To think we need to stop calling him Boris

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He's not a loveable buffoon, there for our entertainment, he's an important man, with an incredibly serious job to do. He's Mr Johnson or the Prime Minister, Boris isn't even his actual name!

I feel like the more we call him Boris the more we excuse/allow the nonsense.

You're right. I call him 'Johnson' because he is one.

I'm certainly not going to accord the idiot with the respect that the title 'Mr' would give.

How about "The Prime Minister"?

But we call all politicians but their first and surname. I would never talk about Mr Cummings or Mr Hancock or Mr Johnson, people would think I was mad.
Perhaps we should all call him "Boris Johnson" rather than just Boris, but I can understand people shortening it when typing.

I call him Bozo or Johnson.

Loveable no - buffoon yes. Buffoons don't deserve to be kowtowed to IMO.

There are plenty of things to be annoyed about relating to Boris but this isn’t one of them.

i call him a wanker

Yes!!!!!

Brings to mind George Carlin talking about artists who go by a single name. Bono, Sting, Prince... "I've got a two-part name for you: PRETENTIOUS MOTHERFUCKER!"

There are plenty of things to call him. Few begin with B.

This has been the situation with Johnson from the beginning.
"Boris" has been used strategically as a way to make him easily relateable like he's a fuzzy cuddly pal that we all just happen to know. That chap down the pub, who is chatty and assumed by all to be well-meaning but a disaster to be around.....it's so like "Boris", don't mind him! Leaving a wake of crazy plans, upset lifes and broken relationships behind him.

Calling him Mr or the Prime Minister is suggesting a certain level of respect. Respect needs to be earned, it does not come automatically with a job, no matter how important that job may be.

There are many things I would like to call him, but I think MN would probably delete my post.

Call him what you like! I do...

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How about "The Prime Minister"?

But is he though? I think you'll find that it's Dominic Cummings who is actually running the country these days.

Well I’ve just found out Boris was born in New York, how come he’s the British PM then? No wonder he’s driving us into the ground!

It's not like it's uncommon we didn't say 'Mrs. May', 'Mr. Blair', 'Mr. Brown'. We also didn't refer to all of them all the time as they prime minister. I think you're mistaking the name people call him with the way people say his name, which is usually in some kind of sarcastic, 'look at the buffoon' way, and that's nobody's fault but his own.

*the prime minister

He only gave up his American Citizenship in 2016 to avoid American taxes accusations of divided loyalties. We don't have a requirement that the PM should be born here, unlike the US Presidency.

Blow job. Bozo. Cumming's puppet. Cunt

I agree OP.

I think it's always been a deliberate tactic to make him seem like more of a man of the people. Obviously someone like that with his background and his politics can never be a man of the people, but encouraging people to call him by his first name (even though it's not even his real first name) allows people to kid themselves that he's a normal person that they could have a nice pint in the pub with, when in reality he has nothing but contempt for them all.

And it makes him seem less serious, which is a problem because when we don't see politicians as serious we somehow don't believe they're capable of causing serious amounts of damage, so people tend to brush off the things he does as just Boris being Boris, rather than engaging in any kind of critical thinking.

I call him Johnson. The whole ‘Boris’ stuff was to create the lovable rogue image. He is far from that image he & the pr machine try to convey. I call him other names too that are variations on twat.

Totally agree. It started when he was jolly japes Boris, mayor of London galumphing about, what a laugh. I usually say Johnson.

I always say Dominic Cummings and Matt Hancock, to use the others cited on here. I wouldn't say 'Mr' or 'Mrs/Ms' about any politicians. Firstname/lastname is perfectly adequate IMO. Not sure why, this being the case, I don't say Boris Johnson. Maybe subliminally I don't think he deserves the humanisation of a first name?