You know, I thought I'd followed the referendum quite closely BUT until today I didn't know about the promise that Boris Jonson promised that subsidies to Cornwall would continue. How did I miss that corker?
And it was only from Friday onwards that I realised some people believed some of the stuff he said. How did anyone think that the subsidies could continue?
Likewise the curbing immigration stuff.
It's occurred to me that he is like the world's worst Uncle: he comes to visit once in a blue moon; he's loads of fun - wow! He tells hilarious stories! He leads you in a wild game, jumping on sofas and building a den (with a real campfire!) in the sitting room, in consequence of which, several items of furniture and a valuable family painting are trashed; he pulls sweets from his pockets and does magic trips - then he sits you down, gazes into your eyes and tells you about how many amazing places he's going to take you to, describing them in such detail, you dream vividly of them for a whole week. And then he leaves, waving and bouncing and performing small acts of physical comedy until he's out of sight.
And you don't see him again. Perhaps for years. And when he next turns up ... he does it all over again.
Years later, when you're pretty jaded about 'Uncle Clown', your parents let slip that, each time he visited, he borrowed large sums of money from them.
I realise that this isn't, actually, a 'Boris Jonson is a wanker' thread but ... he so is. He is so, so, so badly in need of having that sodding bubble of 'scamp' 'charm' burst.
Wanker.
He should be nowhere near any position of responsibility. I wouldn't leave trust him to cat-sit my cats if I went on holiday, let alone the complex roles of governance and negotiation that lie ahead.
(I'm a Londoner. He was our Mayor for a bit.)