Why does everyone hate Boris?

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Just that really. I neither like nor dislike him I don't feel any emotion towards him.
AIBU to ask why so many people on here hate/dislike Boris Johnson?

@Bluesheep8

No I don't watch the live press conferences or updates from him or read the papers. Before anyone asks

May I politely suggest that you do, op?

Last two times I saw Boris on TV he was telling a room full of reporters that there were no reporters there.

He then went to hide in a fridge.

I get better advice from the magpies on my lawn than that blond buffoon.

Returning to our own blond buffoon and the position of his tongue up Trumps arsehole ..

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/leaders-like-uks-johnson-who-wooed-trump-face-tricky-reset-boris-johnson-leaders-president-benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-b1787093.html

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Leslie Vinjamuri, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at the Chatham House think tank, said the issue of how to deal with Trump has been “the biggest question in in Western diplomacy for the past four years.”

“And I would say that the U.K. was on the wrong side of it,” she said.

(but to head the CnP off at the pass. Although of course this means accepting the thrust of the article - that Macron was almost as bad as Boris. Which is why I pasted it )

Johnson is not the only Western leader who sought to befriend, persuade or placate Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron had an early bromance with the U.S. president, inviting Trump to Paris in 2017 for a Bastille Day military parade and dinner at the Eiffel Tower. Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, visited the White House just days after Trump’s inauguration and was photographed holding the president’s hand.

Once upon a time in the not too far away past there was a camel,a mugger and a sombrero. Then thousands of people died and it wasnt funny any more.

*Last two times I saw Boris on TV he was telling a room full of reporters that there were no reporters there.

He then went to hide in a fridge.

I get better advice from the magpies on my lawn than that blond buffoon.*

Yes, that's why I said op should watch the news and press conferences. The thread title is Why does everyone hate Boris? If she did, then she'd know. Or at least have a good idea

If you don’t know why he is hated, you’ve been living under a rock. He’s an incompetent, jumped up narcissist leading the same. No wonder the country’s going to shit.

DGRossetti
Leslie Vinjamuri, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at the Chatham House think tank

Interestingly, Chatham House is the subject of a feature published by French financial newspaper Les Echos - a similar publication to the Financial Times it would seem;

Les Echos
March 15, 2019
Chatham House, le club de l'élite anti-Brexit.

I probably don't need to translate the heading for you;

www.lesechos.fr/weekend/business-story/chatham-house-le-club-de-lelite-anti-brexit-1211818

Because he is a terrible leader. He lacks decisiveness, authority and gives the impression he doesn't care about people.

Late to the party, but he's a very lazy, arrogant man, whose laziness and incompetence have cost many people their lives.

Also: who can respect a man with his track record on his own kids?

For a start, why do you call him ‘Boris’ as if he’s your best mate or even on first name terms?

He isn’t and you’re not. He’s a bloke you’ve never met yet people talk about him like he’s their friend just because he has silly hair.

He’s a fucking knobhead.

It's Johnson or Liar Johnson.

Johnson lies and steal whatever truth he needs to, in order to escape his lies being found out.

~He actually, visibly smirks at the interviewer knowing what he is saying is not true BUT celebrating the ignorance of the "useful idiots" who voted him in, he won;t be challenged.

See the announced plans to do away with workers rights - the same usefu idiots who vited Johnson/Brext it.

We did really blast both our feet, as Johnson asked us to.

The Great British Public with zero political analysis tools, but WILL believe what posh boy with the funny hair tells us.
God, we are doomed, unless we stop it.

I don’t hate him, but he is clearly lazy and completely out of his depth. I dislike that he thinks we should all be amazed because he chucks bits of Latin or Greek into a speech. He does not give a shit about the British people. He forgets that he serves us, not the other way round. I read a quote somewhere that said, ‘Boris wanted to be prime minister and he wants to have been prime minister. He just doesn’t actually want to do the work of a prime minister’, and I think that’s pretty accurate. I am deeply disappointed in him. He shows absolutely no leadership, no nuance, no insight. I’m still amazed he got elected to leadership by the party.

He does not give a shit about the British people

This is the key issue. He simply does not give a fuck. 100,000 dead from covid? Meh. Stop boring him with your petty problems like your dead relatives. He's got to get to a technology lesson.

Interestingly, Chatham House is the subject of a feature published by French financial newspaper Les Echos - a similar publication to the Financial Times it would seem

Chatham House, le club de l'élite anti-Brexit

Relevance to Johnson sucking up to Trump?

Bit odd that the worlds wealthy elite, in the driving seat of capitalism, attract your scorn.
You'r not going Corbyn on us are you Clav?

I preferred the fake Clavinova - who appeared to have had a Damascene conversion.

@OtterInDisgrace, I have made this point re his name. Somehow he managed to pursuade many people he was in deed, their mate. It has slipped into every conversation , every email now....... We will find out what Boris has to say.

If you did keep up with the news , I think you'd know why...

@CaptainSandy

Trump lover, incompetent, lazy, corrupt, gave public money to the mistress he was shagging while his then-wife was having cancer treatment, only pro-Brexit as it was expedient to his career, has made some horrendously racist and homophobic statements, has been fired from two jobs for lying, has got us a Brexit "deal" that is going to shrink the economy and hamstring business, has presided over a world-beating covid death rate.... should I go on? Oh yes, and no-one's quite sure how many children he actually has, least of all him, he certainly doesn't acknowledge all of them.

Yup, that pretty much sums up my thoughts...

The real reason he doesn't like it is because he fought for Brexit in 2016 and stood as the same class.

@Bluethrough

I've met him in reality that is how I found him. Authentic. That is my personal experience

He knows how to win over a crowd, say the right things and engage with people.
Just like a timeshare salesman or Donald Trump

Perhaps it's because, like my father, he deserted (some) of his children that i don't like him.

I think that’s fair. A man that doesn’t look after or acknowledge his children is going to be trusted to look after and protect this country. If you won’t look after your off spring you sure as hell won’t be looking after mine. No integrity is a pretty good reason to dislike him.