, and currently he is quite Churchillian, he is coming across as strong and that’s just what people want after decades of wishy-washy (Blair, Brown, Cameron, May – all wet weekends). He is a charismatic character.

You would be stupid yourself to think he is stupid, an idiot or a buffoon. He is absolutely none of those things. He’s gone overnight from lovably cuddly to a Marvel comics evil genius.

TBH Im enthralled by the whole theatre of this mess. If it wasn't my country I'd be pointing and laughing. The irony of people prattling on about 'taking our country back' from 'unelected bureaucrats' and ‘regaining parliamentary sovereignty’ , don’t like do they when parliament exerts its authority. Then I think I fucking love parliament for the ability to actually do this.

I can't understand why he was even considered as PM after the Iran debacle. As the saying goes 'he had one job', which was not to discuss situations he didn't understand. Instead he obviously skim-read a briefing sheet, picked out the words 'journalist' and 'teaching' and tried to show off how knowledgeable he was. It's all about showing off. There are never any consequences for his fuck-ups though, so I blame the Tory membership more than I'd blame him.

Londoners?!

They're the only ones that have had a crack at the ballot when it comes to this numpty, and actually voted him in?!?! Twice!!!!!

None of the rest of the UK is guilty of that.

But in the GLA constituency of Bexley & Bromley alone, Johnson got 86,789 more votes than Ken (134,678 as against 47,889). In other words 62% of Johnson’s total majority across the whole of Greater London was accounted for by voters in this single predominantly white, traditionally Tory-voting suburban GLA constituency.

medium.com/@pitt_bob/how-did-boris-johnson-get-elected-as-mayor-of-london-15ab2d4d5412

Many Londoners wouldn't consider Bexley and Bromley to be part of London, nor would they consider themselves Londoners.

Vastly entertaining until I remind myself it's everybody's future they're playing with. EU must veer between bemusement and hilarity. I think he's overreached here. As someone else said, don't unpack everything, could be a short tenure.

considering most of the leave voters are outside London, and most leave voters would support actually leaving i.e. Boris, then I'm pretty sure your thoughts would have fallen on deaf ears!

Not a londoner but most people up here knew exactly what he was and was surprised he was voted for as mayor. Barring the odd tv show which interviewed a few Londoners on the street i never saw anything decrying him to the rest of the country. In fact my londoner friend loves him, she thinks he's smarter then he makes out.

Bromley and Bexley are not considered London they are London boroughs (wealthy boroughs too)

Boris winning the mayorship was not expected but he still won agains the very popular with many London voters - Ken Livingston

We can witter on as much as we like how awful he is only after his own interests but he is the absolute master of manipulation- people have always known this its nothing knew but come an election campaign he and his pr team will know how to turn his already failings as a PM in to votes - most of us are wanting leadership to move forward or to actually do something- Corbyn isn’t wanting a second referendum (listening to what he is actually saying he just doesn’t want a not deal) and he has failed to come up with anything substantial

Labour need to change leadership to take Boris Johnson on - Labour haven’t got that in Corbyn

London made him so London has no business getting on their high horses about BJ

Londoners voted against keeping Ken Livingstone as London Mayor as much as for Boris Johnson.

I frequently remind people how bad a London Mayor Mr Johnson was.

He got elected because of the "doughnut strategy". Basically, targeting the outer ring of suburbs where the Tory vote tends to be strong and ignoring the inner Labour-voting suburbs.

Turnout in London elections is low and so strategies like that make all the difference.

It's yet another example of Labour smugly sitting on their laurels, not bothering to put in the legwork.

The OPs post falls down on a number of rather basic premises:

Londoners voted him in twice
The 'rest of the country' have never voted him in
Where were the warnings?
Even if they did exist, what impact could they possibly have had, given point 2