To remind you how fabulous Boris Johnson is

[Snowy111]

It’s an old clip but he’s on top form.

www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/29/eddie-mair-boris-johnson-journalism?CMP=share_btn_link

Go Boris!

And yet the Conservatives are 1/14 to have the most seats after the election.

Gingham that’s truly shocking but yes they probably will

The proroguing was not illegal.

I think you'll find that it was most certainly illegal.

BoJo is a psychopath - only interested in himself. Nobody else matters.

He's a little cracker alright. I've never been so proud to be British. Until I get my blue passport back obviously-then it'll be street parties all round 🥳

Prorogue got: unlawful, not illegal (the letter being criminal)

9.Blamed Hillsborough on Liverpool fans, then described the victims as "whingeing scousers"

Journalist Simon Heffer was responsible for writing the article;

"When I heard the piece (which described Liverpool ‘wallowing in victim status’) had created a furore in the city and that Mr Johnson was in trouble with Michael Howard, I offered to ring the then Tory leader and admit responsibility."

"Mr Johnson, most creditably I thought, refused to let me do this, saying he was the editor of the magazine, and it was his duty to deal with the matter."

I saw a clip on Have I Got News For You, years back, that shows BJ coming back from a run and finding journos outside his house because he's just been exposed (again) as an adulterer. He was breezy with them and bounded up his steps to find his missis had locked him out. Live, on camera. Try as I might, I can't find it now. Anyone?

Omg that’s amazing please find it

1. Sacked from The Times for inventing a quote then lying about having invented it.
Thirty one years ago - it wouldn't be top of my list.

4. Invented the lie about EU law on straight bananas
Open to interpretation;

"Commission Regulation 2257/94 identifies certain restrictions for fruits that producers have to conform to in order to sell their produce within the EU.The regulation states that bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature."

5. Invented the lie about EU banning prawn cocktails
This is quite amusing;

"The source of the myth was a proposal by EU Commissioner Martin Bangemann to ban artificial sweeteners in crisps, thus leading to news reports that the EU wanted to ban prawn cocktail crisps altogether. As a result, Bangemann was called "The sour kraut who wants to ban our crisps" in the British media and journalists followed him in Luxembourg offering him prawn cocktail crisps."

"The potential ban was later proven to be as a result of a mistake on the part of the United Kingdom's civil service, who forgot to include specifically flavoured crisps when compiling a list of the nation's food items that were to be exempt from the directive.When the food industry pointed out this omission, the mistake was rectified."

@Snowy111

Can I copy and paste your list?

• Staggered around at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony looking hungover, going too early, then too late, then laying the wreath upside down.

....so Tory press led with "Corbyb didn't bow low enough!" and BBC for some reason lost the tape and showed something else.

Havanananana don’t forget that Boris Bikes have cost the taxpayer £200m - despite his promises that there would be a zero cost.

Yep! He's got my vote!
He fucking hasn't

It is a pity that he turned out to be such a frightful bastard cockwomble but there you go.

I'm sorry OP he makes me laugh. I won't vote for him but he's amusing

Did anyone mention Darius Guppy (fellow Old Etonian) and conspiring to have a journalist beaten up yet?

30. Suggested reinstating British control over former colonies - essentially restarting The Empire.

Complete nonsense - the Guardian link to Johnson's party conference speech in 2016 as 'evidence' - he does mention Palmerston's map room, but he says 'those days are gone forever', a 'jolly good thing too'.

22. Found to have broken the Ministerial Code by failing to declare income
I don't think that's correct either, unless you have another example - although he did return to writing his Daily Telegraph column without applying to the advisory committee on business appointments.

"Former ministers should apply to the advisory committee on business appointments (Acoba) before accepting a new role under the ministerial code."

"A spokesman for Acoba said Johnson had not sought its advice, as required, before returning to the role."

Curly it’s not my list. See page one of this threads - it’s come from one of the first comments with a link

His mother is wonderful and an excellent painter..

Clavinova there’s an article about him breaking the ministerial code here

news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-breached-ministerial-code-with-telegraph-column-return-11439710

I like his dad

There’s some good quotes on wikiquote en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

I especially like

Interviewer: Can you give an example, in your political life, when you've set your own self-interest aside for the benefit of the country?
Boris Johnson: Well, er, pfft, um, it's a good question, but er, I, I, I would, you know, I don't, obviously, it's an embarrassing but, but true that, um, er, it is obviously, possible, er, how should I put this, to make more money, er, by not being a full-time politician. Um, I don't, I don't want to put too finer point on it, er, but, you know, you have to, you have to, you have to, make sacrifices sometimes.
Conservative Leadership Contest Hustings in Darlington (5 July 2019)

And quotes about him

90,000 Conservative members, whose views have become more extreme as their numbers have fallen, recently selected Boris Johnson as their new leader, and thus as the country's new prime minister. In doing so, they have chosen a mendacious chancer. It is no exaggeration to say that Johnson has lied his way to the top, first in journalism and then in politics.
Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, writing in an opinion column entitled "Is Britain Becoming a Failed State?" (20 August 2019)

And a letter to him

I am surprised and disappointed that you have chosen to repeat the figure of £350 million per week, in connection with the amount that might be available for extra public spending when we leave the European Union. This confuses gross and net contributions. It also assumes that payments currently made to the UK by the EU, including for example for the support of agriculture and scientific research, will not be paid by the UK government when we leave. It is a clear misuse of official statistics.
Open letter to Boris Johnson from David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority (17 September 2017)