AIBU to ask if Boris was having a manic episode in his peppa pig speech today?

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Just that really

I have a loved one who has bipolar disorder and to me, this looked very much like a manic episode. If so, I hope he gets the help he needs.

He's just useless

For me, the question is why are the media giving this so much attention?

Knowing Boris & his shenanigans this was all a conveniently timed little piece of prime time theatre to take the heat off something else.
He's a very clever man & uses the bumbling fool persona as a ploy.
Unless he really has lost his marbles!
Though on the other hand how convenient to say that Boris is struggling with long Covid & a new PM will take over - saves a lot of face 🤔

To many edibles they can sneak up on you lol like young women lol

He is a total embarrassment, and I thank God everyday that I never voted for him or his corrupt, inept party at the last election.

Now would be the time to show some statesmanship and polish rather than bumble about like drunk Uncle Nigel at a wedding.

Brilliant

Did anyone see the news the other day where he was visiting somewhere and playing Connect 4 with a child and he mumbled "very complicated " as he was inserting the counter?! It was a just brief moment and was hilarious the way they portrayed him. If 'Have I got news for you' don't use that clip I'd be very surprised. It was so obviously put in deliberately

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

Cheese I believe so. PMing doesn't attract a huge salary and he's not one for detail.

Anyone who believes BoJo is skint is as bonkers as he is, this is a man who just a fortnight ago in a televised interview described one rate of 250k as "chicken feed" 🤔😠🤯

Redrosebluerose could we possibly be related 😂

People saying Boris is skint 😂

@WaterAndRichTea

People saying Boris is skint 😂

Well I mean. Yeah.

No way.

Carrie well off but apparently she's unhappy in marriage and has hidden her money so it's safe :/

I agree. Dangerous man masquerading as a buffoon

@MushMonster

He is just distracting us all from the big events. He will win an Oscar at this rate.

This. It's all calculated.

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Wrong link

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Thanks for sharing this. I heard JV tell this story and have thought it needs to be broadcast.

I was just about to post something funny, but I agree it's all calculated, so that wouldn't be helpful

Ah, sorry @Antiqueanniesmagiclanternshow
Missed your second post with the right link

It's possible, unless it was a Machiavelli, tatic for one reason or another

I think he was just trying to be funny.

I have bipolar- an episode doesn't just last a few minutes and isn't defined by one incident usually, nor is a diagnosis based on that.

If he went on to display a string of out of character behaviours and moods lasting weeks/months then that could be bipolar, but he hasn't.

Yes, some people have rapid cycling bipolar, but they have normal bipolar that lasts longer previously.

Boris has always had a unique personality, so this isn't 100% new for him. He's said some weird things, so this isn't entirely marked changes in mood and behaviour (which are needed for a diagnosis of bipolar.)

Prince Harry, I think might get a diagnosis of it in the end (it'd enable him to come back from all that's gone on) but I could be wrong.

My politically sharp ds says that when he was talking about painting people on a box to make it look like a bus, that was to distract Google searches from the bus sign about money going to the nhs post brexit. Could this be something similar. He is not super clever but he is extremely canny.

And manipulative. The way he said it several times is a give away here.

I was wondering if he thinks he can still do the turn up and wing it schtick he used to do. I know it was all a bit smoke and mirrors and reliant on what some saw as his charm, and a willingness to go along with it. No longer, it seems. Certainly not a 'dead cat' ruse. Even one as shameless as Johnston wouldn't make such a spectacle of himself in front of an influential audience to the point of evoking pity.

@Cheerfulcharlie

Perhaps it was the after effects of a visit to Peppa Pig World. I seem to remember being quite traumatised from it myself come to think about it.

It's funny to see some people here still calling him 'Boris'. I was reading at the weekend that even in strong Tory seats, that's increasingly being dropped, people now calling him 'Johnston'.